The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-04-14

heated CT a box of cans behind the
molasses barrel, well within range OF
the cony ersation.
'eWhy. Miss Selma Lue, thought II
was an uncommonly fine dinner.
am sure It was sweet OF her to bother
about me az all" answered the victim
Loyalty. I'd ] Cynthia's heart gave
funny little tart and then glowed IN
an inexplicaSle way; she had e&-
pected something different from him.
perhaps. The situation was one that
might have been treated humorously
"Mr. Alan, | am afraid it was MISS
Cynthie you was tasting instead OF
the dinner, cause the looks OF what
was in the dish and hid away IN the
frying pan under the stove was enough
fer me. Bless her heart! l dont
guess there was any dog handy you
could have throwed it to, so you had
to eat 1t up to save her feelings.
well, my feelings were those OF
gratitude, l can assure you. Miss Sc
lima Lue, and If you ever want 10 go
away again, just leave the babies and
me in the same hands; we like them'
those hands"
That's just like your good feelings
Mr.. Alan. We was a-telling MISS
Evelyn Branch about how you was
friendly to every man, woman, child
dog and baby on the Bluff. Mis- Dobbs
was special about your kindness in all
Ethel Maud's accidents. She do feel
your interest So"
Everybody has been so kind to me
that l feel like I had lived on the
Bluff all my life" answered Mr.. Alan
with positive emotion in his voice
eve all wish you could settle right
down here with us for life. or course
we won't ever have money enough TO
make the picture trade blisk, but Mr..
Jim Peters was a-saytng the other
night he most knew he could git you
lob with the 'lectric company to
help out You would have all our
recommends fer anything you wanted
to git"
Miss Selma Lue," Mr. Alan's voice
was low and very gentle, Il may ask
your recommendation some day about
something -I-want-very much. I
I am-afraid-"
Law, Mr.. Alan, don't feel that way
about Miss Cynthia! She amt moth
Ing but mite shy of you, and | amt
got bit Of doubt that she's Jest a.
waiting fer you to pop the question
For my part I always held with a lit
| tie waiting in girls. Minds made up
too quick are mighty apt to unmake,
same as a garmint sewed with red
hot needle and a burning thread, IS
/ liable to come to pieces"
ooh, Miss Selma Lue, didn't mean
/ you to guess-that is to say, l have
no right to" Mr. Alan broke down
and commenced all over again with
shining eyes. 1T began two months
4 ago at my first sight of her here in
| the grocery door She is so beautiful
and-I-I do care-I-! How glad
am that you know, dear Miss Selma
! Lue; now | can talk about 1t to you.
l know I ought not to-and I"
Young man. I've got a heap more
faith in the love that is so much it
spills over than in the kind that don't
quite fill out the measure"
"Oh. do you really think-could it
be possible that I have just chance
with her? IL"
'Wait a minute" said Miss Selma
Lue, and moved by a desire to settle
the matter then and there she hurried
into the store toward her room door,
but she was too late, for the bird had
flown from behind the molasses bar,
rel. Miss Cynthia was stealing
through the garden and in her ears
there sounded a soft-yoiced echo
She is so beautiful do care"
'My, that pin muster been a crook
| ed one that she couldn't get to with
out undressing" said Miss Selma Lue
to herself Il do hope she will come
back right away" And she went out
to the steps a bit crestf2llen, still
actuated by motives Of delicacy in not
mentioning Miss Cynthia's precipi
/ lOuS llSul.
Did you ever see anything so love
ly as she is, Miss Selma Lue?" And
the rhapsody began where It had beer
interrupted.
Eyes, and her heart and soul are
Jest as pretty as she IS I was a-thlnk
ing the other day that they amt many
girls as would git into folks lives a,
she have done right here on the BluE
She Is friendly to everybody and tney
husbands. 1t takes a feeling and man
aging person to know that the thin@
to do is to take up for a womans hus
band when she tells you how he!
been abusing of her Miss Cynthl,
have stove off trouble fer Mr.. Kline,
more times than he knows"
81 doa't know what I am to do
never can seem to see her anywhere
and she hasn't asked me to call OF
her" Mr.. Alan's lugubrious tone
were symptomatic of his condition