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Show Robin Answered tne Ad By DCr.CTHY DOUGLAS RODIN STKAKLK, known to all his m:;ny friends rs Bin because he scorned always to have been everywhere, every-where, sat down for his breakfast of fragrant sau.-Mge and fried tomatoes which lie had prepared himself. Bin liked getting his own breakfast. Anyway Din always spread down a fresh newspaper on his small table Instead of a tea cloth not necessarily to save laundry hut simply because it was less trouble and always clean. He Invariably opened it to a page where there were no pictures usually the page on which the property advertisements adver-tisements arrayed themselves. As a matter of fact, E'n had : acquired this one habit while, during the war and far out In No Man's land, he might have had a moment during meal time to read the home papers i and spread theiu out while consuming bully beef or other dainties of the soldier's life. His breakfast now was a better affair af-fair altogether than those of war days, and while Bin enjoyed his sausage sau-sage he Idly scanned the columns of ! finely printed personals that happened ! to be just alongside his excellent cup of cofiVe. "By Jove! That's funny," and Bin rend again the personal that had called forth his ejaculation. "Robin Straker: Information wanted. want-ed. Please communicate. 093 John street. Frances." Robin Straker knew, of course, that he was not the Straker mentioned In the advertisement, but he decided to look up the address at noon and see what was In the wind. He finished his breakfast and dashed off to business. At noon he presented himself to the address given giv-en and sent In his card. The office was apparently that of a woman decorator dec-orator as It breaUied forth all sorts of alluring emblems of the feminine mind. A young lady entered and Robin Straker caught his breath. He was Instantly glad that he had the habit of spreading a newspaper down In place of a tea cloth otherwise he might have missed one of the sweet-esl sweet-esl moments in life that sudden, glorious moment when the One Girl arrives. The young lady was, however, not struck in the same way. Her manner man-ner was icy. "So you are Robin Straker, are you?" the fair one asked frigidly. "I am," said Robin, "but not" "And why have you chosen to hide all these years Instead of facing things like a man. Frances has been searching for you for ten years It's been a cowardly, hateful way to treat a girl marry her and then desert her." "I say hold on," put in Straker finally getting a word in, "you're making mak-ing a mistake. I'm not the Robin Straker you're so flattering to " "Then what are you here for?" she demanded. "I say you little spitfire If you happened to see .vour own name In the paper and had some Information that might help those seeking yonr namesake would you or would you not answer the appeal?" "Well if you're not the Robin Straker we're looking for why didn't you say so in the beginning?" "I didn't get a lock In," said Bin and grinned. "Ton had such a pile of flattering remarks to hurl at me that I couldn't get a Tvord In edgeways." edge-ways." "I'm very sorry," she said, "and now that I've talked so much yon can start In." "As a matter of fact," said Robin, "I saw the passing of the man you are looking for he gasped out his real name to me Just In the nick of time with his last breath. There was a bit of a brawl In Mexico In 1920, I think it was, and he Bob Straker shot himself he was ," but Bin thought better than to say just what the man was. "You might Just as well say it," said Polly. "He married my cousin, deserted de-serted her after a few months and never even had the decency to let her know whether he was dead or alive. She wants now to marry again and I was making an effort to ascertain for absolute certainty that she Is free, I had never seen this Robin Straker and. naturally, di'ln't know " "Yon need not prologize any more," ' said Bin, "but don you think considering consid-ering you said such frightful things to me the very moment 1 appenred In sight, that you'd better atone by mak- I Ing my luuc-h hoar less lonely? Besides." Be-sides." he hastened to add as he saw a natural hesitation In Polly's desire to atone In Just that way. "there Is ' much I must tell you If your cousin Is to be certain that she Is free. Remember Re-member no one but myself, perhaps, was witness to the actual passing of one Robin Straker." He looked hard at Polly and added with a half grin. "You see I can almost bar this mar rlage of your cousin If I'm not treat d right." Polly laughed, and Bin fell to won ierlng if she would sometimes laugh that way when they were having breakfast on a newspaper and he somehow felt that she would. As a matter of fact, they had their rirst breakfast when they returned from their honeyu,oon on a spread-out spread-out newspaper and there were fragrant fra-grant sausages and fried tomatoes of Robin's cooking and Polly did la'ufh tor they were very happy. tCwrnn. Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Elmer of Boise, were here Wednesday. Mrs. Eula Peterson of Long Beach, i Cal., was here Sunday. E. M. McCullough of Monrovia, Cal., visited Milford recently. Bert Cluff was here again from Fillmore. Addison Creese of Berkeley, Cal., was here Sunday. Enoch Burton spent Sunday in Milford. Mil-ford. Mrs. D. L. Barnes was up from Caliente on Monday. A. Johnson was in from Garrison for a few days' rest this week. W. C. Edwards of Cedar City, was here Monday. H. R. Welter of Denver, was here this past week. E. Raynor of Provo, spent the week in Milford. G. Henry Bergstrom run in from Cedar Monday. Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Robison of Baker, Nevada, was here Tuesday investing in-vesting in a new car. Mr. and Mrs. Will Ashworth and son Jimmie, and Mr. and Mrs. Van Hickman, went to Beaver Thursday, to attend the fair and rodeo. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Coleman returned return-ed Wednesday morning from Ogden, where they spent several days with Mrs. Coleman's sister, Mrs. L. Simpson. Simp-son. The members of the Milford Volunteer Fire department wish to thank the public for their support at their dance. Especially do we thank Mr. Outzen of the Hanging Rock Park for the use of their hall which was donated free. Fire Department. |