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THEIR COLLABORATION By CAMPBELL B. CASAD. ii I After an absence of four weeks I fwas again at Betty's side. For a mo talent I stood la her cosy little sitting [room, admiring her. "By Jove! Betty," I cried, i was khinking that we might collaborate on ja play. A regular romantic drama." "What's the first act to be?" she jdemanded. "Let me see. Oh, yea, the scene ls jat the seashore, say Atlantic City." Betty looked suspiciously at me? "How very peculiar ?" she mur mured, "that ls where we first met }But go on." "The heroine of oar play" I began, -as li reading from a written descrip tion, "ls a beautiful, yoong girl with hair of span gold, eyes of azure bine, and teeth of pearly whiteness." "She mast be a peach," quoth Betty. |*1 should like to see her." "Then kindly step this way," I an nounced in formal tones as I took her arm and gravely led her before a large plate-glass mirror at one end of the room. There I stopped and ceremon iously cried: "Madam, behold the divinity of our |play." "Mr. Winton, yon ar? a silly goose," jfche assured me. Now for the hero." "Well, let's see; the hero meets her fon the beach, gains an introduction [through, a mutual friend and every thing seems smooth sailing. Bat, alas! ?be finds oat on better acquaintance ithat she ls a heartless coquette-" "Slr!" This time Betty ls vexed. ; "In the play," I calmly continue. I "Oh!" "The climax of the act comes when ?she leaves for New York In an auto mobile accompanied by the hero's trivm*-" "Now, Harry, I protest-he was no* Hhe hero's rival," the adorable protests [with spirit "Bot this ls in the play," I again jaasure her. "Well, I dont like it even in the h>lay." "All right, ni let yon try your hand jon the next act" I conoede. "Where doe? lt take place?" she tasks. "In the sato that has broken down Chalf way to New York." "Really, Harry, on second thought tl believe that yon had betted write jthls act Tou have such a vivid im jagination, yon know." "Do you think so?" I ask. "Well, ?. how's this? As the machine is ilessly oat of order, to avoid a dal he suggests that they hunt up j* minister and get married-" ''Which suggestion she emphatically Reclines to agree to," Betty breaks in. "Why TULtmerv- ^th a?anmed In??. "The reason ls made known In the flast act" she replies with Irritating (evasiveness, "but to continue. While fthey are plunged in despair a life-sav (ing countryman, seated In a rickety ?farm wagon makes his appearance ?and takes them in tow. In this mao ?uer they reach the city and the act closes. The last act ls the strong ?one. "The action takes place in the he iroine's home and the setting is iden tical with these rooms. The hero af ter a month's absence has called on ?her for the first time. He is very (moody and as the conversation is far from animated, suggests that they Iwrite a play-" i At this moment the doorbell rings ?and the maid enters. Sho announces: i "Mr. and Mrs. Philip Armstrong." At this announcement, I start in sur* {prise, then angrily cry: 'What, that chap calling on you? ?And he married, too. The nerve of Ihim." "Why, yes, he was even marriei i when we took our automobile ride to igether," Betty laughs; "that was ona jreason that we couldn't marry after (the accident." "One reason? Then, what pray, j was the other?" "He was already my brother-in jJaw." "Gee whiz! what a chump I am," I (humbly acknowledge. "I think so, too," the unfeeling girl Kells me. "Can you ever forgive a silly-nllly pttke me?" "If you coax hard enough, maybe," ?Betty relents. "Then suppose you let me into thia jfamlly affair," I suggest "What do you mean?" j "Suppose yon give me the right to Jeal! him brother-in-law aa well aa ^yourself." "Do you think that you deserve lt?" 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