Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-02-12
While She
Was Away


age!" cried the girl with the fall hat
as she rushed at the other girl with
the golden hair and innocent blue
eyes. who was buying handkerchiefs
assiduously. How well you lookl
Your summer In the country"
oh. I didn't go to the country"
said the girl with blue eyes. II stayed
at home this year,"
What. gasped the girl with the
fall hat, in a shocked tone. My dear,
you don't mean to say you've passed
the whole dreadful summer cooped up
In the city, without a bit Of change
or"
The girl with blue eyes regarded
her calmly. Il managed to have q
very good time." she said.
Il know" commiserated the other
But l do feel sorry for you! When
every one you know is away It must
be hard to be patient and amuse your
self. | think II Is wonderful that you
have stood 1t 30 we'll. | should have
been bored to death. l feel sure You
know that simply must have lots OF
people around me and things going
on.
Il had a perfectly glorious time at
the lake. proceeded the girl with the
rail- hat There were several men
there who simply kept me busy and,
OF course. while didn't want to make
the other girls unhappy. couldn't
help 1T II they got left out a good
many times. But 1t is perfectly dread
full when three or four men happen to
fall In love with one the same sum-
meri"
Il should think So" said the girl
with blue eyes. (which one did you
take?"
The girl with the fall hat looked
annoyed. "Oh, I'm in no hurry about
that" she said. I'm not SO crazy to
get married as most girls. They all
VIII probably be on here soon to see
me. l was so rushed that l am afraid
| rather neglected my old friends.
did write Harold asking him to come
up, but something tiresome kept him
Ii town. OF course. then | wrote and
told him to come any time that suited
MIN anu not to think Of hurrying
back, but. some way or other, the
poor boy got delayed each time.
The head Of the firm came on from
the east once and his mother was
sick another time. and goodness knows
what else interfered. I felt so sorry
for him. for I knew how disappointed
Harold was-well. he was"
blue eyes, with some interest.
The girl in the fall hat managed to
blush family. We'll, between you and
me, Harold was getting SO terribly
fond OF me that couldn't help seeing
what was coming. He can't help
showing his feelings in his eyes-did
you ever notice? But. of course, you
were never In exactly the same situa-
ton as | was with him. 80 you would
mt notice. II there Is anything / hate
to do 1t Is break a mans heart and
| wanted to be kind to Harold. That
was why | asked him up to the lake."
That's an odd way TO proceed when
you are refusing a man." commented
the girl with the blue eyes.
81 didn't say was going to refuse
him, did II" demanded with some as
perity the girl with the fall hat "Har-
old Is very nice and devotion such as
his appeals to a girl with sensibilities
such as / have! II Just spoiled my
birthday picnic for me because he
couldn't be there. kept thinking of
him working away alone in town,
wanting to join me and imagining the
good time was having with other
people! ! wrote him a long letter to
cheer him up that night"
He must have appreciated IT," said
the girl with the blue eyes.
"Of course he did," agreed her
friend. Harold has the finest nature,
It's too bad you don't know him well
enough to realize 1t. However,
think I'm about the only one to whom
he shows his real SELF lie must be
out OF town now, because I've called
up his office every day since got
back and the telephone boy always
says he's not in. | expect he's terribly
anxious to get back now that he
knows I'm here
Harold isn't out OF town." said the
girl with the blue eyes.