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Show Young Mr. Wells By LAWRENCE ALFRED CLAY he did not care a cooper'a malediction maledic-tion that be waa actually glad of it; that he had had a narrow escape from marrying a Rlrl with a dreadful temper tem-per one who would haye driyen him from home after a few weuki. And then he decided that be did care, but that he would be the boss or perish. The third decision was that he bad made an Idiot of himself and couldn't ask forgiveness any too aoon. Give a donkey of a young man time enough and he will strike the right policy. Mr. Wella wanted forgiveness, but where to go for it! He had a pull at the bank and got four days off. He had a crisp ten-dollar bill for the butler, but-ler, and the butler proved disloyal to his mistress, just as the had figured that he would. A grip was packed and the "bossy" young man hied him to a mountain resort. re-sort. He hadn't planned that be would, but some on had planned for hlni. With a railroad time table and a lead pencil and thirty minutes to figure fig-ure in she was sure even of the train hn'would arrive on. And half an hour before the arrival of that train. Miss Dora Thurston took to the moods. An other words, dressed for a walk on the) hills, she left the hotel and took a path leading upwards nmong the trees and bowlders and outcrop. Mr. Wells tried to arrive with his dignity, but it was rather a failure. H hunted up Mrs. Thurston snd explained ex-plained that he had been granted a few days off to cure his hay fever, and that he had arrived at the fiald Kaglo quite by accident and she had the courtesy not to smile. It was all of three minutes and a half before ho earelesnly Inquired for Miss Dora and learned that she had gone for a walk. Then he carelessly said he would look her up, as she would probably be quite anxious to know that the weather in town was so hot that truck horses wore falling like autumn leaxes before be-fore Its fiery blast. Voung ladles do take vivid interest in theso things! Miss Dora met a boy and she met a man. and she met two romantic girls, and she took pains that they should sen her tako a path marked: "Dangerous "Dan-gerous Hewsre of Avalanches!" t'p that path to a spot where there bad been a slide of rocks a week before, and then she dropped her handkerchief, handker-chief, removed her hat and tossed It from her, and then went Into hiding. Miss Dora Kid figured time as close aa a train dUpatcber. Khe had not been in hiding ten minutes when Mr. Wella came up on the run. He saw tho hat and handkerchief and uttered a groan and a shout. He was not up on avalanches, and he took this for a new one. Under It would be found the dead and mangled body of the girl he had tried to boss! Off came the) coat and hat and vest of the frantic lover, and he went to work like a dog digging out a wood-chuck. wood-chuck. Help could have been had half a mile away, but he felt he could not stop to summon It. No hero ever tolled harder for a quarter of an hour, and he whs si 111 at It when Miss Dora slid gracefully down to Ma feet and scrambled to remark: "Now, then, If you have changed your mind about cads and other things we will sit down and talk. If you work any longer you will have a lame back tomorrow!" Oh, Dora. I I !" "The girl lnsses before marriage you know, and the husband afterwards." There are certain men who feel a enae of proprietorship sa soon as they become engaged, perhaps this Is the right thing, but now and then there Is a girl who objects to It, It was so In tha) case of Misa Dora Thurston. Frank Wella had scarcely secured an avowal from her that he waa loved In return when be heaved a long sigh of relief and said: "And now, of course, that fellow Wakefield will get a hint that be Deed Dot call here any more?" "Hut why?" waa asked. "And you won't have that Hnrton dangling around?" "Mr. Ilurtou never dangled." "And that ead of a Graham will be told that you are not at home?" "He will be told no such thing! Mr. Graham Is far from being a cad." "And Peterson will not be permitted permit-ted to drop In here aa If It were bis dub." . "I do't understand you, Mr. Wells," laid the newly-engaged as she drew herself up. "Because I have promised to marry you does It follow that I am to become a prisoner In tho garret or lown collar?" , "Dora, you have given me the right to say what company you shall keep," waa the reply. "You are so precious to me that that " "That you would treat me Ilka a five-year-old child! Hut you can't do IL Until we are married I shall Insist In-sist on receiving my friends at this house. A great change seems to have come over you all of a sudden. Heretofore Here-tofore you have not objected to any of the gentlemen named." "Hecauso 1 had not the right. Even If I knew th ni to be cads I could not object Now, however, It Is different." "Mr. Wells, do yon mean to say that I have been receiving cads In my father's house?" the girl demanded. "Well or you know. "I know, sir, that I do not like the way you talk. I think you introduced me to every gentleman we have named." "Hut being engaged to you, you see." "Then we are engaged, ro we?" "Perhaps not!" t "And young Mr. Wells waa Just donkey don-key enough to walk out of the parlor and out of the house and leave the Im- fflH y No Hero Ever Tolled Harder. presslon behind that he had quit his Job. and that It would take a great deal of coaxing to bring about his return. re-turn. Did anybody faint away aa Mr. Wella walked down the street, kicking every third ash can off tho curbstone? Not a faint Did a certain young lady fling herself down on the sofa and sob and sob and sob? Not a sob! Not a fling! On the contrary. Miss Dora Thurston sat down at the piano and banged and crashed and banged, and then walked out to her mother and said she was ready to go to the mountains for a week, a month or a year. The subject had come up almost dally, and the girl had been the one who bung back. Mr. Wells had been with the bank only a few months, and would not be entitled to a vacation this summer. The matter was settled between mother and daughter In five minutes, and two days later they were away. Any notice to the "bossy" young man? Not a word nor a line. Not so much as "X. her mark." And the servants left behind were warned on pain of dismissal to give nothing away. It was three evening before the young banker strolled that way again. He had his dignity with him. He was prepared to forgive If appealed to, but not without When tears and sobs came b would melt, but not too hastily. "Not at home," was the reply of the butler. "Hut they must be." "No. sir. Went to the country three days ago." "But they left a letter for me?" "No, sir, and none of us know where they went." Mr. Wells and his dignity and forgiveness for-giveness turned away. If he looked "nosey" as he ascended the step tt had fallen from htm like a mantle m tt descended. He flrrt declared Uut |