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Show THE SALINA SUN. SALINA UTAH No. I moYihhow do they happen to be together? Why shouldnt they be? Theyre old friends " They arel" And, In answer to her look of surprise. I explained that I had begun to speak of Beasley at Mrs. Apperthwaite's. and described the abruptness with which Dowden had changed the Subject. . I see," my cousin nodded, That's simple enough. George Dowden didnt want you to talk of Beasley there. 1 suppose It may have been a little embarrassing for everybody especially If Ann Apperthwaite beard you. Ann?- That's Miss Apperthwaite? Yes; I was speaking directly to her. Why shouldn't she have heard me? Site talked of him herself a little later and at some length, too. She did ! My cousin stopped rocking. and fixed me with her glittering eye. Well, of all ! Is it so surprising?" Tiie lady gave her boat to the waves Ann again. Apperthwaite thinks about him still !" she said, with some-tilinlike vindictiveness. Ive always suspected It. She thought you were new to the place and didnt know anything about It all. or anybody to mention It to. Thats It! Im still new to the place. I urged, "and still dont know anything about it oil." They used to be engaged, was her succinct nnd emphatic answer. I found It hut loo Illuminating. Oh. oh ! I cried. I was an innocent, wasnt I?" Im glad she docs ffylnk of him. said my cousin. "It serves her right. I only hope he wont find It out. because lies a poor, faithful creature; hed Jump at the chance to take her hack and she doesn't deserve him." How long has it been." I asked, since they ued to he engaged? Oh, a good while five or six years ago, I think maybe more; time skips along. Ann Apperthwaites no chicken. you know. ( Such was the ladys expression.) They got engaged Just after she came home from college, and of ail tiie Idiotically romantic girls But slip's a teacher," I interrupted, "of mathematics. I alYes." Pile nodded wisely. ways thought that explained It: the romance Is a reaction from the algebra. I never knew a person connected with mathematics or astronomy or statistics, or nnv of those exact things, who didnt hnve a crazy streak 'n 'em somew here. Theyve got to blow off steam nnd he foolish to make up for putting In so much of their time at hard sense. But dont yon think that I dislike Ann Apperthwaite. Shes always been one of my hpst friends: thats why I feel at liberty to abuse her and I always will abuse her when I think how she treated poor David Beasley. iTow did she treat him? Threw him over out of a clear sky one night, that's nil. Just sent him home and broke his heart; thnt is, it would have been broken if hed had any kind of disposition except (he one the Lord blessed him with Just nil optimism nnd cheerfulness nnd ! Hes never oared for anybody else, and I guess he never will." What did she do It for? M.v cousin shot the InNothing! dignant word from her lips. "Nothing in the wide world ! But there must hove been she Interrupted, Listen to me, and tell me If you ever heard anything queerer In your life. They'd Heaven knows how been engaged long over two years ; probably nearer three nnd always she kept putting It off; wouldnt begin to get ready, wouldnt set a day for the wedding. Then Mr. Apperthwaite died, and left her and her mother stranded high and dry with nothing to live on. David had everything In the world to give her and still she wouldnt! And then, one day, she came up here and told Said she me shed broken It off. couldnt stand It to be engaged to David Beasley another minute! But why? Because my cousins tone was shrill with her despair of expressing the satire she would have put into it because, site said he was a man of no imagination ! She still says so," I remarked, thoughtfully. Then its time she got a little Imagination herself!" snapped my companDavid Beasley's the quietest ion. man God has made, hut everybody knows wlint he is! There ire some rare people In tills world that aren't all talk ; there are some still rarer ones that scarcely ever talk at all and David Beasleys one of them. I dont know whether It's because he can't talk, or if he can and hates tor I onlv thank the Lord lies put a few like that Into this talky world ! David Beasleys smile Is better than acres of other peoples talk. My Providence' Wouldnt anybody, just to look at him know that he does better than talk? lie thinks! The trouble with Ann was that she was too young to see It. She was so full of novels and poetry nnd dreaminess and highfalutin nonsense she couldn't see anything ns It really was. She'd study her mirror, and see such a heroine of romance there that she Just couldn't hear to have a fiance who hadnt nny fiance of turning o it to tie the crown-princ- e of Kenosha n disguise! At the to suit her hed hnve hnd least, very d to wear a Vandyke nnd coo sonnets In the gloaming or read On a Balcony to her by a red lamp. conipre-hondingly- - ev makpc skj& efenoe, VtibUSdA g BEASLEY SYNOPSIS Newcomer In a small town, a young newspaper man, who tells the story. Is amazed by the unaccountable actions of a man who, from the window of a fine house, apparently has converse with invisible personages, particularly mentioning one "Simpe-doria.- " Next morning he discovers his strange neighbor Is the Hen. David Beasley, prominent politician, and universally respected. With Miss Apperthwaite, he is an unseen witness of a purely imaginary Jumping contest between Beasley and a Bill Hammersley." Miss Apperthwaite appears deeply concerned. III. Z do not know why It should hnve astonished nie to And thnt Miss Apperthwaite was a teacher of mathematics except that (to my inexperienced eye) she didnt look it. She I looked more like Charlotte Corday! I had the pleasure of seeing her opposite me at lunch the next day (when Mr. Dowden kept me occupied with Bpeneerville politics, obviously from fear that I would break out again), but no stroll In the yard with her rewarded me afterward, ns 1 dimly hoped, for she disappeared before 1 left the table, and 1 did not see her again for a fortnight. On week-day- s Bhe did not return to the house for s lunch, my only meal at Mrs. (I dined at a restaurant near the Despatch office), and she was out Of town for a little visit, her mother Informed us, over the following Saturday and Sunday. She was not altogether out of my thoughts, however Indeed, she almost divided them with the Honorable David P.easley. A better view which I was alTorded of this gentleman did not lessen my Interest In him; Increased It rather; It also served to make the extraordinary didoes of which he had been the virtuoso and I the audience more than My ever profoundly Inexplicable. glimpse of him In the lighted doorway had given me the vaguest Impression of his appearance, hut one afternoon a few days after my Interview with Miss Apperthwaite I was starting for a. the office and met him full face-ohe was turning In at his gate. I took as careful invoice of him as I could without conspicuously glaring. There wa- - somelhlng remarkably taking," as we say. about this man aomething easy and genial and quizzical and careless. He was the kind of person you like to meet on the street ; whose cheerful passing sends you on feeling indefinably a little gaver than He was tall, thin even you did. gaunt, perhaps and his face was long, rather pnle. and shrewd and gentle: something In Its oddity not unremlnd-fu- l of the into Sol Smith Russell. His hat was tilted back a little, the slightest bit to one side, and the sparse, brownish hair above his high forehead was going to lie gray before long. He looked about forty. The truth Is, I had expected to see a cousin german to Don Quixote; 1 had thought to detect signs and gleams of wildness, however slight One glance somelhlng n little off. of that kindly and humorous eye told me such expectation had been nonsense. Odd he might have been he looked it but queer? Never. The fact thnt Miss Apperthwaite could picture such a man as this "sitting and sitting and sitting himself into any form of mania or madness whatever spoke loudly of her own Imagination, indeed ! The key to was to be sought unSimplcdoria der some other mat. As 1 began to knmv some of on the Despatch, and my to pick up acquaintances, here and there, about town, I sometimes made Mr. Beasley the subject of inquiry. Oh, yes, I Everybody knew him. know Dave Beasley ! would come the n chuckling reply, nearly always with I gathered that he had -- sort of laugh. which amounta name for easy-goinIt was said that ed to eccentricity. s and frhat the got out of him In campaign times made the political managers cry. He was the first and readiest prey for every fraud anil swindler that came to Walnwright, 1 heard, and yet. In spite of tiiis and of Ills hatred of speech-makin(Hes as silent as Grant! said one Informant), he had a large practice, and was one of the most successful lawyers in the state . One story they told of him (or. as they were apt to put if. on him) was repeated so often that I saw It had become one or the towns traditions. One bitter evening in February, they Related, he was approached upon the Apper-thwnlte- street by a ragged, whining and shivering old reprobate, notorious for the various ingenuities by which he hnd worn out the patience of the charity He asked Beasley for organizations. a dime. Beasley had no money In his pockets, hut gave the man his overcoat. went home without any himself, and spent six weeks in lied with a bad case of pneumonia ns the direct result. Ills beneficiary sold the overcoat. and Invested the proceeds in n spree. In the closing scenes of which a couple of brickbats were featured to high, spectacular effect. One he sent through a jewelers In an attempt to intimidate some wholly imaginary pursuers, the other he projected at a perfectly actual policeman who was endeavoring to soothe him. The victim of Beasleys charity and t he officer were then borne to the hospital in company. It was due in part to recollections of this legend and others of a similar character that people laughed when they said, Oh, yes, I know Dave Beasley. Altogether, I should say. Beasley was about the most popular man in Wainwright. I could discover nowhere anything, however, to shed the faint-ps- t light upon the mystery of Bill Hammersley and Simpledoria. It was s not until the S inday of Miss absence that the revelation came. That afternoon I went to call upon of mine; the widow of a second-cousishe lived in a cottage not far from Mrs. Apperthwaite's, upon the same street I found her sitting on a pleus- five-day- s' show-windo- Affier-thwalte- n n r Ond-zook- ... g ward-heeler- g camp-followe- Began to Know Some of My on the Despatch, and to Pick Up Acquaintances Here and There About Town, I Sometimes Made Mr. Beasley the Subject of Inquiry. As I ant veranda, with boxes of flowering plants along the railing, though Indian summer was now close upon departure. She was rocking meditatively, and held a finger In a morocco volume. apparently of verse, though 1 suspected she hnd been better entertained in the observation of the people and vehicles decorously passing along the sunlit thoroughfare within her view. We exchanged inevitable questions and news of mutual relatives; I had told her how I liked hiy work anil what I thought of Wainwright. and she was congratulating me upon having found so pleasant a place to live as Mrs. Apperthwaite's, when she interrupted herself to smile and nod a cordial greeting to two gentlemen driving by. They waved their hats to her gayiy, then leaned back comfortably against the cushions and if ever two me;, were obviously and Incontest-ahi- y on the best of terms with each other, these two were. They were David Beasley and Mr. Dowden. I do wish. said my cousin, resumI do wish dear Daing her rocking vid Beasley would get a new car of some kind; thnt old mode! of his Is 1 a disgrace! suppose you havent Of him? course, living at Mrs. met Apperthwaites, you wouldn't be apt to. But what is he doing with Mr. Dowden? I asked Bhe lifted her eyebrows. Why itakiag him for a drive, 1 suppose." ' - well-trimme- Well, sir, Daves got some- thing at heme to keep him busy enough, these days, I expect. : Christma C Music j ), By Mary Graham Bonner Western Newapiper Union.) WL.DQUGLAS 567&8SHOES(J Dougin shoes are actually dc SWAMP-ROO- T.. W. Ij. ma ruled year after year by more people For than any other shoe In the world with much interest the re gwamp.pk00t BECAUSE JLfcSgiK maintained by bladder medi- and liver Ing surpassingly good shoes the great kidney, for forty-siyears. This exx "D KENT had grown away from his perience of nearly half a cenm making shoes suitable family. 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For It took a millionaire to own a real home in a city. ' How foolish his mother had been not to hnve realized all that. She knew so little of city life, of business, of anything outside her own small groove But Brent was coming home foi Christmas and that was happiness foi the parents. Only they did wish Bren1 was more like tiie boy he had prom I aed to be. There was something imrd about him. lie hnd told them tin time before of a friend of his wlso a divorce from Ids wife. But my friend is so honorable, Brent hnd said. Tie wants tiie ill vorce as hes bored with Ids wife though still she loves him, hut he b having her secure the divorce and h paying all tiie expenses, for it Is onlj fair to a divorcee to hnve the divom secured by her. He really never ward ed to marry her. lie became tired ot her soon after they were engaged. 15m It was ids high sense of honor wide! kept him from telling her to hove t man break tiie engagement would hav been dishonorable." 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Yon may put It that way If It suits he child on her return. nnv better," snnpped the money- you was told tiie whnt me, you Exactly wealthy man. eply. I said mummy cant come Then," said the thoughtful-lookin- g she was Intoxicated yesterday Tlt-.itlistener, Thanksgiving day ought te London nd had a bad headache. last at least a week at your house. Fur in Life. "Mummy Was Drunk. A woman who was going to Egypt ad to be Inoculated against typhoid, ffie was unable to keep a dinner - J e s. arranged that a meeting should take Some men do not hesitate about place at the mans house. Brents Carving knife was once a grent dofather was going to sell much of tiie breaking a promise because it la so mestic Instrument. Delicatessen leaven land, which had become a burden since asy to make another. to be carved. nothing Brent had gone away. A divorce decree 1b always And he arranged the meeting so that It is much easier to keep up than to par he would be able to meet Brent on bis catch up. Ing Injunction. way home for Christmas. Brent greeted his father with reSo youve brought served affection. the fiddle, Brents father exclaimed Brent never brought his violin with -- him any more because he would be asked to play by old friends who didn't realize that music was his bu.sl ness. Yes, Brent said, I have to play right after Christmas aud tiie town Im to play In Is nearer here, so Im going there directly. There was nothing more said. But at tiie next statioa a group of youths got on and at once began to play tiie mandolins and guitars which they had with them. Brents father nudged him. "Dont insult me, Brent whispered angrily. No son, I only wondered I didnt mean you I wonder if I could play n your fiddle with the boys. You know its a good many years since you brought yours with you and 1 havent touched one Ill be careful of it. I used to play as n boy, you know. They said you got yonr music front me." And Brents father played and became a boy again. All the Christmas tunes they played and the people In the train sang and there was merrymaking thnt recalled to the aged tnnn the happy days of long ago. despite the fact thnt his fingers were stiff. Brent watched at first, rnther disgusted at such a display of friendliness. for many of the people were strangers, nnd then he saw his fathers eyes and the expression there tiie expression which the music gave hiir nnd which he had denied hint. What a cold, conceited, heartless person he had been, severe with his parents, keeping his music solely for pay, denying it to those whose love and warm sympathy had given him tiie talent. We had music, Christmas music, on the train." Brents father told his mother as they got home. "And were going to hnve It here, too, Brent added. "Ive made music my business, but Dad has put music into bis life. 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