Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-04-06
CHAPTER Vl.--Continued.

I'VE all Wish You could settle right
down here with us for life. 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
a job 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 -want-very much. L
am-afraid-"
Law, Mr.. Alan, don't feel that way
about Miss cynthia, She amt moth
Ing but a mite shy of you, and | amt
got a bit of doubt that she's Jest a.
waiting fer YOU to pop the question.
For nj part | 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 10 pieces"
"Oh, Miss Selma Lue, | didn't mean
you to guess-that is to say, | 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-l do carc-I-. How glad |
am that you know, dear Miss Selma
Luc; now | can talk about It to you.
know | ought not to-and /"
Young man, I've got a heap more
faith in the love that is so much It
slijls 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 a chance
With her? II"
wait a minute" said Miss Selma
Ihe, and moved by a desire to settle
IN" matter then and there she hurried
INTO the store toward her room door.
but sh" was too late, for the bird had
fo"n from behind the molasses bar.
rel, Miss Cynthia was stealing
through the garden and IN her ears
there sounded a s~oft.voiced echo
Ssh" IL 90 beautiful do care"
My, thai pin muster been a crook.
ed one that she couldn't get to with.
out undressing" said Miss Selma Iue
to herself. Il do hope she will come
hack right away" And she went ont
TO the steps a bit crestfallen, still
actuated by motives of delicacy in not
mentioning Miss Cynthia's precipi
tous fight.
Did you ever see anything so love
~ as she Is, Miss Selma LueP" And
the rhapsody began where It had beer
interrupted.
Yes, and her heart and son, or,
Jest as pretty as she Is. | was a-thipk
Ing the other day that they amt man,
girls as would git into folks lives n,
she have done right here on the plrn
She Is friendly to everybody and the,
husbands. 1t takes a feeling and man
aging person to know that the hin,
to do Is to take up for a woman's bus
band when she tells you how no,
been abusing of her. Miss Cynthi
have stove off trouble fer Mr.. Kinne
more times than he knows"
Il don't know what | am to do
never can seem to see her anywher,
and she hasn't asked me to call n
her" Mr.. Alan's lugubrious tone
were symptomatic of his condition
well. anyway. there the part
tomorrow afternoon and she'll be her
sure. I want to git your advice abo,
how to do things stylish. Would yo
have the pie on plates, and kniye
and forks to eat It with? Or would
do to hand 1t around in wedges to |
ct like cake?"
81 believe the plates would be safer
answered Mr.. Alan In a judicial ton
"She might get some o her dress
In the throng to lie at the entertai
ment. In his state Of mind. he cou
provision only Miss Cynthia.
THAT depends on whether they W,
Nads cross-barred. opep.facs or kI