| Show sze 7 ay lya wa dusting cupid la in the winand A inand to carstairs anything dolly ras 13 of interest especially now major jor ruthven had declared that hollid bo be no communication bea these two young people lh h an edict Is difficult of enforce nhen ben the young people lived just ete to each other but the major 1 a most efficient ally hi in his sis jda e bail bad been disappointed in her and only lovo love affair and vae wag out dence bilth ith lovora lovers generally gener filly and frank carstairs in particular for elder carstairs lack of ap precia of lydias charms had sent him bere here to look for a life mate mato and iad ad confirmed lydias spinster lie e majors objection to franks took more practical ground ik k as campaign manager for bis his friend and had defeated majori candidate for abo state mature lature and arid incidentally had won rol 01 of the party in his district an tage not to be despised by a i oung lawyer even though he assessed of independent fortune the love of dolly Rut ruthven st now frank watched dolly mily ho he had tried in every way ecord et jorj to her since on the night the primaries the tile major had aed died the door in his face 9 e was certain aho she did not share bhare fr It wrath but to gain her 4 t bolly was dusting cupid with th miss lydia as dragon was er beyond his hie shrewdness hatched her idly as she fluttered nutt ered delaty nty duster about the plaster mid d wondered if he ho might have I 1 mistaken biB taken in his belief that sh bin 1 loved him for ehe she had been at 11 t pains nis apparently to call attea atten tion to tile cast and cupids back was turned to him suddenly ho lie found that the algnia canco lay in tho the dusting rathor rather than that tho white figure first the duster flitted down ono one shoulder of the cupid then tho the other next there was as another dab dmn down n the first side follo followed ed by ani two 0 more and then one if it ho he had been out with the tile militia signal corps this would have been his call IF F C 11 ju jiu jun n for fun ho be would water the plants in tho the window and reply with the tiny watering cau he sprinkled one side of a gera geranium and arid then ann tee sni swung ung tho the sprinkler on the other side that was ID D tho the IV V was as three more dots on tho tile same side aide and one on the other like a flash camo came flesh nourishes flourishes of the duster and he had dollys 0 K TA twenty enty minutes later frank went down downtown toNn with head erect and when ho he met major ruthven he added further to bis offences by uy passing that doughty veteran with a broad grin the majors frown was smoothed away only when miss ldla assured him that dolly had been in her own room all tho the morning that evening franks big red automobile stood panting in front of the tha honeo across the way while bile dolly carefully chaperoned by her father and aunt took tho the air on oa the brownstone steps the ilar darkness liness had already fallen and in her hair the red tips of burning jose joss sticks gave signs that bho she was betoi mined hat the should not anno annoy her the major gave a grunt as frank ran down don the steps and dolly brightened up instead of climbing into tho the scat seat and steering off 1 frank stood in front of the machine idly swinging his cap presently one of the big lanterns on tho the front of tho the machine winked at dolly and two shorter winks followed back of the majors shiny pate tho the JOSP joss sticks danced like eager to nestle back into the soft colls coils of hair from which they had just been snatched im going up to the corner for a soda announced dolly want to come aun auntie tle III 1 I guese ill havo have a vichy grunted the distrustful of walks alks with Car carstairs about and tho the three strolled slowly toward the corner drug store under the leafy arch of trees halfway up the tile street tho the two glaring rig oes of an automo automobile bilo flashed around the corner and with noth a puff the hugo huge machine drew up alongside of tho the curb in another second dolly had jumped into it and w with ith a derisive honk of tho the horn the PO powerful gerful car raced off leaving miss aliss adia breathless and the major inarticulately profane he HO blast have arranged thie this with her SPI spluttered Uttered the tile major hm hen at last words came to bla his re bellor alof but miss lydia ae nas positive tivo in her asgur ance that thero there had bad been no communication the major had to content bitont himself alth telephoning the poll that hs his daughter laughter had been abducted abduct ed this bad only the result of bringing to tai 0 plain clothes men and a dozen reporters to the house it ims as to these latter that frank franic and arid polly dolly owed their immediate forgiveness dot bot thoo gone across the river ed the tile youngest of the tile scrib alers they dont need licenses across the state line nd ill bet they have been married by now maim a great headline he continued hai hat to himself automobile young couple outfit stern parent he lie made a note on his pad and the major burst forth gosh hang it ou oung cuhl bo he shouted im no ding aasted stem parent ou flat headed jackass jac kaso hasal I 1 know they wore were going to bo be married iti 1 just because I 1 bet em a house that the tile ian tan oft off I 1 told ein they elope without A my going alduff and Car nori on the tile house now ou go and put that in our paper and if aou ou dare call me a stern parent I 1 shall sue you for libel the honk of the tile auto horn sounded outside out jide and tho the major rushed rustled down the atoo stoby and across the road to where frank was helping dorothea cai cat stairs out of tho the its all right puffed the major as tho the nes newspaper paper men camo came streaming after him dont let em know how ou outwitted me and ill forgive you but how did you do it and as the raced up to participate in tho the sensation they VIA A ay you ou young bubl he shouted hou ted found frank and dolly explaining to the major tho the usefulness of transmission by flag and arid flash toms ar H korner in boston glob globe |
