Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-03-31

is waiting for you.'
She was at his side in moment,
and they walked briskly along the
shadowy white floor.
"I know who has the money" said
Magee softly. Simply through a
turn of luck I know. 1 realize that
my protestations of what am going
to do have bored you. But it looks
very much to me as if that package
would be in your hands very soon."
She did not reply.
"And when have got it and have
given it to you-if I do" he con-
tinued, what them"
Then she answered, Il must go
Iaway-very quickly. And no one must
know or they will try to stop me-"
And after that?"
"The deluge," she laughed without
mirth.
guessing that upon the balcony of
Baldpate inn a young man had seized
a young woman's hand and was say
ing wildly Beautiful girl love
you"
Yet that was exactly what Billy Ma
gee was doing. The girl had turned
her face away.
you've known me just two days."
she said.
IF 1 can care this much in two
days" he said, "think--but that's old,
isn't it? Some time soon I'm going
to say to you, Whose girl are you?'
and you're going to look up at me
with a little heaven for two in your
eyes and say, I'm Billy Magee's girl
So before we go any further 1 must
confess everything must tell you
who this Billy Magee is-this man
you're going to admit you belong to-,
my dear"
"You read the future glibly," she
replied. Are your prophecies true,
wonder?'
absolutely. Sometime ago-on
my soul, it was only yesterday!-1
asked you if you had read a certain
novel! called The Lost Limousine
and you said you had and that it
wasn't sincere. Well, wrote it,
"Oh!" cried the girl.
YES" said Magee, land I've done
others like it. Oh, yes, my muse has
been a nouveau richie lady in a Worth
gown; my ambition, big red motor
car. I've been a scramble a cent,
mister troubadour beckoning from
the bookstalls. / turned tired of that
Baldpate mountain waved their black
arms constantly as though sparring
with the storm. At the foot Of the
buried roadway they could see the
lamps of Upper Asquewan Falls; un-
der those lamps prosaic citizens were
hurrying home with the supper gro
ceries through the night. And not one
of these citizens was within miles Of
sort. and 1 decided to try the other
kind-the real kind"
Don't tell me-" whispered the girl,
that you came up here to-to"-
YES" smiled Magee, II came up
here to forget forever the worlds gid
dy n.elodrama."
The girl leaned Imply against the
side of Baldpate inn.
"Oh, the irony of it," she cried.
II know" he said, its ridiculous.
think all this is meant just for
temptation. I'll do the real stuff, so
that when you say-as you certainly
must some day-Tm Billy Magee's
girl you can say it proudly"
I'm sure" she said softly, that if
ever do say it-oh no, 1 didn't say
1 wouldr'-for he had seized her
hands quickly-"if 1 ever do say it
it will certainly be proudly. But now
you don't even know my name
my right one. You don't know what
I do nor where l came from nor what
/ want with this disgusting bundle Of
money l sort of feel, you know, that
this is in the air at Baldpate even in
the winter. No sooner have the men
come than they begin to talk of-love
to whatever girls they find here-on
this very balcony-down there under
the trees. And the girls listen, for
it's in the air. that's all. Then au-
tumn comes. and everybody laughs
and forgets. May not our autumn
come-when l go away?"
"Never!" cried Magee. This is no
summer hotel affair to me, my dear,
in spring and fall. and when you go
away I'm going, too, about ten feet
behind"
Yes" she laughed, they talk that
way at Baldpate-the last weeks of
summer. It's part of the game" They
had come to the side of the hotel on
which was the annex, and the girl
stopped and pointed. Look" she
whispered breathlesSly.
In the window of the annex had ap-
peared for a moment n fiickering yell
low light.