Show The Evening Telegrams Telegram's Daily Sh Short ort Story TRAPPING A LOVER By LAWRENCE ALFRED OLAY CLAY Copyright 1313 by the McClure Newspaper News paper Syndicate Young Brian Colfax had been Injured and was down In the country at Squirrel Inn to recuperate It II Is not meant that thata a brick house houstI had fallen on him In the tho city or that he had been bumped by a street car on his way to his club an and that his doctor had looked wise and said that he needed country countr air to knit his broken bones The young mans man's injuries were purely mental although any savant will tell ou you that a great mental shock beats falling off ore the roof root of ot tho the woodshed all hollow He had loved and lost That Is Is ho thought he loved which Is about the same thing thinS and he had most certainly lost Ten hours before he was to wed ned the tho darling of his heart hurt she packed her trunk and took steamer to Europe with another man She and that tha t other man were married married mar mar- ried on board Just just justas as tho the gangway was being hauled hauk-d In and visitors hustled on onto onto onto to the wharf Young Mr Ir Colfax was out In cash cashon on the to be wedding The cold cash ought always alas to be bo figured In such cases A few tew pitied him and a a. largo lar largo e number number num num- ber her laughed at him Even the girl girls girl's s father said eald the case cage seemed to have o Its humorous elde side though ho did not volunteer to find It Mr Colfax used up 1300 sending wireless wire noire wireless lel less s messages to the flit fair but faleo false one oneat oneat oneat at sea and on only quit when Informed that the bridegroom was t lighting cigarettes with them as fast as they came When hen he found himself thinking of ot t suI ul- I Ihen ride cede the young oung man who had loved and lost turned to tho the country and Squirrel Inn He had seen the place and knew that It was wa quiet Mine host did not hang out a sign of lacerated hearts cured quickly but he was wa willing to todo do his best best for his patrons patrone Mr Colfax had been a athe at atthe atthe the hotel for a week weak and was making a agamo agamo gamo game tIght fight to drive awn away the dark recollections col wh when n a a. restless night came The sky was overcast the wind sighed mournfully mournfully mournfully mourn mourn- fully the whippoorwill went to bed and stopped singing Now and then there came a a. distant walling aa at If some somo lost spirit was was' crying out to bo be found and taken to a first class restaurant for a square meal The young man couldn't rest Such a night with the hoots of ot an nn owl added from time lime to time brought back with full fun force toreo the jot Jolt alt he had received re I If It Laura Jean h had hoA loved him him It If she didn't t Intend to stick to her promise If promise If ho he wasn't the tho man to m make o her happy happy It If a heap of other othor things thing wh why hy didn't she ehe como come out Uk like Jlko a a. man and say so se Why not have tho the moral courage to look him in n the eye and say Brian 1 I ha e sized you jou OU up and thought condu- condu It all aU ov over r. r and have come to the conclusion sion slon that you are a u. light Us-ht weight Dont Don t let it hurt your jour feelings but I tell lell YOUIt's you youIt's youit's its it's all off otto I 1 have kept a book account of the value of ot tho the theatre tickets bouquets bouquets bou and boxes of candy you hive have h lavIshed lav lavished on me and tomorrow morning you you will W receive by bl- bl first delivery my certified check for fer 7 10 That would have havo been boen the tho manly manto way ay but alas ala Laura Jean had shown that there was wan no her Mr Co Colfax I fiC stifled In his room as ho he thought lie would co go out for a walk He would plunge Into the night and become a shadow He would commune i with the souls of ot other young men who had re received received re- re the Jolt joll If It he ran across a millpond mill millpond millpond pond In his wanderings perhaps perhaps- perhaps It was wa raster easier and more moro appropriate to ta the occasion to raise hlll his window and drop drop to tho ground than to co go 0 aroun around 1 In search of the tho front or beck back door r He dropped That long wall walled Just then and an anThe owl hooted The victim of a a. womans woman's wiles knew nothing of If the tho neighborhood Ho had fat sat eat on n the veranda and ond smoked and nd thought most of the time Ume He now took the highway and sauntered down It He cared carro rod not whither he went nor how howlong long h he e stayed It wasn't as if It he was on a Job for or wages Forty y Tid rods down own tho road was waa as a manor house called tho the Maples The owner was a a. Mr Sanborn About all ail he has to do with this ls sto stor I Is the fact tact that he be was 15 Hazel inborn Sanborn s a father Miss Hazel had rabbits rabbits Ave five or six of them Thoro There had had- been others but n lL red fox tax had como come prowling and found a a. way to get set Into the pen Only the tho night before he had taken one of the biggest est and Juiciest and left lefter the er others half haf dead with fright Miss w H Hazel HAUl Lh had first shed tears Then she had hart dashed them away and run to the gardener r to exclaim Thomas rhomas you are a chump 1 Yes miss was the dutiful reply The The biggest beat chump In the county Certainly certainly You Youve let a Q fox com come hero en and 1 devour several of ot f jeral my rny rabbits and never done a thin about it Not Not a thing thin miss But But why In beeswax haven't you you I Because I haven't be been n told to he well thinKS themes I Im I'm telling you now w Papa says there is a fox trap around You stir sUr your our stumps and find d out It If there Is la a Q trap you jou ou set it It Just so miss I find the trap and set it t and and and- and and-and- and And catch tho the fox tox stupid But But he may not come back hore here Then catch something else elsel 1 A Jilted Jolted young man that goes out at midnight to too walk his grief away walks as softly aa M a cat Mr Colfax was tiptoeing when nhen he ho came to the tho Maples Ma Ma- plea ples and saw someone turn in there It had preceded him BO so softly that ho he hadn't heard a Q football Perhaps it was waa another I Jolted young man Filled as he was with grief grIn and humiliation humiliation humiliation hu hu- hu- hu and th owl hooting and tho the lost Jost soul waiting wailing It Jt seams a wonder that young oung Mr MI Colfax didn't pass on about his i business of ot cussing Laura Jean and theman theman the tho thoman man who got her but on tho the contrary it woke him up to think some somo thinks on the present Tho Thu man who had slunk Blunk around the house was nas probably a thief lIe He was waa probably looking for an open pon window Should the bell bo be rung and the Inmates be aroused Wouldn't It be bo better and more heroic to capture the fellow single dingle handed It took the young man a no quarter quarter ter of ot an hour bour to decide this question When one ono has lias been crushed to a 3 pulp It takes the tho mangled remains some time to recover reco their former shape nn and get the brains to working It was finally decided decided de de- ceded to be bo heroic and Mr Colfax passed around tho the house and came came- cameto to a a. halt before an nn open window just as the thief tossed out a B sack ck with the family silver r rIn In It and prepared prepare to follow Ho Iro did follow fol- fol fol tol low Ho III was tackled as his feet touched tho the round ground but ho he was waa prepared for tor birthday surprises He lie hauled off ott and gave tho the hero one on the tho Jaw that sent nt him spinning and he did not stop his circular circular cir dr cular car career er until his foot was set st on the pan of that fox trap and the jaws wore about his leg Jeg Tho The robber obber df didn't nt wait wAtt to toa argue things nor to to shoulder his cr He Just faded aWAY awny and was no more Tho The hero wished ho he could do tho the same lama thing but buthe lie ho A fox trap has powerful Jaws but no no teeth It is Intended to hold Mr Re Reynard Reynard Rey Rey- nard fast tast until he can be well lectured and then knocked on the head Young Mr lr Colfax found the tho trap good for or man manor manor manor or beast It held him in a a. vise Ise It hurt It set him to forg forgetting Laura JeanAn Jean An open window window window-a a sideboard dered dered-a dered a bag bab of ot silver sliver under tho the window V the the robber trapped by bye b accident Anything Any Any- thing thinS bett bettor better lr than that wanted by even a one horse e lawyer And there he he was when nhen the gardener turned out at daylight to discover er er him and call him names and offer to punch his head and boast of how many years cars hed he'd get behind the tho bars And there ho he was when tho the father of or Hazel Sanborn camo Sarno out and called him more moro names and said his face taco show showed d he ho was a crook and shook a big roll of bills In the victims victim's face and said the tho last dollar doUar of 01 It would be spent to put him where he h belonged And there thero ho was when Miss Hazel came out and looked him over o and showed pity In her eyes ees and had hIm released and said and to her father Let us h hear T what he has nas to say eay before before before be be- fore we send lend for tor the constable Hell Holt lie and beg beR off of course coursel I Up to this time young Colfax had said nothing It looked to him as If It It would be throwing breath away The pity Inthe in inthe inthe the eyes of ot tho the girl rl decided him and he began at the beginning and made a clean breast of things A UA t dem likely likely- story commented Mr Sanborn when It was finished But I have havo met his Laura Taura Jean re replied re- re ro- ro plied the tho daughter Besides that thore there was a lot In the papers about It Just then the thc constable const ble came rome around the tho house and said Ive got the feller who got fot In here last night At least he says he did and that some servant eer came near nabbing him He Is a tramp who tried his hand at burglary Hero Here are some napkin rings I took from his hie pock- pock ets Mr Brian Brinn Colfax ate breakfast with mth the tho Sanborn family After breakfast st the Sanborn family nursed his leg and soothed his feelings Laura Jean may think she Is tremendously tremendously tremendously tre tre- tre- tre happy as ne a n bride but If It Hazel Sanborn doesn doesn't t beat her all aU to squash then there thore is nothing In Signs and pre prey dictions diction |