The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-03-27
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i was evident tazt ihs yolhg man
Has uarriad Index. tnHs s. efl
1ert tAaf Loretta e1lid nCt veil ig
acre tie fact S. atisr fer c1m-
nolpisees she asked him what Eas
ne matter.
lit lsas often thar ~ friends are
30 evidently thinking cf something
else whsl try ny best 70 5e enter
tanning she said Yo1 have some
hing q gour mind and j might Be a
good idea 10 teis ne about it
I don't see how Fc1 guessed it,~
returned the young nan But The
ir1ih Is -hai 7 am sust about as vor-
ried IS anybody car Be. don't see
1oE The thing c4n come olf right
-lf may not be zA had as it seems"
Loretta told him. eomi0rtingiy Girls
overlook I good deal Besides. 3 girl
who taxes The trouble 70 gel angry
All y0a Is not often perfectly indi1eE-
enr"
You're right sgain-it e girl"
The young man said. sheepisAly. IT
y0u had Old ne a feE weeks ago that
ia ever Be 80 silly as to NOrry over
such thing Id have said y0a we're
away Of the track
One never can tell" declared LO-
retta sageiy. Co On
You ses,7 the young man began,
~ws live sn Z neighbogAood that . half
city and half country and not quite se-
lect enough TO be fashionable It's
5ass as nice as it can be and re GER
tainiY enjoy our garden and our porch
% beat ahe band. My mother almost
lives out 81 doors. Well, there vas a
house built next door with q ans
chicken yard and b and b. the pro
pie moved in.7
-ltA q Hay people have Of doing"
murmafed Loretta.
There vas a man and his wife and
after Z while a girl came h0me IRON
college. having been graduated with
AOnors Gee. she's as smart as whip
And. hUnest, Il doesn't keep her from
being pretty, either
Il am really surprised" said Loret-
ia.
We'll, somehow We got TO be good
friends. the young man went on. dole
fully. Too good friends for iny CON-
fort. it seems. anyhow, ! got inter
etted iii her chickens which are real.
~ fine ones. You know, not the com
mon kind al all l could understand
how proud she was Of them She was
fond Of any kind of pets and she had
q eat that was dream II had q
long. plumed tail and had taken a
prize Al every cat show for several
years. She positively worshippsd that
cat.
After while mothers vegetables
came up and lot Of flowers, for she
a master hand al growing things
Then, just as III luck would have Il
something came and dug up her grow
Ing ihinga II Certainly was the limit
Mother got 50 discouraged that she al
most cried. I declared that I'd xii
the creature that did it on sight. what
ever il vas"
"Recklessl"
'9Eem, / never thought Of the chick
ems, he proceeded. "till I found LidI
Flanders kind OF chilly toward me.
asked her over the fence one morninl
what the trouble was and sh
said very Dointedly that her mos
valuable chickens we're disappear
ing al the rate OF one night"
Why didn't you tell her that yo'
didn't know anything about her chick
ensg"
Tell heri" repeated the young mar
"As If / didn't tell herr II ] said
once / said It a thousand times. Blu
do you think she would believe 10
/ With that chickens head lying At m
feetg Not much. And you wouldn
have either, not after my silly threa
10 XIII Naleyer il was that tore L
mothers garden"
what did you DO about it ate
thatqH
"At first ] didn't think there was
thing ! could do. he sighed. lid
wouldn't let me come near enough
speak 10 her It made me wild to Sc
her smiling at everybody else
Il wouldn't have given her a SCI
ond thought since she vas so unjust
"Oh. yes. you would. the young ma
assured her. 1T would have been a
very well TO talk Ike that In th
spring. but It Was 100 late for me
quit thinking Of her then Why / la
awake nights trying 10 fix it up an
/ It was not until last week that hs
an idea.
1T was the very day she bowed I
me as she was going out with youI
Saunders. You know, he squints (
something. Well, boving TO me WI
more than she had done for so lor
that sort OF took heart and sharpens
my wits had been - downhearte