The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-02-21

rhs Cocktails Served ~ IN Inhibition.
snt I gev money out OF II. What DO
-you Get out Of boolsr'
Points Of view. new ideas, lifs."
Not worth q cent cash."
but liss's worth more than cash."
she argued.
"oh. wsr." hs said. with easy mas
culine tolsrsnes. go long ~ you en-
Joy Il That's whet counts. suppose:
end tbsrs's no accounting for taste"
Dssptts bis owa superior point of
view. ~ bad an idea that she knew
. lot. and be sxpestenesd q nseting
foeling me that Of Q barbarian face
70 face With the svtdsncs Of some trs-
msndcos culture. To Daylight cul
tsrs was . worthless thing. and yet,
somshov. hs was vaguely troubled by
. sense shat thers We more In culture
than ~ imagined.
Again. o. her dssk. In passing. he
noticed book with which he was ia
Mshar. rhh time he did not stop, for
he had reeognissA the cover. II was
= MAGAZINE eosrsspondents book ON
The hoodfks. and hs knew that he
and hh photograph figured In Il, and
No knew. also. Of certain Sensational
chspesr cooes,nsd with q woman's
suicide. and With one ITO Muca Day
light" After thnt ho did not tai. witt
her agaio aboal BOOKS. he lmagineL
what erroneous conclusions she had
dre~n from that particular chapter.
and Il stung him the more In that they
We're dndeserved. He pumped Eorri-
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
ONCE. Of course. but she's rather stuck
On herself-exclisive. you know"
How do you make that outY" Day
light qpsried.
well. she thinks too much of
herself to associate with those she
works with. In the ONCE here. for In
stance. She won't have anything to
do with a fellow. you see. I've ask.
ed her out repeatedly. to the theater
and the chutes and such things. But
nothing doing. Says she likes plenty
OF sleep. and can't slay up tate. sna
has to go all the way To Berkeley
that's where she lives. But that's all
hot air. She's running with the Uni.
versity boys. that's what she's doing.
She needs lots of sleep, and can't 90
60 the theater with me. but she can
dance OIL hours with them. I've heard
u pretty straight that she goes to all
their hops and such things. Rather
stylish and high-toned for a stenog.
rapher. I'd say. And she keeps a
horse. too. She rides astride all over
those hills 'out there. saw her one
Sunday myself. Oh, she's a high
hyer. and wonder how she does II.
sixty-hvs . month don't 20 far. Then
she has q sick brother. too"
Live with her people," Daylight
aaked.
No: hasn't got any. They were
well TO do. I've heard. They must have
been. or that brother or hers couldn't
have gone TO the University of Cali.
fornia. Her father had big cattle
ranch. but he got TO fooling with mines
or something. and went broke before
he died. Her mother died long before
that. Her brother must cost a lot OF
money. He was a husky once. played
/ football. was great on hunting and be-
Ing out In tho mountains and such
things. He got his accident break.
Ing horses. and then rheumatism or
something got into him. One leg Is
shorter thHn the other. and withered
up some. He has TO walk on crutches.
1 saw her out with him once--cross.
Ing the ferry. The doctors have been
experimenting on him for years. and
he's In the French Hospital now, I
think"
All OF which slde-llghts on Miss Ma.
son went to increase Daylight's inter.
est In her. Yet. much as no desired.
he failed TO get acquainted with her.
lie had thoughts OF asking her to
luncheon. but HIS was tho innate chiv.
airy of the frontiersman. and the
thoughts rever came 20 anything. He
knew a seli-resrec,ing. quare.dealins
man was not supposed to take his
stenosraPfer to luncheon. Such things
did happen, he anew. for no heard
fha chafnro 0oosfr ~ thn a