The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-07-31

hand he removed the cap from the motor.
cycles tank and allowed two or three urops
OF water to mingle with the gasoline.
This done, Harry let down his sleeves.
washed his hands, and salniered in to
breakfast with the UnweIcome ann ance,
nent that the big car was, for thu day at
least, beyond human aid
There was a flicker Of suspicion in owens
sallow face at the Dews. He wondered II
Harry had disabled the touring car that he
might ride alone with Pauline
Il am afraid said Harry quietly, "that
you will have to ride in the runabout alone
with me, Polly. It's rather hard on Ray
motd, but guess he must go on his motor
cyc-G a7 by train"
"Oh. 7 think you wrecked 1t on purpose"
said Tauline, without the slightest suspicion
that she was stating the truth.
owen, worried by vague misgivings
about Hc~ry, looked into the tank of the
runabout to make sure Ii it was fun,
and then scurried away on lis two-wheel-
ed mount. He considered waiting until the
rUnabout was ready to start and keeping
the machine in sight but Il seemed wiser
to be on the field where he eYuld make
sure the Frenchman would not forget his
bargain nor start before Pauline arrived,
Pauline was ready wit. such record
breaking suddeInes7 that 1t gave her the
novel experience Of waiting for Harry.
She had not forgotten that her lover
had asked her net 20 bother him while
he worked on the car After thlt light
to her prid9 tie young lady would rather
die than go ne, the garage while he was
ii 1t. Durins. the nCXt five MINUTES I'M
pleasant doubts entered her mind What
could this Indifference and neglect ne 4?
She had looked upon Harry ever since lis
return from college as a personal LOS.
session. OF Cou.le, technically he wasn't
hers until she married him. Eut T. he
were not her property, at least she had
an option on the handsome youth u1til
such t.me as she saw fit to either take
his name or reinqush lin to sorle one
else. In that case she wondered t. whom
she would like to turn him over. There
was her schoolmate and chum, NJ d, Ham
lin. How lucky any man would be to get
her, and Harry-how would he feel about
It? Then. like a cold draught in her brain
came the recollection that Lucille and
Harry had correspondent all the four years
he was at college.
Could II be that she, Pauline, had been
too wilful and headstrong with Harry?
If SO. was It possible that the keen edge
of his alteration was wearing dull? Paul
inc had just succeeded in stamping these
unpleasant questions deep down into the
subconscious parts OF her mind when the
young man whisked up in the runabout
Pauline's wrath melted rapidly. Harry
drove, as he did everything out in the open
air, magnihcently. His judgment of dis.
tances and openings was precise and his
skin in weaving his way through heavy
traffic was startling. A good-looking
young man Is seldom seen to better ad.
vantage, especially by a girl, than when
driving a powerful car. Pauline loved to
drive with Harry. Besides his spectac-
ular tricks he had q guileess manner of
getting the better OF arguments with cross.
ing policemen.
Every time Pauline saw a girl at the
side Of the road she noticed the quick
glance of feminine appraisal and approval
OF her driver, and each time she felt
CORES onding Joy that this handsome
youth was hers.