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Seventeen
A Tale of KoofA and
Summer Time and
the Baxter Family,
Etpecially William
*y
BOOTH TARKINGTON
Copyright 1W, 1911, by Metropolitan
Mac ax In*.
6 6
SYNOPSIS
William Baxter, aged seventeen, falls at
flrst light In calf love with young Mis*
Pratt «u a vlaii to frlenda of hla. HI*
little alfttr, Jan*, la a fly In the ointment
■William la aent by his mother to help
Genesis, darky of all work, bring homa
*ome waahtuba ahe had purchaaed. They
are accompanied by Cleinatla, Genesis'
mongrel dog. Miss Pratt, escorted by her
frlenda, cornea along with her dog, Floplt
A dogfight ensues.
The dogs ar* separated. William van
lahes. disguised, under a boiler. That
evening he takes his father's die as suit
and colla upon Mlsa Pratt and her friend,
Miss Parcher.
Jane, a knowing youngster, explalna
certain matters conce.filng William's lov*
affair to her mother. She aUo knows th*
fact that William has abstracted his fa
ther's dress suit
William's attention! to Miss Pratt and
those of rivals get on Mr. Parcher'a nerves.
Jane tells Mr. Parcher lu secret that Wil
liam can't get his father's dress suit any
longer because It la being altered.
Mrs. Baxter tells William t*e has sent
Mr. Baxter's dress ault to the tailor for
alterations. He la crestfallen and quarrel*
with Jane.
Mra. Baxter gives a party for Miss
Pratt William, descending the stairs,
falls and tear* hla heat suit. He had sat
on Jane's paint box with mother present
able ault.
Hla troubles detain him till th* pmrty 1*
0ver. to hla great chagrin. Later h* dl»
faases matrimony with the aged parent of
Sanest*. Jane la present at the dlacua
aion.
William goes for a walk with Mlsa Pratt
swinging his father's borrowed cane.
Jane, unheeded, advises an umbrella. It
rains, and William gets wet.
Jan* from her observation*, tells her
partnts that ahe thlnka William Is mar
ried The parents, at flrst alarmed, dis
miss the subject. William goca plcnlck
Ing, and a new rival turns up
The rival monopolizes Miss Pratt. Ha
bra;* about his love for smoking, and
William glvea him some cigarettes
The rival Is made Ul and retires from
the field. Genesis tells Jane of hotr h* la
going to b* a waiter on occasion* and
where he is going to buy a secondhand
dreaa ault Wllllaip overhears
CHAPTER XVIII.
MltS 0ok».
" V OE." William began, fastening
wore securely upon Mr. Bullitt
if —"Joe, I've done a good many
favors for you, and"—
"I've got to see a man." Mr. Bullitt
I Interrupted. "Lemine go, Silly Bill.
There's somebody 1 got to see right
away, before the next dance begins.
J got to! Honest I have!"
William seized him passionately by
the lapels of his eoat. "Listen, Joe.
For goodness' sake can't you listen a
minute? You got to give me'—
"Honest. Bill." h's friend expostu
lated. backing away as forcefully at
possible. "1 koI to tlud a fellow that's
here tonight and ask him about some
thing lmportaut before"—
"Ye gods! Can't you wait a min
ute?" William cried, keeping his grip
upon Joe's lapels "You got to give
me anyway two out of all your dances
with her! You hiard her tell me your
self that she'd be willing If you or
Johnnie or"—
"Well. I only got Ave or six with her
and a couple extras. Johnnie's got
seven. Whyu't you go after Johnnie?
I bet he'd help you out. all right. If
you kept after him. What you want
to pester me for, Bill?"
William swallowed, and. Increasing
the pffectionute defederation of his
i clutch upon Mr. Bullltfs lapels, "Joe,"
he began huskily—"Joe. If I'd got six
• reglar and two extras with Miss Pratt
' her JaRt night here, and you got here
' late, and Jt wasn't your fault—I
couldn't help being late, could I? It
wasn't my fault X was late, I guess,
was It? Well, If I was In your place
1 I wouldn't act the way you and John
nie do—not lu a thousand years I
[ wouldn't! I'd say: "You want a couple
o' my dances with Miss Pratt, ole man?
» Why, certainly' "—
"Yes. you would!" was the cynical
comment of Mr. Bullitt, whose averted
face and reluctant shoulders indicated
i a steong desire to conclude the Inter
1 view. "Tonight especially!" he added.
"Look here, Joe," said William des
perately, "don't you realize that this
Is the very last night Miss Pratt's go
ing to be In this town?"
I "You bet Idol" These words, though
I vehement, were Inaudible, being form
I ed In the mind of Mr. Bullitt, but, for
• diplomatic reasons, not projected upon
| the air by his vocal organs.
' William continued, "Joe, yon and I
| have been friends ever since you and
I were boys." He spoke with emotion,
| but Joe had no appearance of being
favorably Impressed. "And when I
j look back," said William, "I expect
. I've done more favors for you than I
) ever have for any oth"—
t But Mr. Bullitt briskly Interrupted
» this appealing reminiscence. "Listen
Ihere, Silly Bill," he satd, becoming all
at once friendly and encouraging—
I "Bill, there's other girls here you can
get dances with. There's one or two
) of 'em dttln' around la the yard. You
l can have a bully time even If you did
' come late." And, with the air of dls
7 c&rglux bapDttr all the obligations of
wuicn wiiiinm nan reminuea uua, uo
added, "I'll tell you that much, Bill!"
"Joe, you got to give me anyway
one da"—
"Look!" said Mr. Bullitt eagerly.
"Look, slttln' yonder, over under that
tree all by herself! That's a visiting
girl named Miss Boke. She's visiting
some old uncle or something she's got
living here, and I bet you could"—
"Joe, you got to"—
"I bet that Miss Boke's a good danc
er, BUI," Joe continued warmly. "May
Parcher says so. She was trying to
get me to dance with her myself, but
I couldn't or I would of. HoneBt, Bill.
I would of! Bill, If I was you I'd sail
right In there before anybody else got
a start, and I'd"—
"Ole man," said William gently,
"you remember the time Miss Pratt
and I had an engagement to go walk
In', and you wouldn't of seen her for
a week on account of your aunt dyln'
In Kansas City If I hadn't let you go
along with us? Ole man, If you"—
But the music Bounded for the next
dance, and Joe felt that It was Indeed
time to end this uncomfortable con
versation. "I got to go, Bill," he said.
"I got to!"
"Walt Just one minute," Wlillam Im
plored. "I want to say Just this: If"—
"Here!" exclaimed Mr. Bullitt "I
got to go!"
"I know It That's why"—
Heedless of remonstrance, Joe
wrenched himself free, for It would
have taken a powerful and ruthless
man to detain him longer. "What you
take me for?" he demanded indignant
ly. "I got this with Miss Tratt!"
And, evading a hand which still
sought to clutch him, he departed
hotly.
Mr. Farclicr's voice expressed won
der a little later as he recommended
his wife to turn her gaze In the direc
tion of "that Baxter boy" again. "Just
look at him!" said Mr. Parcher. "His
face has got more genuine Idiocy In it
than I've seen around here yet, and
' God knows I've boeu seeing some mir
acles In that line this summer!"
"He's looking at I^ola l'ratt," said
Mrs. Parcher.
"Don't you suppose I can see that?"
Mr. I'archer returned, with some irri
tation. "That's what's the trouble
with him. Why don't he quit looking
at her?"
"I think probably he feels bad be
cause she's dancing with one of the
other boys," said his wife mildly.
"Then why can't he dance with some
| body else himself," Mr. Parcher In
quired testily, •'instead of standing
around like a calf looking out of the
butcher's wagon? By George, he looks
as If he was Just going to moo!"
1 "Of course he ought to be dancing
with somebody," Sirs. Parcher rernark
i ed thoughtfully. "There are one or
two more girls than boys here, and
he's the only boy not dancing. I be
lieve I'll"— And, not stopping to com
plete the sentence, she rose and walk
ed across the Interval of grass to Wil
liam. "Good evening, William," she
| said pleasantly. "Don't you want to
dance?"
I "Ma'am?" said William blankly, and
j the eyes he turned upon her were
glassy with anxiety.
I "Don't you want to dance?" Mrs.
j Parcher repeated. "Have you looked
around for a girl without a partner?"
"Girl?" he echoed in a tone of feeble
Inquiry.
arm. "You come with me." she said.
"I'll fix you up."
William suffered her to conduct him
across the yard. Intensely preoccupied
with what he meant to do as soon at
the music paused, he was somewhat
hazy, but when he perceived that he
was being led In the direction of a
girl sitting solitary nnder one of the
maple trees the sudden shock of fear
aroused his faculties.
"What—where"— hp stammered, halt
ing and seeking to detach himself from
his hostess.
"What Is it?" she nslsed.
"I got—I got to"— William began un
easily. "I got to"—
Ilis pnrp.-se was to excuse himself
on the ground that he had to find a
man and tell him something important
before the uext dance, for In the con
fusion of the moment his powers re
fused him greater originality. But the
vital part of his intended excuse re
mained unspoken, being disregarded
and cut short, as millions of other mas
culine diplomacies have been through
out the centuries by the decisive action
of ladies.
Miss Boke had been sitting under the
maple tree for a long time—so long, in
deed, that she was acquiring a pro
found distaste for forestry and even
for maple sirup. In fact, her state of
mind was as desperate in Its way as
William's. And when a hostess leads
a youth In almost perfectly fitting con
ventional black toward a girl who has
been sitting alone through dance after
dance that girl knows what that youth
Is going to have to do.
It must be confessed for Miss Bok*
that her eyes had been upon William
from the moment Mrs. Parcher ad
dressed him. She sprang to her feet
and met Mrs. Parcher more than half
way.
"Oh, Mrs. Parcher!" she called, com
ing forward.
"I got"— the panic stricken William
again hastily began. "I got to"—
"Oh, Mrs. Parcher," cried Miss Boke,
"I've been so worried! There's a can
dle in that Japanese lantern Just over
head, and I think It is going out."
"I'll run and get a fresh one in a
minute," said Mrs. Parcher, smiling
benevolently and retaining William's
arm with a little difficulty. "We were
Just coming to find you. I've brought"—
"I got to—I got to find a m"— Wil
liam made a last stricken effort,
"Miss Boke, this Is Mr. Baxter," said
Mrs. Parcher, and she added, with
what seemed to William hideous gar
rulity: "He and you both came late,
dear, and.be ptvv dances es2.ige4
nice time together."
The full horror of his position was
revealed to William In the relieved,
confident, proprietor's smile of Miss
Boke, for William lived by a coda
from which no previous experience had
ta ught him any means of escape. Mrs.
Parcher had made the statement, so
needless and bo ruinous, that he bad
no engagements, and in his dismay he
had been unable to deny thlg fatal
truth. He had been obliged to let It
stand.
He had to give form to the fatal
invitation. "M'av' this dance 'thyou?"
he muttered doggedly. .
"Vurry pleased to!" Miss Boke w
sponded, whereupon they walked In
silence to the platform, stepped upon
Its surface and embraced.
They made a false start, then an
other. They stood swaying to catch
the time, then made another. After
that they tried again and were saved
from a fall only by spasmodic and no
ticeable contortions.
Miss Boke laughed tolerantly, as If
forgiving William for his awkward
ness, and his hot heart grew hotter
After Th«t They Tried Again.
with that injustice. A coarse chuckle,
a half suppressed snort, assailed Wil
liam's scarlet car, and from the corner
of his eye he caught a glimpse of Joe
Bullitt gliding by, suffused, while over
Joe's detested shoulder could be seen
the adorable and piquant face of the
one girl, also suffused.
"Doggone It!" William panted.
"Oh, you mustn't be discouraged
with yourself," said Miss Boke genial
ly. "I've met lots of Men that had
trouble to get started and turned out
to be right good dancers, after all. It
seems to me we're kind of workln'
against each other. I'll tell you, yon
kind of let me do the guiding aud I'll
get you going line. Now! One, two,
one, two! There!"
William ceased to struggle for dom
inance, aud their efforts to "get start
ed" were at onre successful. He bad
a helpless feeling, fully warranted by
the circumstances. He soon became
aware that Miss Boke's powerful
"guiding" was observed by the public,
for after one collisiou. more serere
than others, a low voice hissed in his
ear:
"She tcon't hurt you much. Silly Bill.
She't only In fun!"
This voice belonged to the dancer
with whom he had Just been in pain
ful contact. Johnnie Watson.
"I Just love dancing." said Miss Boke
serenely. "Don't you, Mr. Baxter?"
"What?" he gulped. "Yeh."
"It's lovely," she murmured "I hope
they don't play 'Home, Sweet, Home'
very early at parties In this town. I
could keep on like this all night!''
CHAPTER XIX.
Marooned.
TO the gasping William It seemed
that slie already hud kept on
like this nil uight, and be ex
pressed himself in one great,
frank, agonized moan of relief when
the music stopj ed. "I sh' think musl
cians'd be dead!" he said as he wiped
his brow. And, then discovering that
May Parcher stood at his elbow, he
spoke hastily to ber. "M'av' the next
'thyou?"
But Miss Parcher had begun to ap
plaud the musicians for an encore.
She shook her head. "Next's the third
extra," she said. "And, anyhow, this
one's going to be encored now. You can
have the twenty-second If there 1j
any."
William threw a wild glance about
him, looking for other girls, but the
tireless orchestra began to play the en
core, and Miss Boke, who had been ap
plauding, Instantly cast herself upon
his bosom. "Come on!" she cried.
"Don't let's miss a second of it It's
Just glorious:"
When the encore was finished she
seized William's arm and, mentioning
that she'd left her fan upon the chair
under the maple tree, added: "Come
on! Let's go get it quick!"
Under the maple tree she fanned
herself and talked of her love for
dancing until the music sounded again.
"Come on!" she cried then. "Don't
let's miss a second of It! It's Just
glorious!"
And, grasping bis arm, she propelled
him toward the platform with a merry
little rush.
So passed five dances—long, long
dances.
Likewise live encores—long encores.
After each dance Miss Boke conduct
ed him back to the maple tree, aloof
from the general throng, and William
found .the- interm'^siona almost eauftl
But, as there was a barely perceptible
balance In their favor, he collected
some fragments of his broken spirit
when Miss Boke would hare borne
him to the platform for the sixth time
and begged to "sit this one out," al
leging that he had "kind of turned bis
ankle or something," he believed.
The cordial girl at once placed hlnl
upon the chair and gallantly procured
another for herself. In her solicitude
she sat close to him, looking fondly at
his face, while William, though now
and then rubbing his ankle for plausi
bility's sake, gazed at the platform
with an expression which Gustave
Dore would gratefully have found sug
gestive. Upon the many colored plat
form the Ineffable One drifted to and
fro, back and forth, her little blond
head, in a golden net, glinting hero
and there like a bit of tinsel blowing
across a flower garden.
And when that dance and Its encore
were over she went to lean against a
tree, while Wallace Banks fanned her,
but she was so busy with Wallace that
she did not notice William, though she
passed near enough to waft a breath
of violet scent to his wan nose. A.
fragment of her sliver speech tinkled
in his earr
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DEPARTMENT OF THE
INTERIOR
United States Land Offlt#
Juneau, Alaska.
September 24, 1917.
Notic* la hereby given that John
Rosace, Jr., of Haines Alaska, baa
filed application, under the provi
sions of Sec. 2306, R. S. as as
signee of Angellotte Van Buskirk,
widow of John 0. Van Buskirk, to
mak entry of the land embraced
ia U. Si. Survey 784, situate near
Haiuev, District oj Alaska, Lat,
59° 14' N., Long. 135° 26* W., and
mors earticularly described as fol
lows, to»wit:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, whence
a. S. L. M. No. 673 bears S. 24°
16' E. 33.46 cbs. and Cor. 1,
Survey 208, bears S. 8.23 chs.
thenco N, 10.02 chs. to Cor No.
2, thence E. 1.32 chs. to Cor.
No. 3, thence S. 10.02 chs. to
Cor No. 4, thence W. to Cor, No.
1, 1.32 chs. the iflacfl of begin
ning, containing an area of 1.33
acres. Hag. Var. 30* 45' E.,
and known ag Survey 784.
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Final publication Dec. 8, 1917.
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