Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-15
II vVO ON
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Are you sure II doesn't make Il 80
any harder?
What DOESN'T"
Y my being Oh this front saddle"
III you weren't On that front saddle
4 give you my word this tandem
wouldn't be going at all"
Nor"
mo; ii would not, 1t would Be AZ
home safe In the shed In which ! keep
it.''
This would not do. The ConveFna-
tICn was taking personal turn. Miss
McCurdy decided to change the sub
tect
II have had 20 little experience In
tandem-riding," she said. that didn't
know. This ID ! beautiful landscape.
isn't it?,"'
II haven't been looking At the land
scape."
This also had an alarmingly per.
sonal bearing. and she hastily put one
hand to her back hair to J 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.
sHer cheeks look like roses" said
young Spoonamore to himself. And,
by George! she 10 a stunner!" he
added, with the fervor OF discoverer
upon whom great truth has just
dawned.
"You ought not to miss this view,
Mr.. Spoonamore. 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 do 1t? Am leaning
too much on one side?"
mot at all. You are sitting beauti-
fully"
Il don't seem to BE- doing any Of
the work. Aren't you getting tiredF
"Tired? could keep on riding this
way forever"
"Absurdi''
well, I'll make 1t q year. That's
coming down good deal"
"Oh. what's thatf"
Nothing but d ny. Don't be fright
ened. brushed 1t on your shoulder"
'T'm mot afraid bit. Was It Target"
Not large, but unpardonably pre-
sumptuous. It was making for your
neck"
They pedaled In silence for = few
minutes, and then she said:
Wasn't 1t risky to take one OF your
hands on the handle bars?'
Risky? NY dear girl! could ride
that way for"
For year," !.
Nov you're smiling"
''You are not watching the road
closely enough. We came near run
ming over that big stone"
Il saw It Didn't you notice that
we turned out just in time to avoid
1T"
Il saw that we missed it BY just
hairs breadth. IL thought you
must have taken one hand OF 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!"
'sWellgp
'.Do you see that house on to the
left on the other side Of this orchard?'
He went on with some rambling. I'M
important recollection about that
house.
He merely wanted to see whether
her left cheek had turned as red ~
the right one.
II had.
They passed under a great hawthorn
bush, with double pink blossom, stand
ing just inside the fence, and with
dexterous upward reach young 6poonAr
more pulled Oh spray Of bloom.
ooh! What's that"
1T isn't fiy this time. It's 4 clae-
ter OF pink blossoms. / am about to y
take the liberty ok putting It IN your
hair
Upon my wordl" n
mot for purposes Of ornament,
beg You to believe. but because ! love
lowers, too; and, having cut these OK
iii their early bloom, ! feel bound to
zee that they enter 4 happy hereafter.
Hold Still
How can ~ have to Keep my
pedals moving, don't I?.
Eyes; but you don't have TO more
your head just vet There! The u.
feet ii beautiful. You have no idea
how il sets the flowers IN DO yOu
see that country church-spire over
there Oh the Tight9.
No. she did not rec III She suspect.
ed, and she looked straight ahead
Whereupon the young man tried ~
Eet glance at her profile.
.Gwendoline! Ne whispered. clone