Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-19

Just sleep right on she gently urged.
Il often sleep for hours on hot after
moons in this very place"
How did you come here?" he demand
ed. sitting UP. startled.
Il hunted you" she confessed with a
delighted little laugh. I'm glad you re
awake at last and don't want to sleep any
more. felt just sure that your eyes were
blue. And they are.'
Her delight at this fact was so obvious
that he felt uneasy.
You see. listened outside the window
while Aunt Matte told Aunts Ann and
went on. Aunt Sarah and Aunt Ann
were for telephoning for the sheriff any
how, but Aunt Matte wouldn't let them.
She likes you. So do u
OH said the astonished young man.
For the first time in his life conversation
had failed him.
'Of course said the girl simply well.
l waited until they all lay down for their
after-dinner mans. and climbed out of my
window so as not to disturb them. They
do enjoy their maps much, you know.
didn't find you at the pool. but l just
hunted until l did 'find you. I've been
sitting here a long time watching you.
You look so nice when you are asleep
Now what should he say? With any or
binary girl he could have found the an
swer, but this one had him fioOred.
But you look ever so much nicer when
you are awake she further informed
him, with a clear-eyed straightforward
ness that was worse than disconcerting.
In desperation he answered, with her own
frankneSS, that she was nice looking her.
self. He meant it, too.
I'm so glad you think So she con-
tentedy sighed. Il just knew we should
like each other soon as ! saw you
lying there asleep"
1t was he who blushed. not the girl.
She partly raised up to recapture her
hazel branch. and when she sat GOWN
-I>~ It,
touching his arm. An electric thrill ran
through him and tingled out at his fin
ger-tips, but he never moved a muscle.
She looked up at him in peaceful happi-
ness and he somehow felt very mean and
unworthy. Her eyes made him uncom-
Portable. The whole trouble was that she
was so homestead never been taught to
conceal her thoughts by the thousand and
one spoken and unspoken lies of ordinary
social intercourse. She was neither timid
nor bold but merely natural with never
a suspicion that cOnventonality demand-
ed man and maid to leave Il mutual
liking unconfcssed. 1t was rather rough
on the young man. He not used to
having the truth fly around in such reck-
less fashion in his cOnvcrsat items with
girls, and II bothered him.
I'm not a bit afraid of YOU she pres
emily told him. Il knew all the time that
Aunt Matte was wrong. She told me
that all men were dreadful, and that the
first thing they did was toto kiss a girl
they liked"
She knows nothing about it, he re-
piled rather GROSSLY. For some unaccount
able reason he was angry with himself
and with her.
Indeed she doesn't" she agreed. eye
ing him thoughtfully. Presently she ad-
ded: II do not believe, tho" that 81
should have minded it SO much If she had
been right"
Shade of Plato! He looked down at the
tempting curve of her red lips They
were round and full and soft as the petals
of a half blown rosebud. warm and tender
and sweet. with Just the cast trace of
pickering to indicate how they could
meet the pressure of other lips. He felt
his heart come pounding up into the re-
gion of his Adams apple. ard he trem-
bled as he had not done since his first at
tack of puppy love at the age of four
teen. His breath came and went with a
painful fiutter. but he made no move
ment. If II had been any other sort of
girl under the sun, especially If so attrac-
tive as this one, she would have been
kissed until she gasped for breath; but he
just couldn't do it, However. IL she went
George! he didn't see how he was to get
out of ii.
Il should really like to kiss you. he
admitted with a martyr-like sigh and IA
further echo of her own frankness. but
] shant. Under the circumstances II
would not be right"
He reflected, grinninG, that mother