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Show t Her Hired Suitor f By T. S. STRIDLING Cupynglit. iilu, by AwuclslaU Literary 1-rvsa. Cranlelgh Hume swung himself Into the Manayunk car, thrust hi thumb and forefinger Into hi waistcoat waist-coat pocket after the small change he usually kept there, and found nothing. noth-ing. "Hurrup!" growled the conductor, glancing at the waiting line behind the trim young fellow. The boy' finger' rummaged nervously through other pocket. "Ah, here," marled the bluecoat, "trying to beat your way for a few blocks!" He jerked th' bell violent- 4 ly for a atop. T "I have nothing but thl bill." Hume tbruat Into an Inside pocket and drew forth a twenty dollar note. The car came to ft grumbling atop. The conductor waa angry. "No. you don't. You know I can't change ft double X. Don't have to. Get off." The young fellow hesitated, a flush crept up hi face into hi closely clipped hair. Two or three pasaen-I pasaen-I ters were smiling at bi dilemma. 1 He turned on hi heel and itepped ' Into the night. At the same moment a fat, white-haired, white-haired, red faced old gentleman topped from the crowd on the car platform. The car rushed away with It usual ascending whine. Cranlelgh Cran-lelgh found himself and companion dropped In the midst of a row of Swelling of uncompromising respectability. re-spectability. The young man stood for a moment mo-ment under an arc light, wondering vaguely Into which bouse the old gentleman would turn when, to bis lurprlse, be apoke. "Pretty rotten company, that." "Rather." returned Hume cautlous-" cautlous-" ly, looking up and down the street tor the light of a drug store where be could get hi bill changed. "Don't bother," said tho old man; "I have some small change. We'll go out Manayunk way together." Hume glanced suspiciously for ft moment, but the broad comfortable face and prosperou clothe were reassuring. re-assuring. "Then why did you get oft?" The old gentleman nodded emphatically. em-phatically. "ISccausi you did. Ilov-eril' Ilov-eril' my name. lilzlver Uoverll, "Cuddle Up a Little Closer." owner of the noverll cotton mill of Manayunk. You may have beard of me." Hume coughed apologetically. "You will excuse me. Mr. Uoverll, but Manayunk baa ao many millionaire that er Hume la my name, a Manayunk man myself." "Good. I eize a man up quickly. Mr. Hume, that' the reaaon I'm now where I am. I vant to employ you" "Out I have a profession." "Thl Is an odd Job, In a way. Won't take up your professional time. I have a daughfr, Mr. Hume you don't know what a daughter Is, Mr. Hume." The old gentleman' business-like tone trailed off Into a lgh. "I've seen them." remarked the young mr.n. "Ob. I mean to own one. bring her up, let her get to the fool stage and run yo i crazy." 'I don't know, what that Is." admitted ad-mitted Hume. "Well, my daughter Delia thinks he's In love with a drug clerk In Roxborough. It' ridleulou. I asked her w hat ibe admired i bout him anyway. any-way. She aald ahe thought it waa tho dare-devil way be slung her soda. She ao young! I told her he couldn't marry him. She said she would. I've Lad her mother and aunt tell her she shouldn't, but I believe she will. Then I bit on my scheme, and there w here you. come In" Hume looked at the old fellow's flushed face under the arc light, after thl burt of confidence. "What am I to do?" "Well, when he told me a soda sllnger looked daredevil I decided light then to fight a dare-devil with fire. I looked you over. I like your rut and twill. Hume. I want you to pitch In now and make that drug clerk a dead an lsu a free silver or abolition. Can you iog ply ft guitar?" "A littl bit " "All right. I fancy If drawing od look daredevil, a guitar and a moon light song ought to be a regular wild west show, and 'ew words whispered whis-pered In window attlce. a charge up Sun Juan hill. Are you on salary sal-ary twenty-five per week till the drug clerk fades?" "Twenty-five per," laughed Hume In amazement, "to court a girl?" "Money'a no object, Mr. Hume; ! want the work done. I wouldn't quarrel about a lawyer's fee when he write my will, 'i I Is like that. Yonder comes our car. We can't ta.".: this Inside. I It ft go?" "Sure thing." The two men boarded the car and were flying on their way to Manayunk. Mana-yunk. They sat aide by side, and Mr. Uoverll banded the biue coat a dime, lifting two finger. It take ion think like three-quarter of an hour to ride from the heart of Philadelphia Philadel-phia to Manayunk.' Hume could not forbear smiling at thla whimsical adventure ad-venture upon which be wa engaged. Suddenly a thought struck him. He leaned over to the hectic ear of his companion. "Suppose I ahould upose " Mr. Uoverll turued and gave him steady look. "I'd get somebody to head you off." "She muit be young" "Too young to marry." "What age?" "Eighteen." The car fled on up paat Falrmount park. There waa ft full moon In the sky that wove a pale Altering of light over the massed trees. A they paased the Wlssahlckon the tumbling water at the dam gleamed white and managed to send a note of its baritone bari-tone Into the rattling car. "A fine night for It," auggested Hume, hi heart warming to hi taak. Mr. Uoverll nodded, pulled out a fat gold watch. "Nearly eleven. That'a not very late. You might borrow a guitar from somewhere. I'll listen to you a little bit to see how you perform. After tonleht let me know when you're coming around to atng, and I'll stay away at the club I'm not much on music." "Sure." replied Hume easily; "'neither "'neith-er am I. I used to sing In my boarding board-ing house until the gentleman below rame up one night and offered to thioy me out. You understand, he Just took a fancy to do something for me, Jut aa you did. I atopped, however, how-ever, not wanting to put blirHS trouble." 1 Mr. Uoverll smiled. "We get off Th the next corner," be said. 10 The Uoverll mansion was located on a hillside In Manayunk over toward Roxborough. It etood white and tately In the roft light on a terraced lawn, up which clambered many flights of marble r-tepe. Hume caught a breath of admiration at the pile, which waa not wasted on the ow-ner. " 'Tie pretty. Isn't It?" be said, "and to think that wasted on a drug clerk she' my only child." The old fellow' fel-low' voice shook a little. "I wish I could buy ber half a dozen drug clerk until she got tired of 'em." A they walked through the street of the suburb Hume visited many of the desplwd drug tore until he hit upon a guitar that could be had. Armed with thl the two plotter approached ap-proached the mansion. When they had climbed the third terrace. Mr. Uoverll took a ent on an Iron aettee, and looked at the summer moon while hi accomplice stole around to the designated window for his work Presently Mr. Uoverll heard a thrum of chorda and then a rather pleasant tenor voice alnglng "Cuddle I'p a I.Ittle Closer." an air then running run-ning In a popular musical comedy. "What a nlirht," murmured Mr. Uoverll. "and hi voice Isn't bad. though It seem to me I've Iieard It before somewhere." i Within the heavy window frame a girl's head appeared with the first note. "Oh. Cranlelgh," she whispered, whisper-ed, "you must go away, darling. I'm ' expecting Pop home any minute" Put Cranlelgh' arm were about !,er shoulder. "He" already here, down on the third terrace, listening to me sing " "What. Cranlelgh." she whispered In astonishment. "How did you get awav from the drug atore?" Cranlelgh explained, struck hi guitar aaaln. and once more Mr. Uoverll heard the lilt. "Cuddle up a little closer, lovey mine, lovey mine" Thl time It wa In duet, and Mr. Uoverll wondered. King' Glove Hand. It I not generally known tht King Oeorge custom of appearing with hi right hand glebed and the nher bare ha its r rfgln in omethIiig amr than more whim of fashion. The wearing of a glove on the right hand by monarch la a distinct survival of the day when th overelgn' touch wa held to be a certain cure for all kind of disease, especially scrofula. In the day when at certain date It waa customary for hundred of sick men and mendicant of all kinds te he laid oof In the courtyard of rorl palace awRltlt'K the healing touch of the "anointed rf the Iird" monarch mon-arch found It necessary to wear ft love In order to escape Infection. Thu arose the babtt which during modern time ha pasd Into a mere 'ad of tahlon, the 'gnlflcance of nblch ha long ben forgct'en by tfc majority of people |