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For Ginger's Sake.
By ETHEL HUÉSTON.
DEDIN HERE TO-DAY.
war tous. Whenever there was threat of
jsweet May night. The more fact Life was never dull with Ginger his T that the twin inhibitions of parent- it Ginger got a new idea. Thus the side and pastorate had been torn Junior Country Club to are the younger under was sufficient to loose the Art of Red Thrush, Jawa, from slier refloodgates of their surging exuber- El web exclusiven pazenie, nu hautos. Accortaly Ginger, whose father was a minisance. ter but whose stepenather, the former Phê Văn Root, wan bath wealthy and Iudulurat, per chand the Mill Hush farmi, à id-kere trees with an vid house on it with the ever.
with the stance of hre friends, to nvers bas) and furnish.
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Red Thrush selwed the idea with enthiels, kitchen and ofered la de a portrait of finger in exchange for a meal. After he had shay
uft him bend, Gluger fourt to her amekement
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On the whole, no one in the world had a higher regard for the min- istry than Ginger Ella, she having by her own adratasion practiced it since the day of her birth, her Lixhen. father more often than not being | Itlo. referred to as "Ginger's help." But Bombay. that he was both pan and good looking a social asset she was beginning Yokohama And he had talent. Ife and studied in Paris to find it something of a Hability.
Rev. Silver (spot). and now and Hollowsy.
Eliger thought it would be send us if she explained to Bard apolo
Teel Bard remalie • while in Red Thunb. Shegetically, not wishing him to I would see that he got enough commlastona
Portraits, which would s better thats hole that she cherished any real disloy
and he could do thealty to the profession in which she throws the country, mural decoration the new club haime. So she got her alegemother perself Bal Was born, bred and had her being, to accept an invitatkin to slay at the Tulle "to have some one interrupt right Hard thought "fole de Virze would be at the climax of one of my most un- send name for the club. It was adopted. printably Freudian repartees to ask And he thought I would be splendid if her father to speak a few words on this Fat Nienia was handrume and he emul nor that, or return thunks, or lead in aud wing and wimans a guitar. ife would make
plettresque addition 24 the club, die wool player, takes all the savor out of algh for my salt."
rmă import Nicole Cullens Franc Chienen.
knockout on the onion
which inner dance was planant. No he
ant for Neal, on the scrtiter of the But on the aight of the formal dance there arrived at the Tollivers met ons opening dance, the Joie de Vivre Latin youth, but whet spetzen an ASTY A the Little Angel was unjustified its existence. There were And Bentis uld stern preachers to ask a blessing on And how: Nicola eonid not rome, it the spaghetti and ginger ale. There sail they had come in tes pilner. They woul work to their tried. Sex dy te fontailed
Petco cold cunk,
17 lub
Thus kelne, at the inner, itare b retin he was falling in love with Ginger,
And Ginger felt the one way wotalerfil
INR
CHAPTER XVI
During had been announced for nine o'clock that in itself a daring Innovation iu a community where,
"Got it?" Sure I got it Bard looked interested, hesitated "I don't know," be doubtfully.
"You go on out to the kitchen said. and wait for me. I'll come out there. Excuse me, Eddy, could I speak to you a minute?"
The two men moved away from the table, conferred in whispers, moverf slowly toward the kitchen.
"Do you suppose the girls would like a little suggested Bard,
They were close to the kitchen entrance.
"Gosh, no, Why, those girls still think the fruit of the vine means were no drooling infants fally Anjelly! ejaculated Eddy. gering the tinselled tassels of the evening wraps, There were no pa- ternal smiles and no maternal nudges to express a smug and ad- miring approval. eurtesy of eurb an impulse.
10
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"Let the spaghetti be uneon- six is the favourite hour for dining, find!" exulted Ginger.
it wasnt Bard's suggestion, he and where within an hour or so afterward the average resident ising rather better versed in willing to call it day and retiredoings of Bohemin than for the night,
So it was not surprising that, im- peiled doubly by their own tormination to unles nothing, and by the insistence of parents who con sidered 7.30 the proper hour for a children's party, The upper high [Rand
the
the rest
"How long has that bird been in town be asked.
"Just to-day, Got here this morn- ing."
"Pretty quick work. Where do you suppose be got hold of it?"
At sight of them the stolid Pietro produced a ginger ale bottle nad. a couple of cups.
"Say when," he snickered.
.
•
domandi-
of them, that now and then Pietro himself. erisp, enveloping white
"Where'd you get it?" apron and jaunty cap, should fired Eddy. "It's not at all bad-
though I'm no judge.' forth anug the guests to Kerve them with fresh spaghetti hot from a huge bowl. It was upon one of these errands, when Hard was giv truction, that Pietro got his face well behind the spaghetti bowl tu Whisper a query of his own.
"Uh-how about a little-uh- something extra--in your
ginger ale be suggested.
* Prep schien] crowd was in noisy fitur him a whispered word of in-1"You're not peddling this around
possession of the table assigned
to them.
"those same parents, be it enfessed to their shame, had re- sorted to the anworthy expedient of driving the youngsters out, us
mole legitimate excuse to obtain one i "Have you got it? cineulated of the goings-on at. Foie de Bard with a surprise that was not. Klimpse Fire that night."
By eight o'clock every reserva- | Įtion had been taken up, and Benito, shrewdly figuring that there was no nse waiting an hour when folks were willing to begin parting with their momy at once, started the ball rolling.
He turned Angelo loose at the plano, released the three waiters: forrowed from the Hotel Grand for
the evening-for a consideration-| and made his first attack upon the auditory nerves of town.
Even if there had been no food at all, no dancing and no clubhouse. the three suave and smiling for
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tions of second-hand operatic cos- tumes Karnered heaven knew whence, would have stamped the evening with the ineffuceable hatt- mark of success. Even Ginger felt a stirring of her already excited pulses, at sight of them.
It was at Bard's suggestion that they adhered exclusively to their native tongue, answering every word addressed to them with a tor rent of eloquent, incomprehensible Italian which vermitted of no argu- ment fa return, and at the same Fine lent un international flavour that Red Thrush had not before ex- perienced.
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Also, as Bard aptly observed, it served to condone the service, which was not always what it might have been. One who ordered soup received spaghetti, one who would have crackers and cheese. was obliged to be content with ginger and fruit cookies. No matter! protests were, swept away in the laughing tide of apologetic, rhythmic, good-natured Italian.
Out by the rate Ben Brooks held royal court with his friends, al- though crowded just a trifle for first hunours by Iry Ford, upon when. after all, the merrymakers were exely dependent for transporta- tion to and from this place of Joy, while upon Ben devolved
merely
the dubious delight of bouncing the undesirables.
"Ain't that Mussolini got lungs now." sald. Bou admiringly.
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Eye-talians get lungs like that," said Iry Ford, "they ain't got no call to waste money on battleships. They can go to war and sing their enemies to death."
"I bet they was Eye-lalians that, yelled down the walls of Jericho It says in the Bible," opined Gar Haven critically.
"Don't say nothin' 'bout the Bible on this ranch or Ben'll have to bounce you offen that rock on your bean," said Iry Ford. "This
here is a worldly institution and den of iniquity just like that Mount Marty in Pareo, and the Icas said about the Bible and such the bet ter."
The youth of that particular cor ner of southeastern Iowa Was let ting Itself go in good earnest that
simulated..
"Oh, you always come across it." sald Pietro evasively. "Pretty Food, yes?"
"Have another," suggested Burd.
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"Who, me"
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You're my friends, ain't you? Friends of little Nicola.
and all. Hovo another?"
"No thanks. Put it away keep it out of sight."
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