The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-07-11
SERIOUSLY NIpPED
1t Was No Time for James Henry
Garfield to Think of
PeniterG
BY ERNEST A. YOUNG.

James Henry Canfield, as cashier of
the Hepworth Trust company, detect
ed the financial ills of the banks pa
irons for eleven months of the year
with eyes that were hard, cold and
hawk-like
Then, during his August vacation
period at mountain, seashore or home
ly farmhouse resort, the afore-men.
toned eyes became dove-like while he
made love to the summer girl.
For seven seasons James Henry
filled in the August love-making pro-
gram without getting seriously nipped.
lie could not even recall the names
OF more than three of the seven or
eight summer sweethearts. Yet all
the affairs had seemed serious while
they lasted.
ways much better. In one case 1t
troubled him that the name had
dropped from his memory-the one of
the two years ago, up at the Lovejoy
farm.
1t was she who had sent her we'd
ding announcement the following June.
He lost the dainty engraved sheet the
same day he received it, and for the
life OF him he could afterward recall
only her married surname
He would not have been sure the
wedding notice came from that par
ticular young lady but for the post
mark and handwriting. These were
the same as those on an envelope that
brought him a blurry smooch intend
ed to represent his own manly figure
In pose beside the lane fence near
the Lovejoy pasture. For she had a
camera and snapped everything that
came her way.
1T wasn't Marcy, nor was 1t
Edith" debated James Henry when
the image of this girl who had figured
in the farm episode persisted in
haunting him.
1t was the end of July and his vaca-
tion would begin the next week A
post card from the Lovejoy farm was
inviting him.
1t wasn't much of a place, except
for that girl. Probably. he told him
self, he would not be thinking of that
summer at all had she not the same
as told him, in sending him that we'd
ding announcement, tina. there had
never been chance for him.
She must have been engaged all
the WHILE" he taunted himself by sa--
ing. while l was flattered with the
notion that she was-er-a bit sore
because l didn't wind up by propos-
w fn
d'ye-call-him Rochfort. peach of
a name, anyway; reminds me of a
kind of cheese!"
We'll go up to the Lovejoy farm
at Ridgeford, this year." he said to his
mother, the morning after the card ar
rived.
why to that lonesome place, James
Henry?" Mrs. Garfield demanded.
For eleven months of the year /
have no chance to get lonesome" he
argued Besides, it isn't the worst
place If you want to loaf around, row
boat, fish, that sort of thing. Truth
is, I'm tired Of seeing lot of people
Society is punk. Say" he suddenly
added. who was that girl? The one
at the Lovejoy farm?"
'If I'm not mistaken. there were FIVE
young women at the Lovejoy farm
while we were there" Mrs. Garfield
told him. do you mean the one with
the pale blue eyes and faded hair?
Or the other blond who talked books
and ART"
mo, mol" snapped James Henry.
The dark one, perhaps. who nagged
you"
1T doesn't matter" he again inter
rupted. "She won't be there this year,
anyway, for she is married. Husbands
name isis Cheesei"
He chuckled maliciously as he went
down to the bank. leaving his mother