The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-01-01
CHAPTER V---Coctinued.


Wen. then suppose there's no use
assIn,." went on Rosalie. "why you do
It. It's because there's nothing else
60 do. Your play ia to find something
Just as absorbin' and as excitin as
uqtior, but rot quite so foolish
~Sure!" said Tommy. THE pot of
sold at the end of the rainbow. or Cap
tain Kids treasure. Anyhow. I'm
going away from here"
Now, Mr. North" said Rosaiie.
there's two ways of facing thing
aown--stay, an go. Which is better,
{ don't Know. Which Is Drawer, DO.
tIefe's a room for YOU Board here
lha rest of this weeki--on' melville
you look. around-an' If you think then
chat COINS the best way, then go"
Tommy North, Injured to an atnos-
phexe wherein none gives something
Cor nothing, regarded Rosalie lie
Grange with look in which gratitude
struggled with suspicion.
You're thinkin;" responded Resale,
coaching out to seize his thought,
stsaat this is just my plan to ill my
boardin' house. Think 1t IL you want
10. But this is my proposition! You
6eep this room free until Monday, an.
&c you want, you can have it perma-
aent at twelve a week, which is what
sou paid Mrs Moore"
I'm sure I'm much obliged" said
Tommy, suspicion departing. I'll stay
4he week out, and make up my mind. "
Sensible" replied RosaIie. It'll send
up towels dinners at six-thirty."
We have taken little time to con-
slider Betsy-Barbara. Let us view her
0ow, as she stands. dressed in blue
Troc!z for dinner, tapping at Con-
stances door. Betsy-Barbara's flesh
end spirit were twenty-four: her heart
was eighteen; her purpose was forty.
Whenever even the darkest ray
kouched her hair, 1t fiickered with gold,
IN full sunshine, even her brows and
s&ashes giittered and twinkled. Her
mouth was large and generously irreg-
Gllar: her nose was small and whim-
.sicaliy irregular: her violet-blue eyes
were IS clear as pools AS she stood
there, waiting for Constance to rise
.and open the door, her merriment took
Name from some sleepy remark. In
shat precise psychological moment; all
eDIantsd by the fates, Tommy North
came down the hall on his way to din
" asr " The laugh arrested him dead.
The door opened then. She vanished
like q golden fairy caught In mist of
Tspor.
& minute later, Tommy North was
sitting la the dining room at Rosaiie's
sight--waiting for something. He
eouud himself in a state of einBafrass-
ment uncommon with him. What was
lie that he should talk to decent
girl? And would she know that he
wasAtha branded? But when, mo
Fnent later. she traiied in behind Con
stance like luminous shadow, when
RosaIie introduced them both by name
and when he recognized them as the
women In the Hanska affair, one par;
of his embarrassment fioated away.
Twice during the dinner he laughed
aprcariou.;ly, causing Miss Harding t.
remark t1at he was getting back his
spirits. anyhow This was when Betsy
Barbara ventured mild joke. Twice
again she included him In the CONVEX
cation. Once she asked for the but
GER, which impelled him to reach fran
Ideally for the salt. and once she re
ferred to him the question whether
one could reach City hall, Brooklyn
sooner by trolley or by subway. where
at ne got temporary reputation as ;
Joker by answering both" He sa
dazed through the soup. ecstatit
through the roast. and rapt through
.the dessert. Only when Betsy-BarbaT;
and Constance rose together. did he re
member that he had finished long age
At the door of the dining room mex