Show The Tea Shop a Success w Oy Dy CLARISSA MACKIE t CoI U Ie MT D UT why a n tea tta shop Inquired tl U their tr friend Mrs Gray Cray That In hi such Mich a toll foolish h qUI question Dolly retorted Lois lols but I 1 will try to explain we arc are o opening a 0 alea atea tea lea shop Polly folly and I 1 lu the hope bOll bOllot of ot n Il money All the till luck In la the world wort a my dears cried Mrs firs Gray fouling folding them both th In her lou long bug but bunt c has IMS turned out so M o differently since I Iw w went nt I abroad I expected to flail find you U both ho engaged cd I Yonn Young Polly to that Burnet boy boy and and you LoU Lols why you yon were tu to Gardner Allen Where Is hi be her They both flushed Lois shrilled army n n ny all 1111 knowledge of ot net UP Allen and young joung 1111 Polly 1011 denied that t her acquaintance wll with h the Burnet boy 1101 n was except n o flirtation I shall 11 be b giving u luncheon ln vent week Reek eh decided Mrs 1111 Oro Gray to lo about I twelve t you f you lIu must trust lt let me have havethe havethe the shop that day du When they were alone Polly looked nt at her year older sister Holly Dolly Gray OrllY Is a 0 dear she said suld sincerely y that luncheon will bo be the tUe making of us Lois Lola Lois lost lust the little broken tar faraway look hook she was wearing und and she sho essayed n n cheerful smile It may lOay bathe b the mIlkIng making mIlk mak ing of ot this shop I In the meantime wu we must Just pick up UI business the best way WilY that we can ran Our food Is delicious de do- licious ruS we know that Polly folly Even ln If It grandfather did say say say- Never Nu mind what grandfather said about the t room ten business Polly never ne mind anything about the way he treated us us what he said to Gardner Allen or Hob Bob Burnet we cannot even enn guess that he be could say anything very ery unpleasant after aler we Ve have hll f spoilt spent our ourn Ihn s a hen 11 1 n I I. I wo n n a n. n o r v. v phan d but hut he might have hu given Shu the Impression that he questioned their ability to keep us In the Oh style dear and then we wo both hoth quarreled with him him and he lie s sent ut IS ns out with a 0 hundred lion hun dred dollars between len us we us-we we will have I Ito to forget poor Poll After that luncheon the success of ot the till tiny tea shop was assured Then one momentous day Bobby Dobby Burnet came In la with another girl I IThe IThe The girl was studying the luncheon curd card Bobby Dobby looking rather bored suddenly saw Polly standing beside their table and started violently lie He stared staled while the girl ordered and ond when she had and waited for tor him he made a strong strona effort to concentrate COIl cen t ra teA te A sandwich sandwich anything anything will do and do-and doanda and andA A cup dm lIn nf of Il ten hen n was lila his order 1 n Polly's Pollys dimple suddenly came Into her check and she went behind the scenes and worked furiously over O a avery avery avery very delectable chicken salad sahli sandwich sand sand- for Bobby nobby Somehow the little look of Joy In Pollys Polly's eyes ees remained there for days das One sunny autumn day When hen both the girls secretly longed for tor n a good horseback ck ride In the country the tile business In the little shop was very ery dull dell Only a dozen people leollo carne came to eat and then left at ut once I suppose It Is too beautiful out of or doors for tor people to spend spInd n a spare spIne moment In here murmured Lois Somebody coming now remarked Polly as three men entered the low door When the first one olle lifted his hie bowed boned head hlad the girl almost cried aloud It was waa her grandfather and accompanying accompanying him were Gardner Allen and Hobby Bobby I The latter came llImo forward forward for tor ward smiling pleasantly at Poll Polly fully Can you ou arrange a n table for tor five five five- we ore are expecting two ladles to Join us Just us-Just Just a r rl n nilar luncheon luncheon anything anything you ou please will do lie rejoined his companions arid and they stood 1 In III front of the window looking Into the sunny street where their car was at the curb while the two girls rapidly arranged a u round table tuble for tor five When everything everything every every- thing was ready rendy Lois went forward The rube table Is ready rendy sir she said to her grandfather dea I her Very ery good Lois my dear deur he said sold and bent Jent tad kissed her tenderly This was too much for tor young Polly folly who came for her embrace and then when the three were standing at their chairs grandfather said suld We are wRIting wafting for tor you girls to Join us one on either side of ot me IIII If It you please I 1 At the close of ot the meal It wn was the grandfather who ho rose In III his chair with his water glass In his handI hand I 1 propose propos the health of ot the tea teu teai teashop i shop hop he said Mild They drank solemnly and ond grandfather timer ther II lifted fled his hits glass once more mor and I looked nl lit the lire two girls and the till two young oun men mIll with smiling eyes ejes Almost a year IRr ago he said two young oung men to tn rue are and asked me for the I hands mud hearts of ot my I lets I lI asked them to 10 go 0 away for tor u II year lIr and then return return nail they hn have hae e kept their word Before my granddaughters granddaughters grand grund daughters married I 1 wanted to tn he be ure sure tint that they could be self supporting In disc of ot adversity ud so I 1 quarreled with them tint and we Ve parted It hll hm has nearly broken HI my toy heart but they have proved Iro to be hI pure gold they gull they have l succeeded anti and If all 1111 four of f you are urt of ot the hut mine lIme mhd wo we will consider the matter set set- 1111 and do close e the ten shop now nosy and thai tuu w ue nee will ull all go In out to be the country dub for tur HIP Ihl J That If Is till the rIll real I ret UK-ret of ot why the popular little ten shop changed hands hand I rail bow Lois Iole and Polly the nun lIIn of lit their hearts 11 all 1111 cu cumo rumo nun to tv live Mill 11 h grandfather In lu tho tine big bla |