Show I Daily Short Fiction Story WHO HAD THE SIXTH By JANE OSBORN Copyright 1913 b by tho the McClure Newspaper Newsy News paper Syndicate Martin Jones was an Owl He belonged to the most exclusive o s secret ret sensor senior so society society so- so o- o clety at Stanton whose official title was the Order of oC Owls It Is a great thins thing to be elected to membership of this so so- so clety It means menne that after alter you ou leave collego col col- lego lege you OU can enn w wear ar the small enameled pin on your our waistcoat not not too conspicuously conspicuously but Just where It may show how when you ou take out jour our watch It means that when you ou see another Owl anywhere In your wanderings g you rou can Impart to him through some secret pressures and In In- In of your handshake that you areas are arc areas as 88 socially desirable a n as s he It means too that when you meet a pretty prett girl as soon as you OU can cnn conveniently cOn let fall 1111 the fact tact that thIt you ar a Stanton Owl she will Immediately open her deep blue or bro brown browneyes browneyes n eyes a little wider and smile a little more graciously If b by chance you OU fall a vic vic- victim tim to these smiles It means that you youcan can delight her simple heart b by asking her to wear your our Owl pin for tor you Now ow Martin Jones had been boen out of ot Stanton college for ten years scars and he had discovered tha that t here and thero there In tho the business an and social world there were unknowing unknowing un un- knowing men and women who were Ig Ignorant Ig- Ig of the value of Owl membership that sometimes in his work ork as a lawyer a man needed to know more of ot his ability than simply the fact that he was an Owl owr and that sometimes oven ox-en an old and Se sea seasoned gaped Owl himself did dill not take tako him Into the bosom boom o of oC his its family simply because he was an Owl But one Illusion of or Martins Martin's Mar Mar- tins Uns undergraduate days respecting Owls remained Intact That was as the value o of Owl membership among the pretty girls ho happened to meet They would always put Martin Marlin up two to or three pegs when the they M saw iw W his pin The r result sult of ot this was that on several occasions Martin had in a a. moment of unreflecting un tin- reflecting enthusiasm parted with an ah O Owl l pin as a pledge of at f his affections Thero Thera were always alwa's more at headquarters that could be bought upon application a member One Ono morning when Martin was S I opening his mall in his small bachelor apartment shared by his chum and another Owl Owl from Stanton Stanton he camo across a a. notice front from headquarters of oC tho the Owl society Another holdup from the Owls Owl said salty liar Martin ln at the tho envelope I sent senta a cf check e k for a hundred last year 3 ear I suppose suppose sup sup- pose they want me to help th them m build a landing place for Cor flying machines 11 now OW Honest Tom com a man ml might ht as well bo be paying alimony as to be an Owl If It lf you'd look at tho notice you wouldn't kick to so hard hard said fald Tom I 1 got ot one of tho those e notices this morning mon too It Isn't a holdup It Its It's about that new nest rule Owls c cant can't nt give give- their pins away to girls any more moro unless the they are cn engaged or prattled married d One Otto or two of ot the themen themen men have b been en reckless about It but the new rule says as that all outstanding pins pine have got to comp como In on penalty of a heavy heRvy tine line The records tell Just how many each man has bought and now they will have to swear wear that they arc are either lost or In proper hands Its It's a good rule but of oe course It doesn't hit us Its It's only om some 9 of those girl craz crazy Johnnies they have bc been n t taken k n in to latel lately that would give gi their pins to a girl pirl Martin blinked bUnked rapidly at Tom Toni and then look looked d at him sharply to see seB that h lie 11 was serious Yes of course mighty tine floe title ruin he said No it wouldn't hit you ou or mo me It is a sort cort of nuisance to 1 have to swear you lost nil all you OU hw Nava or or- or dered though I dont don't seo see wh why returned Tom If you rou have lost them youve you've lost thorn thom and grid that's thal's nil all there Is about It No one would ever pawn an Owl pin They ar arent aren't nt worth enough No of ot course courso not If It o you lost them It Il Is all aU ri right ht Martin had opened Ms his notice and a a. special slip dropp dropped t out with th the statement nt from headquarters notify ing Martin that ho be would have to account for six b pins pin which from flom tom time to time ho lie had received d from he d headquarters I I must have Jost loaf a good man many lie he sal MIJ to Tom Tem I ought to have had one of those patent fasteners put on mine When han Martin carne came back from hl hi s 's of of- of flee fice that night to spend the evening t with Ith Tom he hEl had a 8 memorandum in his hla pocket that ran thus thue One Ont I 1 am wearing wearing- Two I gave pa m my Bister stater to make Maud Dawson Jealous Write for It Three I o tra to Maud Mau 1 Dawson to get el even Oen with m my slater sister R for tor It Four Tour I gave the little lithe brunette brunetto In to Rome w when hru I WAS is-as S abroad Good Goad l as lost Five h I J gave Julie VerA cre do di V Vera rc After wo we quarrels quarreled Ill I'll 7 I J gave glO It to Vivien Larocque She hj threw w It a away a wh when n she he found Julio's Julios Initials on tin back hack Good as lo lost t. t Six Ix I 1 gave AVe to to- to Forget h hT her r name Ask Tom At dinner Tom suggested to Martin that th they while away th the time at a a. new new- play rillY l hut but ut Martin hesitated I have hax-e one onn of two letters lotter I want ant to write tonight ht Tom I ought to write to my sifter erf for foron on one An hour later lat r Martin was still sitting 1 Idl Idly smoking with Tom If 1 you youre you're re going to le rHo these thoe fald Tom you OU might do It it Yes yes I expect to pree y it Martin drawled 1 Sa Say by the a I w was just thinking what hat a n great time inc wo we had that y year r we went to Maine never aw saw such ouch i What at about it ft wild raid Toy Tom annor annoyed at th the of ot Martins Martin's re remark rk J Oh I wa was Just J Ip speaking aJ ln fo o a client to today to- to day dar about about about c. catboats About ho how bow long was that best it wo we had woula woul you ou eay aT 1 Give it up up muttered Tom reading Nice girls there were too said Rid Martin Mar Mar- tin Un with a D. studied mood of reminiscing By tho the way a what did th they call that littie little little lit lit- tle tie one one p pretty one tt girl Play girl played the tho mandolin lives lives In fn the tho city lU during th h he s winter A nice time lima to a ask k said Tom Toni drop- drop ting ring In his book hok After Arter you ou rushed her like Uko mad for a month and then conic came ame bad and awl never ne gave gac her another thought Not Nat Oot PO so bad as ao that protested Martin Mar Mar- tin I did think a great reat deal of her her but not of her name Besides it wa wal Just after I got back to the city that I was wu wasfi fi sent sont nt abroad you recollect That That- rather |