Okolona messenger., 1908-07-08
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Al TANDEM


''No?r
mo; 1t would not 1t would be at
home safe in the shed In which keep
a."
This would not do. The cOnversa-
zion was taking personal turn. Miss
McCurdy decided to change the sub
sect.
Il have had so little experience In
underwriting" she said, that didn't
know This is beautiful landscape,
liant it?"
Il haven't been looking at the land
scape."
This also had an alarmingly per-
aonai bearing, and she hastily put one
hand to her back hair to ascertain
whether or not anything was loose.
ITS all right volunteered the
young man And your hats on per
fectly straight"
mo; he hasn't been looking at the
landscape, mentally decided Miss
Gwendoline McCurdy.
"Her cheeks look like roses" said
young Spoonamore to himself. And,
by George, she is stunner!" he
added, with the feryor of a discoyerer
upon whom great truth has just
dawned.
You ought not to miss this view
Mr., Sroonamore. Looking at the
grand sweep of that
I'm not missing anything | have
to keep an eye on the road, you know!
How can you dc it? Am leaning
too much on one side?"
Not at all You are sitting beauti
fully"
Il don't seem to be doing any of
the work. Aren't you getting tired|'
Tired? | could .eep on riding this
way forever!"
Absurd"
''Wen, I'll make it year. That's
coming down good deal"
"Oh, what's that?'
Nothing but fly Don't be fright
ened. brushed it off your shoulder
I'm not afraid bit. Was 1t large?"
mot large but unpardonably pre-
Sumptuous. 1t was making for your
neck"
They pedaled in silence for few
minutes, and then she said:
Wasn't it risky to take one OF your
hands off the handle bars?"
Risky? Ny dear girl! could ride
&atXwtE foA-"
year,"
Nov you're smiling"
You are not watching the road
closely enough. We came near run
ming over that big stone"
Il saw 1t. Didn't you notice that
we tUwed out just In time to avoid
It?"
II saw that we missed 1t by just
hairs breadth. II thought you
must have taken one hand off the bar
again"
The young man drew his breath
hard
"Mr, Spoonamore, you are getting
tired!"
"Awfully tired haven't seen your
eyes for Is minutes"
On second thoughts Miss McCurdy
concluded not to propose stopping to
rest. 1t would serve him right to make
him work hard for the next two hours,
to pay for that speech. And yet
Miss Gwendoline!"
~'Well?"
do you see that house of to the
left on the other side of this orchard?"
He went on with some rambling. un-
important recollection about that
house.
He merely wanted to see whether
her left cheek had turned as red as
the right one.
1t had.
They passed under great hawthorn
= with double pink blossom, stand
'tish. t inside the fence, and with a
hs jUs upward reach young Spoona-
OxterouA OF spray of bloom.
more pNllcN IS that?'
'Oh! Wha, this time. It's a clus-
at isn't nS 7oms. l am about to
or OF pink blosA putting it In your
AXE the liberty o.
hair-"
upon my word" ornament.
mot for purposes q Auss / love
beg YOU to believe, but beN, these on
sowers too; and, having en- ,und q
A their early bloom, feeS = after.
zee that they enter happy NSHA
Hold still
"How can /? ! have to keep IN. !
pedals moving, don't II"
eyes; but you don't have TO m0v
vour head just yet. There! the e.
iart a beautiful You have no ioe~
.,nw Il sets the flowers of. Do you
Tes hat country church-spire over
shere on the right?"
No. she did not see 1t. She suspect
IA and she looked straight ahead.
Whereupon the young man tried =
xet 4 glance at her profile. II
.lswendolinel" he whispered, close
20 her ear
h At this thrilling moment tne Ma'
chlne. left practically to its own guluT
ance. ran into rut-
Ana spoiled one Of the most promls
tar romances Of the year.
81. young people, let this be soF
ann warning! A
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