When the Tables Turned

After a strenuous season on the road, Ethel Kirby, a popular actress, was bored to death with New York, its lights, music and restaurants. So she decided to get away from it all and have a good rest. Being of a slightly superstitious and decidedly feminine mind, and having enough money to consult her own tastes, she decided to leave the location of her vacation to chance. She closed her eyes, stuck a hat pin in the map of the United States and discovered that her choice fell upon the little town of Lariet, in Texas. So to Lariet she went. Now it happened that Florence Halley had written a note to her aunt, Mrs. Burton, in Lariet, saying that she was coming to pay a visit and disparaging the cowboys in the neighborhood as being rather tame affairs. Mrs. Burton, dearly loving a joke, had told the boys and they were prepared to give Miss Halley a warm welcome. Miss Halley, the niece, and Miss Kirby, the actress, met in the dining-car of the train, and were soon good friends. At a wayside