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: TOM'S fEniLOliS STATE I * e ? B> ADA BRANDON. o 0 o "I have vays hoped that he would marry 1 la die Lane," sighed Tom's mother. I do wish she hadn't gone away to Europe." "Well." Tom's father spoke up fiercely, "he shan't marry that Goodrich > girl as long as I can prevent it." "You know, dear, interfering with a J love affair Is dangerous." cautioned Tom's mother. "Any objections of , our9 are liable to inc|t>ase his ardor. We must be careful." "How can he have any ardor for that j ancient charmer? I don't see. I'll bet 1 she's nearly twice his age." "What can we do?" Tom's mother looked helpless as she asked the question. "We can pack him off to California to visit his Aunt Laura. She knows that he's out of college this winter on account of the trouble with his eyes and she'll be glad of a visit from him." | When the trip to California was i broached to Tom lie said he would rather have the money it would cost. "I want to get ahead a bit. dad." he explained. "You won't get ahead very fast ta- 1 king old maids to the grand opera even* few i:ith:s." "If you m<J?n Miss Goodrich?" "That was'just father's little joke, i Torn," hastily, inter anted Tom's moth- ' er. "You know, son. that we think two or three months on your Aunt Laura's ranch would be Just the thing for ycu. We want you to stay out- , doors all the time and give your eyes j a eomnlete rest. Don't you think ; you'd enjoy the life out there?" "Why. I suppose I'd enjoy It, all right, but It will cost a lot of money, going out there." "Well, I think I can scrape enough together to get you out and back," said hie father. "That economical etreak of Tom's was a little too sudden to be really credible," Tom's father said to Tom's mother a little later. "It's just an excuse not to leave that Goodrich girl, but It won't go with me. He's starting for the coast tomorrow night. That's decided." Tom had been gone just a month, when a letter from his Aunt Laura brought consternation to Tom's parents. After a little preamble, in which she i declared her fondness for Tom and asserted that 6be greatly enjoyed having him with her, 6bo begged them to recall him at once. "He appears to be simply infatuated with a gay widow who is staying at the hotel near my j ranch," she wrote. "I feel certain that I 6he is a designing woman and that she ' has made up her mind to marry Tom. 1 Ua -won't Hs-fpn to anything I say against her and when I mentioned that I was certain she was old tnough to ! be his mother, he remarked bitterly , that age seemed to be considered a crime in our family. I don't know j what he meant. But I do know that j it would be most unfortunate for him j to become entangled with this dash- , ing Mrs. Gavnor. I advise you to send for him Immediately. You needn't | have urged me to keep Tom from .reading or studying. He hasn't openA a book since he's been here. He and Mrs. Gaynor ride horseback nearly all day long. The flowers in my garden aren't good enough for her, and he orders hothouse roses from the city twice a week and the quantity of candy that he buys for her is prodigious." "Well, what do you know about ithat?" asked Tom's father, aghast. "It Books very much as if we had snatched Tom out of the frying pan and dropped Biim Into the Are, doesn't it? Now we 1 must bring him back to the frying pan. ?h r "Probably this designing widow has eulte banished tfie thought of Miss Goodrich," eald Tom's mother. "So ; there may be some comfort In the situ- ; atlon." ' "It's amazing what an unmitigated i tool a hoy can be," growled Tom's j lather, as he began to write a tele- ; gram. : "I dont see why you sent me such j a hurry call," Tom remarked to his I father on the day of his arrival home. "But I'm glad you did send for me. My eyes are better now and I'm tired of loafing. Can't you take me Into your office, dad? I don't want to go back to college. I want to get to work and begin to earn money." * "Why?" pefced Tom's father, with laconic severity. "Well, I think I ought to tell you, though It's a secret. Still, Lucie Goodrich and Mrs. Gaynor both guessed It, and I think you and mother really ought to know. I want to go to work for Hallle Lane. The fact Is, we became engaged before she went to Eu- ! I jv/pv-. "You did, did you?" exploded Torn'? father. "I hope you won't be angry. We kept it a secret because we thought you and all her people would say we were too young. But we are engaged, all right." "Well, I'm glad of It," said Tom's father, "but you've had a funny way of showing it!" Those Colored Thlng^. Bacon?I see pneumatic mechanism has been patented by a Washington kiventor to enable a locomotive engineer to flash colored signals from his headlight. Egbert?Danger of mistaking the I engine for a moving drug store, I I should think If Worn Out? ? 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