Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-09-29

grasped at it before she hat>time to
waver.
81 wonder If it's the very favor I
was going to ask of your"
But he didn't take it up. He seemed
hardly to hear her, as if his mind was
too much absorbed with quite another
question: question that the next mo-
ment came out fiat. What was that
Kerr doing here yesterday"
She was taken aback, so far had her
apprehension Of Harry's jealousy
slipped into the background In the
last "a hours. But her consciousness
that Harry was not behaving we'll,
even for a jealous man, made her take
it UP all the more lightly.
why, he was calling, chatting, Ia
king tea-what anybody else would do
from four to six. What in the world
gave you the idea that he was doing
anything extraordinary
WELL" he said, "you shouldn't do
the sort Of thing that makes you
talked about"
THAT makes me talked about?" 1t
made her pause in front of him.
"Why, yes, 1t isn't like you. 1t new
er happened before. Look here. I
drop into the Buffers yesterday; find
Clara sided up to the Judge; look
around for you. Hello / say,
where's Flora?' Oh says she, 'Flora's
at home amusing Mr.. Kerr Amusing
Mr.. Kerr!'" he repeated. THAT'S a
nice thing to hear"
Flora went red. She walked down
the room from him to give her sud
denly tumultuous heart time. How
ever little he might guess the real
trend of her interview with Kerr, she
couldn't hear him come heal 1t with
out ap~prehensionA She was angry,
helplessly angry at Harry that he had
taken this moment for his stupid
jealousy. But she was more angry at
Clara, since such a speech on Clara's
part wasn't carelessness.
She tried to laugh him out of it.
why, Harry, l never saw you
jealous before!"
tits all very well to say that-and
you know I've never made a row
about the other Johnnies. I knew you
didn't are for any Of them"
Her eyes narrowed and darkened.
"And you take it for granted I care
for Mr.. Kerr?"
"Oh, no., mol" He pushed his hant
through his hair with an irasciblt
gesture. "But it's plain enough you
, like him-you women always like
fellow that fourishes-but that's no
the sort Of man / care to see hanging
! around my girl"
Flora stood leaning on the table
breathing a little hurriedly, feelin,
rather as If she had been shaken
Harry, standing with his hands in hi
pockets, looked not unlike the threat
ening image he had appeared in tn,
!. back of the goldsmith's shop.
! "Of course, the fellow can talk" h
admitted, land he has a manner. Blu
Lord knows where he comes from o
\. who he is. Why, even the Butler
don't know"
s Flora turned sharply or him. "Wh
t told you that?"
The Judge. He picked him up a
t the club"
r WELL" she kept it up, some on
t had to introduce him there"
Harry smiled. "You wouldn't car
9 to bow to some of those club men
S bers."
d Harry, do you know how you SCUM
d to me?" She was trembling at tn
daring Of what she was going to sa.
n "You talk as If you knew somethin
o against him"
Her statement seemed to bring hi
up short. mo, no, I don't" he sal
/ hastily.
V She made a little gesture of de
g pair. How was she to count on HarI
4 II he was going to behave like this
q How trust him when he was shuflin
II so?
q She made one more bold stroke
u make him speak out.
= Harry, you do know somethir
about him! / know you have see
= him before"
why, yes, I'VE seen him befor
= But that's got nothing to do with II
! He looked surprised that she shou
seem to accuse him of 1t, and 81
y wondered If he could have forgotts
how he had denied 1t before.
: "And that isn't why you distru
i him?"
The DEVILS tattoo that he beat {
a his hat stopped.
r. 9" don't distrust him."
n, "Well, dislike him, then. When w
Tx it you saw him b~efore?"
ou isn't 1t enough for me to tell y,
1t, that | don't want you to see him?'
81 "Oh!' She turned away from hi
Every nerve in her was in revo
ID. Then he really wasn't going to tell h
IT. anything. He was keeping her out
1t as II she were a child. She had
as lied on him to return the ring. S
st had counted upon his indifference a.
I'd good nature. And he was neither
to different nor good-natured. All desi
OF wen mentioning the ring to b.
to left her; and as to giving him her &
II ldence- These hints that he h
Ith thrown out about Kerr--they mig
he be mere jenlousy-but he might ha