The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-06-02
CHAPTER vi-Continued.

we All WISH Nbu N'hiA FNAAi' AaSHN I
down here with us for life. or course
We won't ever have money enough to
make the picture trade brisk. but Mr..
i Jim Peters was a-saying the other
night he most knew he could git you
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 much. /
I am--afraid-"
Law, MIR. 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 my part | always held with a lit.
tie waiting I'm girls. Minds made up
too quick are mighty apt To unmake.
same as n garmint sewed with 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. ! have
and commenced all over again with
shining eyes. 1t began two months
q ago at my first sight of her here In
the grocery door. She Is so beautiful
: and-I-I do carol, How glad |
J. am that you know. dear Miss Selma
: Lue; now | can talk about II to you.
! know ought not to-and /"
Young man, I've got a heap more
faith In the love that is so much II
spills over than in the kind that don't
quite Ill out the measure"
"Oh. do you really think-could It
be possible that have just a chance
with her? -"
Wait a minute" said Miss Selma
Lue. and moved by 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 soft-voiced echo
she Is so beautiful do care"
My. that pin muster been crook
a ed one that she couldn't get 10 with
Ia out uuuItSHluEs Htlu MISS Stllud Luz
r to herself Il do hope she will com,
ID back right away" And she went ou
u to the steps n bit crestfallen. still
- actuated by motives of delicacy In no
mentioning Miss Cynthia's precipi
~ tous flight
q Did you ever see anything so love
s " as she is. Miss Selma Lue?" Ant
Z, the rhapsody began where II had beef
interrupted.
n Yes, and her heart and soul ar,
"a lest as pretty as she Is. | was a-thInk
10 ing the other day that they amt man,
)" girls as would git into folks lives a
she have done right here on the Bluff
3 She Is friendly to everybody and the
Is husbands. II takes a feeling and mar
:, aging person to know that the thin
~ 10 do Is 10 take up for a woman's hu:
r. band when she tells you how he
e, been abusing of her. Miss Cynthi
L. have stove OF trouble fer Mr.. Kline
a more times than he knows"
Il don't know what l am to do.
IS never can seem to see her anywher,
=. her" Mr. Alan's lugubrious tone
Al. were symptomatic of his condition.
ed We'll. anyway, there's the part
id tomorrow afternoon and she'll be her
sure. | want to git your advice aboI
te how to do things stylish. Would 70
it. have the pie on plates. and knivt
and forks TO eat II with? Or would
. do to hand II around in wedges TO /
e. ct like cake,"
~ Il believe the plates would be safer
oSS answered Mr.. Alan in a judicial ton
q -She might get some on her dress
- In the throng to be at the entertain
eat ment. IN his state Of mind. he coul
- previs10 3ly Miss Cynthia