The Forrest City times., 1912-08-09

simple Dash simple people-neyer could stand them, Thing admired Sas brains. Aloud l raid gsntly-4l- most humhly:
 So glsd you iiSe him. don't yoa know-did like. mean."
 Did Ike? l do stili."-ae- tone lifted in earnest protest-'I love to think Of brave. dear Arthur and his knights-so few. and yet SO full of love, Of galientry and daring.e So his nights were like that. By love. l was deFiiish glad then that l they had been So fev-that vas some comfort, dash 1t. I wondered il the began Ras dead. Bat what difference dld t make now. after all? She was l mine now and she knew ! knew it; that was why this sweet. ingengoas ! child w3s laying bare 10 me her past the darling,
 Really. ought not 10 let her go on.
 Never mind them nog." l urged l soothiHg.y And needless Of the Win doxs. hitehed 8 wee bit closer. That's all past and gone and you and 1 ] will yet see as good nights as they ever were" I spoke with assurance l Don't you think so." l added. softly. She sighed. T don't know-I hope l so,a-she fingered dubiously over t. locking away again. the while her l hand put back the fsecy. golden l whatyoa-cail-it that was smuggling 10 her eyes. looked st the goddess 1 like forearm. barred to above the el- bow. where | slipped from sight un- der the roll Of sleeve. and thought ot that night in ny apartment when she l had made ne feel of her biceps. don't you know.
 You don't know es repeated with gentle reproach "Oh. I say. you know You know you know you know.a By JoYe. that sounded rather rum. but knew she knew knew she knew-see2
 she looked at ne zide9ise. her slender foreanser pressing tae halt- parted lips slowly shaping in a curve. l Then her little teeth flashed. jewel iike-reguiar jolly pearl setting in the tEankest. sweetest s.2ile.-and then ] her glorious arm and wrist arehed 1 suddenly toward ne.
 Yes she saId oolt-ttely. and with l the most delightful. k.ncest infection and lausa-sueh Q laagh,-a laugh sgEg.tsg lod.o2s-oh, dash il. yes. l mean just tnat,-like tae flute I notes ia the overture to what s-his- naHe-that soFf,
 That's the way love to hear a rsHE- | .e- II takes an American 10 stand up for his own place. h.s own times-p!eas
 And gently, but with lovely smile. she withdrew he. hand that l had foided close in mine. let t go, for | saw her look toward the house and, ot course, understood careless of me not to have renen be.ed-but she would know from ny rod and shrug that I compreaended
 sighed. and ny deep breath brought her gaze back b ne and her flashing smile as well.
 And so. she said. lifting her little chin. you think there are just as many knights now as there used to be-"
 almost laughed al the ohlldlike qaest!oa-blt didn't. Dash il, 10, wouldn't have done 50 for the world Jast looked - Der seriously and an ssartd her ia kiId:
 Perfectly sure ot f. dont you .rc2
 Ard. ty 5eve. was Knew if there h3 h,l -y change. some reTsr.- ae-r e4aY U tae c.aa would ls4z ..e--5e-sG .t-that wos safe. es- ee-al.s .s.s sH.y ass wAo waz always zsaL-1- ot some soay comet nat was caHIrS sse would ELew about the n.el-s
 -Yez-ea yez. there are s1st az many @a-rHed Ios!ttye.y. and add a1 quickly More yo4 E1oR" For suddenly I remembered f vas leap rear. and EreN there was some jolly rhyme about .elQ-year gives US one day more-so ot course. the-e,d be auother night.
 sYoa don't know how glad I am to hear you say that" she said nuSing!y. There are just as many knights. you mean. but the conditions have ehanged-the man IS changed-is that it,~
 should say the man was changed, "Oh. dash 1t. yes hlurted. By 1 love. I hoped there wouldn't be an- other change.
 You mean"-with 6 little. chaL lengiug. puzzled smile. she leaned for. ward. her elbow resting upon her knee ike a scuiptured Grecian pillar: her fowerlike curytrg fingers supporting her chin like a CoF.athian xhat's-tts name. you know. the sort ot thing the ancient what-you-calL. always added to top os their stunning mar ble eolumns-you kuoE.-weM. Ike that-"you mean we may find knights not only in the field. but in the shous upon the streets-eyen in ths stuns. or Tn the hospitals. in the church or upon the beueh-that is your idea7~ r wasn't my idea af all xho.,t-