Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-02-05

No ehAc 0NChih6 VI Al OlucI
to fall down the cellar stairs an,
break her arm?
He had to set the bone; then, a.
i'll luck would have it. no one coult
be found to go for her granddaughter
Marge Roper. The old woman coult
not be left alone. The young doctor
was forced to offer his services.
This had taken time, still if Billie
had cared the least bit for him. she
would have waited. There was nc
question about it.
AS for Billie. no sooner had Frank
gone than she called her brother from
a game of marbles and. refusing the
escort of DIR. Davis, went home.
The remainder of hat night she
passed in tears, and it was with a
heavy heart that she rose on Valen-
tines day.
The day itself was beautiful and
mild-with a south wind blowing.
The Imp had swallowed his breakfast
and was begging his sister to make a
kite. 1t was while she was cutting
and FASTING on this toy that he. in
chattering about the neighborhood at
large. told her the reason for Franks
delay the evening before. He had
heard it at the party.
Yes he finished as his sister. with
a shaking hand. passed him his com
pleted kite. h had to fetch Margs
Roper, himself. That was when we
saw him. wasn't it. Sis?"
1t would have been difficult to clas-
sify Billie's sensations. She felt mean
and unworthy, yet there was a streak
of pure glory running through all.
Frank was noble and self-sacrifcing
and-best of all-he was faithful.
Clearly. she must apologize. 1t was
hard to do, but it was the only way
out She wasted the morning in
wretched indecision then, at last. a
thought struck her. Why not get out
of 1t gracefully by writing a valen-
tine. She could be much bolder-on
a valentine.
The valentine was written. 1t must
be delivered that day by a messenger.
and, since the Imp had helped 10
cause the trouble, he roust act the
part of st. Valentines envoy and
make peace.
She put on her pretty brown dress
and her brown and see rlet toque and
went forth in search cs the small boy.
When she found him be was having
much enjoyment with the kite. AS
Billie tramped across tie new ground
towards him, she saw a tall. broad
shouldered man in a long overcoat
backed up against the fence watching
the lmp's maneuvers with the kite.
She decided to pretend she had not
him, though a wonderful scheme
darted n her brain as SCOT as she
caught sight of him.
She soon reached the Imp. and after
a few earnest words with her he drew
IN the kite They worked over it a
minute then, while she held it aloft,
he took the cord and scampered away.
An vbliging puff of wind came along
and shot the kite upward. The Imp
sped on The kite, true to its nature,
swayed from side to side and. as the
boy paid out the Irvine, scared up-
ward, made an erratic side-swipe. zig
Jagged around for a hundred yards or
more then, with a triumphant squirt
CT speed. sailed into a lealess cherry
tree near the fence.
The Imp came to a halt and looked
~mournfully at the kite nodding its
three-cornered head over a limb.
Then. apparently for the first time,
the small boy discovered DR.. Frank
Miller standing nea him.
Please, Frank whined the Imp,
set me the kite. You can stand on
the fance and reach it with your
cane."
And, since the Imp had a sweet, I'M
kind sister. poo Frank climbed the
enc and, after a trial or two. dis
the kite which came swaying
downward with a waggish, grotesque
movement n his hand.
Pinned across it's knowing face was
a sheet of note paper on which. in
bllnes writing, was scrubbed the fol-
lowing:
Frank, you dear, cross old Valen- |
tine! Don't be horrid any more, but
give your heart-broken Billie forgive
ness"
The Imp, grinning in sympathy, was
left suddenly with his mouth ajar in
amazement at a long-legged mailman
tearing across the field, headed for a
brown and red apparition and, to the
imp's disgust, carrying the kite with
him.
Amt big folks silly?" remarked
the Imp.
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