The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-01-16
BY CLAYTON HAMILTON


Two hours since | smoked
Brute
Goodnight. then,' He extended
a formal hand
no, cant let you go, after all
she replied; not like that Why do
we always end up like Beatrice and
Bendick
We don't" retorted Hal They
ended up by marrying each other,
Yet we are fond of each other, Mona,
aren't WEI"
In way Then she added sud
denly: Hal | have an idea. | think
that | could stand you better out OF
doors Take me for walk"
"When?"
win 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
real tramp, you know"
You won't get tired and wish that
you were home2'
DO / look like that?'
The question answered itself She
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. we
shant 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 III
have to wear a hat and gloves, she
| said until we get across the river
! Bat once really out Of doors-heigho
for comfort
| It Was a great day for a tramp
| They crossed the Hudson on the Fort
! Lee ferry boat The domes OF Morn
ingside stood bright above the city
they were leaving. There were but
a few clouds gathered low along the
west: otherwise the sky was clear,
and scarcely moist and it dwindled
| away in smoky mist far down the
river,
Mona was light-hearted and light
limbed when they reached the other
shore. She scorned TO climb the Gin
by the serpentine road, and struck
nm over q little pathway between
trocks instead. She was not the sort
of a girl whose arm man would take
10 helm her over nothing at all Hal
followed mutely, in delight at her
agility. 1t was he who was GREATNESS
| when thew reached the top; he had
grown a little heavy since his foot
ball da. s.
There was a road or two in sight
with a Tagging of suburban sidewalk
hut they were seeking a cure for
civilization, and set ont north ana
west athwaIt the woods
The sunlight sifted through tangled
branches and splashed here and there
unon the ground. There was a lace
of slender trunks on every side.
AT last these pedestrians broke out
upon a falling valley with a little lazy
liver far below. They paused; Mona
sat upon the ground, with her head
Dropped against a tree trunk, while
| Hal sprawled cumbersome yard
away.
Light your pipe
Really
Between puffs a sentence came from
Hal This beats your drawing-room
| all out, doesa't Il? We're really com
for,able at ,ast,'
Quite" said Mona digging weeds
with little stick. 81 thought J
shouId like you ont of doors
New. York. makes a deuced differ
ence. doesn't it,
Yes, we don't live in town; we go
through forms as in a mummary.
They didn't talk much after that,
INIT sat listening to things and seeing
them.
After awhile they started MP again
: eastward this time. vaguely III
search OF the heights above the HUI
son. They had pleasant sense OF
being lost and steering By the sun
until /, went under clouds and bereit
tbem Of all guidance bat that Of mere
q instinct.
There was Il low mutter of thunder
ont OF the west It rolled nearer ana
nearer 10 them until ii seemed about
70 broak behind them They had Just
coached the brow of the Palisades
when the storm-clouds overlook them
A few ing drops pclie1 down upon The
ioayas. then viad-oiown sheet ol
ain dung itself sla1tVise upon the
d / forest.
Are YOU very wet?' asked Hal
yes; are ou:
"Soarfnr- 10 rna rindE
moi hill sAe said
you're brick. Mona, any o'lei
. Girl would bother aboug her clothes
And ans ether man would be
/ absurd and lussy-I guess were a
3 light
/ By Tire tsne Tho storm had spent its
The persistent man usually wins
/ ErI.srkEH IN