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Show I The Fascinating (j "Mr. Sunday" J f I ! Dy MARTHA M. WILLIAMS J (Copyright.) ((UESUY'S blood was real blue you can't deny that," Squire Crane said defensively to bis wife, who retorted instantly : "P.Iue as skim mill: and as poor. So poor I can't see why they're so set up over It." "Why, they don't put on airs over it it's the rest of us sorter look up to 'em for what they are. Been top of the pet ever since way back In 'Revolutionary, 'Revo-lutionary, times yet there ain't no friendlier folks in the county." "Not strange considering the coun-I coun-I ty keeps them, voting the colonel in ollice time on time, regular as election comes round. And that's how he's managed to get his two boys in West Point and Annapolis." "Well ! They've got to live somehow some-how and that farms so poor is won't sprout black-eyed peas unless you move 'em," the squire chuckled. His wife suoried: "That maybe saves the county at large something but it's a bit rough on the neighbors when the Henrys have company. They've got it now, you tell me staying company. That means I'll have to lend a ham, and a coop of broilers, and eggs, but-tec, but-tec, and preserves, to say nothing of being asked to bake a cake and pies. And poor Miss Rachel will part with jars and jars of things Ilenrys'll order or-der them with never a notion of how the bill can be paid. Seems to me they might make such truck themselves j live girls in the family, all big enough and old enough and anxious enough to be married. Betsy's twenty seven I know her ago by my John's she might a-heen married and got a good start on a family if she hadn' turned her nose up so rough when my neph-I neph-I ev, Sandy Allen, tried to court her. ! And she'll never have a better chance. See how he's got on ain't a better i catch in the county. Hut Ma Henry ' couldn't see him in her family be-1 be-1 cause he worked at the lumber yard with his own hands as well he niighr knowing Uncle P.en was going to will I It to him. Hetty's fine loukin' I ain't denyin' that but she's getting on , with four younger ones crowding her." j "The Lord will provide maybe," ! Squire Crane chuckled. "Looks like he had begun this very week. The Mr. Sunday Pat Henry has fetched home with him, I hear, Is the real thing northern man with money In both pockets, out to see what be can find to spend it for down here in the South" "llli! 1 wonder how come Pat to find him?" Mrs. Crane sniffed. "That's no mystery." from the squire. "They met in a hotel, just as Pat was planning his sf. rt got talking talk-ing together Sunday told how he had n bran' new car and was keen to come South In it so they hitched horses and agreed to come together.' first Sunday asked after hotels Pat wouldn't hear to that telegraphed the colonel to get ready for company and now all hands are ns tickled as , beeswax that things have fallen out so." Mr. Sunday, It appeared, was n rapid worker. Three das later he proposed to l'ctty. Later sensation crowded sensation : he had given Hetty out of hand a ; solitaire almost too big and brilliant. a diamond bracelet, a rope of pearls a set of summer furs, and a mesh bag of dcgrci trilles all, he declared, but there was time enough ahead for bet- ! ter tilings. Ten days was the time limit for the wedding-he was due many miles away on important business. Not quite so important, ef course, as making sure of Hetty, but something it would be cosily to neglect. I'ate has. It appears, a sense of cosmic justice. Else why should Sandy San-dy Allen, glancing Idly through a j chance newspaper, have lighted upon accounts of a stnonth omhez.'ler who had bought a new car and said he was going to Canada, but was more than suspected of heading another way? No picture. But somehow the description lilted the fascinating Mr Sunday enough to set Sandy In esl Igal ing t here w as a rew ard live thousand dollars - but that was nothing noth-ing compared to what might develop. Sandy went half way to meet the 1 sleuths brought them bona with III ill so cannil.v nobody suspec-d anything. any-thing. So at eight o'clock that night. In stead of bonds mat riuionial. ,'r Sun day, alias P.lchard Croon the Hash lest spender In the Night club circuit found himself hampered with bonds ol steel Sandy managed affairs quile ! magnanimously Betty should not he shamed before epoc'ant guests The unvsl was made on the dead quiet It was not until the car b 'ariic: Mi Sun day to receive tils desserts was well away that Sand showed tils hand And then only to Colonel llenr.v him .ell', to whom he said "Here's an open nnd shut pi "P" Jiloii I'v, saved your daughter from learning a thief hi reward will on give hei to a fellow who !i nl least reasonably honest ? She don't cxaetlv telle me 1 love hel elioii'h foi two Don't cheat the neighbor" of n wed. bug nl'iei nil H,e trouble they've la!, en to have a iiopei one I'm heeled got a new lleeiee back In town the preacher' (vailing, all vvhed up ns to what's w aided now hat d v on sn v V" "The only 'hlng possible to a man o sense. A double hill l cled 'Ves'l" qnolli the colonel W hoi ea ft cr If all did not go merry ns n inarrbii'e bell, Mrs. Henry somehow niannr.ed to e I ratio hyilei lew. |
