The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-28

regard were not freely offered as he
| demanded them, he could wait, secure
| in their ultimate possession.
At first this fascination had been
| weak and unimportant. Now, however,
! it rapidly took the ascendancy over
! everything else. The mere chance that
! it's influence had been the one first
| to touch the girls moral nature
| counted for much; as did. curiously
| enough the fact that in her relations
| with Cheyenne Harry, Molly always
! felt a little guilty. She resented her
! imperceptible retrogression, and the re-
| sentiment took the reckless form of a
! desire to go a step further. This was
! mainly because she did not understand
! herself. She had done nothing wrong,
as she saw it; and yet They had put
| this heavy, uneasy feeling into her
heart Very welll If They, the mys-
terious unthoughtout They were
bound to make her unhappy without
her fault, she would enjoy the sweets
as well as the bitter of it!
Harry had such a way of forcing
her to act against. her conscience.
But 1 can't do that" she would
object to some proposition of his. I'D
like to. l think it would be great fun.
But you know very we'll I've promised
Dave Kelly to go up with him this
/ afternoon to look at his claim
That doesn't matter" replied H1ar-
| ry. cavalierly.
But it does matter" she persisted
I've promised"
"Oh, shake him. Tell him some
yarn. Do something. 1t isn't every
day 1 get an afternoon off this way"
Though why he did not, it would be
| difficult to say.
Il know, but I've promised"
"Oh. very WE'LL said Cheyenne Tiar-
ry. with cold finality, and began to
| whistle as if the question were quite
disposed of. This did not suit Molly
at all.
There isn't anything I can do, is
! there?" she asked, after a moment.
You know best"
"Oh, dear, don't want you TO feel
| like that"
why shouldn't 1 feel like that?"
! cried Harry, in sudden heat. Here
/ look forward to a whole afternoon with
you, and I'm thrown down just be-
cause of a kid. l suppose you'd rather
trot around with him than with me-
All right Go ahead"
He began to whistle again. He
never said what the result would be if
she did "go ahead" and this very
Molly, genuinely distressed, knit her
brows, not knowing what to do.
Now, look here!" commanded Har-
ry, after a minute, with great decision;
you go find that Kid, and send him
up to Kelly's claim to say you can't
come this afternoon. You can fix it
to suit yourself next time you see
him." and then he would himself find
the Kid and dispatch him.
Molly always acquiesced, but with
inward misgivings. She must now do
| her best to conceal from Dave Kelly
! the real state of affairs; he must not
| by any chance see her with Harry:
| he must not hear from outside sources
! of her afternoons excursion with that
| individual. An element of the clandas-
| tine had crept into it. The idea on
pressed her. for, in spite of her store
OF spirits and her independent temper,
she was not of a combative nature
when she felt herself at all in The
| wrong. The necessity saddened her,
brought to her that guilty feeling
against which she so sullenly rebelled.
She was uneasy during all the after
| noon, and yet she was conscious of an
added delicious thrill in her relations
with Harry-a thrill that first tingled
pleasantly through all her veins, then
struck her heart numb with vague cul-
| pability. In due course she came to
transfer the emotion from the circum-
stance TO the man. She experienced
the same thrill, the same numb Gull
| pability, at the sight of his figure ap-
preaching her on the street
This tendency was emphasized, rer-
| haps, by the fact that their walks to-
gether-projected so suddenly, under
taken with so strong a feeling Of
blame on her part-consisted always
| of continual skirmishes as to whether
| or not Cheyenne Harry should kiss
| her. The interest of the argument
| NV he Ga.
! girl wanted him to do So This he
! was never allowed for a moment to
suspect-in fact, by all means in her
| power she gave him to understand
| quite the contrary, but he could not help
| feeling subtly the sub conscious en-
couragement, and so grew always the
| more insiStent. She held him off Ie-
cause her instincts had told her the
! act would cheaper her. Molly always
| obeyed her instincts. They were strong
! insistent, not to be- denied They came
! to her suddenly with a great convlc-
| ton of truth which she never dreamed
! of questioning. Among other things.
| they taught her that without love each
! KISS adds to the womans regard for
! the man, but takes away from his
desire for her
! Cheyenne Harry used all his arts
! He tried force only once, for he found
! II unsatisfactory and productive az
| most dlSdgreeable results. Diplomacy
! and argument in themselves az eclec-
tics, contained much OF the Joy Of de-
! bate. The arguments In such f.as.s
were always deliciously ingenious.
| Now. what harm IL there In nv
urged. ~
There just Is. that's all"
I'm have IL around you when we
! dance"
That's different. ,t.,,.,s .,-,-.
| then" '''N'
IT'S just "A question u people. then -,
/ Il spoae So"
WIN you iet me pat my arm around
you tonight ln the Little Nugget ~
"Df course not "
! snt there's people there" frluupb-
! antly. Nov, what's hsrn7 gra AZ
ferent with un ~ o0u7aa. vol otgbs
nor 70 lei any ono else. but were
i different"
They were sitting near together ana
ali fhis lime che Westernera ann W.
] moving inch ~ inch along ~ ,ors
behind Molly A. be- talked ~ ,iasrea
hsr haifi. glnReriY o. order M Ill
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