Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-29

1 asked, rendering my offering you
didn't have any dinner, you know / sat
down beside her. See I'll be the table.
What was the old fairy tale? Little goat
bleat little goat appear! I'm perfectly
willing to be the goat too"
She was laughing rather TREMENDOUSLY.
1--WE never do meet like other people,
do WEI" she asked I'VE really ought to
shake hands and say how are YOU"
II don't want to meet you like other
people, and 1 suppose you always think OF
me as wearing the other fellows Clothes"
1 returned meekly. I'm doing it again: 1
don't seem to be able to help it. These
are Changers that l have on now"
She threw back her head and laughed
again, joyously, this time,
oh it's so ridiculous" she said, land
you have never seen me when was not
eating! It's too prosaic!'
Which reminds me that the chicken is
getting cold and the ice warm" 1 sug-
gested. AT the time, 1 thought there
could be no place better than the farm
house kitchen-but this is. | ordered all
this for something I want to say to you
the sea, the sand the stars"
How aliterative you are!" she said.
trying to be flippant. You are not to
say anything until / have had my supper.
Look how the things are spilled around!"
But she ate nothing, after all and pretty
soon put the tray down in til sand. I
said little; there was no hurry We were
together, and time meant nothing against
the age-long wash of the sea. The air blew
her hair in small damp curls against her
face, and little by little the tide r"treated
leaving our boat an oasis in nste Of
gray sand.
III seven maids with seven mops swept It
for half year,
Do you suppose, the walrus said, that they
could get ii clear%'
she threw a me once when she must have
known / was going TO speak. l held her
hand. and as long as I merely held it she
let 1t lie warm in mine. But when
raised 1t to my lips. and kissed the soft
open palm, she drew 1t away without dis
pleasure.
Not that, please" she protested, and
fell to whistlng softly again, her chin in
her hands. Il can't sing" she said to
break an awkward pause, and so, when
I'm fidgety or have something on my
mind, 1 whistle. 1 hope you don't dislike
it2"
Il love It," I asserted warmly. 1 did;
when she pursed her lips like that 1 was
mad to kiss them.
Il saw you-at the station" she said
suddenly. "You-you were in a hurry to
60" i did not say anything and after a
pause she drew a long breath. Men are
queer, aren't they?' she said and fell to
whistling again,
After while she sat up as IL she had
made a resolution, Il am going to confess
something" she announced suddenly. You
said you know that you had ordered all
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TO me. But the fact Is, fixed it all
came here, mean, because-I knew YOU
would come, and l had something to tell
you. 1t was such a miserable thing l.
needed the accessories to help me out"
II don't want TO hear anything that dis
tresses you to tell" / assured her. Il
didn't come here to force your confidence,
Alison. ! came because couldn't help it,
She did not object to the use OF her name.
Have you found the-your papers?" she
asked, looking directly at me for almost
the first time.
Not yet We hope to-"
"The-poice hive not interfered with
your
They haven't had any opportunity" |
eduivocated. You needn't distress your.
self about that anyhow"
But do. l wonder why you still believe
IN me? Nobody else does"
Il wonder" l repeated, why l do"
IF you produce Harry Sullivan" she
saying, partly to herself. and II you
could connect him wlth-Mr Bronson, and
get a fun account OF why he was on the
train and all that, Tit would help
wouldn't itT'
l acknowledged that It would. Now that
the whole truth was almost In my posses