Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-02-27
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changed, you see."
"Changed?" There is note of
guilelessness in Miss Aspinwall-Jones's
voice that is pretty and childish.
elbow much does she know?" quer-
les Jerome anxiously to himself.
.I won't tease you any more" says
Miss Aspinwall-Jones. "Only there is
one thing must say-you don't un-
derstand girls.
"Who does?" remarked the man.
"And I must say don't understand
you," he added, rather cynically.
"Who does?" echoes the girl, with
laugh. "Perhaps-some time-Jou
will"
They have reached alley number
three, and tall girl is standing there
eyeing them with much GOODNESS and
evidently with much disfavor.
"Agnes, here is MIR. Jerome, and he
is going to bowl with you," says Miss
Aspinwall- Jones. "He has just come
back from Kansas, and if you like he
will tell you all about shooting, and
all about the gasoline stove that blows
up regularly every night"
Agnes looks from one to the other
and laughs with embarrassment. She
knows that Miss-Aspinwall-Jones is
very clever, and while she knows great
many things she is liable to guess at o
great many more; and even though
she is her most intimate friel she
would never, never like her to Anow
what she is thinking about. And so
she laughs and says civilly: 81 am
very glad to see you again, Mr..
Jerome" And then she turns to Miss
Aspinwnll-Jones, and asks in q puz-
zled way: "Gasoline stove? what
about gasoline stove?"
But Miss Aspinwall.Jones has fitted
away, leaving Jerome and Agnes to-
gether; and from the other side OF the
room she smiles back contentedly, lit
tie knowing that Agnes is ready to re-
solve never to speak to her again, and
that Jerome is Wishing heartily that
he had remained out in Kansas where
he could shoot all day and not have
to talk with young women who are dis.
tant and scornful, and who make him
feel that he is very much in the way.
Even the incident of the gasoline
stove fails to establish easy relations,
and he starts in on another story which,
however, is nipped in the bud.
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Aspinwall.J sees them talking and
says: 81 have got them together" and
congratulates herself on her tact. Miss
Aspinwall-Jones is very young, and her
ideas of doing good to other people
often lead to complications.
In the present instance they lead to
great many complications. Agnes is
very intent on bowling, and Jerome
shows that he has forgotten all about
it. When she makes strike Jerome
follows it up with a score OF three
pins, and two balls in the gutter. He
becomes very angry, writes his tally
on the wrong side of the blackboard
and covers his fingers, his coat and
everything in sight with chalk.
Then it is pleasure to see Agnes
bowl, and he forgcts everything else
in watching her. Her figure is superb,
tall and willowy, and, with long,
graceful swing of the arm, she sends
ball down the alley. She holds her
head in queenly way, and eight sea-
sons in society have not dimmed the
beauty and sparkle of her dark eyes,
nor made havoc with the damask OF
her clear complexion.
"Why don't you roll?" she asks,
presently, as Jerome stands before her
moment, looking at her intently.
The pins at the foot OF the alley have
all been set up, and thereis pause in
the bowling. She points a bit of chalk
at him and smiles bewitchingly in way
that makes Jerome lose his head.
tWhat do I care about this stupid
bowling?" he says, passionately.
"What do I care about anything
but you? You know why I went away,
and you ought to know why I came
back. :"
Agnes looks coldly at him. eyes;
I ought to know. I certainly spoke
plainly to you six months ago. /
think there is no need to say anything
more
"There are great many things to
say" continued Jerome, 'sif I only
knew how to say them. -
ri don't see chat you need any
help" remarks the girl, dryly. And
then: "Miss Aspinwall Jones is be.
ginning to look worried because she
sees that you are not bowling"
Jerome seizes huge ball and hurls
it down the alley at tremendous
speed. Straight as die it rolls down
the centre; there is crash as it
strikes the king pin, and then all ten
pins with one accord topple into the
pit.
Tho bowling assumes new aspect;
it is something to occupy his mind.
He says nothing more, except:
"What you told me six months ago
final, is them"
Andthe girl, with tightly compressed
lips, mutters: Eyes"
Bang! go the balls down the alley
now. The pin-boys wonder what has
come into that tall, dark-haired man,
that he is so reckless. He nearly kills
two of them, when they shouS back:
'sTake cere, therer' and Jerome
echoes stake care!" He feels that one
boy more or less is of no consequence,
and he begins to be very polite and
talk commonplsces with Agnes Ian
caster. Has she been having good
time this winter? and is she going out
much? and are there to be great
many dances? He says that he is sorry
he is not going to be there, for he has
had q great many charming waltzes
with Miss Lancaster, and he would
like to have great many more. And
until the bowling party is over he
talks about great many things which