The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-02-13
Copyrighr 1905 by Bobbs-Merriil Co.
cHAPTER xii.-continued.

They're hideous,-perfectly hide
ous."
Where is your homer" l demanded
Chicago, Louisville, Indianapolis, Gin
cfnnati, perhaps?"
sHumph, you are dull! You ought
to know from my accent that I'm not
from Chicago. And | hope l haven't
a Kentucky girls air of waiting to be
BATTERED to death. And no Indianapo-
\, lis girl would talk to a strange man at
( the edge of deep wood in the gray
J twilight of a winter day,-that's from
a book; and the Cincinnati girl is with
out my elan, esprit,-whatever you
please to call It. She has more Teu-
tonic repose,-more Gretchen of the
Rhine valley about her Don't you
adore French Squire Glenarm?" she
y concluded, breathlessly, and with no
q pause In her quick step.
II adore yours, Miss Armstrong" l
asserted, yielding myself further to the
Joy of idiocy and delighting in the
VI mOckery and whimsical moods of her
l talk. / did not make her out; indeed,
ba preferred not to! l was not them
4 and am not now, thank God!-of an
analytical turn of mind. And as !
nj grow older / prefer even after many a
Il blow, to take my fellow human beings
as find them. And as for women, old
or young, envy no man his gift of re.
er solving them into elements. AS well
Id carry a spray of arbutus to the labor
en- atory or subject the enchantment of
hu moonlight upon running water to the
flame and blow-pipe as try to analyze
- the heart of girl, particularly girl
M who paddles a canoe with a sure stroke
-, and puts up a good race with a rabbit.
4. A lamp shone ahead of us at the en-
!. trance of one of the houses, and lights
appeared in all the buildings.
y. IF knew your window | should Ger
~ tainly sing Under it,-except that
u" you're going home! You didn't tell me
why they were deporting you"
u@ I'm really ashamed to! You would
tha never"
NV friend!' l insisted. feeling more like
npA an idiot every minute.
We'll, don't tell! But they caught
me hirting-with the grocery boy!
le y w aren't you disgusted!"
Thoroughly l can't believe it!
,res Why, you'd lot better fiirt with me-"
INIT suggested boldly.
leas Well, I'm to be sent away for good
ith at Christmas. I may come back then
or II / can square myself. My! That's
J. slang, --isn't 1t adorable?"
ID THE Sisters don't like slang, sup
t Dpose?"
you know who she is!-she spies on us
liyesand tells"
es You don't say so; but I'm not sur
ron. prised at her! I've heard about her!"
a II declared bitterly.
yuE We had reached the door, and ex-
Sea pected her to fly; but she fingered.
n Vi, "Oh, if you know her Perhaps
g.you'rea spy, too! It's just as well we
ict. should never meet again, Mr.. Glen
n arm" she declared haughtily.
:, THE memory of these few meetings
will always linger with me, Miss Arm
strong" l returned in an imitation of
Lylher own tone.
Du 4 shall scorn to remember you'll
hland abe folded her arms under the
IN cloak PRACTICALLY.
lg "Our meetings have been all to few
ION Miss armstrong. Two, exactly, l be-
forrlievet"
'unl Then you prefer to ignore the first
inn time ! ever saw you," she said, her
,elCShand on the door.
Out there in your canoe? Never.
MdAnd you've forgiven me for overhear-
deIying you and the chaplain on the wall
vtpleaBel"
tive She grasped the knob of the door
er and paused an instant as though pom
asdering.
emf Il make it three times, without that
one, and not counting once in the road
y, and other times when you didn't know,
- Squire Glenarm! I'm a foolish little
~ girl to have remembered the first.
a.n see now how blind / have been
~ Good-by!"
IL She opened and closed the door soft
nm' ly, and l heard her running up the
enc steps within.
ran back to the chapel roundly
as abusing myself for having neglected
Bamy more serious affairs for a bit OF
} DCsilly talk with a school girl, fearful
ctSlest the openings | had left at both
CIV ciiuo VI tHS pdoSdSe SnOulu nave Deen
oWdiscovered. Near the chapel l mar
Ndrowly escaped running into Stoddard,
but slipped past him, found my
at Glantern, pulled the hidden door into
d bplace, and, traversing the tunnel with
Lealout Incident, soon climbed through the
It Shatchway and slammed the false block
at securely into the opening.
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