MUTT AND JEFF
CICERO, MY BOY, YOU DON'T REALIZE HOW LUCKY YOU ARE!
HERTS A POOR LITTLE FATHERLESS BOY WHO LOST HIS BEST FRIEND, HIS DOG!
IT SAYS THE POOR! LITTLE LAD IS LONESOME AND BROKEN-HEARTED AND IF ANYBODY CAN WILL THEY PLEASE DO SOMETHING TO MAKE HIM HAPPY AGAIN!
CICERO, MY BOY, WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO GIVE YOUR DOG TO THAT POOR LITTLE BOY, WHO HASHT ANY FATHER, AND
MAKE HIM HAPPY AGAIN?
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 19, 1989
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Bill Saunders, at the age of twenty- ed her to get used to things-the peo- eight, had developed a keen eye for ple and the snow and the general lay pretty girls and good business, The of the country round about. first time he saw Marie Lamont decided here was a perfect combina- tion.
he
Eventually there came the day of
and Bill. the first important meet bought Marle a white ski suit with Marie lived on a farm some dis- a blue sash and a blue cap. She look- In fact, she tance back from the town of Rouergue ed lovely, he thought. in the Laurentian mountains, which looked more lovely and sweet and de- is far back from the city of Montreal, sirable than Bill had ever which in turn is 383 miles north of any woman could look. Now York city by rail, which is the not to think of these things. point from which Bill Saunders and his friends started on their skiing ex- pedition.
imagined But he tried
"Give 'em the works, baby. Make 'em look like saps!"
to
"Eef you want for me win I Marie, like everyone else and every-
She unlike theenk eet will be easy, Beel" thing else in this land, was anything to which Bill had been. ac- looked up at him with her wide trust- customed.. She was natural and sim- ing eyes full of worship and innocence, ple and genuinely beautiful. She was and Bill found a sudden interest in remind him of a member of the fifth generation of objects that didn't Lamonts who had occupied tho farm that look. where she now lived. Like all
She Marie was à sensation. ancestors, Marie had practically been the meet hands down and Bill col- raised on akis. She was as natural on skis as most girls are in high heeled shoes.
her
won
lected plenty of money and the news- paper boys frothed at the mouth be cause here was something worth He writing about. Everyone was very They gave Bill Saunders ideas. talked his ideas over with Bee and happy, and Cedric Dawson, who was in the Peter Harris, who were married and promoting the biggest meet fortyish and the party's chaperones. East that season sought out Bill and made him a proposition that caused Bill had known. them all his life.
he Bill's eyes to gleam. Suddenly "All right, Bill," Peter Harris grin- realized what a gold mine he had in ned. "We'll help you out, But are little Marie Lamont, and he bought you sure you can get her to do it?" Cedric Dawson three drinks straight
"I've always," Bill grinned.
ho to celebrate-and to forget Marie's said unboastfully, "been able to get wide, trusting eyes.
By Barbara Ann Benedict.
pretty
most girls to do what I want, haven't There's no telling how it all might Fate took a hand, as I?" The couple knew this to be true. have ended.
Mario not
Fate is apt to to do when things are So Bill cultivated
in harmony with themselves. Lamont, which wasn't hard because Marie, feeling that she must have a she was very naive and trusting, and breath of the fresh air to which she-
He met Bill was very handsome.
was used or suffocate in the little her folks and made them like him, bedroom where she was supposed to and
to
and introduced them Harrises. be asleep, got up and dressed Then he broached the plan.
went out on the wide moonlit veranda "Oh, Beel!" "Marie cried when he and stood near the railing outside the had finished, "eet weel be wonderfull cocktail lounge. A waiter, who
air, opened Always have I wanted to go to New also given to fresh
window of the cocktail lounge for a York. An' you weesh for me to breeng few moments-and Marie heard Bill my skis? But in New York there ees
Saunders and Cedric Dawson con- no now."
versing.
She heard,
was
and something cold "If there isn't," Bill grinned, "they'll haul some in on freight cars. Baby, and terrifying clutched at her heart. you'll knock 'em dead."
And suddenly she began to think of the farm back of the hamlet of Rouer- Bill's plan was simple. Marie would gue, of kerosene lamps and nickled return to New York with them and stoves and Father Baptiste coming to bo a guest of the Harrises, She visit and sleigh bells and laughing would bring her skis and under Bill's children on their way to school. Lone- management be entered in all the local liness came over her, a Joneliness aki moets. There'd be nothing to it too great to bear.
The
He and the Harrises would clean up. It was snowing when Bill Saunders reached Rouergue. Against the better Everything went smoothly.
judgment of the station agent he elder Lamonts required a little per strapped on his skis and headed for suasion, but presently they gave in the Lamont farm. Somehow he made After all, they wanted their Marie to
the kitchen it, but he collapsed on be happy. Marie was eager and ex- floor when he came in. Presently he cited and innocent. There was only
opened his eyes and there was Marie, one thing wrong with the entire ar and peace came to his soul. He talk rangement, Marie got the impression from Bill's words and manner (as he ed slowly at first, then more rapidly, intended she should) that the only explaining, pleading Marie listened with wide, astonished eyes, and both reason he wanted her to come to New she and Bill were glad her parents York Was because he was in love with couldn't understand English her and wanted her to be near him. They didn't understand English, but they understood other things-
The skiing was a side issue.
So they all went to New York. like when Maria knelt down beside the Marie was excited and happy and couch and Bill took her into his awed and a little frightened, just as arms. Anyone could understand that. Bill wanted and hoped. He didn't (Copyright, 1999, By The Associated let her ski publicly at first. He want Newspapers)
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