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Show MEETING COUSIN CARLOTTA. YYfll.I.IAM AKMSTItONO and his cousin, Car-W Car-W 5olta lllake, are not good friends Carlotta lives in Albany. Last week the visited. the Arm- . itronui. Wiljluui did not know his cousin. Never-thc-less, ho undertook to meet her ut he station. This Is how he did It Ho approached a yonug woman lu blue who sat neuf the book stall and asked. "Are you Mis-j Carlotta Blake?' "No." siild the joung woman. "I am not." "I hope you will excuse nie," William explained. "I am hero to meet a Mlns Blake. She Is my cousin. I have never eeen her. My sister Jennie l.s the on'y member of our family who does know her. Jennie lu tended to meet her, but he burned her face ou a i ten m p)io thU morning and doesn't look fit to conn out of tho house, to I bad to come. Sha told ma I would know Carlotta because she is so pretty. 'She U vrettlest girl you ever saw,' said Jennie, 'You can't make a mistake. Joat pick put the prettiest phi -in the station and you'll lm snrc to Mrlko Carlotta.'' 'j that's what I did. I hope you aro not angry. Vou .-vally are, you know." The young woman blashud- jWUllsm sighed. "I'm sorry," he aald. "I don't know whom to nsk next. There doesn't teem to be anybody eUe in tlm whole shooting match that comes up to Jennie's de- " crlptlon. I gueasJ my cousin Carlott didn't come." A tall girl In brown at blde the girl In blue. She got up and glared at William Armstrong. i. "Yes, she did," said the girl iu brown. "Ob, Lord!" said .William , "are you" ... "I am," said tbo girl in brown. And, of conree, nobody could expect a girl to b friend with a mn after that. |