The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-19

Lovely Dance" she said,
lovely! So dear of you! /
could waltz for ever-with you'll"
"Thank you," said Theodore
gravely. "It would be an honah
beyond estimation"
"But Just a little teeney bit
pokey after few centuries?" she
queried coquettishly.
mot in the least!" he exclaim-
ed reassuringly. quite the con-
trary. And now, may 1 beg you
to lie down until you are quite re-
stored?"
Virginia sat upon the bed,
reached down to lift her skirts
with the upward swing of her feet
into the position for reclining. and
tumbled into the young mans
arms with laugh. She knew she
was doing extraordinary things,
but did not care a jot.
$50 awkward of mel" she said.
But you'll forgive me?"
81 feel sure" said Carson,
Hooking down gravely, "that If you
would compose yourself and try
to sleep"
eff some one would sit by me, "
said she. I'm perfectly sure
sit by me, and hold my hand"
Gust close yo' eyes," he replied
land if you don't drop asleep, I'll
I'LL At present, think I'd bet
ter read to YOU"
$50 god of you," said she. "In-
tellectual soporiflc. That looks
like a sleepy book"
s'It is" said Carson, taking VI
a great quarto volume. LET me
read on from where l stopped
chapter four. In most dyna'
! mos"
my hand" said she, drop
ping it on the blanket. tits cold
: Theodore took the hand a mo-
ment-and covered it with the
blanket.
THAT doesn't warm it much,
said she. 81 think you're FUNNY
In most dynamos,' read the
young man hastily, 1.-The princi
pie of reduplication is involved
that is, commencing with yer!
4, lsmall amount of residual magne
: tism in the field-magnets, the in
ductive action between them ant
the revolving armature results IL
the production of a feeble cur
rent"
"Feeble magnetism" said tn,
girl, opening her eyes and looking
} at him with sleepy reproach
el"Quite sol"
l "a feeble current in tn
coils,'' read Theodore stolidly
The current may be made t.
= pass through And he plod
> ded on and on, never lifting hi
D eyes, reading of compound-wound
: series-wound and shunt-wound dy
namos, until Captain Harrod, tip
toeing in, found Virginia asleep
and took away the book.
Theodore rose in relief at thi:
. respite from the problem of the
Isky-maiden, darkened the win
ldows, and went out.
Have you any game in the
; |larder?" he asked.
"All them cartridges you shot
last night, suh," replied the cap
tain.
The cartridges" were plumI
little bob-whites of the rosemary
scrub, fat by feeding on the small
oily, yellow berries. The two mer
dressed them in silence.
She'll be shipshape when she
wakes uD" said the captain, al
last.
| "I hope and pray she may. She
was quite flighty. I'm much con-
erned for her." said Carson.
The captain for some time main
|tained a pregnant silence.
"You don't allow, subj" said he
at last, that it's that redeye that
ails huh?"
Captain, said Theodore
lsternly, "any gentleman can see
that this young girl is a lady! ]
beg to remind you that lady
does not take more liquor under
any circumstances than what
may be necessary gently to restore
the weakened faculties-and
hope you will forgive a young man
for saying so much to an older
one!"
"Ah reckon yo' raght, suh," said
the captain. AN please excuse
met"
Their cookery was an operation
lin progressive broth-making. The
odore made broth of one quail,
lpeeped in to see IL his guest were
awake, served the broth to the
captain, and made more. The sun
wore to the west, the last quail
was cooked, the captain was
|providently gorged with alternate
courses of bird and broth, when
Virginia, very stately and very re-
served, opened the door and walk
ed out upon the gallery. Carson
shrank back into the kitchen and
showed the captain into the breach.
"How do you do, ma'am /" he
Inquired solicitously. "Ah, sho'
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