The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-01-12

"Of course, since you pronlpM cisa'
rettes-"
They're nasty thiEgs indoors. MY
hair smells of smoke an hour after
wards"
whats a fellow to do? Either
have to sit still and fidget with my
hands, or else pace the room-and
that makes you nervous. No wonder
| can't converse Who could?"
And you sit -stiff-necked in an I'M
comfortable chair and soliloquize
about uninteresting things. What do
I care about business ventures, wise
or otherwise? oh, those soliloquies!
Your name might be Hamlet instead
of Hal. You are impossible. Go
home. It's IL, anyway"
1.-TWO hours since l smoked"
"Brute!"
Goodnight, them" He extended
4 formal hand.
mo, l can't let you go, after all,
she replied; mot like that. Why DO
we always end up like Beatrice and
Bendick?'
I'VE don't" retorted Hal. "They
ended up by marrying each other.
Yet we are fond of each other, Mona,
aren't WEI"
In a way" Then she added sud-
denly: Hal, have an idea. l think
that I could stand you better out OF
doors. Take me for a walk"
"When?"
Twill Saturday do?"
"At three o'clock?"
"All right. Come for me In old
clothes, and take me out Of the New
York that bothers us. I'm good for q
real tramp, you know"
You won't get tired and wish that
you were homer"
do look like that?"
The question answered itself. Sne
was tall, well-made and strong.
How about the Palisades?" said
Hal.
Fine! I've never been there. And
oh, the Joy of it," she added. I'VE
: shan't have to talk at all"
Mona met him at the door on Sat
urday. She was dressed wisely in
: short skirt, a plain waist, and LITTLE
comfortable jacket. Il suppose II
have to wear a hat and gloves sh'
said, until we get across the river
u But once really out of doors-heigh
: for comfort"
q 1t was a great day for Q tramp
i They crossed the Hudson on the Fol
= Lee ferry boat. The domes OF Morr
: ingside stood bright above the cit
: they were leaving. There were bu
few clouds gathered low along tn
west; otherwise the sky was clea
IL and scarcely moist and it dwindle
e away in smoky mist far down tn
" river.
4, Mona was light-hearted and Ugh
e, limbed when they reached the otht
T. shore. She scorned to climb the eli
N by the serpentine road, and struc
q. up over a little pathway betwee
:. rocks instead. She was not the so
- of a girl whose arm man would tai
u tn help her over nothing at all H
IS, followed mutely, In delight at h
8. agility. It was he who was breathle
ct when they reached the top; he hs
e. grown a little heavy since his foe
es ball da. }.
~ There was q road or two In sigf
:. with a tagging of suburban sidewail
" hut they were seeking cure I
ie- civilization, and set out north a.
10 west athwart the woods.
by The sunlight sifted through tangl
a branches and splashed here and the
of slender trunks on every side.
IN At last these pedestrians broke
upon a falling valley, with little la
Ne river far below. They paused; Mo
as sat upon the ground. with her he
In propped against a tree trunk, VIII
nd Hal sprawled cumbersome va
as away.
for Light your pipe"
ild Really"
,tb Between puffs sentence came m
Hal. a"This beats your drawing-ro
=" all out. doesn't IT? We're really &C
ms Portable at last!"
or "Ouite," said Mona. digging wei
It." With a little stick. Il thought
nes mould ike you out Of doors"
to New York makes deuced dill
ence, doesn't it,"
Eyes. we don't live In town; we
at through forms as in mummery.'
hen They didn't talk much after Il
but sat listening to things and see
them.
ma After awhile they started up ae
or eastward this time, vaguely
his search of the heights above the Il
the son. They had a pleasant sense
tier being lost and steering by the
nsi. until it went under clouds and be
,,ad them of all guidance but that OF n
inc. instinct.
90 There was low mutter OF thun