Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-03-07

Wells, The Wheels OF Chance.
What's 1t all about?' Daylight
asked
oh, it's just a novel. a love-story."
She stopped. but he still stood wait
ing. and she felt It incumbent to go on.
It's about little Cockney diapers
assistant, who takes a vacation on
his bicycle. and falls in with young
girl very much above him. Her moth
er is a popular writer and all that.
And the situation is very curious. and
sad, too, and tragic. Would you care
TO read it?"
Does he get herr" Daylight de-
manded.
mo; that's the point of it He
wasn't"
And he doesn't get her and you've
read all them pages. hundreds of them.
TO find that out?" Daylight muttered in
amazement
Miss Mason was nettled as we'll as
amused.
But you read the mining and fnan-
cial news by the hour" she re-
torted
But | sure get something out Of
that. It's business. and it's differ
ent | get money out of it. What do !
you get out of books?"
Points of view. new ideas. life"
Not worth a cent cash"
But life's worth more than cash."
she argued.
"Oh. we'll" he said. with easy mas
culine tolerance. so long as you en-
Joy it. That's what counts. suppose;
and there's no accounting for taste"
Despite his own superior point of
: view, he had an idea that she knew
lot. and he experienced a feeting
feeling like that of barbarian face
TO face with the evidence of some ire
mendous culture. TO Daylight cul-
ture was worthless thing. and yet
somehow. he was vaguely troubled by
a sense that there was more in culture
than he imagined.
Again. on her desk. in passing. he
noticed a book with which he was ia
! miliar. This time he did not stop, for
1 he had recognized the cover 1t was
| a magazine correspondents book on
| the Klondike, and he knew that he
| and his photograph figured in it. and
he knew. also. of a certain sensational
chapter concerned with a woman's
suicide, and with one TO Much Day
Il light" After that he did not talk with
Y her again about books. He imagined
what erroneous conclusions she had
drawn from that particular chapter.
and 1t stung him the more in that they
Il were undeserved. He pumped Morri-
son, the clerk, who had first TO vent
his personal grievance against Miss
Mason before he could tell What little
he knew of her.
She comes from Siskiyou County.
She's very nice to work with in the
office. of course. but she's rather stuck
: on herself-exclusive, you know"
How do you make that out?" Day
: light queried.
4 We'll, she thinks too much OF
herself to associate with those she
works with, in the Office here for in
stance. She won't have anything tc
do with fellow. you see. I've ask
ed her out repeatedly. to the theateI
and the chutes and such things. But
nothing doing. Says she likes plenty
of sleep. and can't stay up late, and
has to go all the way to Berkeley
that's where she lives. But that's al
hot air. She's running with the Uni
versity boys, that's what she's doing
She needs lots of Sleep and can't &c
TO the theater with me, but she car
dance all hours with them. I've heard
it pretty straight that she goes TO 81
their hops and such things. Rathe
stylish and heightened for a sterog
rapher, Id say. And she keeps
horse, too. She rides astride all owe
those hills out there. saw her one
t Sunday myself. oh. she's a high
flyer. and | wonder how she does II
Sixty-five a month don't go far. Thel
she has a sick brother. too"
as Live with her people?" Daylight
asked
,u- No; hasn't got any. They wer
IL well to do. I've heard They must hav
Is. been. or that brother or hers couldn'
nu have gone to the University of Cali
Is fornia. Her father had big cattle
Vi ranch. but he got to fooling with mine
oi or something and went broke befor
Isl he died. Her mother died long befor
lily that Her brother must cost lot o
~ money He was a husky once. playe
io- football was great on hunting and be
ne ing out in the mountains and sue
things. He got his accident break
as ing horses. and then rheumatism o
'or something got into him. One leg
shorter than the other. and withere
on up some. He has to walk on crutches
lid saw her out with him once-cros:
i'm ing the ferry. The doctors have bee
of experimenting on him for years. an
lat he's in the French Hospital now.
nd think"
Ter All of which side-lights on Miss Ms
of son went to increase Daylights intel
in. est in her Yet. much as he desired
Il 4.