The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-11-05

She drew his head to her bosom.
The mouse was some help after ALL
she murmured with happy little
laugh. Lion thought he was at the
jumping off place. but mouSie caught
his beautiful frightened tail just il
time-thouCh it took an awful big
mouse pull to save him from going
Overland now she is going to kiss him
for being 4 stay at home work lion.
and ready to fight the whole world
rather than let her GO
It's going to be hard business.
Chris
Il know it-but you mustn't get dis
outraged
Anderson. the surveyor, might give
me a job. l know something of that.
you knOw-a great deal"
Then there are the mills
All too skilled for me, I'm afraid
and unionized."
The telephone company?
Yes. I'll try them. The electric
branch was very thorough at the
academy. could take a dynamo to
pieces once. and, what's more. put it
together again and make it CO.
You see you know lots more than
you thought you did"
And there is BeckleS' bank. Bee
kles Is such a funny Old fellow. Chris:
Unsuitable about the islands and spe
cially about the girls. Has dreams OF
going out there, | fancy, and turning
grand Turk. the fat old scallawag
When l said the prettiest women in
the Pacific came from Manihiki and
Uahinc be carefully wrote down both
names in Il little book. with the most
owliSh expression You ever saw. right
in the middle of stocks and bonds and
mortgages"
And DOty. Be sure and remem bei
the Rev. MI Doty. Matt. He likes
you awfully we'll. admires you and
looks up to you tremendously"
oh. I'll manage somehow-some
way. And then SO month and you
But try to save every penny of
what you have. and I'll begin saving
my allowance. | don't want to live at
| your horrd Mrs. Sattane's. We must
have Il little home all of our own
We'll. that's long way off. The
important thing now is to land Il pay
| envelope every Saturday night. ism I
| it,"
important: Oh. Matt. you just
| must
And then You'll commercially come
| Chris. still can't believe il
You will when you've got SO a
| month
Il may not even reach that all at
! once God knows. it may be hard to
| get SO
THAT Will be Il start. anyway. and
| If We DO have to wait Il little my allow.
| an@e will lie mounting up
We Shan't wait # can help it
I'll turn the old town upside down
/ On. Chris. with you TO work for what
! couldn't do
! Matt ScTCde homeward in Il state OF
| intlescTihub.e Joy. though With many :;
/ care running blackly through the
| bright woGf of his hopes and raptureS
I He WAS pledged to desperate plan
| ana one that would bring down on him
4 universal relroach. Such Il maria e
would shake MunuSwan TO its fOunda
! TONS ana ulaO0>e torrent OF GOSSIP
that would be harder to endure than
| poverty Itself. Alternately he gloateJ
| over Chris fortune-those three SNUG
| old houSeS"-and then Inconsistency
! wished them to the devil. Matt was a
/ proud man. and the thought of being
| miSrepreSented and misiudged was
! more than CALLING. What humiliat-
ing figure he would cut before her IA
| Their when the inevitable day of rprk-
| oning arrived. He would be Seen us
an adventurer preying on innorenre
and wealth. Yet ever before him was
! Chris herself. with appraised lips and
/ quivering body and misty. haunting
| eyes. all her young womanhood his TO
! take by the divineSt of divine rights.
The boariers. assembled at supper.
! found him at first very backward and
| moody. while he found them altogether
| uncomfortable There was a new board
er. Il heavy. gray haired. deferential