Show t u r. r Heart Cart of Gold Hunk of Ice By CLARISSA MACKIE Copyright HEN Royal ROal Blake Bluke had bad finished WHEN college and entered the business world he was that anomaly among boys one ODO who had never Dever had a girl And ADd then theD he met Eve l ve Langdon Eve was a splendid girl the cousin of ot one of ot his friends She was visit Ing In ID that summer and she sho I was as pr pretty tty as Laurie Langdon whom she was visiting Only Eve was as fair and golden as the mornIng mornIng morn- morn Ing with yellow hair clipped cUpped close to her pretty head and eyes as large and blue as cornflowers as ns for her bel cousin Laurie who was a perfect foil for Eve E she vas was brilliantly dark with dark blue eyes lashed with long tong black lashes and soft dusky hair Funny mused Roy that first night after he ho had hud met Eve at Laurie's Lauries house at tInt last I really believe belle that I have discovered the right girl I Just to bear hear her talk Is enough to inspire any man man fancy fancy her being Interested In my work work work-my my business ever everything business everything about met me 1 I I almost told her about my raise In ID salary and how v dads dad's being president of oC the bank had nothing to todo todo do with my promotion I almost know v that at last I have met the golden girl the girl the girl with the golden heart And ADd Roy noy drifted away Into delightful dreams of Eve Langdon who could- could play tennis golf golt row rov a n boat swim with wIlh the thc best of them drive a car and nd f. f ride a horse Of course Laurie Langdon could do doall doall doall all of these things as well as if It not Dot better than her cousin but Roy noy had never DC thought of ot Laurie whom he had known all his life Ufe except as a good kid and never once had his heart heartbeat I beat a bit faster because cause of her nearness near nea ness Dess or her beauty With Eve no Roy went everywhere quite overlooking Laurie who often had to remain at home Never ever mind Roy Eve would say Impatiently Laurie Lamle just loves to stay at home and poke pole around sewing or entertaining the Ladles' Ladles Aid society or things like that And then theD Berry Fancher came to town with all of his money his many maDY r motor cars his careless good looks and his fashionable mother and sis sis- sis sis- The Fanchers Fanciers bought the old Gardner mansion and spent thousands of dollars on repairs and the first girl that Berry Fancher ever paid any attention at- at l to was Laurie Langdon 1 Hemet He Ho Homet f met islet Eve and survived the encounter Laurie gre grew v prettier every ery day and the warm admiration of f Berry Fancher Fancher Fan Fan- aSi cher was followed by the attention of ot l other swains so that for the moment I ea 61 she e had hall almost forgotten about Roy Hoy fen Blake make and her hidden love for him p By lly September the gayety lessen lessened ell lu Eve who had at last captured Berrys Berry's attention went everywhere with him and finally when she began to talk tall It of ot going home after her summers summer's visit with her cousin It was Berry I who offered to take her In one of his II big curs r Good by l thrilled Eve E triumphantly triumph triumph- antly as she waved her little gloved hand I 1 have had a glorious summer sum sum- mer say flier say good good-by to Roy nay Blake for fOl forme me Inc um and also to all the time other boys and I et girls I have lun-e met I ch The fhe fhe evening after Eve went Roy noy Blake came carne around to Lauries Laurie's lookIng look look- fl lilt hag rather lather downcast Laurie gave him Imam Eves Eve's message of farewell and andS S broke e the news of ot her going with led Berry Fancher ancher Roy Hoy nodded gloomily no Roy kept on coming to see her every ev ev- n Cry ery day or ur two and Laurie Lauric found herself herself her her- R RB B self trying to comfort him with snatches s of news about Eve Sometimes Sometimes Some Some- d times lines she played her ber violin for him awl ami this he loved lond One night he said to her hel Laurie nurle please dont don't talk tome to tome me me ume about Eve We IVe had a fearful R fuss before she went away and now Ift I have known for a long time that what I 1 thought was a heart of gold was n a cold coIl lump of Ice icel I I thought 63 It was love but lovi-but but lawns Iwas mistaken h Poor Ioor no Roy whispered the girl for forshe forshe w she was sorry for him Still SUIl I Laurie urle d kept her lIer secret hidden dc deep p In her herRn Rn heart and went around as cheerful and happy as ever everand aull then she had hadn n letter from Eva 1 asking about nO Roy 1 I Ive I've e was wondering 1 It seemed that I it Berry Fancher was engaged to marry ei another girl in rim Virginia and had aDi A merely amused himself r last lust summer sc The next evening that Roy Hoy came tot to t call upon her lIer Laurie Lauric looking wonder wonder- wonderfully of fully pretty told Roy noy about Berrys Berry's his engagement 1 ement and gave him Eves Eve's letter In to rend read toy Roy grinned cheerfully ns as ashe as ashe 1 he lie returned It to her Eves es a n pretty prett tZ girl Laurie and und I had n a crush there last I st summer e but Jut she cured n met mel e I I r urn maw what i I want now and now and if I cannot can cnn not Dot have ha n a certain girl that I love 10 loved lovemore d unite more than anything else In the time world a wit whey why Im I'm just going coin to throw up ply bank Job Jib and nd go co to Asia Ala or somewhere some some- p where I Oh h toy Roy dont don't nog go o away 1 cried res' res a a Laurie Ic I 1 I urn and sure the girl Irl must lo love lovo 0 you Is nu Is she some sonic one dint I 1 know It a What to tn sec her picture r 1 demanded demand demand- to ed liny Huy catching her arm orm Come Conic ji over O to tn the light Laurie Lauric 1 I want wont to toh h slaw shuw you OU the picture of the only girl st t I l leave have c eser ever cr r truly loved the loved the girl I 6 want to marry the marry the girl with Ith a n golden en art In-art II t I I 1 nurle I-nurle went wont with him ns as to her tote He lie led letl her to nn an old Florentine Floren Floren- fe tine thorn mirror and said There she Is rim there Is s the girl I want to 1 marry marr And Laurie Lourie looking saw her own blushing face and aud It Roy's Roys of's betraying be he- tray Ing eyes and then them his arms were fie around her and she knew that at last perfect happiness was vms hers J And Roy Hoy calls her his Gold Golden n GIl Girl I r F |