The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-03-25
DOLORES PIMENTO COAT /,
By LOUISE MERRIFiELD.

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i viii not be paired of with any
girl who wears a pimenso coat, saia
Chad firmly, even aggrieTedly. IA
willing to 20 the limit on this thinE-
I1l put up cash for the eats. and III
pull an car. and DO all the camp
tricks / know. but if you think m
going to have that pimento coat
handed to me 10 carry around on my
arm all the afternoon, you've got an
other guess coming. shorty There
BE- limits even 10 our fraternai bonds,
boy
shes peach OF girl. honest
Chadaie. You only saw Der for a
minute down at The boat landing
at was enough. She shone ef-
fulgenf on that boat landing, All
could see was q splotch Of rare pl-
mento yellow. the glorious deep red
yellow Of Castilian banners. And
you want me to attach myself 20
that comet. Nay, child, nay. @sh Of
ald Uncle Peter what you will. but
no pimento coats. lad
Well. shake her. II you like III
take her ccat and all, and be glad 70.
( tell you that only II didn't seem
4 square deal to her She's fine
sla. ana deserves our best specimen
81 manly beauty" He lodged the
clothes brush swiftly and peered
around the hall door sar last fling
! I'm tell her you objected to the
coat. Chadde.
Chad growled an inarticulate an
sNer Yet somehow even after his
roommate had gone, he could not ap-
ply himself to books Our OF doors
the first day Of June fairly whooped
/ II him to come aud join the fun Of
l living. Great feeey clouds sailed lazily
up from The southwest beyond the
edge OF Woodland that rimmed the
campus BeyoAd the woodland were
he TAN sand dunes that sloped to the
blue waters Of old Michigan. Along
he shore three miles up. was to be
lie picnic. and they were 70 row there
Ia boats.
An unconscious OF the comment she
nad stirred up. Dolores hesitated be-
tween wearing her coat or a white
sweater
You'll need the coat coming back
when # gets cool toward evening
vida advised. and when Il came 70
general pointers on the etiquette OF
wearing apparel and behavior, the
girls kowtowed TO Vida in her "soph
year
Dolores nodded her head. She
dashed one Of her quick, amused
smiles al Vida. Il was all part OF
her college education, she felt, and
Vida was delishtful guide and men
or.
The next day when Chgi met the
girl In the pimento cloak, his worst
enemy could not have wished for 9
more complete subiugation But i
was shorty. CHEEKY, popular little
shorty. who walked her away from
him
All the afternoon she kept away
from him. Then suddenly Fate veere'
his way. Out OF the southeast there
came up a pelting thunderstorm
They had walked far along the bluffs
and shorty had led the retreat towards
distant house, when Chad foun'
himself next the pimento coat.
Drenched it was now, but he vel
coined it and its wearer, and h'
turned toward what looked like
shelter in the trees.
| why. it is a pilot house crie'
| Dolores. THAT is queer
| Not at an plunged Chad boldly
| They're cast up by wrecks all aloni
the Michigan coast line. Then tn
people turn them into summer houses
| land and chicken coops, you know
| anything | think it's cosy myself
Il Eve should 90 on with the rest
"Theyll never miss US. and I've go
! 10 speak TO YOU Why did you max
: believe YOU did not know me?'
) DO I know YOU. Mr. Grayson2' Do
4 lores' dark eyes looked at him s.
seriously and anxiously that Chat
q lost his head.
q do you-oh, Lord Didn't | max
e owe to you for five days coming iron
3 cherbourg a year ago? Aren't yol
\ Miss Merrill2"
h "One of them. There are three Q
H as and we all look very, very mucl
q alike to strangers.
4 I'm not stranger. I've bee
& writing you letters ever since, an
4 pouring out my heart to you, an
& you've answered them. haven't you2
n Maybe my sister Reina, or my sis
e ter sigma"
& 1T was you. Don't you suppose
d man has any intuitive sense? Didn'
Is know the instant I looked at you
4 ia know you anywhere. and love so
b under any circumstances. fof
\ wouldn't have answered my letters
h you hadn't cared. Dolores, woul
e you2"
s II have-remembered you. said Dt
2 lores. guardedly. we must 90 a
Z once to the others. think. The cloud
k are breaking.
= You bet they're breaking, e.
e planned chad with force and fervol