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The Girl of
My Dreams
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I tA Novellaatlon of the Play by" I
I Wilbur D. Neabit and Otto Hauerbach I
I N^cllirdBy WILBUR D. NESBIT I
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IV
SYN0P8I8.
Harry Swlfton la expecting a vlatt from
his llancee, I,ucy Medders. a tjuakoress
whom he met In the country, ilia auto
craahea Into another machine containing
a beautiful woman and a German count.
'The woman'n hat la ruined and Harry
scapes. Ills .slater, Caroline, arrlvoB at
.Ilia home to play hoateaa. Boer a tea I'rlm.mer,
couatn of L<ucy's. arrives with a
hat Intended aa a present for Lucy. Harry
In trailed to his home by the Count
tand Mrs. Gen. Blnzes, who demands her
hat, a duplicate of which ahe says lian
been delivered at Harrv'a house. 8he Is
In great fear lent her husband hear of
her escapade. Lucy Madders and her
father arrive nnd the count la hidden In
one room and Mrs. Ulaxes in another.
Harry Is forced to do some fancy lying to
keep Lucy from discovering the presence
of the woman. The milliner. Daphne Dafflngton,
who proves to be nn old flame of
Harry's, arrives to truce the missing duplicate
hnt and more complications ensue.
Daphne Is huatlod Into the room occupied
by the fount. The latter, with
whom Daphne had flirted at one time,
demands the return of a ring he had
given her on that occasion. She tells lilni
that shu gave the ring to General Hlar.es.
A a the Count had also given Mrs. Hlures
a 6'upllcate of the ring no becomes somewhat
excited. Dnphno leaves the room
and seeks refuge In the one occupied by
Mrs. Blares. Mr. Medder discovers the
Count, who Is Introduced as Harry's German
tutor. General Blares arrives and
accuses Harry of concealing his wife.
Daphne Bteps out and the general Is
dumfounded. Lucy gives way to tears.
The Count takes tne blame for the whole
affnlr upon himself, but the verdict Is reserved
until Harry can vindicate himself.
General Blnrcs admits to Horry that he
has flirted with Daphne, nnd Mrs. Blazes
overhears the talk. Mrs. Blazes attempts
'to escape with the aid of the Count and
the latter Is mistaken for a burglar. The
duplicate hat arrives and Harry solves
wiai mess. Liucy overncara n convcrsa;tlon
between Harry and Daphne which
' atinfles her of hla Innocence.
CHAPTER XIV.?(Continued.)
"Give me the hat! Give me the
that!" Mrs Blazes exclaimed.
"GUT me my ring," the count replied.
She slipped hlB ring from licr finger
and offered it to him hnBtily. But,
with one hand clutching a round of
the ladder and the other arm about
the halbox, he was hardly in a posl^
tion to take It.
"How can I?" he sputtered. "It ise
a ring, not der mumps."
"Put the hat in the window; then
you can take the ring," she advised.
"ITnd den you get der hat und gifT
me der laugh?"
"Nonsense!" she answered. "I nev- !
er want to seo' your ring, or you
again!"
"Der same to you, und many off
dem," he retorted, swinging the hutt>ox
around and trying to shove it
* ^/Br
"Give Me the Hat!" Mrs. Blazes Ex- !
claimed. "Giff Me My Ring," the |
Count Replied.
through the window. She caught hold
of It, also, but it was too wide to go
through the opening. In the effort
to force it through the count lost his
It balance and came perilously near go
lng down with a crash. He saved himself
by clutching tho window frame,
bowever. Mrs. Hln7.es fretfully said
"Clumsy! I^et me show you."
^ She untied the string on the box,
took off the lid and took out the hat.
She let the box drop to the ground,
and with a little scream of delight
stepped hack into the room and hurriedly
donned the hat.
"It s a perfect duplicate!" she said,
happily. Then, while the count was
descending the ladder she started to
/ ItnxK Anf e\ 9 ?l> a n IwHab W..a a!
VIIU4W vui v/? ???v ? (Iiuun , l-?lll 1 lie
count stopped her.
"My ring, if/ you bleaae!" he aa!d.
J. * Kor. pooduess lake! Take It and
i kt m? go!" ,
I She thrust the riu^ into his hand,
ar.d be ran down the ladder and steadi?i
u >t the bottom. Mrs. Blazes
cert fully crept frciv. the window, with
fir.;uth c.uuipuTaticn cf her skirts, and
iixi-. u: t> let herself down a rung at
Up the walk again stormed the general,
and Mrs. Blazes at sight of him
screamed, and would have climbed
the ladder had not the count caught
her nrm and restrained her.
General Blazes had not found her
at home, and had returned to hold
counsel with Harry as to tho best
way to locate her. And now he found
her in the company of the count, in
Harry's lawn, with a ladder leading
to a window in Harry's house.
"Aha!" he shouted.
"Merciful heavens! My husband!"
sue waned.
"Und he only buries nodding of
dem but deir hats!" the count reflected,
keeping Mrs. Bluzes between him
and the general.
"So!" the general roared, confronting
her. "This hns been your plan,
has it?" Ho turned on the count vindictively.
"Trying to'inveigle my wife
to climb into that house!"
"My dear, you nre wrong!" Mrs.
Blazes wept.. "Listen a moment, and
I can explain."
"Wrong? Explain? Woman, I see
it all now! You have planned an
elopement with this?this pretzel!"
"Bretzel! Ach Gott! lTnd I must
stand dis!" the count fumed.
"What?" Mrs. Bluzes demanded. "I
elope with that?"
Sho pointed a scornful finger at the
count.
"Don't try to palaver me!" the gen- ;
eral shouted.
All this noise and shouting of
course was heard by thoso in the
house, and first Harry came running
out, followed by Lucy and her father.
"What in the world is happening?"
Harry asked, rushing up to the ex- |
cited trio.
"I have trapped this wretch!" General
Blazes yelled, indicating the
count with a gesture of his clenched
(1st.
Harry, hdplcBB. looked from one to
the other. Mrs. Blazes, desperate,
glanced at him and Raid:
"Mr. Swlftoi) can explain. 1 have
nothing more to Bay."
She assumed an air of supreme Indifference
to whatever fate might hold
In abeyance for her.
"Well, Harry," the general paid, "if ;
it's up to you, tell me how this happened."
"Tell you how what happened?"
Harry asked, dazedly.
"How does it happen that I find
my wife trying to climb into your
house, assisted by this?noodle."
"Noodle! Gott in Himmel! I for
iiij m-iiui mu roillll grilled
between his teeth.
"Oh! What? Trying to climb Into
my house?" Harry repeated, brushing
his hand over hlB brow. "Why?why?
it must have been sonio kind of a
Joke, general. Yen?surely it was
some kind of a Joke."
"Joke!" the general blurted out.
"But why Bhould she want to get
into thy house, Harry?" Lucy asked,
with a bit of inischlevouKiieBB, for
now she knew the whole story.
"Yes!" the general barked, turning
to his wife. "Why should you want
to get into his house?"
Mrs. Blazes saw light ahead.
"My dear, if you will only calm
"I will tell you everything. I know
you will think 1 am u foolish woman?
but, darling. I have been Jealous of
you."
"Jealous of me?" said lier liege lord.
"Forgive me!" she pleaded. "But
when 1 heard those reports about you.
"Reports? What reports?"
HEARD IN A SOI
a
Little Girl Explains That Young Lady
Is "Her Papa's New Stepwife."
It Is said to have happened In a
southern hotel, where those who seek
perpetual spring spend tho winter. The*
usual number of idlj and curious old
ladies sat upon tho great veranda, discussing
everybody but themselves, and
attention was suddenly attracted by a
handsome couple that passed through
the hotel corridor, followed by a llttlo
girl, who, small as she was, appeared
to be too old to be the daughter of
the lady In the case. se handsome
couple entered a motor .. r, and, waving
an affectionate goo "by to the little
girl, sped out of tho hotel grounds
with a loud whirr and disappeared up
tho distant roadway. The little girl
watched them until they were quite
out of sight, unit then turning around
she sought out a chair not far from
the proup of goHBlps. It was not long
before her loneliness was noted by I
one of the Indies, who called o&t a i
pleasant greeting.
"I don't think 1 have seen you here J
before, my little girl," sho Mid, with
a gracious smile.
"No, ma'uiu," said the little girl j
"We c y got here last night."
"And do you like it here?" she was ;
asked.
"Very much," she replied. "It's love
?/ ut'i C.
"And you dldi.'t go motoring with
your papa and mamma, did you?" aald
ihe good lady, aubtly.
"No. I don't Ilk? motor car*." said
she child. "It makes me seasick to
ride In them."
"Your mamma la a very young looking
lady to have ao big a child as you
are," said the good lady.
W^< W. ';:?i -
a time. Wlien aha wu half way down
she cried:
- "Oh! I'm scared! I'm going back!"
She started up the ladder again,
and the count almost fainted. He
shook the ladder violently and threatened:
"Iff you go up anudder round, I upset
it!"
Timorously, she came down, and at
last stood on the ground.
"Oh! How heavenly it is to be
free!" RHA AYPIOIWAH
- V:;. . ^ '
"That you were Infatuated wtth a
milliner?Mile. Daphne."
"1? I infatuated with a milliner?"
the general asked, with a look of ter>
ribly injured innocence. "I? Ridiculous!"
"And I saw her ent^r this house
this afternoon," Mrs. Blazes continued,
"and then I heard that you were
here?and oh, darling, forgive me!?
1 came to spy on you!"
"Perfectly amazing!" Harry said to
himself. "I'm in the primary class,
compared to her."
"Why," the general said. "My own
little pet!" He took his wife into his
arms, "t?1 forgive you! I want you
to forgive me. The idea of my giving
you even a moment's unliappiness of
that kind!"
"T-take me ho-home!" pleaded Mrs.
BlazeB, from the shelter of his shoulder.
The twain, reunited, went slowly
down the walk and into the street.
Mr. Medders observed that Harry
nuu uutj iuuhcu n? inougn iney nau
something to say to each other, and
said to the count:
"The young man whom they call
Pigeon 1b sitting in the summer house
with Carolyn, and CouBln Socrates is
again in the attic writing a Bonnet.
Wilt thou come In with me and see
if tlice can find a cigar?"
"I thank you. from my heart," tho
count replied. "But I haft some writing
to do?und iff you excuse me, I
go down to der hotel now."
"Then 1 will Bay farewell, until we
meet again." Medders observed, shaking
the count's hand and returning to
the house.
Count von Fit* stood before Hnrry
and Bucy a moment.
"I vant to say choost dlsB," he
spoke. "I vant to sav 'Bless you, my
"Now," He Srid, "I'm Ready to Explain."
children!' Und I can't malto a present
ofl' u hat. but iff you vlll honor
me, Mr. Swlfton, by allowing MIp?
Lucy to accent a llddlo token of mw
good vishoftv I vlll gifT lior diss."
He slipped his Angers into hifi poi fret
and produced a little case, which
he opened and then took out a ringnot
such a ring ns either of the ones
he had recovered?but u beautiful
cluster of diamonds surrounding a
ruby.
"Diss," he said, "is a ring I vaa
keeping to glff to der most beautiful,
der ftweetest. der truest girl I should!
And in America. I hafT found her?
und now I lose her. because you found
her. Mr. Swifton."
He dropped the ring into Lucy's
hand, und was gone.
Harry led Lucy to n seat.
"Now," he said, "I'm ready to explain."
"Nay," Lucy said, happily. "Thee
need not explain now, Harry, dear. 1
1 know nil thee would tell me of that.
Tell me something else." ?
And he told her.
THE END.
JTHERN HOTEL
one i?n i iny rem mamma.*' said
the child
"Oh. indeed." said (he good lady.
"No." eald the little one, gravely.
"She's my pupa's new stepwifc."?Horace
DodJ Gastit. in Judge.
He Snored into Safety.
Wllkcshnrre. Pa., Is In the field with ,
this story: Michael llenner of Plains |
owes hfa life to the fact that he can
snore loud enough to be heard somo
distance away. Early one morning Po- j
llceinan Schneider of North Wilkes- j
barre heard snores coming from the ,
direction of the Lehigh Valley rail- '
road tracks, and fearing that come
one might he asleep on the tracks,
and knowing that an express train
was about due, he investigated. Guided
by the snoring ho came upon lien- i
ner asleep, just in time to pull hlra
from tlio track before the train thun- 1
dored by. llenner can thank his snora
for saving his life, and Wilkesbarre
can congratulate herself that she has
a policeman who knows a more w hen <
he hears It
Fashion the Cour&e.
"I understand Brlndle and his wife
hnve quarrelled. What was the ,
caur.e?"
"Why, Brlndle lost his wife in the
crowd and went about peeking under
all the peach basket hats that looked
like hers -and she saw him and got
mad."
Mean Scheme.
"Yes, I'm saving for a house."
"I can't save any money. How do
you inauage it?"
"Ry getting my wife to go without
things. Sho thinks we are saving for
an automobile."
SOUTH IS NEW CORN BELT
The Southern Railway Exploit* the
Southern State* a* the Corn Growing
Country.?Folder Issued.
Columbia, S. C., February 2.?''The
New Corn Belt" is the title which
ias been accorded the nine Southern
dates east of the Mississippi and
louth of the Potomac. This honor is
given the Suth in an attractive fbld;r
Just issued by the Southern Railway
Company which is being distribltcd
among visitors to the National
Corn Exposition here. Figures in the
'older, compiled from latest official
sources, give new proof of the iruJ
^reusing importance of the South as a
lorn growing section and fully subjtantiate
the claim given this wonderful
section as the "New Corn Belt."
"Figures in the December nungfcer
if the Crop Reporter issued by the
federal department of agriculture,
show that the nine Southern states
ast of the Mississippi and south of
! the Potomac produced in 1912 a corn
-r??p 01 ;>ut>,i3t>,uiHt bushels, worth
t:u4.740,000 at. prices paid farmers in I
that territory," says the folder. "Com- !
pared with the report of the 1000 cen- i
sus. when the crop of 342,464,737 bush- i
?!s in the same states was worth J
1187,079,608, the latest figures show an
Increase of 162,670,263 bushels, worth
practically $178,000,000 more than the
earlier production.
"The greater yield in the Southeast I
| has followed an increased acreage given
to corn and steadily increasing !
acre-yield. The general development '
; of 'his agricultural region, aided by ;
federal and state demonstration work !
and further helped by the educational :
efforts of such railroads as the South- ;
era, which maintains a cJirps of agri- j
cultural experts whose services are at
the command of all the farmers along I
i its 7,000-odd miles of territory, has I
1 had a large share in stimulating attention
given to corn. Prominent
| among the reason for the increased
acre-yield lias been the organization
j of boys' corn clubs and annual corn
auunn in cucn oi uicse nine states i
I Comparative figures show that the in- !
I crease in the average yield per acre i
' over the 19lr) record in 1912 alone j
1 amounted to $103,981,221. Pour hun- !
dred and fifty-four members of boys'
! corn clubs in the South in 1912 made
j over 100 bushels to the acre."
In addition to the wide circulation
| it is being given at the Corn Expnst!
tlon, the folder will be distributed
! among farmers of tlie North and
West in an effort to attract desirable
j settlers to the "New Corn Belt."
For Better Army and Navy.
1 Washington.?To work for a lnrget
, Navy, an adequate Army, the improve- :
nient of the National Guard and for
j all things that will better tit the UnitI
ed States for war, the United States
Defense League was organized here
recently. Representative Julius Kahu
1 of California was elected chairman of
; the executive committee and the board
j of directors. The board of directors
i include prominent persons throughout
the country. While the dengue will
| work to strengthen all forces which
would make the country better prepared
for war, it states in its constitution
thai it believes in "universe
peace but it firmly believes that prepration
for war is the best guarantee
' <?f neai>? "
I "
In Defense of Irrigation Work.
Washington.?Secretary Fisher, In
defense of the Covernment irrigation
: work and in reply to the recent declaj
ration before n House committee by
I Dr. B. T. Calloway, chief of the Bureau
of Plant Industry, that "there has
! never been any long-continued successj
ful irrigation agriculture in an arid
I region anywhere in the world," has !
written to Chairman Moss, of the coin- '
: mittee, denying Doctor Calloway's as
' sertlon. The secretary also lias writ- j
j ten to Secretary Wilson asking how
| to prepare an official statement to :
show "the necessity of irrigation."
For Safety of Miners.
Washington.?H. M. Wilson, the
engineer in charge cf the experiment
station of the Bureau of Mines at
Pittsburg, lias become chairman of the. * [j
executive committee of the American II
Minos Safety Commission and will
work for tho reduction of deaths in
mines and quarries throughout the
county and the relief of more than
160,000 injuried each year.
Much Trade With Orient.
Washington.? Never was trade between
the United States and the
Orient or great as it was during 1912
Imports from Asia and Oceania com
bincd amounted to $280,000,000 in 1912 j
and the export to Asia and Oreania I
for the last year aggregated $190,- !
900,000. One feature was the sending j
of raw cotton to India and China.
Despite the fact that both these conn
tries are producers of cotton the Uni
ted States sent to India 25,000,000
nounds of raw cotton and to China
14,000,000 pounds.
Planninn For
Washington.?Details of n celebra- j
Hon of the 50th anniversary of nation I
al unity* were determined upon at a I
meeting of the committee of which
Dr. R. A. Alderman, president of the
University'of Virginia, is chairman
The coumitteo proposed to have a
national memorial in the shape of v
bridge over the 1'otomne here, and
urged upon eong-ess and dedieation
exorcis*s In 1015. under direetlon of
t (J. A. It. and United Uonfederate vet
[ erans which will be a reunion of sur
vivors of the two gre.at armies. '
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