"'lf jf' •"v ,r- rl f^F 9*3*'^ *$ *•$ ^f ^Tv'A^ryi if^sC VF, V- INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS At the conclusion of the service Bob thelnoney would get out of the transaction cperimenting. to see what chancethere was "In "the Cu entering Milliken's room one day was that the' stubborn MacTavr and I were about to leave, when the matter. SAME OLD CUPID JANEY PROPOSES his friend Pingley found him thumping ish would after all fail In trying to bride said she would like a few words "How much is the legacy?" asked with Mr. Brinsley. She desired his the piano with all his might and drawing have his way after he was dead. grinsley. own personal word that he would keep the most discordant noise from the I asked the^ bride and groom a flew "Two hundred thousand dollars." .th^h letter and the spirit of the agreement Instrument. "What in the name of days before the wedding if they would "My half would be a hundred thousand. that had been made. She knew all that is good are you playing?" like to meet before being married, but Do you suppose I'm going to get By AGNES G. BROGAN By ALICE KILLIAN asked Pingley. "I am trying to play neither thought that anything would nothing about law, but she could understand myself tangled up with a woman for that score of Wagner's," replied Milliken. be gained by seeing one another. I be-* a promise. Seeing that she that. I have three times that amount "But the score Is upside down," lieved Brinsley but not Miss Allen. In wished to speak to him alone, 1 went already." (Copyright, 1918, Western Newspaper Union.) '.Copyright, 1918, Western Newspaper Union.) said Pingley. ^"That's true," said Millikeri. the first place she was curious, as away without him. Miss Allen had no fortune and she "There's no other satisfactory way David Blair sat behind the screen of During the evening, knowing that he "I had it the other Way up at women naturally are, and in the second very much desired the legacy of the out of it," gasped the old Scotchman, palms, a frowning spectator upon a first, but couldn't make head or taiL had an engagement at the club, I she was unable to conceal from half of it. "Why can't we be married," Roderick MacTavish on his deathbed, scone of gayety. Always his place dropped in there. It was about nine of it, so I thought I might succeed ill me the fact that Bob's generosity had 3he asked me, "part immediately, and "and I rely on you to see to it that seemed to be just at the outer edge of had a serious effect upon her. She said o'clock when I arrived and I was astonished this wav." when we receive the estate divide it my wishes are respected." things, never as a participant. Years to hear that he had not been that if the groom-to-be had a desire to and get a divorce." "You mean that having left half your ago—for youth seemed a confused see her she had no objection to meeting there. The man he was to meet had Its Only One of Kind. "You can," was my reply. fortune to Robert Brinslejr and half to memory to David, he had not danced dined alone. Moreover Brinsley had On Dinis island, in one of the lakes him. Otherwise she would be content I went back to Brinsley and submitted Edith Allen, the whole to go to James or flirted, or even engaged in harmless not offered an excuse for not keeping with his society for the ten minutes of Killarney, Ireland, is a plane tree this proposition. He would Stirling unless the two parties of the revelry with his college companions. that would be required to go his appointment. which has the reputation of being have nothing to do with it. I showed first part keep the property undivided Seriously, he had wondered at their through the ceremony. I heard nothing from Brinsley for the only tree of its kind in Ireland. him that by refusing he was keeping by marriage, your wish is that they simple enjoyment as he applied himself two months, when he informed me that a woman out of one hundred thousand The wedding was to take place at shall comply with the terms of your to study. The admiring glances he had not parted, as agreed with his five o'clock In the afternoon, Brinsley dollars. Bob was a fine fellow and he will, and inherit the estate." of girls he had been too absorbed to wife, before her marriage, and had just said at once: "You go tell her that if having an appointment at his club for "That is my desire," said the Scotchman, see, alike their perplexity and disappointment That's So. returned from a wedding four. she will agree to the divorce the moment a seven o'clock dinner. I got all the "but put in a codicil that if you at his indifference, had A laugh doesn't weigh much—except papers drawn and ready for signature I say the word, I'll marry her succeed in inducing the couple to accept proved unnoticed. when it's on you and as a rule a and she may keep the whole of the and at four called at Bob's office with the provision and inherit as man laugh has a good temper—for sometimes Now, David, successful man of business, The Last Resort. two hundred thousand dollars." them. I was to act as attorney for and wife you are to receive twentyfive authority upon matters of moment, it is very hard to provoke a Lady of House—"Why don't you go That he might not have time to both and to read the documents to thousand dollars from the estate." realized suddenly and gloomily, laugh. to work for a living?" Lazy Luke— change his mind I .broke the speed law them just before the ceremony. Bob I lost no time in inserting this bequest that pleasure had repaid him with the !"Well, lady, I want ter give every* in getting to Miss Allen and informed and I jumped into a taxi and rode to and in getting the will signed forgetfulness he had given. Not that t'ing else a fair trial first." her of the generous offer. She was Miss Allen's. There I introduced 4he and witnessed. MacTavish died within Exceptions. it mattered—much. Janey still came contracting parties, they sat down by amazed. Everything keeps getting dearer— twenty-four hours after it was executed. to him with her merry or tearful confidences, "Are you sure that proposition came a table and read the papers aloud. except our sweethearts and wives, who Janey,- with an utter disregard Won't Stand Repetition. from a man?" she gasped. The reading took up half an hour, at couldn't possibly be any dearer than It would require a hundred pages of Never repeat a poor excuse. It may for decorum, stopped at his bachelor I assured her of the fact and received the end of which time a parson who they are now.—Boston Transcript. typewritten matter to explain why the home on dismal, dreary evenings be better than none the first time, but her consent to draw up a gentleman's was waiting was called in and the ceremony old Scotchman wished his property to the second time it is much to make his tea for him, to sit there worse and lady's agreement that performed. While my eyes were go to these two persons. Therefore I than none.—Life. in a bright red frock with her little after a marriage between the two neither fixed on the. documents of course I All in the Beit. shall not attempt it in this very brief red slippers before the fire, talking would claim any matrimonial privilege, An Englishman has perfected a beltdriven could not see the bride and groom. story. I had twenty-five thousand dollars as only Janey could talk. and neither would object to a automobile, changes of speed During the ceremony I noticed that at stake and as soon as the will Essential to Happiness. After her return from that last year divorce when desired by the other. being effected by moving the belt from Bob had lost something of his sang to Proper care of the body is vital was offered for probate I made a preliminary at college there had been a self-confident Wfest pleased me almost .as well as one set of pullies to another. froidj the bride was inscrutable. bapplnfess.—Grenville Kleiaer visit to each of the parties poise in th#giiTs bearing which had not befen there before. David was impatiently disapproving of each suitor who appeared upon the scene. No man seemed quite good enough for Janey, and these conceited young idiots—David fumed at their assurance. The choice had now sifted down to two. Frankly Janey discussed her cavaliers before David's study fire. "They both want to marry me," she remarked one evening. Janey married! The thought caught in a painful manner at David's heartstrings. "Wait," he advised hastily, "do not be in a hurry, child marriage is for a lifetime." "But if I wait like you, David," she had ingenuously complained, "I may never choose at all." So this night behind the palms he had watched her flitting about, a sought after vision in white, but there was, he fancied, a cloud upon the girl's piquant face. Jac-k Irving moped in an opposite corner against the wall Billy Hayes was conspicuously attentive to everyone but his adored Janey—what was the matter? Bat "David," asked a sm&ll, meek voice, Company E, 4th Mpr "may I hide with you here for a while?" Janey herself parted the curtains wm of his seclusion. "You see, 'David, I'm in rather an ss'i&aa embarrassing predicament. Those silly boys, both of them, tbink that I'm engaged." Will Give a David w'heeled about sharply. "Engaged to \vliom?' Soc Janey studied her outspread fingers. Washington's Birthday "To them," she said. David stared. "Jack did ask me last night," she confessed, "and Billy said something of the sort while we were driving this morning, but—" "But—" mocked David. "Well, are you engaged to either?" Janey sighed. "—don't know," she answered. At the "Don't know!" David was exasperated also his heart was hammering heavily. "It was this way," the girl explained. "Last night Jack got to talking about his promising future, and—and how he would like me to share it, David, and we c-ouid go south on those business trips of his in the winter, and have a bungalow out near our golf links in 1918 summer, and he wanted to know when I would decide, and I said something about leaving it until tonight." "Under those circumstances," David answered slowly, "it would appear that has a young Irving right to consider you engaged." "Wait," begged Janey. "This morning, you remember, I went for a ride with Billy, and Billy talked a good deal as Jack had, only—he wanted me to marry him when he gets his degree, and if I would—I was to give him the first dance this evening. He knew that Jack had spoken for escort. And, and Cards When David, honestly, Billy came forward I forgot all about his old degree I and gave him—the first dance. Ever since then the two boys have been scowling at each other and—and bullyme: So"— Janey threw out her hands disparingly—"there you are!" was also scowling. David "You not play with them that Way," should he said severely. "Both are nice boys, and it is not fair. Make your choice and find your happiness. What more can you desire, Janey?" David sighed. called to the Colors who leave the Admission Free to those "They have all the stakes, youth—that greatest stake of all, and their future before them." "Sometimes," said Janey, her voice Exemption Board for admission. 24th. Present notice was strangely unsteady, "it's just as well to have a little of the future behind one, David. Sometimes it makes a man kinder, more understanding. And always, we women cannot choose our own happiness, we—we have to Tickets $1.00 wait until—" "Until," interposed David, he had arisen to nis feet. 1 With a little tremulous smite the .\f: girl put out her hands to him. "Until," she finished, "some dear old stupid "-v.,. realizes that youth is not the greatest thing in the world, and that hair turn- 1 r- ins," white about the temples is the AV: ,, „fA \wv 'Is lovliest kind of hair." Jr hit "Darling!" cried the man enraptured. And nodded her head. Janey "Yes.