The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1913-01-16
A WELL DEVELOPED
SUMMER LOVE AFFAIR

the elder Miss Simpson. "Disapprov
is too mild a word. She simply boile
" and started to pack her trunks
Then she ~unpacked them because, sh
said, she could not in justice to tn
family name leave me at the hotel ur
chaperoned.
"Chryssie is thirty-six, l am thirty
eight and neither of us ever had
chaperon in our lives-so | think i
made her remain at the summer re
sort with me. She wanted to see wha
| would do with Hendricks White
Chryssie has got tolerably used thi:
summer to seeing me mixed up in 9th
er peoples love affairs because they
were always confiding in me or beg
ging me to help them out-but it was
rather a staggering blow to her when
| produced a well developed love af
fair of my own.
you would have thought it was a
case of smallpox from her general at
titude. She conquered her shock and
repugnance only by heroic self-sacri-
flee and will power. There is some
thing magnificent about the way
Chryssie endures the presence of mas
culine beings on this earth. She dis
liked Hendricks White the instant he
walked into the dining room. Hen
bricks is an old bachelor in the for
ties and a successful lawyer who
barks at a jury and is used to seeing
it wilt before his eyes, so he has
rather got into the habit of expecting
everybody else to jump like the juries.
What attracted me to him was the
fact that he seemed to know instantly
what be wanted, whether it was the
choice of an ear of corn or an oar, and
because he positively snorted in wrath
when Libby Knox started to COO over
him. Libby is a young woman of I'M
certain age who COOS over every un-
attached man she sees. The general
run of men like it, even if they say
they don't-but she never tried it on
Hendricks a second time. After his
escape from her he planted himself on
the other end of the porch settee that
| vas occupying and breathed hard
as he glared at me. He knew | had
seen the episode. Finally | laid down
my work and laughed. / couldn't help
1t. A sort of harassed, tangled grin
crept over his face. Here he Kissed
at me, why is a woman, anyhow?
That is, some women?'
"a makeshift of nature to fill up
vacant space told him, promptly. I
got that figured out a long time agoi'
after that we were great friends.
And one day / went sailing with him
in a little catboat that he had rented.
Chryssie said the idea OF any man
twenty going sailing was pitiful.
But I've decided that the best way to
a good time in this world is to
take things the minute they present
themselves-and I bribed the waiter
at the hotel to put up some sandwich
es and other things for me and took
along a book and a bottle of ginger
ale.
"An hour later, when | produced my
little hamper and began unpacking
Hendricks said: You're the
AAOoN III L t1Cl 1lCl. L
vas just hating the idea of having to
20 back to the hotel for lunch on a
lay like this with a breeze just right.
Any other woman would have thought
If frills instead of sandwiches
"'H'm! I murmured, argumentative-
Speaking of frills-'
Hendricks paused with his mouth
ull of sandwich to glare at me.
They're all right he admitted. 4
lon't see why all women can't wear
lawn dresses with drawn-work
ike that. But you always do look just
ight!'
MY dress was white linen trimmed
n Irish lave, but l forgave him. It
yas touching to see how he enjoyed
eing fed, and he positively purred /
t the ginger ale and the book.
"'That's a book I've wanted to read
II summer he barked. You read out
and I'll keep the boat headed.
ay, positively, l could grow quite
md of you, Miss Simpson, and I'm
partial to women, either F.
1--WE had a lovely afternoon and /,
hen we started to sail back to the
otel we were surprised to find that ,
lie wind had died out completely. So
e had to pole in. This process con- =
SITS of standing in the stern of the
1at and twisting one oar around in
lie water as though you were getting :
lady to wiring it out and it is war .
mt to lay a strong man low in half ,
mile. Hendricks did two miles of :
and l sat there and kept still while {
, growled and mopped his face and
for breath. =
1T was when we landed that he >
emed finally to remember me. He :
i'd one hand or my shoulder-every- :.
'dy at the hotel was inside at din ,
he did not glare. Melanie, .
said, sharply, 4 want you to marry =
e! If you'd SO much as opened your
outh to make a suggestion during
ose two horrible miles I'd have
opped you overheard. but as it is ii
owe you desperately D,
THAT was why Chryssie stayed on &C
to see if l really was going to ac- h,
pit Hendricks proposal. She is up "