Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-02

fed you"
What's a woman going to say when
she has a tombstone thrown in her
face like that? | didn't say anything,
but what l thought about Aunt AIDE
line filed in a dreadful pause.
Perfectly dumb and quiet I sat for
an awful space of time and wondered
just what l was going to do. Could
q woman lie monument into her suit
case? 1t was beyond me at that speak
ing. and the Molly that is ready for
life quick didn't want to. | shut my
eyes. counted three to myself as | do
when | go over into the cold tub, and
told him all about it. We both got a
satisfactory reaction. and I never en-
joyed myself so much as that before.
l understand now why Judge Wade
has had so many women martyr them
selves over him and live unhappily
ever afterward. as everybody says
Henrietta Mason is doing. He's a very
inspiring man, and he fairly bristles
with destinations. Some men are what
you call taking. and they take you II
they want you, while others are draw
ing. and after you are drawn to them
they will consider the question of
taking you, The judge is like that.
In the meantime it tingles me up to
very great degree to have a man
use his eyes on me. as 1t Is the privi-
lege of only womankind to do. and |
feel that it will be good for his Judge
ship for me to let him draw" me at
least a little way. l may get hurt.
but l shall at least have an interesting
time of it. | started right then and
got results, for he stopped under the
old lilac bush that leans over my side
gate and kissed my hand. Old lilac
shook laugh of perfume all over us,
and 1 believe signaled the event at the
top of his bough to the white clump
on the other side of the garden. I'm
glad Aunt Adeline isn't in the flower
fraternity or sorority. Suppose she
had seen or heard!
And it didn't take me many minutes
to slip into old summer before last
also for the last time inside of those
buttons-and run through the garden,
my heart singing Billy, Billy" in a
perfect rapture of tune / ran past the
Office door and found MIN in his cot al
most asleep, and we had a bear re-
union in the rocker by the window that
made us both breathless.
what did you bring me. Molly?" he
finally kissed under my right ear.
"a real baseball and bat, lover, and
an engine with five cars, a rake and a
spade and a hoe. two blowguns that
pop a new way and something that
squirts water and some other things.
Will that be enoughT' / Rugged him
up anxiously, for sometimes he is hard
to please and might not have got the
very thing he wanted.
THANK you, Molly; all them things
is what / want. but you oughter brung
more'n that for three days not being
here with me-" Did any woman ever
have a more lovely lover than that? 1
don't know how long / should have
rocked him in the twilight If DR.. Johns
voice hadn't come across the hall in
command.
"Put him down now, Mrs. Molly. and
come and say other how do you does, !"
he called softly.
1t was funny glad to see him felt
as I came into the Office where be was
standing over by the window looking
out at my garden in its twilight glow.
/ think it is wrong for woman TO let
her imagination kiss a man on the back
of his neck even If she has known Tor
some time that there is little drake
tail lock Of hair there just like ms
own sons. gave him my hand ana
good deal more Of a smile and n blush
than | intended.
He very far from kissed the hand'
he held 1t just long enough to turn me
around into the light and give me one
long looking over from head to foot
Just where does that corset press
you worstf' he asked In the tone Oh
| voice he uses to say, Poke out your