Show THE GREAT ADVENTURE OF LIZABETH ANN By Elizabeth Lizabeth Ann was tired lonely and hot Little hall b bedrooms under the eaves of or the houses three stories high are o of as a rule cold in the tho winter and un un- unbearably un unbearably unbearably bearably hot in the summer Her tiny room was no exception Besides Besides Be Be- sides she wanted d to go I home A letter from rom her father that I morning had made mad her homesick Better come home Liza Lizabeth beth Ann It read The climbing roses are allI all I I pink and white and sweet also also weare weare we weare are getting wonderful vegetables from the garden Too bad you are areso are areso so far away we we would send you some If it New York were a little nearer nearer nearer near near- er to Ohio No t thought ought Lizabeth l Ann dismally dis dis- dis- dis mally Nothing keeps here not here not even my usually sweet disposition Sho She shook her small fist at the image frowning at her from the tIle mirror They all expect you to come flying home Annie Lizzie-Annie Lizzie nnie t the 1 first little thing goes es wrong wron but youre you're 1 going to fool them You Yeu are not going going going go ing to do it Not when that that blessed daddy of yours has lIas raked an and scraped every overy cent together to give this year of music in New York Two salty tears ran down the side of her straight little nose but she brushed them away impatiently She decided to to take a ride on the Fifth FIrth avenue bus and forget her troubles It was part of Lizabeth Anns Ann's creed never to go out of her room unless unless unless un un- un- un less she was looking her best R Romance Ro Romance Ro- Ro mance might find her at any time she reasoned and she wanted to b be prepared She dressed carefully now putting on a ruffled white dress and white shoes and stockings When all else was ready she to took k from its box and tissue paper wrappings a broad brimm brimmed d white list It was a lovely hat with its wreath of dull blue corn cornflowers cornflowers flow flowers rs and Lizabeth Ann adored it She went down stairs tying fis as she went three dimes in the corner of her handkerchief Two were for her fare and one for a soda water after fter- ward As she climbed the perilous stairs to the top of the car her attention at te was vas attracted to to a young man sitting on one of the front seats lIe He was very good looking in a wholesome wholesome whole whole- some way but he lie looked so white and ill that Lizabeth Anns Ann's heart went out to him in pity As it happened the only vacant seat was vas the place next to him and andas andas andas as the girl sat down she caught a glimpse of a pair pall of gray eyes very tired and very appealing As she turned her head to look down into the street below she heard a smothered smothered smothered ered exclamation 1 Realizing that her broad hat must have llave grazed his cheek check she she flushed 1 Im so sorry she said gently It I must have hurt and I am afraid afraid you I have been ill been ill too The young m man n looking into the blue eyes underneath the white sat hat decided 1 d that illness illness' ilIn s its compensations I Typhoid lie he said briefly but Lizabeth seeing liens him smile knew he ho was not offended She found herself thinking of himas himas him himas as the bus ro rolled and lurch lurched d on Jt its way and as for Richard Bennett he cursed the convention that made it impossible for him and this sweet sweet- voiced pretty girl to talk together and then in the midst of these rebellious re- re re rebellious thoughts he saw her handkerchief handkerchief handkerchief hand hand- kerchief lying on the floor at his feet As he lie stooped to pick it up he felt the coins in the corner and a wild idea came cameto to him Why not He had heard man many times that every everything thins was fair in love and war Unobserved cd by the girl h he placed the little piece of linen in his pocket When Lizabeth Ann saw the conductor con ductor starting on oil his round to collect collect collect col col- col- col lect the fares she felt for her hand hand- kerchief It was not whore where she had put it it in fu her belt and she frantically ly looked under the seat and around the the floor At last she realized th that t tit it was gone and knew that she would have to have a disagreeable scene with a probably suspicious and Indignant indignant indig Indig- nant conductor She cast a desper desperate ate look at the young young man beside her hor and blushed furiously when she saw him looking lookin at her with solicitous gray eyes Have you lo lost lost t something Can I Ibe Ibe Ibe be of ot any service to you 1 His Ibis voice was as the voice of or a gentleman low and pleasant Lizabeth Ann took the thc plunge lunge Ive lost my handkerchief with my money in It If you will be bo kind enough to pay the conductor and will give name and address I will send you the money in fn the tho morning Tears were very near the lao eyes oyes and Richard cursed himself heartily It was too late now though for re regrets regrets regrets re- re grets and he smiled reassuringly Into her troubled face as he dropped the i two dimes in the box Its funny isn't it how accidents will happen at the most inopportune times I remember one time time Ume and before she realized it Lizabeth Ann Lizabeth Ann fot found nd herself listening to the interesting interesting interesting inter inter- esting conversation of t this is stranger When she got off the bus bUB he got gotoff gotoff gotoff off too and it seemed perfectly perfectly- natural natural natural nat nat- ural for him to walk to her door with her As s they hey reached the steps he held out his hand Lizabeth Ann put hers Into it thinking he wanted to shake hands bands When she drew it away she saw saw sav that her handkerchief with the coins in the corner lay In her palm She stared at it dered But But I I dont don't understand His eyes were looking at her with such a wealth of te tenderness in their depths that Lizabeth Ann felt a lump come up in her throat and her heart I began beating very quickly RichardI Richard took her two hands tightly in his I Of course you dont don't understand little girl whose name I dont don't know because you yeti ou dont don't believe any more than I did in love at first sight But Im I'm going to make you yon believe belie in love at second or third sight sight sight-if if you'll give me the tile chan chance e. e Lizabeth Ann felt very weak In the knees but with it all al alit she felt too too a great happiness She smiled up at him a sweet whimsical smile My Iy name is Elizabeth Ann Gregory Gregor she said shyly I He let go her hands and Lizabeth I Ann seized t the opportunity to go quickly inside the house Womanlike however she she did not close the door 1 very tightly She could hear his If It I II voice very clear and boyish I come back back- to tomorrow lOrrow will you see I me Little Lizabeth Ann Her answer r was very brief brier Maybe But But Butas as she ran upstairs on wi winged ged feet the little handkerchief smelling very much of tobacco smoke her lips now ow now was held tightly against l Ct by be the Newspaper et 14 Sew Kew ew York lurk CU City |