Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-27

wait; want you to know Il alls
he went on, doggedly. when Martin
he's the Greek and Latin, you know
slipped up on US, there was bottle
Of whisky on the table. He took dowz
our names, and then he pointed at 4ht
bottle, and said, Which one OF you does
that belong tor Nobody said any
thing, and after 1t began to get sort OF
well, kind OF monotonous, I picked
up the bottle and offered him a drink.
and put it in my pocket. That settled
me-"
but 1t wasn't yours she averred.
His smile was rather ferocious
grin. Wasn't 1t? Well, took it, any
way; and I've got it yet Now see
here: that's my berth over there and
Pm going over to 1t. You needn't let
on like you know me any more"
''Fiddle!" she said, making face st
him. you say that like little boy
trying, oh, SO hard, to be man. I'll
believe you are just as bad as ban can
be, Ii you want me to; but you mustn't
be rude to me. We don't play cards or
drink things at Carroll College, but
some of us have brothers. and-well,
we can't help knowing"
Tom was soberly silent for the space
of half hundred rail-lengths. Then he
said 1T wish I'd had a sister; maybe
1t would have been different"
mo, indeed, 1t wouldn't. You're go
ing to be just what you are going to
| be, and dozen sisters wouldn't make
any difference"
"One like you would make lot OF
| difference" 1t made him blush and
| have slight return of the largeness OF
| hands; but he said 1t.
She laughed. That's nice. But
mean what I say. Sisters wouldn't
help you to be good, unless you really
wanted to be good yourself. They're
just comfortable persons to have
around when you are taking your
whipping for being naughty"
| We'll, that's a good deal, isn't tt?"
Again she made the adorable little
face at him. DO you want me to be
your sister for little while-till you
| get out of scrape? Is that what you
are trying to say?"
| He took heart of grace, for the first
time in three bad days. Say, Ardea;
I'm hunting for sympathy; just as
used to long time ago. But you
mustn't mix up with me. I'm not worth
| it."
ooh, I suppose not; no boy is But
tell me; what are you going to dc
when you get back to Paradise?"
'Why-I don't know; haven'i
thought that far ahead; go to work In
the iron plant and be mucker all the
rest of my life, reckon"
And all the way along you've been
meaning to be a minister"
He gritted his teeth. That's al
over, now; I reckon it's been over fol
long time"
THAT is more serious. Does your
mother know? She mustn't. Tom; II
will just break heart"
LAS If / didn't know" he said, Bit
terly. But, Ardea, haven't been quite
square with you. The way told II
about the cards and the whisky yor
might think"
II know what you are going to say
But 1t needn't make any all-the- tim,
difference, need it? You've been back.
sliding-isn't that what you call it,
but now you are sorry, and"
mo; that's the worst of 1t. I'm no
sorry. the way ought to be. Besides
after what I've been these last TIVE
years-but you can't understand; 1
would just be mockery-mocking God
told you wasn't worth your while
She smiled gravely. You are sucl
boy. Tom. Don't you know that n
through life you'll have two kinds o
friends: those who will stand by yol
because they won't believe anything
bad about you, and those who will TAX,
you for just what you are and still
stand by, your"
He scowled thoughtfully at her. Say
Ardea; I'd just like to know how oil;
you are, anyhow! You say things ev
cry once in a while that make me fee
as II were a little kid In knee-breech
es."
She laughed in his face. THAT Il
the rudest thing you've said yet! Blu
don't mind telling you-since I'm t.
be your sister. I'll be IT little Will
after you're 49,"
Haven't you ever been foolish, Xix
other girls?" he asked.
She laughed again, more hearth.
than ever. "They say I'm the stiles
tomboy in our house, at Carroll. But
have my lucid intervals, suppose, lil1
other people, and this is one of them
am going to stand by you to-morro.
morning, when you have to tell you
father and mother-that is, If you wan
me to-"
His gratitude was too large 70
speech, but he tried to look 1t. The
then porter came to make her sectio
down. and he had to say goodnight
and vanish.
Ito be continued.)
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