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Show THE DIARY OF A SIREN Xr CLARA'S WITCHING WAY : l By RING- W. LAEDNER, AUGUST 2S. RETURNED yesterday from my vacation at Macatawa and went hack to work this morning. 1 had not been in the office ten minutes min-utes when tho phono rung. It was Lennie. "Well, girlie," he said, "did you have a coud time' ' "Yes' I replied. "Are you going to be bnsy this evening?" he said. ' 'I am never too busy to sec you," I replied. "All ri?ht," he said, "I will hp out to see you around S o 'clock. ' ' So I worked hard till Id o'clock and then the phono rung and it was Mr. Sargent, the man I met up to Mncatawa. "You see. T remembered the number. num-ber. ' ' lie said. "Yes. Mr. Sargent," I replied. "Well." he said, "you tuld me T could call up but I could not see you. ' "Yes.," I snid, "T nm snrrv, but I think it will be best, for both of us to forL'ct our meeting."' "Well." he said, "what am T zn-incr zn-incr to do with the two t n-k s I have for the show at the Grand to-n.i to-n.i ph t .' " "You better turn them in at the box office." I Eaid, "and get your monev back. ' ' "Thcv won't take the ticket"? bark," he replied. "Tt looks like you would have to en with mc" VS7!:U., diary. I felt so sorry for him on account of him b;:v-in-j the tirkets and throwing lii money awiiv that I sairl I wo:;. lt, with hi in. and when said it 1 for got all about Lennie having called me up and me having an engagement engage-ment with him, and he the man who I am engaged to be married. But after I had accepted Mr. Sargent's invitalion it wns too late to get out of it, because in the first place he did not leave his phone number and in the second place he had bought en these tickets thinking I would go with him and it would not be fair not to go. So I reached Len- j nie at the ball park. 1 "Lennie." I said, "I told you ' that you might call on me tonight, but T wish yon could postpone it tiil i tomorrow night. ' ' 1 ' Why ' ' ' lip aked me. j "I have a desperate headache," ! I replied, which was the truth, "and T think it would be best for nie if T wont to bed earlv tonight." ' ' All righ!." he replied. " F will see you tomorrow nidit and I hope by that time your head feels better. bet-ter. " QO I hung up and all the rest of U the day my conscience troubled me on .'P-count of me telling Lennie Len-nie T could not see him and accepting ac-cepting the invitation J'mm Mr. Sargent. Sar-gent. But my Imad did ache terribly, ter-ribly, and when Mr. Snrgent called for me out to the house about half past seven o 'clock I felt s0 ,a,i That I would not of gone with him onlv for he hnveing boughtnn tho ticket. Wo scn the show together and T would of rnioyed the evering vcrv much only for how sorrv I felt for him bet ;i i j vp of the Im.ics he give n;c. ' ' IW.r Mr. S.irgont. " J :,id o my'lf. " w iii we could be (Continued on FoUovrine: Pa?c.) |