Show won on the last card mm by AD SCHUSTER U copyright T WAS going to say mr par 1 finkles housekeeper lifted her chin 1 I was going to say I 1 was a bit sorry to quit your gerilee se sen ice but being as you linie called my intended a goat my feelings have altered garfinkle Par finkle sighed ellen he said nobody in tile the united states car can cook pancakes kes like iou ou I 1 admire th the quiet way ay you on lime hane of running about zour your duties but as aa much asi arcas ure ore you as a housekeeper I 1 would no not stand in the way of your happiness it if I 1 thought the man worthy I 1 rei rel eit leat burus twigg Is a goit goat and live to see sec it 1 I gave ale notice for two weeks from fram today and I 1 hS lahat I 1 said it if it been id corked for yuu you so long alint I 1 know how to take your pecullar ldes id quit on the minute juans is no more of a goat than you are two gaii to himself itan ihen bile hd to the butchen 1 I 1 lave just two weeks ti to e lier her mind or show up tip in his true colors well ill hale hae in t start at once it ariy he said for mr air garfinkle Pari Par inkle finkle thit that h hs thoughts were liere not altogether li the bhole town except for ellen allt n knew as A afat fat an and indolent indi lent III man M atho saw in ellen a good c ook conk and the powes sor of a account aiCo rufus hill beer been calling tit at the Par garfinkle finkle house tor for a year had smoked S 6 0 he cigars and at last when the box boi wis was locked and P a r f 1 r 1 ale had displayed frank enmity had proposed I 1 mr twigg started in 0 on n his catu paig n early next morning is a man nho eats a great deal I 1 hae bale an all idea he will demand that his wife spend most of tier her time in the kithen kitchen and that tile the grocery bill be high 11 there Is nothing I 1 like better than cooking the housekeeper replied and nothing I 1 see through easier than your tr trick lq 11 Par garfinkle finkle clie checked ched off the first attempt as a failure aud and was more careful with the second ellen you are a trusting girl he be began noting the response given the designation just the sort who could be fooled by a designing man lie ile lowered his voice and tried to speak as it a father nave have you never noticed that rufus Is wild ile he stays out nights he be but ellen laughed it if rufus 3 Is wild she observed ril ill tame him and I 1 may add without meaning impertinence aba that t y you on are not coming up to my expectations very clumsy and crude I 1 calls it trying to belittle a man like rufus kutus behind Ms his back knew she was right he had bad gone at this thing wrong from j the start because this woman had i respected his op opinion inform in the past it did not follow she would listen when rutus rufus was concerned ue ile would have to find another way the next day garfinkle Par finkle was humble and resigned 1 I have decided lie he said that I 1 am getting old and croben crabbed you will notice the cl cigar ar box bos Is no longer locked invite your friend to call in my library I 1 will make amends and some day who knows after you are married yo you may invite me over for a feast OV off your pancakes garfinkle Par finkle looked sad ad and ellen beamed there now she vald said you are talking like the regular gentleman what I 1 know you are that evening when rufus arrived to pay court within reach of the par finkle cigars he found garfinkle Par finkle setting up a stereopticon just a minute garfinkle Par finkle said 1 I 1 have a new purchase here and some interesting slides I 1 will bother you but a moment but id like you and ellen to see these pictures ile he hung a sheet on the wall pointed the lantern arranged seats tor for his audience and turned off the Ilg lights lits the lantern threw a shaft abaft of light a cross across the room while garfinkle Par finkle tinkle altering the made the bright circle on the sheet expand and co contract there were but a few pictures ures then lie lie he turned the lantern throw ing the beam fair upon the f ace of rufus it was a tat fat face bald at the top and peaked at the chin with ith a sparse and pointed beard rutus rufus faced the laif lantern tern blinked and turned away so his profile was mercilessly in view the light pierced the pointed beard and showed the outline of face beneath Parfir iLle turned out the jan ian tern lern clicked on the lights and departed next morning ellen served pancakes pancake tor for the first time since bince the argument had started knew there nas as something on her mind and was content to wait you think youre smart said el ten len and I 1 guess you are anyway you wort won on your last card id never marry barry it a man with a chin like that and I 1 guess you knew it ellen said garfinkle Par finkle blandly these are the best pancakes I 1 ever ate |