The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-19

| He was shamsd through all his being l of the weakness to which hc had suc- | cumbed and when he did meet her in | turn of the bank he raised his hat
 mookinsly. Good afternoon" he said saIeastically. You came too late." The sunlight flashed on her glasses as she turned. Good afternoon" she re- Tiled. Her tone spoke protest against
 his manner. and she briskly resumed her walk. Garston stared. This was flesh and blood. Everything he had heard or read about hypnotism came upon him in confusion and then the trrlll ran through his nerves and he
 felt her close to him again. After forty hours tf solitude it was delicious and
 Garston surrendered himself wholly to
 the sensation. Not until she left him did he remember how he had stupidly allowed her to leave him boldly. Why
 hadn't he followed her?
 Half way up the slope he caught sieht of her coming back What a sweet vision she made outlined. slender and dainty. against the darksning woods He drew back and let her pass and followed on to their common board ing house. An. he would have chance to investigate this singular ex- perierce.
 Investigate" Ills soul laughed at his stupid mind. Investigator"
 The girl in tho lasso glasses was al- ready seated when Garston came in to the sundown supper. He promptly put aside the man who was about to take the seat next to her and sat down.
 Hello. Garston! That your seat?" said the busted man.
 Hello, Laresl Yes, I always sit next" Then he said abruptly to the man opposite that tarpon could swim eighty miles an hour. While the man was denying this statement Garston slipped his hand into the girls lap, turned her left palm up within his own and ran his thumb caressingly over her third finger. It was a bare finger and he fell to piling up authorities to prove his assertion. The lens in lasso eye glasses are said to be particularly fine, so perhaps the girl looking through them saw more than pair of tired eyes set in a strong, clean face when she turned to look at the man beside her. She cheerfully made the best meal she could with one hand. she even smiled at the savage earnestness with which he maintained the speed of the tarpon. It did not surprise her that he should follow her when she left the supper roorn. but she was not ready for his direct opening:
 See here" he said seriously. this cant go on any longer. I've got to have talk with you"
 'oh, it isn't necessary she inter pos ed.
 The plague about lasso glasses is," Ee told her, that you never have to take them off and they won't fall off ' And without further preface he gave her his experience of the past week Tt Is natural enough all but why I should have seen you in the first in- 
 oh, I mistook your door for my orother's."
 T hen did see you--Ah-hl and | you have been thinking about me? | And-piease be honest--haven't you | felt me near you when was thinking | lbout you? Ani''
 "Oh. please, pie lse. this kind of talk makes me nervous"
 Tt is all right. then" Garston said | rrelevantly. You see there are a | great many things about life that we | an never understand, but we--know--' He took off her glasses and looked deep nto her eyes. They were violet and snt 1t Tacitus who says. "of all our n battle?"