The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-04-15

of dog sprang out Of the tall grasses
and dashed into the water after It.
Bravo, old fellowv' called Tom.
Here, here, sir
But to the victor belong the sp0ils,
and the dog made off with his capture.
Pursuit was impossible through the
wet marshes. Powerless, to avert the
catastrophe, they watched the dogs
fiendish demolition of the fragile con-
trivance.
Its an outraged" exclaimed Tom.
And it's your favorite sunshade too"
At this Annette burst into merry
peal of laughter. What other man
among all her conventional friends
would have used that quaint word
"sunshade?" 1t tickled her fancy.
How do you know?" she asked him
teasingly.
because you always carry it" was
Toms candid admission.
That's because haven't any
other," Annette informed him. But it
doesn't matter, really. 1t was just a
garish cretonne thing
OF these extraordinary specifications
Tom took rapid mental note. The next
day found him securing the rural me-
tropolis of Greenville for something
that corresponded to Annette's descrip-
ton and to his own visual recollection
of the i'll fated parasol. But nowhere
had such novelty as a 'garish
l~Sy Eno oVr3
Of
He told Annette so when, weary and
dIsgusted, he returned to the hotel.
She laughed ut him mercilessly.
"Is it SO funny!" he asked her wtst-
fully.
well, you are" she enlightened him;
"cretonne Is quite a new thing for
parasols to be made Of. It's generally
used for covering chairs and cushions
and window boxes and things like
that. So very probably all the shop
keepers over in Greenville thought you
were crazy when you asked them for a
cretonne para-sunshade.'
"They acted So" was Toms feeling
comment.
A few days later, forearmed with
|; this wealth of "cretonnic" information,
Tom took his way confidentially up to
town, Annette comforted herself will,
the thought that nothing short of very
urgent business had forced him to post
pone even for day their morning pad
die up the creek, which had come to be
for each of them an accepted and an
ticipated pleasure.
, On his return, although Tor more like
, ly becauseD it was late in the evening
and full moonlight, Tom sought out
Annette in the gay chatting groups or
: the hotel veranda and quietly signaled
\ to her.
Get something to throw around
YOU, Annette" he directed. ''and lets
go down on the beach for stroll. Th'
moonlight is beautiful on the water"
Annette, her heart fluttering prophet
ically, acquiesced without moment'
hesitation.
When they had found sheltered
nook on the lee side of a picturesque
old rock, Tom took of his overcoa
and spread it for Annette to sit upon
As he did so long, narrow packag
dropped on the sand at his feet.
"What's that!' asked Annette sus
piciously.
Something l picked up In town.
Tom chuckled. want to see it?"
With exasperating deliberation Tor
unrolled the wrappings.
"Of course" answered the truly fen
mime girl, perched on the rock.
"rhere!' he exclaimed at length, III
furling the treasure. "Do you like it!
"Oh, what beauty!' gasped Al
nette. Il never had such al mean
=. never saw such lovely one. Blu
Tom, cretonne would have been a
:, right"
~ Tom shook his head as one WI
N =. knows whereof he speaks.
10 NO" he told her boastfully. "Tl
cretonne ones aren't in the same cla:
~ with this. know because I've g
&c " two awfully garsh ones Of that kin
ue :. for you up at the hotel"
w. "Why, Tom Brewsterv reproved A
nette in astonishment. REALLY. car
accept
ny "What?' interrupted Tom calmly
". with the slender tip of the paras'
>. which was all one mass Of exquisi
filn,y flowers, lie made marks in Il
smooth sand, upon which the moo
III light shone with unmistakable distin|
ness.
lie Annette, her eyes tracing with IL
cinated wonder the written words.
he love YOU" almost forgot Toms que
ton.
zen II couldn't accept but one," she 81
denly reused herself to answer.
at. "Then accept me, dearest. Ie
u, pleaded, smiling up at her.
TIT AS to what happened then under t
sheltering ''sunshade" even the m
'as in the moon was left to imagine.
ust "Cut of With a Shilling"
We often hear Of the threat OF bel
Ut "cut off with shilling by our
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