The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-04-02
BUILDING A ROMANCE
BY CLARA INEZ DEACON.

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BE careful, Bessie, and don't take
the wrong train"
"Oh, shall ask at least so people
If it's the right one"
And be sure you are not carried
past Redfern."
Il shall be out on the platform and
waiting"
The name Of the station Is Red
fern, isn't it?'
rs sure is, mother, and don't you
get it mixed up with Red Hill or Red
Head"
And Kitty st. Clair will be there
to meet your
Yes, unless she is laid up with a
broken leg
You may be killed in a railroad
wreck before you get there"
If | am I'll telephone you. I'm
off,"
Just another word, Bessie Mrs.
St. Clair is sober, sedate woman, and
you and Kitty must not 60 to cutting
up or she'll be shocked.
Not cut-up, mother. There.
now!"
And about the same hour Mrs. st.
Clair, at her country home, was say
ing to her daughter, Kitty:
This is the day when your friend,
Bessie, comes down."
Yes, mother"
We'll, we must give her good
visit Didn't you say she was rather
sedate?'
She's almost as solemn as a grave
stone"
I'm glad of that, for she will act as
a check on you. You have spirit
enough for any three girls. | do hope
that while she is here you won't act
quite so like boy!"
Il shall 60 around with tears in my
eyes and my hands tied behind mel"
An hour later there was meeting
at the country station that was wit
messed only by the old depot master
and small boy.
"Oh, Kitty"
"Oh, Bessie!"
Hip, hurrah"
"Whoop-la.'
I'm SO glad"
I'm SO happy"
And after kissing each other exactly
Is times they Joined hands and went
Waiting up and down the platform
ana then drove away in the pony
cart. 4
The old man and the boy looked
after them in establishment, and the
boy exclaimed:
Gee, but did you ever see anything
like it,"
my son." answered the man with
a sad shake Of his head, that's what
you've got to come to-"
What? Turn into a gall"
You've got to marry gal like one
Of them, and she'll make 1t so blamed
rapid for you that you'll be lunatic
In less than a year."
When the girls had arrived and the
stranger had been welcomed to her
room, Mrs. St. Glars face wore a
troubled look, and she said to her
self:
Il don't see anything as solemn as
q gravestone about that girl. On the
she looks like a girl that
would turn somersault of a haystack
any day in the week. hope they
won't get to carrying on too high"
And upstairs there was giggling
and tittering and jumping over chairs
and exclaiming:
oh, but won't we make Rome howl
when we get at it,
1t was three or four days before
there was any bowling Then one
day the girls got on their old skirts
and set of to view the country. as
lney termed 1t. AS they were ready
to 60 Mrs. ST. Clair felt it her moth.
erly duty to say
AT this season of the year there
are lots OF snakes, you know"
We shall carry clubs to kill them
with"
You know there is dangerous
bull in Blacks pasture"
Yes, but he won't hurt a counle of
1emure maidens."
Tramps were never as numerous {
as now"
We are each armed with a table
knife. Good-by and don't worry"
Half mile down the road was s
Stacks bull pasture. The bull was at
nome and had a chip on his shoulder s
ne girls sat on the fence and gave
aim bad half hour They shouted at s
AIM and tainted him and defied him
lntll he broke his way out and ran /
Town the road and chased a farmer {
o the roof of his wagon shed. S
mat was enough of the bull. When |
ne mad careered away they went to a I
grove and climbed trees 1t was iolly I
.un until both had falls and bumps. q
"hen they had eaten lunch circus s
VAS suggested. 1t would be betraving
confidence to say that they at /
empted cartwheels, hand-springs. q
'omersaults and standing on their +
reads They probably didn't do a
lling Of the kind, but sat with their
Get braced against each others and
pulled at stick to see which was {
he stronger.
The circus performance was ont |