The Ordway new era., 1911-04-14
CHAPTER vi.-contlnusd.


down here with us for LIE. OF course
We won't ever have money enough to
make the picture trade brisk. but Mr..
Jim Peters was a-saying the other
night he most knew he could git you
. Job with the 'lectric company to
hslp out. You would have all our
recommends fer anything you wanted
to sit"
Miss Selma Lue," Mr.. Alan's voice
was low and very gentle. II may ask
your recommendation some day about
something-I-want-very much. l.
I am-afraid-",
Law, Mr.. Alan. don't feel that way
about Miss Cynthia! She amt moth
ing but mite shy Of you, and I 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 a red.
hot needle and a burning thread. Is
liable to come to pieces"
"Oh. 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
ago at my first sight OF her here in
the grocery door. She Is SO beautiful
and-I-I do care-I-! How glad I
am that you know, dear Miss Selma
Lue: now l can talk about It to you.
know I ought not to-and l."
Young man. I've got a heap more
faith In the love that is so much 1t
spills over than In the kind that DON 7
quite fill out the measure"
"Oh. do you really think-could It
be possible that have just a chance
with her? I-I-"
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-voiced 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. II do hope she will come
back right away" And she went out
to the steps a bit crestfallen, still
actuated by motives of delicacy in no,
mentioning Miss Cynthia's precipi
tous flight.
Did you ever see anything so love
ly as she is. Miss Selma Lue?" And
the rhapsody began where It had beer
interrupted.
Yes, and her heart and soul are
ing the other day that they amt man,
girls as would git into folks lives al
she have done right here on the Blufr
She is friendly to everybody and the,
husbands. 1t takes a feeling and man
aging person to know that the thins
to do is to take up for woman's hus
band when she tells you how he's
been abusing Of her Miss Cynthie
have stove off trouble fer Mr.. Kinney
more times than he knows"
II don't know what I am to do,
never can seem to see her anywhere
and she hasn't asked me to call or
her" Mr.. Alan's lugubrious tones
were symptomatic Of his condition.
well. anyway, there's the party
tomorrow afternoon and she'll be here
sure. l want to git your advice about
how to do things stylish. Would you
have the pie on plates. and knives
and forks to eat It with! Or would II
do to hand 1t around in wedges to be
ct like cakei"
Il believe the plates would be safer, n
answered Mr.. Alan in a judicial tone,
She might get some on her dress"
In the throng to be at the entertain.
ment. in his state Of mind, he could
provision only Miss Cynthia.