The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-08-09

was recuperatng from very stubborn at
tack OF typhoid. So Mrs cambridge drove out to
Miss Langras' tea at the golf club and passed on
the glad tidngs with an addition of circumstantia
detail. Mister Masters had been sick for MANY
months at she thought-the New York Hospital
Mister Masters never remembered to have passed
SO lonely and dreary February The sunny South
was medicine that had been prescribed and that
had to be swallowed. Aiken on the label had looked
inviting enough, but he had found the contents of
the bottle distasteful in the extreme 'The South
is sunny" he wrote to his mother, 'but OH my
great jumping grandmother, how seldom! And it's
cold mummy, like being beaten with whips. You
were right about the people here all being kind; they
are all the same kind L know them all now-by
sight; but not by name, except of course, some who
are stopping at Willcoxs.
'But in spite of all this there is truth that must
be spoken. [ feel thousand times better and
stronger than when I came. I have no to talk
to but your letters. So don't stint me. Stint me
with money if you (lere defy you), but for the
love of Heaven keep me posted If you will promise
t. write every day will tell you the of the
prettiest girl in Aiken. She goes by eight times
every day, and she looks my way out Of the
of her eye. And [ pretend to be reading and try
very hard to look handsome and interesting
Such was the usual trend of his letters. But that
lone dated March began with the following aston
shing statements
81 love Aiken. . - and went on to explain
why.
But Mister Masters was not allowed to love Aiken
unsl he had through the whole gauntlet of
gossip But nnay the real truth ABOUT nln or some
thing like it, got out; and the Ratchet of suspicion
was buried and there peace in Aiken.
This the truth that got out about Mister Mas
tiers. He was nephew of the late Bishop Masters
His mother, on whom he was dependent, was very
rich; she had once been prominent in society. He
thirty and was good at games. He did not work
at anything.
So he was something that Aiken could understand
and appreciate: a young who well-born,
who didn't have to work-and who didn't want to.
:. Aiken took great fancy to Mister Masters First
because Aiken giving him good time and, sec
ond, because he really good company when you
got him well cornered and his habitual fright had
worn off,
But gradually he became almost at ease with near
ly everybody and in the shyest, gentlest way en-
joyed himself hugely But the prettiest girl in Aiken
- had very hard work with him.
don't mean that the pair sat or stood or walked
in absolute silence Indeed little Miss Blythe could
never be silent for long period permit it in
others. but mean that with the lines and the ma
chinery of North Atlantic liner, their craft pro-
pinauity made about much progress scow.
mo- said little Miss Blythe, upon being sharply
questioned by Mrs Hotchkiss, he practically
never does say anything
Mrs. Hotchlrss dug little round hole in the sand
with her long black cane and made an insulting face
at little Miss Blythe
s'Some men, said she, "cant say Boo to a
GOOSE
Little Miss Blythe had many brothers and sisters;