The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1896-07-25

know. with people who are properly
chummy.
"Do you mean
mo, not Maud and Fred. They are
almost too much so. They miss nearly
all that's going on. and so don't get the
beat out OF it, whereas you and / under
stand each other and can get along
splendidly without-without- Con-
founded long while the bang this time,
isn't It? Wonder IL it ever misses fire
How would you care for a fat such as
thisf'
must have looked puzzled. for he
went on hurriedly:
mo, don't mean the fiat you
mean, so you need not look severe. l
mean one room, and all that sort Of
thing" he finished vaguely.
why, began nervously. II should
think il would be rather-nice, butt
"Cramped ~ he interposed quickly.
Eyes. knew you would say that.
said / supposed he was only chatting
and did not mean anything.
"Oh, dear, no. It's only my way
But it is cuIious-that what's 'er name
ihunt ttildihiJ hdNt iui1nth uic.
"You know the man said we were
not on any account to stir until after
the explosion.
"Oh, Just as you like. I'm all right,
only / thought-Maud and Fred, you
how-but no doubt they will be wait
ing, too, though, suppose, they would
say they were only one. and it is we who
were the two. "
docs he think am trying to keep
him here ON purposef" 1 wondered.
lyon quite understand" Explained;
'it is not that l want to stop
"Oh, quite understand. and / could
hardly expect that" he assented pleas
antly.
but you know we cannot possibly 60
until after-after
mo. dare say you are right. 1t
to go ont and find ourselves the center
Of small eruption. What Stating
we should get ~
ooh, there it is, confound it'' we
exclaimed together as tremendous ex-
plosiop announced the possibility of our
release. and forthwith we stepped on to
the terrace outside.
lyon seem awfully delighted to get
out, " said George rather pointedly, and
l supposed he meant it for sarcasm, but
could not resent it or say l was not.
lone can breathe more freely now
that the-the explosion has come Off -
was all could say.
Just then came Maud.
"Oh, there you are ~ Where ON earth,
or under it. have you been:" And see
ing our confusion she was misled into
adding, "We hogan to think you must
have run off with her. " This, with
would be archness, was to George But
this was too much.
mo, by Jove l wish had Fact is,
Maud, III an awful fool To think
Of wasting such chancel We've been
shut up there two blessed hours. and l
told you I'd something very particular
to ask Edith. "
well. she replied. looking dubious
ly at me-
ut isn't we'll. haven't been able to
say word. You will just have to ask
her for me, and that's fact. Whenever
l try to come to the point, she either
brushes me or freezes me. and I've been
talking the most awful drivel you ever
heard. "
"Then why didn't you come out?"
"We were waiting for the explosion,
don't you know, and IL couldn't ex-
plode. "
Whereupon Maud burst out laughing,
and could not for my life think why.
=" But for me there would have been
no explosion. When the last whistle
sounded, the men finished work for the
day. They all went home. We thought
you must have gone, too, at first, while
us to finding you we'll. it would
have taken weeks. But Guessed how
you were occupied George
groaned aloud-''so by way of rousing
you / got the foreman to make another
bang, just as l shall have to-
She looked wickedly at George. then
ran away.
And at that he exploded, and out it
came with a rush--how he had been dy.
ing for days to ask me, just what had
been dying for days to hear, only
would not have him know it for the
world. Answers.