The Elbert County tribune., 1908-06-25

| mol" SeHy answered, puzzled. my
Sunday coat would git creased"
my sleeve did!"
She inspected soiled sleeve-in
the ray from the hall--which had no
spot on I'll
81 don't care for the sleeve. It'll
wash out. But Sam-he sees
every"
She laughed and was about to
plunge recklessly back into his arms.
| But her hair was beautiful! And she
had made 1t more SO for him. He
must see 1t. She plunged further into
the ray from the hall lamp instead and
flung 1t forward about her face. 1t
clung and clustered there like an
aureole Seffy. In his brief life, he
thought, had seen nothing more d.
vine. She looked sauciIy up at him
out of the tops of her eyes. His sdora
tion made her very happy.
"There amt that nicer than
yourn?" She buried her fingers In the
splendid mass. and pushed 1t into
further disorder until 1t lay close
shining about her face.
"Oh. Sally" said Seffy, approaching
wear 1t that way always."
The alien thing was gone, They
were In rapport once moreI
They'd have me in an asylum in
no time. But"
Somehow, Seffy's arms opened to
invite her back and she came with
low reckless laugh. The wild sheaf OF
her hair lodged again close under his
chin. He rccklessly thrust his face
into it. Its perfume in his nostrils
and its movement against his skin
were ineffable. He kissed It, Again
1t was the strange fashion Of the
cavalier-in those kissesl Whers did
he learn 1t?
"Oh, Sally, wear it always SOL he
begged again. And-good heavens
he put his lips down upon it once
more,
Just when you come to see me-"
murmured Sally to the lapel Of his
coat
"sally-sally, you are an angel"
said Seffy.
And this one little word which came
to dull Seffy so happily out of his IA
yorite song made the coquette very
serious.
she said with her head a little down.
Il don't think you would like me to be
such. I'm not! Angels never laugh,
you know-nor love. And I want to
do lot of both. But-but-Seffy, I'd
like to be something very nice-to
you. What is the incest thing a girl
can be to your"
"a sister!" ventured Seffy, who had
never had one.
Sally shivered, then laughed But
she took herself away from Seffy
The Pressed temper famed q mo-
ment, and certain words began to form
in her mind like "Fooli" and Col"
and Damn" For, / think l haven't
told you that Sally sometimes swore-
In extreme circumstances. Her father
had done SO.
She spoke with that trife of hard
brutality which came out now and
then.
You know what they say at the
store-that l flirt and am not nice in
other ways, and they're right But l
do want to be nice to you, though not
a sister-Quite. Ugh! And, you
know, one thing they say is true-my
temper. Look out for that! You must
always take time to forgive me and let
me ask to be forgiven
Now, beg to ask you whether an
amende was ever more delicious-con-
sidering that much of what she said
to and for Seffy was meant to and for
herself alone? Indeed. before she got
through with it, it had affected her
quite as II Seffy had pleaded it, and
her voice sank to its pretty mezzo,
then quivered bit. and she under
stood that was answering herself:
"Seffy, l am awfully sorry!"
For what. Sally?" asked Seffy.
Seffy. dull Seffy, really did not know
which God gives the dull, as well as
the sprightly witted, that outleaps
words to comfort sorrow. And this
Seffy had abundantly 1t first ex-
pressed itself in the strong young arms
which again closed in utter silence
upon the sorrowing one.
Presently (perhaps you have not
forgotten how 1t is?) in the same ST.
lence, Seffy's lips found hers-not as
the victor pounces upon the spoil of
his conquest-but slowly, uncertainty
unconfidently-as II the lips were a
saints relics; and Sally waited, not
as she had waited before, but in the
knowledge that her hour had come,
and that this hss-the first this youth
had given to woman since his moth.rs
died in his infancy-must not b., re-
ceived as others had been, but as sa-
credly as 1t came; and when it finally
fell the lips of the coquette quivered
as they received it, and then suddenly
sobbed, and did not know why
| Do you?
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