Bisbee daily review., 1913-06-22

ana l. Dont you Ike relatives, some one who belongs to you?"
 Father used to say that relatives were an affiietion, and he supposed man had to have affiictions to make a man of him. but If he had had any influence with Providence. he would have preferred not to be a man"
 Who was your father?" asked Billy.
 "A minister,P answered the Water. melon, clasping his hands behind his head and staring up at the interlaced boughs overhead. "A country minis ter. He used to say that there. was just one thing in this world more piti- ful than country minister, and that was his wife"
 Why" cried Billy. "the papers said he used to be policeman" T thought you didn't read the pa. pers?"
 q don't, just the Sunday supple ments." said Billy frankly. as one to l whom his intellectual development is of minor importance.
 The Watermelon wheeled over with laugh and caught her hand. Hang dad!" he exclaimed. "Where'd you get your name?" He drew himself up on the log beside her, as near as he dared. He wanted to put his arm around the slim waist, but decided that he had better not.
 She jerked her hand away aud laughed. her small nose wrirkled. the dimple coming and going. Don't you ' like it?H E.s
 Sure. It's classy all right. But what is the long Of it?" | fWilhelmina. Dads is William, just like yours. We're all Billies." Mine ain't William" sneered the Watermelon. edging a bit nearer ts Her eyes opened and she stared in frank surprise. "But the papers say-''
 The papers lie faster than I can,' J said the Watermelon, "and that's fairly speedy" He had only an hour and he did not care what she thought between him and the papers. "BilIy is Q darned cute little name, and a cute little girl" he added. q guess you can lie faster than the papers" said she.
 T can when I want to- admitted the Watermelon. Father used to say that a man that couldn't lie was a fool and one who wouldn't, a bigger"
 q should think if your father was a minister that he wouldn't lie." said Billy severely.
 q know But he used to say he had to in q business way. To tell a man that there was a bigger hell than this earth was a lie on the face of it {"
 "why?"
 Because there couldn't be, he used to say"
 Don't you believe in HeaFen?" de- rnanded Billy.
 Sure" said the Watermelon.
 What do you think it's like?" asked Billy.
 "A watermelon patch" said the Wa termelon promptly Just when all the fruit is ripe. Don't you think so
 "T think it's an ice-cream coupter- said Billy.
 Nav. Heaven is a grove of trees back Of a white garage There9 9 fallen log and a couple sitting or it. 70
 q should think that would be mo notonous." said Blly. Do they taIl,7"
 Sure they talk Heaven ein't Q deaf and dumb asylum"
 q should think they would set talked out during eternity"
 'Ah," said the Watermelon, leaning a bit nearer, eternity is but min ute"
 What do they talk about?"
 Heaven"
 Are they angels?"
 "One is."
 Billy laughed. "who are you?" she asked, leaning toward him. one hand resting On the log between them, her steady eyes on his face.
 The Watermelon again drew forth the card case, extracted a card and presented it to her with flourish.
 Holding it. she shook her head du- biously. T mean are you a stock broker? Are you on Change? Ia ther has been nearly all his life. and he looks 1t. His eyes and--everything Your eyes are different, quite differ ent. I don't mean in color and size, for of course they would be, but in ex- prsssion."
 How do you know?' asked the Wa 'termelon. You have only seen tbe'- expression when I have been looking. at you. and a man doesn't look at girl as if she were the tape from the ticker"
 "i know, acknowledged Billy. eBut I have known brokers all my life, and some have been young, and they they aren't like you. I never sat on 9 fog with one snd talked about Heave eu.
 Well. you see. ! am a ministers son, and I had Heaven with every meal. as it were"
 Maybe that's it." agreed Billy.
 A stick snapped behind them az though some one were approaching their retreat with stcaithy tread m. der cover Of the friendly bushes.
 Are you afraid of cows2" asked Billy. giancing over her shoulder fear fully.
 '7Not of female cows" said the. Wa termelon.
 "A broker wouldn't have said thai. objected Billy. pursing her mouth "A broker would say. No. indeed. Miss