The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-07-11

that-to-to-" he turned away TO
smile-"tom bstone. ! bet he's got u
hanging up In the store now! We got
to let EN- 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
timei Lie little, hah?"
His father was proud OF this last.
AS they drew apart he called back:
IT she don't like snoring, sef. wear
a clothes-pin when you set up wiss
her-one OF them wiss spring-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 Sery in
his fathers own slogan.
Sery 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 tenn
per goes wiss her hair-I use to haf
hair enough onct-and it was red All
right when it's on your side. But hell
when it's agin you. Them redheads
always regrets-I do and she does,
Say-Sef-Seffy, don't you let her re-
gret in vain-ketch her while she's at
it"
So. seffy went up the hill again
rs~b frh -fe,. l.
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 we'll as the butter
fly tie and the boots and. II do say it,
he was a very handsome fellow, worth
at least dozen OF his rivai.
But Sally. watching for this very
thing saw him coming and hardened
her heart, as Pharaoh did in the face
OF profered felicity. and. by a good
deal OF forcible instruction, she sue
ceeded in getting the little maid to
say that she was not at home. The
maids untutored face showed Seny
that she was not telling the truth,
however. and she was not sorry for II.
She would never have treated Seffy
so,
Sefy 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
savagely.
ITO tell you that he was sorry
when you got home"
When l got home? Then I better
stay away. l 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 It
did not await the subsistence OF the
sorrow, but rose at once. What bust
ness had he tamely to accept the situ-
alton?
am satisfied that there is some con-
nection between red hair and temper.
And I am. further. satisfied that there
is even more between the associated
ideas OF red hair. temper and regret
But my difficulty is to determine just
where each stands. Logically, the re-
gret ought to come last. But. to Sally