The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-25
CHAPTER xIIi-continued.


way to her transaction with Gillespie;
had never intimated even remotely
that l knew of her meeting with the
| infatuated young fellow on ST. Aga
tha's pier; and felt that those Incl
dents were ancient history.
st was corking hot this afternoon.
l hope you didn't have too much ten
ais''
mo: it was pretty enough fun" she
remarked, with. so little enthusiasm
that laughed.
You don't seem to recall your vic
tory with particular pleasure. 1t seems
to me that am the one to be shy Of
the subject. How did that score
stand?"
Il really forget honestly do she
laughed.
That's certainly generous; but
don't you remember, as we walked
along toward the gate after the game,
that you said"
"Oh. can't allow that at all! What
said yesterday or today is of no i'm
portance now. And particularly at
night l am likely to be weak-minded,
and my memory is poorer then than at
any other time"
4 am fortunate in having an ex.
cellent memory
For example?"
For example, you are not always
the same; you were different this aft
ernoon; and l must go back to our
meeting by the seat on the bluff, for
the Miss Holbrook of tonight"
That's all in your Imagination. Mr..
Donovan. Now, If you wanted to
prove that I'm really
Helen Holbrook." supplied. glad
OF a chance to speak her name.
IF you wanted to prove that l am
who l am" she continued, with new
animation. as though at last something
interested her, how should you go
about it,"
Please ask me something dificult!
There Is. there could be, only one
woman as fair. as interesting, as Who'll.
ly charming"
Il suppose that is the point at which
you usually bow humbly and wait for
applause; but scorn to notice any.
thing 80 commonplace. II you were
going to prove me to be the same
person you met at the Annandale sta.
ton, how should you go about it,"
Well to be explicit, you walk like
an angel"
"You are s!ngularly favored in .,av.
Inn p,o1l
There's popular superstition that
they fly. In my own ignorance ]
cant concede that your point is well
taken. What next?"
| your head IL like an intaglio
wrought when men had keener vision
and nimbler fingers than now. With
| your hair low on your neck, as 1t IL
tonight. the picture carries back to 9
Venetian balcony centuries ago"
That's rather below standard
What else. please?"
4 And that widows peak-I woult
risk the direst penalties of perjury II
swearing to 1t alone"
She shrugged her shoulders. "Yo,
are an observant person. That triflinf
mark on q woman's forehead is usual
~ considered q Disagreement"
1 "But you know well enough that
did not mention 1t with such {
thought. You know It perfectly WE'LL
mo; foolish one." she said, mock
ingly, "the Widows peak can not b,
denied. l suppose you don't know tina
the peak sometimes runs in families
My mother had It. and her mother be
fore her"
4 You are not your mother or you
1 grandmother: 30 I am not In DANCE
Of mistaking you" s,
We'll, what else, please Z"
There's the emerald. Miss Pat ha
the same ring. but you are not Mis-
4 Pat. Besides, have seen you bot
4 together"
"still. there are emeralds and en-
4 eralds!" 9E n
..And then-there are your eyes!"
There are two Of them, Mr.. Don't
van!' q /.
There need be no more to ass i
light n . needful world. Miss Ho
brook.
'oood. Ton really hays pos.ib,l
tiediss s.;s
she struck her palms together IN 4
mocksry q applause and hughe
l q ~.