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Show j -LUY7-JLIYS WAr? RECORD Goverr.c- A c : i v e Aid cf National Authorities. Hil 0.vn Son. Pullman, Wins Hit Slripco in Overseas Service. Friend- of Frank I ). I.nwden point w.llj prole to his record as war governor gov-ernor of J 1 1 ' in il s. l'roinpily following lie -e-eianic of diplomatic relations bell '-N I he Fliil.-d Stales Mild lii-r- inaiM 'o.v. I.owdeii issued an appeal lo ll,,. people of Illinois to liphnl. I r'-fV I're- iti III W il-.i II. "It is the rto.t-oin duly of all Amcrl-ornh." Amcrl-ornh." I.e m id, ";u raliy lo his sup-port." sup-port." Three ilnvs In:..- ' -m before ll lie- liegail Cl'oW.llllg OV.T lOWIird t ... . . branches of I'lnlnlv it was his intention to oust ,ii Is appeal, from the bench. ' ., "There's plenty of room on t,s "d'ai tm-s. other benches over there," I sugges' "H'Xi-l resentfully. j 'I'.eat It yourself If you don't like I here" he retorted, blowing the siiio1'1"1"" rtt from a cheap cigarette In my face. ' Icrrltor.x. j got a date here, and I'm going to sta.11 su'bs '" '. 'as uinieil- : hoc? I answered wllh an angry retort tun 111 what- , hot words followed. We hnd almosrlook. iluj come to blows when the bushes oiif defense, , pnsite us suddenly parted. I caugh1 all ele-I sight for Just a second of a vilIalnous'"'llvillL' ! face, that of a man about forty, mi unforgettable face with n red scaf"" across the left cheek. He raised oiu'"l'n"""n finger In an Imperative gesture, signal 'l'riuUu"s lug to my unwelcome i ipanion oier slun-s the bench. With a profane exchima0' llle thin of dismay, Ihe rat-eyed fellow1 '''l'1"1 ! sprang up and walked hastily awa;""'1' u"'' along the park path. Wonderln,J"""K what It wis all about, I watched bin tllL' uy-out uy-out of sight around a turning of th" lo K've asphalt and then glanced toward th'r" upiirtinent house where In a few mln" rcport-utes rcport-utes I was to be a guest. " "'""I" As I looked a young girl came ou'iooininis-of ou'iooininis-of the house and walked slowly fi ''a elh'f ward ti e park. At the corner shM(ll"K "I' hesitated. She seemed to he ilehatln"' whether to continue on down the av"l nue or to turn lulo the park. Appii1"61' lo cntly the lure of the greenery won he; for she came on slowly toward wher l'e''onul I was sitting. As she drew nearer '" k,",kl observed her with Interest, for sh '" tiwr was one of the prettiest girls I eve"1 to 1,1J had seen. Her slim figure, her daiiit't'1J,s lld ankles, her carriage, everything nbnu''-'0UJe lu her suggested the palricinn. Her facevteriiii rosy and youthful, was set ofT by r ()t jaunty feathered touue, from undo which a pair of soft, black, roguish" ,lot eyes, shaded by long lashes, lookeiwlls llls out above a dainty nose, just a pi member tip tilted, on either side of which ,'ul (livl" fugltive dimple played. rf ''".I",' To my great amazement she walkef" . . I right up to me anil stopped short. I rfM 5:1'.) 1 e ,1' '.:':''.: " "You Were to Wear One. Too." observed then that she seemed to be greatly agitated. Involuntarily I sprang to my feet and removed my hat, feeling certain that she had mistaken mis-taken me. for .someone else. She looked straight at me with an odd lightening of the Hps. Into her great dark eyes came a look In which pride and fear seemed to mingle with utter loathing. "I nm here," she said. In my confusion I mumbled something, some-thing, I hardly knew what. She looked look-ed me up and down with a puzzled air and raised her hand to a red carnation carna-tion she was wearing. "You were to wear one, too." "I don't understand," I answered. "Didn't you," she asked hesitatingly, hesitating-ly, "didn't you come here about the papers " "Whnt papers?" "You know " "I don't know," I replied. "I know nothing about any papers. You must have mistaken me for someone else." "lint this was the place this bench the first bench?" "I sat down here quite liy neciueni. "Oh!" she exclaimed with a sigh of relief. "And you're not wearing a red carnation, either." I recalled then wilh misgiving that the ill-favored youih who Just a moment mo-ment ago had disputed the bench with me had been wearing a red carnation, and that he had muttered something about having a date. Yet it did not seem possible that a girl of this sort would be having a rendezvous wilh a scamp like him. I deienuined if possible to ascertain the girl's mis-sion. mis-sion. "I nm merely walling here." I hastened hast-ened to explain, "until it Is time for me to keep a dinner engagement wi'h some relatives in tin- apartment house I from w hieh yon came." As I spoke I noticed that the four ' loailiing had vanished from her |