Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-08-12

longer. I used to think chat you could
not put on anything that would be UNI
becoming. Now hold no such opinion.
Still, / must say that l admire your
bravery in coming out in the daylight,
where people can see you in such rig.
The hard things you have said to me
when you had on pretty lawn tennis
costume, for instance, do not affect me
bit when they are said by one who
merely looks like saucy, impudent
boy.
well, Ciss, when are you going to
get at mending that tire?''
"I-I-I-don t know anything about
tires sobbed Cissie.
Cissie had bent her head upon her
hands, which rested on the saddle Of her
cycle. 1t was quite evident that she was
in tears, and Jack, waiting for reply,
smoked on in silence. At last he said.
in gentle voice:
"Look here, Oissie, if you ask me
very nicely will take off that pneu-
matte tire and mend it in five minutes
by the watch"
Cissie looked up again with something
like her former Indignation in her eyes.
"I'll throw the machine into the
stream" she said, "before I will ask
you to mend it.
"Just as you please, Cissie," replied
Jack, clasping his hands behind his
head and leaning back i'll luxurious en-
joyment Of his pipe. 'Just as you
please. The day is my own, and I sup
pose you will wait here till night before
you venture back home again.
"Out of the kindness of my heart
will stay here with you, not to look at
you, for shall gaze at the tops Of the
trees as much as possible, and not to
talk to you, for if there is anything in
this world I abhor it is an impudent,
cheeky boy. But this lane is a great
place for tramps and gypsies, and it be-
comes very dark at night because Of the
overhanging trees. )"
| Jack smoked OH, gazing up, as he had
promised, at the tree tops. The silence
was broken only by the sweet singing
of the birds and now and then by a
quick catch of the breath on the part Of
Cissie. Five minutes elapsed and then
ten.
"Jack,' said Cissie without raising
her head.
'Did you speak?" inquired the young
man.
"Jack," she said, "I'm perfectly
helpless, and I think you have been very
horrid to me. -
GAN right" said the young man, ris
ing to his feet 81 will 60 away. But
do try to get out Of this lane before
darkness comes on. -
Don't go away" cried Cissie
"Please forgive what said, and won't
you be so kind as to mend my tire?"
Jack picked up the bicycle, took of
the dripping lamp, had the tire off and
on again and pumped full in an incred
IDLY short space of time.
"There," he said, you see how
quickly thing is fixed when the time
is not wasted in foolish conversation
Are you going any farther, Cissie? L
| yOu uIO3 WOu1u tNuNloC JCu w N"AH
your machine over these stones.
"No," said Cissie, with deep, quiv
ering sigh; am going home as quick
ly as can, and then will burn thi
awful costume. did not really want tt
put it on, but all the girls in our clul
have one.
"Cissie," said the young man, slip
ping his arm around the natty, tailo
made coat, "the costume is all right
and don't you be bluffed. 1t looks a
pretty as picture and suits you dow
to the ground When girl talks kind
ly, it's simply one Of the nattiest cos
tunes that ever were constructed by
tailor, but I say, Cissie, don't you thin
we have misunderstood each other for
long time now, and don't you thin
that bicycle made for two would re
quire less exertion than couple of sin
gle machines?''
II don't know but it would" sal
Cissie, looking up with a smile that wa
all the sweeter because there was jus
the slightest suspicion Of culver a
the corners of her pretty lips. LUX
Sharp in Detroit Free Press.