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THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE
MISS GRACE WILLIAMS, NOW OLDER AND FATTER, RECEIVES AN ANSWER
or rather rubbing, of her trade, now that of blanchisseuse, or — shall we say it ?— washwoman.
On the day following the posting of that inspired letter of Mr. George Jackson, the finger of fate, ever swinging in its arc, stopped at Grace's cottage in the disguise of a postman and left a mysterious envelope, postmarked "Chicago," in her suddy hands.
The timid creature fingered it for some time f earsomely , and had not her damp clasp like to have destroyed it, she might yet have been holding it in fat perplexity, for all I know.
It was only by careful reperusal that she dully grasped its meaning:
Dear Miss Williams: Have just found the slip of paper containing your name and address in can of tobacco today. If you really want to marry, cash the enclosed check, take first train, wire me, and will have auto and chauffeur in gray livery waiting at Englewood station for you. Hurry! Yours expectantly,
George M. Jackson.
Grace's eyes fairly bulged with her effort to give the ranting lines some
sense ; and then suddenly the memory of her coy act years before flashed before her, and the puzzle fitted surely into shape.
She sat down on the one doorstep and rocked like a ferryboat, with ponderous merriment. "I'se sure comin', Mistah Jackson, 'deed I is," she chuckled in pure hilarity. Then, as she noticed the underscoring with the imperative "Hurry!" trailing like a call for help, she grew quite serious. "I 'low dat man des crazy 'bout me," she mused, and all her stifled coquetry seemed to steal forth like a sunflower.
Her wavering mind once made up, she became quite lion-hearted, and proceeded to her adornment with the exactitude that is necessary to arrange a sky-pink bonnet and a gown of large-flowered calico. With a heart beating with high resolve, she realized the seriousness of her adventure, and, locking the little cottage door, she made a slow but sure way for the depot. Her simple telegram read: "Am coming on first train. — Grace Williams."