Smyrna times., 1905-05-17
By Lowell Otus Reese

most unique.
High up on the canyon wall was a
.oot shaded by live oak. For a
q ,oontb it had been my custom to sit
rron this rock through the warmest
Il Dort of the day sketching. 1 had es-
y tohIisbed possession by right of pre-
b emption.
So # came in the nature of a shock
rben l climbed to my usual vantage
4 no,nt and found ensconced in my ia
n rorIte position on my rock a girl.
4 was indignant, also disappointed.
n +, felt much as Izaak Walton might
have felt when he found an interloper
ssbng his favorite pool. This was a
most presumptuous young person.
Y "Ahemw l remarked.
u She half turned and made a slight
& bow.
4 "The view is something tremendous
from here" observed further.
"Very," she agreed.
81 come here every day." painted as
a sat down conventiOnally near. 'I
4 have done so for month"
II "Oh, perhaps you would rather T.
& "By no meansy 1 exclaimed. THE
u view is much better
n She froze me; then she laughed. We
we're friends by the divine instinct
y which tells unerringly whom we are
going to like or hate.
Twas glad she had jumped my claim,
y for she was very pretty, and her eyes
q we're the kind that send a thrill
4 through your whole being, and you
4 wonder if you are going to live through
It
n That was the first day.
1t was three days after.
"Why didn't you wait Cor meT l
asked as l climbed over the rock and
threw myself down beside her.
She opened her brown eyes wide in
wonderful assumption of surprise.
"How did l know you were coming?"
n she asked.
Twas amazed at the nerve of her. AS
though l could have kept away! AS
4 though the combined police forces of
D 4 two continents could have kept me
: n away! This girl must be disciplined.
E u "Of course you know" l said conf
/ A dently.
& She looked at me and felt my heart
turn to water. Still persisted, where
awise man would have turned the con-
versation swiftly to the weather or the
view. You knew I'd been coming ev-
ery day for q month. You knew l usu-
ally came up about this time. You
knew-then why didn't you allow me
to accompany YOU
n She rose. "I'm not coming any more, ''
J she said.
Isprang to my feet in fright. "Don't!
pleaded. "I want you to stay! r.
She kept her face averted, though
could see that her cheeks were hot and
flushed. "Goodby," she said, and was
gone.
The sun suddenly turned to ink
Where a moment before had been
bright scene spreading away below m'
h was bowling wilderness, and l wa'
tempted to jump off the rock and but
my empty head against the river be-
800 feet below. ionged to be a bo!
SO again that might go down and figh
, the first kid ran across.
This was the second day.
The next Saturday night there was
quiet dance in the assembly room
this famous resort between the hig
90 walls of the Matilda canyon. saw m
-" chance to redeem myself. | woul
dance with her and make my peac
Il while she was so close she would b
compelled to listen, for all the week sh
had seemed unaware of my existence.
lS,N 1t was an Informal affair-a countr
dance. sans cards and ceremony. al
preached the group where Miss VIII
ston was chatting brightly with a go
stocking Englishnlan and Bosto
IA magnate Miss Winston saw me con
NJ mg-I knew she did. She locke
vs. through and beyond-far beyond me.
ielt like a perambulating piece Of tn
glass which a breath of hers migl
lpQ 3 shatter.
piE | stopped suddenly. OF course tn
was it! We had not been proper
Del presented" What a chump ] was.
sought diligently for Bobby Jelinsl
HO hHeW everybody. ulun nlu III
Inc band struck up, and l saw her
ending away with the Englishman
MS golf stockings flashing among t
rio" uancers like two variegated come
running amuck along the heavens of
bright night.
= ana this was my luck all throu
ue evening. Try as l would. / got
.RS, eahce from her. l managed to say
Jew words while she was waiting
I. ner mother, who was struggling W
pr mexican mantilla. gathered that
was fine night and that she had
PD yOyed her dance immensely, and, y
california moonlight was far super
~ %anything she had ever seen, and Il
sue was gone, with the Englishn
Pompously escorting her.
What's the matter with you a
@ayF demanded Bobby Jelinski, v
ne eleventh hour had presen
n Bobby" said savagely, "will .