Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-29
TWO ON
"A TANDEM


MY being on this front saddle"
IF you weren't on that front saddle
give you my word this, tandem
wouldn't be going at all"
Nor"
No; 1t would not. 1t would be at
home safe in the shed in which keep
It,"
This would not do The conversa-
ton was taking personal turn. Miss
McCurdy decided to change the sub
ject.
Il have had so little experience In
underwriting" she said, that didn't
know. This is beautiful landscape.
isn't it?"
Il haven't been looking at the land
scape.'
This also had an alarmingly per-
sonal bearing. and shs 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-
feetly 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 fervor of discoyerer
upon whom a great truth has just
dawned.
You OUGHT not toFmiss 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 it? Am l 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 keep on riding this
way forever!"
Absurd"
well. I'll make it year That's
coming down good DEAL
"Oh, what's that?"
-NOtllliS Dul a. DOA NC lIISHl-
ened. ! brushed it off your shoulder. i,
I'm not afraid bit Was it larger"
''Not 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? My dear girl! l 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
It?"
Il 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.
MIR Spoonamore, you are getting
ired!"
lawfully tired. I haven't seen your
yes for Is minutes"
On second thoughts Miss McCurdy
not to propose stopping to
est. 1t would serve him right to make
lin work hard for the next two hours,
0 pay for that speech. And yet
Miss Gwendoline!"
"Well?"
do you see that house off to the
eft on the other side of this orchard?9
He went on with some rambling, I'M
important recollection about that
ouse.
He merely wanted to see whether
er left cheek had turned as red as
ne right one.
1t had
They passed under great hawthorn
ush, with double pink blossom, stand 1
lg just inside the fence, and with a
exterous upward reach young. Spoona- |
lore pulled off spray of bloom.
"Oh What's that?"
IL lSH ny JHlS llu0. IL Gus
r of pink blossoms | am about to
Ike the liberty of putting 1t in your q
air. 9
Upon my word" t
mot for purposes of ornament,
e you to believe, but because love q
'wers, too; and, having cut these of 4
their early bloom, feel bound to 8
Q that they enter happy hereafter. b
old still" b
How can /? ! have to keep my t
dals moving, don't II" n
Eyes; but you don't have to move 4
ur head just yet. There! The ef- a
is beautiful. You have no idea '
: = sets the flowers off. Do you
+bat country church-spire over \
re on the right?" b
70 she did not see it. She suspect i
and she looked straight ahead. Il
Vhereupon the young man tried to j
glance at her profile. a
he whispered. close h
her ear. g
AZ this thrilling moment the ma 4
me- left practically to its own guild !
&c. ran into a rut---
And spoiled one Of the most proInis-
. romances OF the year
Oh. young people, let this Pc sol- !