Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-01-01

tell you. Minnie. If / ever get away
| from this place"
You've got to get away this min
ute," broke in, remembering. They'll
be coming any instant now"
He got UP and looked around him
helplessly.
"WhereIl l go?" he asked. Il can't
go back to the shelter-house."
looked at him and he tried to grin
Fact" he said, hard to believe, but
| fact, Minnie. She's got the door
locked. Didn't / tell you she is of a
suspicious nature? She was asleep
when left, and mostly she sleeps all
| night. And just because she wakes
when I'm out. and let's me come in
thinking she's asleep, when she has
one eye open all the time, and she sees
| what I'd never even seen myself-that
the string of that damned garment,
| whatever 1t is, is fastened to the hook
OF my shoe, me thinking all the time
that the weight was because I'D broken
my leg jumping doesn't she suddenly
sit up and ask me where I've been
And I'm unsuspicious, Minnie. by
nature, and l said I'd been asleep.
Then she jumped up and showed me
that-that thing-those things, hang
| ing to my shoe, and she hasn't spoken
to me since. / wish l was dead"
And just then dog barked outside
and somebody on the step stamped
snow off his feet. We we're both para
lyzed for a moment.
"Julia!" Mr.. Dick cried, and went
white.
made leap for the door, Just as
the handle turned. and put my back
against it.
Just a minute" called. THE car
pet is caught under I'll"
Mr.. Dick had lost his head and was
making for the spring, as If he thought
hiding his feet would conceal him.
| made frantic gestures to him to 60
into my pantry, and he went at last.
leaving his hat on the table. | left
the door and flung it after him-the
hat, of course, not the door-and when
Miss Summers sauntered in just after.
was on my knees brushing the
hearth, with my heart going three
four time and skipping every sixth
beat.
"Hello!" she said Lovely weather
for polar bears. II the natives wade
through this all winter it's no wonder
they walk as II they are ham-strung.
Don't bother getting me glass. III
get my own"
She was making for the pantry when
caught her, and guess ! looked
pretty Wild
I'm get It," / said. "I-that's one
Of the rules"
She put her hands in the pockets OF
her white swee&er and smiled at me.
do you know" she declared, ''the
old ladies' knitting society isn't so far
wrong about you! About your making
rules-whatever you want, whenever
you want EN-"
She put her head on one side.
Now" she went on, suppose l
break that rule and get my own glass?
What happens to me? l don't think
I'll be put outl"
threw up my hands In despair. for
| was about at the end of my string.
Get 1t then!" exclaimed, and sat
down, waiting for the volcano to erupt.
But she only laughed and sat down
on a table, swinging her feet
When you know me better. Min
ME-" she said, you'll know | don't
spoil sport. / happen to know you
have somebody in the pantry-more-
over, know it's a man. There are
tracks on the little porch, my dear
girl, not made by your galoshes. Also,
my dearest girl, there's a gentleman's
glove by your chair there!" l put
my foot on it. And just to show you
what good fellow / am"
She got off the table, still smiling,
and sauntered to the pantry door.
watching me over her shoulder.
My heart was skipping every second
beat by that time. and Miss Julia