Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-08-26
THE CADDY.
BY John Roberts.
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"You must find that ball." she said
peremptorily as the small sphere bounded
away from under his golf stick into the
mysterious hollows of the putting green's.
He leisurely surveyed the depression
into which the ball had disappeared:
then, in compliance with her mandate,
raised his voice in a loud shout. The
fresh breeze took up the call Of 81 say,
boy; come here" and carried it to a for
lorn figure perched on the fence rails
marking the links line of demarcation.
The boy descended slowly from his
point of observation and advanced to-
ward the couple. The man in the brown
golf suit came forward to meet him.
Look here" he said in low Zone,
don't you find that ball inside Of an
hour. Do you hear?'
A grin Of perfect understanding on the
upturned freckled face satisfied his in
structor, and bright coin covertly trans.
ferred further sealed the compact. He
returned to the girls side vfsibly relieved.
"Oh," she said, he'll never find it
there. Just hold my stick while l show
him where it went"
"Please don't CO." begged the man,
deeply disappointed. Hell find it sure
enough"
The girl tripped daintily after the ur.
chin, who was plodding aimlessly in the
wrong direction.
He watched the two consulting with a
clouded countenance.
''It is no use," he muttered, ''I've not
the ghost of a chance, and she goes home
tomorrow" His lips frightened.
The girl came back with a look of de-
termination in her eyes. The wind, TAX
ing liberties with her flying draperies, be-
trayed two slender ankles.
HE shall come to the point this after
noon. 1t must be blind surrender on
his part, and l capitulate gracefully" she
whispered gleefully to the wind.
They seated themselves on protected
knoll, below which the green waves slop-
ed away in grassy fluctuations. He drew
closer, but she moved to the margin of
the fertilization. Leaning back with q
little sigh of satisfaction, she asked care.
lessly:
do you think will be back in time to
drive with Mr.. Ford?"
81 presume so, if you really wish ii"
he replied stiffiy.
They looked across the purple downs to
where the light, hurrying clouds were
making darker patches Of green, shad-
ows mingling with fecks of sunshine.
Her profile was temptingly near, and
distracting little tendrils of hair futter-
ed under her cap.
"Must you really go home tomorrow p
he asked at last.
Out of the corner of her eye she saw his
face was q trifle paler than usual under
its coat of tan.
eyes, and you-when do you go?"
Tomorrow afternoon. l suppose this
summer has been like lot Of others to
your" He spoke slowly, looking at her
deliberately.
at has been very pleasant" she re-
turned artlessly, becoming suddenly alb
sorbed in the tip of her boot.
Don't you love tennis?' she continued.
81 think it much jollier than golf" Her
eyes were sedulously averted.
II prefer golf," he answered lacon-
ically.
why" innocently.
Because, socially, 1t is more orthodox,
and two cap wander off without causing
comment" Then, as a conclusive argu-
ment, Links are desirable"
She looked at him archly. "But one has
love in tennis, too, you know"
Yes" he agreed, "but oftentimes there
are double sets. like the problem of two
finding \ as the unknown quantity"
What does X represent in golf" she
asked softly.
Love" he replied firmly.
I'm tennis, you know, after love
there's the Deuce" she murmured.
He gravitated nearer.
True, but next it's vantage in"
He had come very close, and her hand
was eclipsed under large brown one.
Meanwhile, with a half consumed ci-
gar, surreptitiously procured, the indus
trious caddy reposed luxuriously just be-
low their battlefield. He drew in a long
Whit of pure ecstasy. He wondered at
the silence above him. A meadow lark's
amorous call foated by, quiet reigned,
and the golden sunlight was over every
thing.
do you care just little, dearT'
The voices were inaudible to the caddy.
The girls lips moved, and the man
knew, if he did not hear, that they form
ed YES"
The world was a beautiful place just
at that moment.
1t was a drawn battle. They were mu-
tually bound. Still, a woman must pris-
on some of her forces. A complete sur
render means bondage.
81 wonder where that boy can bel He
has been gone an hour"
She said this demurely, as IL their fu-
ture depended on his opportune appear
ance.
Boy" she called, "what are you do
ing?"
Here ! am, marm," and the owner of
the unkempt head bobbed up serenely
from the other side of the sloping bank.
u amt never moved" he said. "That
gent there. he gave ne one too" Hs