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Bellefonte, Pa., September 21, 1906.
The Girl and
the Davenport
By FANNIE HEASLIP LEA
Copyright, 1908, by E. C. Parcells
In the twilight of a secondhand
shop on Royal street Van Holden saw
her first. She came toward him down
an aisle of shadow between old ma-
hogany sldeboards and dusty armoires
and laid her gray gloved hand upon
one end of a quaint davenport on
whose other end reposed the hand of
Van Holden.
“This davenport,” she said to the
shopkeeper, “is the one you reserved
for me, 1s it not?’
“Pardon me,” said Van Holden firm-
ly—the davenport was genuine mahog-
any and of a good shape—*“I have just
bought it.”
The shopkeeper, a little creole with
voluble eyes and a fierce mustache,
looked from one to the other.
“Mais oul,” he murmured politely,
“it is vair good davenpo't”—
“You promised yesterday afternoon,”
she said with icy dignity, “to reserve
it for me. I must have it. I wish it
upholstered in the green rep you show-
ed me, and I want it by Thursday
morning.”
“Pardon me"— Van Holden began
a .
She ignored his existence and drew a
card from her case of snakeskin.
“Here is my address,” she said,
scribbling something thereon, “and I
will give you a check on delivery of
the davenport. Eighty dollars I think
you said?”
Van Holden's sense of humor, as-
sisted by the pleasing picture of pale
hair and gray eyes in a cool pale face
against a background of cobwebbed
walls, began to rise.
“I was to have had it for fifty,” he
suggested plaintively.
“1 will give you eighty for it,” she
said to the shopkeeper. And her face
was noticeably less pale.
“It ees vair good davenport,” said
the shopkeeper, twisting his fierce
mustache. “I pay hun'erd dollar fo’ it.
but I take eighty. Yas, I take eighty.”
“Oh, you do?’ said Van Holden sar-
castically. “What about the fifty I'm
giving you? I suppose you take that
too? Now, see here, my man.” He
smoothed out the check between his
fingers,
“If you have paid for it,’ said the
lady lelly, “I shall of course not take
it. I had not understood”—
“Pray do not consider me in the
matter,” sald Van Holden, with equal
promptness. “I shall not take it now.”
He thrust the check into his vest pock-
et as the shopkeeper’s dirty fingers
closed clawlike over the lady's card.
“Upholster in green rep? Varnish?
Me, 1 lose $20, yes—but—you take it—
1 keep my word.”
“No,” said the lady; “I shall not take
it. My card.” She slipped it back in-
to the case. “I do not care for the
davenport.” She walked to the door,
holding ber skirts away from con-
tamination, and turned into the hot,
narrow street, a slender figure in a
gray gown and a gray hat with pale
roses on the wide brim.
Van Holden lit a cigarette in the in-
remarked pleasantly.
“Dose Yankees,” said Mr. Montague
morosely.
“I dare say,” said Van Holden. He
walked to the front of the shop, the
creole at his heels, and a hamorous
smile twitched the corners of his mouth.
“That was a dirty trick of yours. And,
the way, you needn't send up that
looked at. I don't care to deal
in future.”
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“That's where I'm going now,” sald
Berden. “You are just the man I want,
I'm taking the girls to lunch to-
day. Molly has a girl visiting her, you
know. You'll just round out the party
and make us happy foursome. Ob,
come on. And see here, Van—what
about that deal you made in cotton
yesterday?”
They sauntered down the street, deep
in discussion, until Berden stopped
suddenly. “Jove! I've got to go over
to some blamed store and meet those
girls. You go on and engage a table;
that’s a good fellow. Order the lunch,
if you want to; you do it better than
Y do anyhow. I shan't be long.”
He darted off, like a distracted
water bug in linen clothes and a pana-
ma, and Van Holden set forth upon
his quest of a table. He found one in
a cool corner of the dining room and
consumed some time in the ordering of
a luncheon that should combine deli-
cacy and a good deal of ice.
When the waiter had left him, he
fell to drumming on the table and
thinking of the davenport girl, as he
cailed her to himself. “Cool,” he
mused, “and self possessed—and, Lord.
what a face—prettier, perhaps, for a
touch of color.”
Vaguely he remembered something
about “the beauty of a blush to him
who has caused it” and smiled to
think that he had made her blush for
anger.
“Helgh-ho,” he sighed, entirely with
put reason, and oii the moment Ber
dlen's voice was in his ears. “Wake
up, boy! Look as if you were seeing
ghosts, doesn't he, Molly? Miss Mec-
Collough, Mr. Van Holden. Did you
order lunch, old chap?”
“I did,” said Van Holden steadily.
“It ought to be here in a moment
Mrs. Berden, sit here; then the light
won't be in your eyes.”
He changed seats with her deftly
and faced across the white tablecloth,
pecusing gray eyes under a wide
brimmed gray hat with pale roses.
There was a hint of color in the face.
“Say, Van,” cried the irrepressible
Berden, “you ought to hear Miss Mc-
Collough’s story of the way she was
‘done’ by an antique dealer today—
promised to hold a desk or something
for her"—
“Don’t tell on me,” pleaded Miss Mc-
Collough nervously, “please, Mr. Ber-
den.”
“Oh, the joke's not on you,” sald
Berden consolingly. “And when she
went there she found a chap engaged
in buying her piece—a very decent
looking chap, she says.”
“Do make him hush, Molly.” Miss
McCollough’s glass of water answered
a despairing and surreptitious push by
flowing across the tablecloth on to
Berden’s knees.
Miss McCollough gasped.
“Oh, that's all right,” said Berden,
jumping up. He beckoned a waitér
and presently resumed his seat and his
story.
“Chap was awfully good looking,” he
rattled on, “well dressed—manner—
what was his manner, Molly? Ob, yes,
‘the perfection of indifference and the
dearest smile.” ”
The quick crimson swept up to the
gray hat brim, but Berden was merci-
less.
“She insisted on having the thing; so
did he. She spoke of paying $80 for it.
He let out that he was getting it for
$50. I tell you those dealers are regu-
lar sharks. So she didn’t take it, and—
listen to this, Van Holden—she says
she's willing to lose the furniture for
the sake of the adventure--says she's
found her affinity.”
“For pity’'s sake, Bobbie, hush!” cried
his wife. “Can’t you see you're wor-
rying Nora? Do eat yorr lunch.”
“Did the man get the desk, Miss Mc-
Collough?’ inquired Van Holden, with
courteous interest.
“Probably so. I left iim there,” she
answered vindictively. “Mr. Berden, is
the old Hotel Royal open to visitors?’
“Why don't you go back and see?”
asked the man across the table insist-
ently.
“The hotel?” she inquired, surprised.
“No; the antique store”—
“Because [ am not sufficiently inter
ested.” Van Holden smiled confidently
and applied himself to the salad.
With the arrival of the finger bowls
the conversation by easy stages, in
which Berden’s new motor, the last re-
gatta and a projected house party
across the lake were discussed, came
back to Miss McCollough's adventure.
“So you think the man bought your—
desk?” sald Van Holden. “If he didn't
—I'll wager he will.”
Mrs. Berden arose, shaking out her
skirts. “If he saw his affinity as she
saw her,” she laughed, “he may have
wanoht it for her sake.”
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“1 was thinking of that,” said Van
Holden.
“And some day,” said Mrs. Berden
teasingly, “she may sit on it before
his library fire—in a soft gray gown—
the davenport was to be upholstered
in dull green, you know.”
“Don’t be silly, Molly. We shall be
late if you talk so long,” Miss Mec-
Collough insisted feverishly.
“Well, you never can tell,” said Ber-
den. “Anything might happen, eb,
Van?
“1 should think that was quite possi-
ble,” said Van Holden.
“Of course,” said Berden. “Come up
and see us, old chap.”
“We're going to motor out to west
end for dinner tomorrow night. Don't
you want to come?” echoed his wife.
“1 do,” said Van Holden earnestly.
“But Miss McCollough hasn’t asked
me yet.”
“Will you come?’ asked Miss Mc-
Collough, with level deflance and
something else in her gray eyes.
That day Mr. Montague sold the
davenport.
THE EQUITY SUIT POSTPONED
Philadelphia, Sept. 18.—Incensed by
the pastponement granted of the trial
of the city’s equity suit against D. J.
McNichol & Co. for an accounting in
the municipal filtration contract, State
Senator J. P. McNichol, a member of
the firm, declared that within 48 hours
he will institute proceedings against
the city for breach of contract. The
trial of the city’s suit had been sched-
uled for Monday, and the defendants
were anxious to proceed, but City So-
licitor Kinsey and Major Gillette, chief
of the filtration bureau, requested a
postponement on the ground that John
D. MacLennan, of New York, an ex-
pert engineer, could not be produced
at this time to testify. The city still
owes Mr. MacLennan $22,000, his bill
for expert services in connection with
the investigation of the fliter plant, It
was stated in court that Mr. MacLen-
pan had refused to testify unless his
bill was paid. The court fised Decem-
ber 3 as the date for the trial.
The suit against D. J. McNichol &
Co. is one 1esult of Mayor Weaver's
move for reform after his break with
the regular Republican organization in
May, 1905. An investigation of the
city’s filtration plant in course of con-
struction by D. J. McNichol & Co.
resulted in the arrest of John W. Hill,
then chief of the filtration bureau, on
charges of conspiracy to defraud the
city. Mr. Hill was acquitted. The re-
port of Mapor Gillette, J. Barclay Par-
sons and J. D. MacLennan, the experts
engaged by Mayor Weaver to investi
gate the work, charged that the city
had been defrauded of about $6,000,000
in excess profits to the contracting
firm. Suit was entered to recover this
amount, and it was the trial of this
suit which was postponed. In the
meantime the McNichol contract was
annulled.
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Locomotive Blown Up; Two Killed.
Monongahela City, Pa.. Sept. 18.—
By the explosion of a boiler of a
Pittsburg, Virginia & Charleston
freight engine, the engineer and fire
man were killed, four severely injured
and the engine and caboose reduced to
scrap iron. All the injured were
scalded about the face and hands, and
received severe bruises. They were
taken to a hospital and will probably
recover. The cause of the explosion
fs not known.
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