Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-06-26

moved away. Malos should not caVl
even at oiled hair-so early in theil
courtship! More fascination was
needed-perhaps only soft cooins
word.
."You-you wouldn't like that
would you?'-still meekly.
mol" Seffy answered, puzzled. MY
Sunday coat would git creased"
my sleeve did,"
She inspected a soiled sleeve-in
the ray from the hall-which had nc
spot on It!
Il don't care for the sleeve. It'll
wash out. But Sam-he sees
every"
She laughed and was about tC
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 it forward about her face. II
clung and clustered there like an
aureole. Seffy. in his brief life. he
thought, had seen nothing more di
vine. She looked saucily up at him
out Of the tops of her eyes. His adora
ton made her very happy.
''There! amt that nicer than
yourn?" She buried her fingers In the
splendid mass, and pushed it into
further disorder until 1t lay close
shining about her face.
"Oh. Sally" said Seffy. approaching
her as II she were some goddess
wear 1t that way always"
The alien thing was Tbop
were In rapport once more!
They'd have me in an asylum in
no time. But"
Somehow, Seffy's arms opened tc
invite her back and she came with a
low reckless laugh, The wild sheaf OF
her hair lodged again close under his
chin. He recklessly thrust his face
into 1t. Its perfume In his nostrils
and its movement against his skin
were ineffable. He kissed 1t. Again
1t was the strange fashion Of the
cavalier-in those kisses. Where did
he learn It?
''Oh. Sally. wear 1t always so!" he
begged again. And-good heavens.-
he put his lips down upon 1t 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
vorite song made the coquette very
serious.
Not an angel. Seffy. Sef-Seffy.'
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 l want tc
do a lot OF both. But-but-Seffy, I'd
like to be something very nice-tc
you. What II the incest thing a cir
can be to your"
"A sister!" ventured Seny. who hat
never had one.
Sally shivered. then laughed. Blu
she took herself away from SefYy.
The Pressed temper famed mo
ment. and certain words began to form
in her mind like Fool" and "Go!'
and Damn" For. l think haven
told you that Sally sometimes swore-
in extreme circumstances. Her fathel
had done SO.
She spoke with that trihe OF hare
brutality which came out now ant
then.
You know what they say at tn,
store-that fiirt and am not nice IL
other ways. and they're right. But
do want to be nice to you. though no
sister-quite. Ugh! And. yol
know. one thing they say is true-m,
temper. Look out for that! You mus
always take time to forgive me and LEI
me ask to be forgiven
Now. l beg to ask you whether ar
amende was ever more delicious-con
sidering that much OF what she sale
to and for Seffy was meant to and fol
herself alone? Indeed. before she 60
quite as II Seffy had pleaded It. ant
her voice sank to its pretty mezzo
then quivered bit. and she under
stood that was answering herself:
'Seffy, am awfully sorry"
For what. Sally?" asked Seny.
Seffy, dull Seffy. really did not know
for what. But there is something
which God gives the dull. as well a,
the sprightly witted. that outleap.
words to comfort sorrow. And thi.
Seffy had abundantly. II first ex
pressed itself In the strong young ARM
which again closed in utter silenc,
upon the sorrowing one.
Presently tperhaps you have no
forgotten how 1t isD in the same 81
lence. Seffy's lips found hers-not a.
the victor pounces upon the spoil o
his conquest-but slowly. uncertainty
unconfidently-as II the lips were.
saints relics: and Sally waited. no
as she had waited before, but in tn,
knowledge that her hour had come
and that this kiss-the first this you'll
had given to woman since his mother
died in his infancy-must not be re
ceived as others had been. but as sa
credly as It came; and when 1t finall.
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