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Show HIS TITLE IS THE 8TAKE. accept? My favorite one! And then I from the path that led to the ranch Jolly porch circle. But it was not until house through the orchard, "I'm raid Sunday morning that Kitty and 1 delost Kitty's chummlness. Then before liberately stole a few hours to our- French Count Will Lose His Rank Un The fierce hubbub of girls, girls, died now for the cherries." less Hs Weds a Rich Wife. away. There were no more hair- John could return a guilty, reply, Klity selves. It was while Tholman still and Count birds worms! Alnhonse De Campau has. When Kitty cam down to the 'var-- breadth escapes to my shelter. Then, burst on us with the last sun raf slept O, early I to to get a wife. The America ime 1 was glad that morning, glad for the Slty from her father's ranch, there wu between sorority duties, persistent audi shinning brightly on her hair, turning frankness a brutal with which he has a Btir among the 2,500 students and a multitudious fraternity men and here- brown threads to golden, dash cf largeness of the prairie sweep, for the on announced the her cheek, and .Hps there miles of long meadow la beautiful ricks, object of his visit is commotion among the Greek portion. tofore neglected studies, Kitty had lit- flour somewhat For it was told that Kitty's father ova-- : tle time for transtable talks. Dnly could be but one simile here. humiliating to American the glistening of the dew on the upis not altogether repre but it ed acres and cattle and other things when the examination time land, where the red cattle cropped, for pride, "Why oh Daddee!" she cried, hastDe Campau is whl Count hensible. until he could not count them; and approached did I see much ox ner. ily dusting both her floury hands in a the shiifmg of the sky, for the fringe to marry pretty much any "girl Kitty had'boen over the Rockies to pad- Then 1 coached her and she finished blue checked apron. But she gave tea long and rich of cottonwoods ash aad ligg fair hair, blue eyes, a graceful who has dle in the Pacific surf, and away east brilliantly. The sorority sent me a bot only one John was looking, wretch! elder brush that followed the creik, and $50,000 a year. In exshange to a famous preparatory Bchool, and of flowers. They came, too, to keep "I'm glad all the way through you've for the brightness of the little lake ln figure will bestow upon her his title and . was withal a much more than ordlnar- - me from my work by the hour. Thy come early, Daddee" that la the name tr which the creek widened away a he over his family dominion certain were I go by among the undergraduates mile from the ranch house, and for Che were entertaining nuisances, ily sophisticated freshman. In explanation h Toulouse. at estates She came to our house. Providence these young women, bright, but after "John Is such a rascally cherry picker college bred plains girl who raced U " I do not "If get 150,000 a year say: s real with me there. er, robin." They II and my landlady's reputation for every-- : the styie of sweet house plants. the estates pass away. If the estates Did she let me row? "Robin is better," laughed John, No,, Indeed. thing good brought her. How unkind lacked the breezlness which Kitty of per from the cheerfully. her with She had rowed oa a crew at the pre- pass away there is no need Ij did Providence seem! Porwhenllook brought , I have, Therefore jjj Kitty wouild bring them la quarters for severe labor, I did not plains. "But I am not going to pick cherries" paratory school, and nothing could con- petuating my family. I have a wife I ' wife. a It no of need I' count on everyday receptions In those I suspected to get rid of them anJ said I. "Hay Is the work for me. vince her that I was not tired after f next to mine. There was a terrible then slip away to attend to important Don't your father need help? Oh, I the week in the bay meadow. But I must keep the estates. It will take at was glad of it It was worth, values be- least $50,000 a year to maintain them. chirping and chattering the first mor- matters. That was the way Kitty treat hope he does." Therefore it I have a wife, I must have ningjust such as the birds make before ed me. yond others to watch her the bronzed he "Yes, John with broke tt does," $50,000 a year; do you see. sun-uand ten girls, all wearing the She made up in a measure by aa In- enthusiasm. I was on tht of arms, firm and round, the point Of course we see. The whole thing little gold tag, fluttered into the house. vitation to spend a week on the ranch. color on her cheeks, the glinting taJr resolving not to make hay. Is as plain as the nose on Count De was hard It was the bodyguard come to escort There was to be a little house party. which breeze the trying Kitty frowned John into silence. He with of face. We Would not se and see friend to to. a the strokes that fine Campau's lazy Kitty John Tholman. Kitty registrar, bad come eut of the tree meanwhile to to play, the lasy perfect so so was matriculated without ene bit of mine, who was a better friend of Kit- shake hands. learned been bad Quite clearly, perhaps, had not the skillful dip that same men. no mean 1'hi to see rower one and of the that The proto not be was and thing been done so often before, trouble, forgotten. ty's, "You're not in earnest, Daddee?" she well in the circumstances there is nothbut I fessor Induced her to take the hard! young women I knew. too. They were ssked. folt how brightly! spoke little but for it but for the American people thin 3. This same bodyguard came sorority sisters who were not Kitty. I I me have to ing good things. "Earnest all the way through Quot- ber leading in see a dozen times to take her to luncheon decided to make up a story and go fully to no now exactly what estimation their Idea what the good things ing," I answered. women are held by any and and dinner, to multitudinous little af- two weeks before the others unman"seemed were. young Perhaps they only "Good for you." said she. "We can-Dtitled fairs. Flowers came gardens of them nerly wretch! A same to amounts which every foreigner" who is willing to the thing. affrrd two men interrupting houseone of them. Any girl who and there were carriage drives with for of of living, perhaps. bargain The Invitation came at the end hold operations. You see, John can't be Joyfulness, just f can have a more or has Just girls not even a man to drive the the year. A bright Monday afternoon us. seized with enough The boat money gotten rid of even tor a moment But less noble u swift horses. And when Kitty was husband for the asking, and were our la The exhuberance. ripples was off the train fifteen miles from come, you dear old tramp. You need Is gone new bevys and detachments and seem to be any so not does there unison with the girl's laughter. Kitty's house. The station had a popu looking after. Tell me your story. whole flocks of girls would come and, lation of noble 1 foreigner who may not beautiful , paint ignoble have seen fifty, which did not number How did you get here? John, you may in a and for flutter ask all bell the himself with a rich American ring a liveryman. An unusual piece of luck come when work Is done; and yoa ings and absorbed delicious fiction in provide Is There would be disappointed brought a ragged ranchman to town must not your in wife he if the matrimonial mar Kitty. stuff the pall again with which the ancient story was told !n and away. goings dejected ket twitterings lily-pathat day behind a team of sad mules. leaves" setting. But should I spoil the The landlady worried heartily for I wondered if Kitty's father looked Lke See? Why; how could any one holo beautiful breeze-swept She picture made by tbe radiant to me the piloted Kitty's health and Kitty's studies. I this weather-beatewith the landscaoe from Boston oarsman How person and if Kit Torch. I wouia alone? seeing in. my was Ketty'a father there, a Aid not' But with the chirping and to San Francisco littered up with mod and stub week's blue ty ever had to be a passenger behind outrageous jeans bronzed gentleman with fluttering of girls and the ringing of like steeds of sorrow. Indeed I hop! the reman ts of an eastern accent, and ble appear taking on the attitude af est maidens who are perpetually hawlt the door bell, 1 worried for my own. not. The man and the Jolting were dis- a hospitality thoroughly out west the suppliant lover? How would lng their charms, plus a pecuniary On an afternoon there was a small couraging. It was a wonderful reilet "We are not strangers," he said. "I sound the fool Question, Will you. bonus, abouC thjs and other countries? tan on the door of my library; and after a dozen miles to a turning to t have known you sines Kitty came etcetera? Why should I risk upsetting We have no doubt in the world that Ibe boat in the excitement and dls Count De Campau will have little or hardly had I been able to call "como out and walk the rest of the way. home." In" and rise when Kitty was In the was in we Kithouse apparent were not strangers. turblng the serenity of a young wo no trouble in obtaining the wife hs If Indeed, sight, Kitty's room, softly hut swiftly closing the ly not far away, white, low and lone ty was enough to make us feel like man's life and of the lake?. Just be looking for. If he were a Turk instead door. and half surrowided byTushy trotts. very old friends. But there were peo- cause she possessed more tnan ncr of a Frenchman be might have a score "VVill you Jet me stay here a It stood on the highland as uns rose ple besides, and events and places la share of charm? I would not do It, no. of them. He has a commodity to sell minute?" she asked, a mischievous from a creek bottom. A bluff slightly the east which we both knew welL It sir! T would let her go on rowing. that commands Its own price, and of smile playing about her Hps. Her color sheltered it Cattle multiplied, were had not been a vast number of years rowing, or resting, ss she pleased. which the supply never seems to equal the demand. The American who was was indescribably good to see. "They scattered over and around and between since the rancher had come west He Quietly. ass or vulgarian enough to make such, axe coming again, and l am so tired of the low hills. And In the bottom, mak had come after growing weary of comso row and But why should she long an exhibition of himself might be so are alt of mikes cf that were with Did ers He glr'.s Kit mercial cf shore life and health broken. girls avoid the 'so steadily? girls, busy hay I am longing for some seemed ether dear! ricks of want could to did tell amusing tales tenderfoot ty well she long growing grass. Hay f stay .with treated with derision and contempt by one to be mean to rae. It would be a to rise as I walked, so swiftly did the experiences and and vastly Interesting me all the long forenoon? I knew that the rich young women Of the country, Joyful relief. I am trying to precipitate men and horses and machinery work. 6torIes of 'change days. He delighted the devoted Tholman would in a lazy but Count De Campau will not be thus a little meanness now Just by being I had a half longing to be with the In the ranch life In the Of ourse. I was do despltefully used. Were be without his war be furious. mean ray self. Do you think I shall workers to be in hay and wind, to event In which he yielded no first place lighted; I told Kitty I could stay on title the proposition which he has to blue-eyesucceed? Hear them coming?" drive the singing mower and see the to youngsters He thought It would the lake indefinitely. Why the bit make to the young There was thtfold chirping and chat- long grass tremble and topple, to sweep do me good to make hay and that mjr reluctant sigh when very late In the graceful, inseem of America femininity might the clean as and the boat swaths forenoon the and, driving girls tripped up the stairs, great finally grounded tering proposal showed the right spirit sulting, but as It is not once in thouIn the morning I fell Into Jeans like I beloed the rower ashore. and as they found Kitty's room vacant, great bunches to the ricks, see it maa chorus of surprise and disappointed chine hoisted to the top. I was those John wore. That person was nU "Tired. Kitty?" asked. Useless Ques- sands of them will take It that way. The transaction which Is proposed la must exclamations? be In sure to there time something up make any observations; tion. quite legal, it has the sanction of society, work. . in he the had probut the evening before "O. Kitty, Kit ty, d ea r," they called, glorious "You know I never get tired. Dadand it Is not even popularly reckoned sunset trail the the of fade Into the heart phesied that my hay idee would But there was no dee." she answer. ill partly recovering "where are you?" to be unvlrtuous. Far from it We sunset I "was'nearly re lead to It with the first day. But it did not was showing her bright teeta promised objection when, the arm that had beei have no doubt that 'i! andKitty oa crock the with quite a number wf keeping winding joiced Id the comfort of the Jeirs. developing wonderful strength all the holding fast" Co the knob of mv r and beautiful to make young ladles, charming Wt it cn lo until In . door. thecreek and The girls dropped downstairs and spite of birders and sunburn, week truly lifted her uu the bank. accredited I their a over fell bluff. duly through paternal Then it the muscular sctivity of the hay field, And when the level ground of the quietly and Kitty stole to her room, to a Ions irn. or A matrimonial maternal will I. man's and agents, house was in the song of the mowing machine, lb the ' return with a tempting candy offering. There meadow was reached there seemed to enter to hasten Into l'W the with negotiations In somewhere among the succumbing grass. my "The girl left this," she said. voice from be no good reasqn why that arm team, snd In the hard fresh should not do as It pleased since it Count De Camoau. In tict. we would Won't you take It a peace offering? prairie trees was singing a campus s bargain not be surprised to see Has Kitty taught the hands wind. Up off the low prairies and on I have Interrupted your work; and I song. pleased to stay where It was. Then to him I. rush he should if so soon, marry day thought the great plains, sloping sway toward O. bat fools 24 years-olt really feel too guilty to eat it, anyway. varsity things boys are, consent to mark himself down to $49. s of of a t h the mountains. It Is not always pair Then, catching eight Please do." erpfclally when they own a week's 939 cn Mondays and Fridays. Charles In the foliage of a cherry tree And dragging up of the long windrows I accepted on condition KKty would of beard and think they are ton News and Courier. and swaying with the to the ricks and hoisting of the great growth men! But Interrupt whenever she should again thst was bending Kitty did not mind the I a heartless With nan. beard. And we raced back to depredator, hay rolls was delightful. be threatened, whenever she should be weight of The song ricks row house to tell father we both tald and called horse "Hello, machine Many girls borrow the dress-shir- t 'varsity!". the iong hungry, whenever she pleased. My pre I the crawled on went through cne after another with a rapidity iu lustily. protectors of their brothers for their judice against the noise and hubub of bin fellow gating the building of tnultltudinoui The own use, or Indeed, If the brothers art the Into fence wire yard.' was a'.I which Kitty the Innocent cause An 1 Jihn? O John. ior, lazy John, fellow. that f not a but good cf an eastern meadow. bayec-khand, wanting, go boldly to the men's f am melted In the glow of Kitty's rudely was stl'.l tlttl! Thrn the evenings God siiie thnn ttblcg counter and provide for them cheeks. Indeed, I came to listen for It John Tholman. I 1 John?" de are was day tired when they came, "What elves. Their protectlou over a lace er you doing here, and wish for it hard; for if Kitty were A New Age Puzzle. asked, a bit savagely. Hghtfully tired, and could enjoy to an To (he woods with "How Old Is chiffon bodice front Is very grateful at home she would come. rehe a tight here?" "What are you doing exqubite limit the soft southeast hr?t Ann?" Here la one that Is little less snd they button in even under Kitty was threatened often and bm IeeL ease. In this de el the lonir. prch, the old gont'eman's than a hundred years old that dis- fitting jacket with fry often. And when the girls with the old easy convention and charming ston. we both hard, laughed been has Then recommended, too, pertinent counts the modern puzzle forty ways pretty gold insignia ever failed for s ' cf use the the Jipan-quflted short, moment In their candy supply I kept It John's face showing red beneath the of a Hie wealthy In experiences I A.- Justice John Woodward, of Buffalo. but was the foolish, wafs thought I dc!lphtd In the e!u;r N. Y, In looking over some old books jacket for wear under an evening cott up. Kitty would sit across from me at cherry stains. It do. could ne nd hours I. we I cou'd of nr-best mlnes thing and pspers In his family srchlves, These are so light that they gj over my writing table, her sturdy, round 1 be aa well generous." "Yoti on4 conversation with thfm might t) a curious problem noted on a the most delicate trimmings without found in her palms, or chin resting snugly K the frran rn John and In ttut picked friends the suggested, evening memorandum book which belonged to crushing them. her hands clasped and resting light: some I branches cf this topmost At:i?,h1i r.i;m ship Ber bvr,! across his great 'grandfather, Calvin Lake, the table, and part way It is said that the Japanese force thitgs A phlirs'pher. a storytcllc i who. taught school from 1819 to 1827. brown eyes showing some of her west- fellows. The cherries were good. I continued, he. snd a cr.tleman first of a I came now for cherries," ic front of Port Arthur 4s not lest "I The We ern sunset as she talked. began to protlem which the Justice has meadow, the 40 000 men, plentifully knew benre hay carre thao remembering and, Kitty's Buffalo sect lo the supplied solve the freshman's problems togeth tt Evening News, work." to K:t "and friend chart?J with Tholman both field and seige guns. They w:ti added, My mas as follows: and the girls with the pretty gold "I came because I had nervous pros- ty; hi could da that well. Perhir When first the marriage knot was tied now hc!d positions, strongly Intrench insignia began to be more than ordinar- sent grina doctor and never me," to came man the tration the brighter ed. within fifteen miles of the port between my wife snd roe me. to Klttr Ily unreasonably good are ' ' what to s "But ned en John return. yoo never than 1 Tholman, a so so Itself sod are drawing closer constant 19 sity as wr? did Oar then Did does not fara was slow In pledging. sgree I to at?" work snd lazier tertalnlns wreitfre; fw Cow-going i ! to I with even snd It is believed thst they will be 3; ly. wll with Invitations out In susperted that his striking good c,ia fellows to those "Going help f But tea married else afler years ers and pillows and everything ready for the final assault within bottom t.h up wa. the charmed had He get hey." Itks the we an girl. can had been find week or ten days. that a .nan's girl friends "You?" most praMfnt cf the men wh- - rjni- - Her sg. came up as near to mine as excuse to give him! Was I not buttonTee. What did I grow and grow Tor to our bous, the cne most kir.'ilv r? two times 3 to 9. Teacher Who was the best friend holed In secluded corners, and held fajt to work when I want to? Ton celved. when I found him uf ;h If not ' What was the age cf each Ireland ever bad? by poft voices and winning arguments! to be out thre, now, John. I ranch I declriM not to spoil the warn nfcen married? Irish Scholar Ol don't Just now reDid I not receive delicately scented and ought would not Cave prostrafrlndhlD. st leagt net wtll I rsA.y Juftlce Woodward thinks the prob- member, but he discovered Ameriky, confidential little nots tram half the warrant you tion cf the nerves kind a day." likd Thrman too well and Kitty. lem at least as good as sny modern Town Topics. Creek girls I knew asking for my "That's so." assented John, "b'it O. I saw Kitty, in be sure, at la c product In the line. Who can solve see I'm working, anyway?' time whn rhp presided at cur tJhb t It? New York News. Use bran water to wash silk ttxt What Influence could I eupposaJly don't you a a with a cook and He the.e vas k single four dropped cherry ci pecial known her Four tablespjonfuls to a quart of tare with Kitty? I had legs Into a little tin tall. Humor ejftpa darkens the sky mors water. Rinse well, but do house for the ranch hands. And th o longer fhaa the Greek girls. But chlng njt writ. than thunder clouds. "John, O John," came a clear voice early evening was always rpenl u Press water out and dry In the shads. what little gold tag aid Kitty finally LOVE ON THE RANCH. ? j mid-wint- , J, self-chasin- p g gd. ot half-vibrate- d 1 d n gray-haire- g-- hay-makin- g fair-haire- i I quick-steppin- e d blee-Jean- ts , n skln-burstln- rft g 1 er-irm-. , 'r one-hal- ! i ! f |