The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-23

admire. SO to speak? Something that
we both feel an interest in?"
The Stony Lady shut her lips firmly
and opened them just enough to say:
Now you are going to be silly.
THAT is what she means. Willy,
wilkins said. TRY TO think of some
| thing we both adore"
Willy thought deeply.
From where l am sitting" he said
at length, my eyes are looking
straight at the back of one thing that
Wilkins and l desire. 1 can't see its
face, because it is looking angrily at
the back of the cab into which VIII
kins will bump in a moment or two.
But can see its hair, one golden lock
of which, like a sunbeam escaped from
prison"
The Stony Lady's hand quickly
touched the hair at the back of her
head.
IT'S not true" she said, land you
! two are ungallant to attack me when
you know 1 can't Jump out of this
car It is taking a mean advantage.
, You never get me alone but you poster
me with"
well. Them said Willy cheerfully
why don't you marry one or the 9TH
er of us and get rid of us? We have
asked you often enough. At least 1
| have"
Me. too" said wilkins. How does
the account stand now? Is Willy ahead
or are weSeven?"
1.-The reason, or one reason, that
don't put you out of your misery"
said the Stony Lady with serious
ness that meant either that she was
deeply In earnest or not at all in earn
| est, lis that you don't either of you
really know what you want or why
L -
| and you will never be anything else.
| When 1 marry 1 shall choose a strong.
forceful man, who has some reason
for living, and who will want me be-
| cause am needed to fill out his life.
1 hate to be wooed as if l were a toy
you would rather like. to have, but
that you could joke about if you did
not secure
wilkins glanced at her face and jerk
ed his lever quickly. causing the car
to swing recklessly around a slow go
ing wagon into the park entrance. The
Stony Lady swayed against him.
Pardon" he said, but the fun had
left his eyes and he drove his car ahead
at greater speed.
you two remind me of children,
nothing more" said the Stony Lady.
Did you ever hear a baby awaken in
the night and cry and cry and cry for
a drink, after it had been given drinks
and drinks and drinks? All babies are
that way. They all want things they
don't need and oughtn't to have. You
two are the same. You cry for me as
if / were a drink. You simply haven't
anything else to cry for, so you cry for
me-"
Willy was leaning forward to catch
her words.
IF you got me-" she continued, you
wouldn't be pleased. You wouldn't
care for me. I wouldn't satisfy you, be-
cause there is nothing N you to salts
fly. You would still cry for other
things you don't want"
81 admit the logic" said Willy, "but
object TO its application. Can't speak
for wilkins. but l should never cry
again. I'd forever coo blissfully."
Wilkins said nothing. He was thread
ing his way in and out among the car
riages in the park, and II may have
been that this required all his atten-
ton.
The Stony Lady had been courted in
this light and airy manner by these
two for more months than I dare tell
you, and by Willy longer than by VIII
kins. The Stony Lady had aided and
abetted WHY'S nonsense. Everybody
did. Thus, through his airy love max
ing, she had come to treat both men
lightly and had adopted a tone of fri
volity in fighting their advances.
This vein of seriousness in the Stony
. Lady was new. 1t made wilkins fee
that he had been making a free foo
of himself. He had been using fire.
works instead of thirteen-inch shells
He had not quite appreciated the Stony
, Lady.
AS the car darted from the upper en-
trance of the park into the broad path
| of Seventh avenue, Willy was still
chattering gayly, as much TO himself
as to Wilkins and the Stony Lady, fol-
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lence Wilkins was pushing the car Il