Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-02-02

Sne stopped. b no still stood wait
ing. and she felt it incumbent to 90 on.
It's about 3 little Cocknsy Diapers
assistant. who takes a vacation on
his bicycle. and falls in with a young
girl very much above him. Her moth
er Is q popular writer and all that.
And the situation 10 very curious, and
sad, too. and tragic. Would you care
to read IT."
Does he get her," Daylight de-
handed.
No; that's the point Of It He
wasn't"
And he doesn't get her. and you've
read all them pages, hundreds Of them.
to find that out?" Daylight muttersd In
amazement.
Miss Mason was nettled as well a.
amused.
But you read the mining and fnan.
cial new by the hour" she 70
torted.
But l sure get something out Of
that. It's business. and It's differ
ent. I get money out of 1t. What dc
you get out of books?"
Points of view. new ideas. life"
Not worth a cent cash."
But LIES worth more than cash.
she argued.
"Oh, WE'LL" he said, with easy mas
culine tolerance, $50 long as you 81
Joy 1t. That's what counts. l suppose;
and there's no accounting for taste"
Despite his own superior point OF
view, he had an idea that she knew
a lot. and he experienced a feeting
feeling like that of a barbarian face
to face with the evidence Of some tre-
mendous culture. To Daylight cub
ture was a worthless thing. and yet.
somehow. he was vaguely troubled by
a sense that there was more In culture
than he imagined.
Again, on her desk, In passing, he
noticed a book with which he was fa.
miliar. This time he did not stop, for
he had recognized the cover. 1t was
a magazine correspondents book On
the Klondike. and he knew that he
and his photograph figured in 1t, and
he knew, also, of a certain sensational
chapter concerned with a woman's
suicide, and with one ITO Much Day
light" After that he did not talk with
her again about books. He imagined
what conclusions she had
drawn from that particular chapter.
and 1t stung him the more in that they
were undeserved. He pumped Morri.
son, the clerk, who had first to vent
his personal grievance against Miss
Mason before he could tall What little
he knew of her.
"She comes from Sisklyou County.
She's very nice to work with In tina
office, of course, but she's rather stuck
on herself-excluslve, you know"
How do you make that out?" Day,
light queried.
We'll, she thinks too much OF
herself to associate with those She
works with, In the Office here, for Inv
stance. She won't have anything to
do with a fellow, you see. I've ask
ed her out repeatedly. to the theatN
and the chutes and such things. But
nothing doing. Says she likes plenty
of sleep. and can't stay up late, and
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 go
to the theater with me, but she can
dance all hours with them. I've heard
1t pretty straight that she goes to all
their hops and such things. Rather
stylish and heightened for a stenos.
rapher, I'd say. And she keeps O
horse. too. She rides astrfde all ovsr
those hills out there. | saw her one
Sunday myself. Oh. she's a high
flyer, and l wonder how she does It
Sixty-five a month don't go far. Then
she has a sick brother, too"
Live with her people?" Daylight
asked.
No; hasn't get any. They were
well to do, I've heard. They must have
been, or that brother or Lers couldn't
have gone to the University of Cali
fornie- Her father had a 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 q lot of
money. He was a husky once. played
football, was great on hunting and be-
ing out In the mountains and such
things. He got his accident break.
ing horses, and then rheumatism OF
something got into him. One leg 10
shorter than the other, and withered
up sop1e. He has to walk on crutches.
| 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.
think"
All Of which side-lights on Miss Me.
son went to increase Daylight's inter.
est In her. Yet, much as he desired,
he failed to get acquainted with hsr.
He had thoughts OF asking her to
luncheon. but his was the innate chiv.
airy of the frontiersman, and the
thoughts never anne to anything. He
knew a self-respecting, square-dealina
man uaa not m taka hls