Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-07-10

smile--"tombstone. l bet he's got 1t
hanging up in the store now! We got
to let 'em know that you set him out.
Sef! Yas-stayed tell daylight! Woke
up and stayed! Sleeping was chust to
ketch him! You was awake all the
time! Lie little. hah?"
His father was proud Of this last.
AS they drew apart he called back:
IF she don't like snoring. Sef, wear
a clothes-pin when you set up wiss
her-one of them wiss a sprins-not?
Aha-ha-ha!" And then: You all
right, Sef-yassir! you all right-you
the conquering hero comes! Go right
back-mebby to-night-you entitled to
do it."
"Begoshens. l will" said Setry in
his fathers own slogan.
Seny would have pressed his suit
even without this. think-because OF
those moments in the dark parlor.
One does not soon forget that sort Of
thing.
Now" advised his father, you
know well enough what kind of a tenn
per goes wiss her hair-I use to haf
hair enough onct-and 1t was red! All
right when it's on your side. But hell
when it's ag'in you. Them red-heads
always regrets-I do and she does!
Say-Sef-Sefy. don't you let her re-
gret in vain-ketch her while she's at
it."
So. Seffy went up the hill again
not that night-which was a mistake
he could not quite bring himself to
that-but the next. And he had washed
the grease out of his hair and left the
hat at home as well as the butter
fly tie and the boots and. II do say it.
he was very handsome fellow. worth
at least dozen OF his rIvnI.
But Sally, watching for this very
thing. saw him coming and hardened
her heart, as Pharaoh did In the face
Of pronered felicity. and. by a good
deal Of forcible instruction, she sue
ceeded In getting the little maid to
say that she was not Mt home. The
maids untutored face showed Seffy
that she was not telling the truth.
however. and she was not sorry for 1t.
She would never have treated Seffy
so!
Seffy shifted his hat from one hand
to the other and then said:
Tell her-tell her-when she comes
home-that I'm sorry" He did not
exactly know what he was sorry for.
and SO said good night and went.
He knowed you was at home!" re-
preached the little maid. He was
sorry for you
What did he say?" demanded Sally
savageIy.
ITO tell you that he was sorry
when you got home"
When I got home? Then l better
stay away. I expect. That's what he
meant. did he Well. I'll show him."
But the maid understood Seffy's rustic
chivalry and she did not laugh with
her mistress.
Yet. Sally went back to her window
and again watched. hoping Seffy would
look back. She was not quite sure
what she would do. Perhaps she would
get angry-perhaps-Bu II he would
only look! He did not, and Sally un-
derstood that he had accepted his
congo as she had given It. And quite
as the old man had said. she did regret,
now. and she had regretted that other
night. But there was more penance
than he had said or thought. Yet
there was the Pressed temper! And 1t
did not await the subsistence Of the
sorrow. but rose at once. What busi-
ness had he tamely to accept the situ-
alton?
am satisfied that there is some con-
nection between rcd hair and temper.
And am. further. satisfied that there
ideas of red hair. temper and regret.
But my difficulty is to determine just
where each stands. Logically, the re-
sret ought to come last. But. to Sally.