The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-05-06


word with your"
"Of course YOU can. you dear boy"
Marjorie WINGED at this and writhed
at what followed: "Shan't we take
breakfast together?"
Mallory suffered: "I-I-no, thank
you've had breakfast"
Kathleen froze up again as she
snapped with -traln.acquaint-
ance, | suppose
ION, no. Mallory amended, Il mean
| haven't had breakfast"
But Kathleen scowled with a jeal-
ousy OF her own: You seem TO be
| getting along famously for mere train
acquaintances"
"Oh, that's all we are. and hardly
that Mallory hastened to say with
too much truth. sit down here a
moment. won't you?"
No, no. | haven't time" she said
and sat down. Mamma viii be wait
ing for me- You haven't been III TO
see her YETI
No You see"
"She cried all night"
For me?"
No. for papa. He's such good
trayeler-and he had sucn a good
start. She really kept the whole car
awake"
Too bad" Mallory condoled, per-
functorily. then with sudden eager
ness, and a trial at Indifference: Il
see you have that bracelet stlll.
"Of course, you dear fellow l
wouldn't be parted from 1t for worlds. ="
Marjorie gnashed her teeth. but
Kathleen could not hear that. She
gushed on: And now we have met
again. 1t looks like Fate. doesn't
IT."
1T certainly does" Mallory assent
ed, bitterly; then again with zest:
Let me see that old bracelet, Will
you?'
hu tried to lay hold OF it, but kath-
leen giggied coyly: ITS just an eX-
cuse to hold my hand" She swung
her arm over the back OF the seat
coquettishly, and Marjorie made a
desperate lunge at it. but missed,
since Kathleen, finding that Mallory
did not pursue the fugitive hand,
brought it back at once and yielded
1t up:
"There-be careful, someone might
look
Mallory took her by the wrist In
gingerly manner. and said, so that's
the bracelet? Take 1t off. won't your
"Never!-its wished on Kathleen
protested. sentimentally Don't you
remember that evening in the moon.
llght?'
Mallory caught Marjories accusing
eye and lost his head He made a
ferocious effort to snatch the bracelet
off When this onset failed, he had
recourse to entreaty: Just slip it
off" Kathleen shook her head tantal-
izingly Mallory urged more strenu'
ously: please let me see it
Kathleen shook her head with SO
phistication: You'd never give it
back. You'd pass it along to that
train-acquaintance"
How can you think such thing"
Mallory demurred. and once more
made his appeal; please, please, slip
1t off
"What on earth makes you so anx.
ious?" Kathleen demanded, with sud.
den suspicion Mallory was stumped,
TIL an inspiration came to him: I'D
like toto get you nicer one That
one isn't good enough for you"
Here was an argument that Kath-
leen could appreciate. "Oh, how sweet
of you, Harry" she gurgled, and had
the bracelet down to her knuckles,
when a sudden instinct checked her:
when you bring the other. you can
have this.
She pushed the circlet back, and
Malory's hopes sank at the gesture.
He grew frantic at being eternaIly
frustrated in his plans He caught
Kathleen's arm and, while his words
pleaded, his hands tugged: Please
please let me take it-for the measure
you know"
Kathleen read the determination in
his fierce eyes, and she struggled fu-
riously: why, Richard-Chauncey
--er-Btlly! I'm amazed at you! Let
60 or III scream!"
She rose and, twisting her arm
from his grasp, confronted him with
bewildered anger. Mallory cast to-
ward Marjorie look OF surrender
and despair Marjorie laid her hand
on her throat and in pantomime sug-
gested that Mallory should throttle
Kathleen, as he had promised.
But Mallory was incapable OF fur
ther violence; and when Kathleen,
with all her coquetry, bent down and
murmured: You are very naughty
boy, but come to breakfast and well
talk il over" he was so added that
he answered: Thanks, but l never
eat breakfast"
CONTINUED Tomorrow