Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-06

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Pardon me. / did not mean to be
impairment
1T is as | said. We return to sim
pies. What is more direct, what is
simpler than asking me my given
namea almost said Christian! And
/ am just as much 3 pagan as my name
Implies Your name is John. Uncle
Billy has been singing your praises
since the first dag we went out. was
beginning TO hate you. The green corn
and the melons were delicious. Thanks.
I am as much IN your debt as you are
In mine. And there you have the truth
of 1t. Friendship should always bal
ance evenly Weigh obligation against
obligation, or. better still, see that
there are no obligations. Old and trite
as the hills, isn't it,
May / be counted as a friend? ne
asked eagerly.
She rose, spun the melon rind into
the water, stopped quickly and cast
stone after it with amazing accuracy.
why not-up here?' II we ever meet
elsewhere it VIII be from behind
hedges. and wen have to play the
earnestly, ! think it-of having some
one TO introduce US properly
Another stone few ont and caught
the melon On the rim, spinning it. 1t
overbaianced and sank. What mads
you ask me if my name was Diana?"
a. TO bp
where the melon had been floating.
Who hut Diana could have thrown
a stone like that?"
Not a very brilliant invention"
There was In her glance neither en-
barra ssment nor coquetry. nor curi0s-
ity-nothing that he recognized as
feminine Yet it seemed to draw the
truth out of him as easily as the bucket
comes up from the well.
When you came into the boathouse
Diana sprung into my mind The I'M
pcrturbability
''Ahr mockingly.
with which you accepted the at
mospheric conditions
"Fiddle-dee-dee. ....
struck me as being unlike any
thing had ever seen in woman"
II like the way you finished that
sentence. 1t shows tenacity Of pur-
pose. Am I a freak
"No."
He held his hand toward her
'All this is very unusual" she said,
ewing the hand muslngly. but making
no effort to take il
Crauford's boat was about twenty
feet beyond the girls.
Suddenly she saw him strike. and
right from under Uncle Billy's port
oar eaped the big fellow. The sur
prised girl started back and, to save
herself from going overheard, dropped
+ her rod
Fortunately it struck the gunwale
evenly and balanced She pounced
/ upon it, laughing.
Il couldn't have acted any siilier If
J some one had shouted mousse
"Jee hossi phat" murmured Uncle
/ Billy as the bass cleared the water
! again.
/ lie made a megaphone of his hands
and shouted 10 Crawford, Its HIM"
/ Crawford sent back a happy laugh.
! The girl watched him, fascinated.
/ He did not seem 10 care one way or
/ the other whether he lost the fish or
( f,r9Yrrrfr him, a. ,ra,s4
/ once the bass turned a complete cir
] Gle around the boat, and to this ma
neurer Crawford danced a hornpipe
/ from stern to bow and back again.
with Lester dueking madly and shift
/ ing this oar aud th8t
/ Everybody was laughing excitedly
/ and Offering advice. Uncle Billy stoo l
IN and shouted and the girl murmured
I Abs" and Obs after the manner
! Of children Witnessing fireworks.
/ Once the black fellow decided to test
/ the strength Of the line by tanglns it
Zip in the screw.
My what a time. Crawford immedi-
/ ateIy called for help. Lester crept for
ward, straddled the stern and deity
/ worked out the smart Not an inch Of
4 slack did Mr. Bass get for his cunning.
A glorious battle, a superb contest:
skill and intellect at one end. fear ana
I strength and cunning at the other, the
! connecting link thread of silk
1t was fourteen minutes by the girls
watch when Crawford called for the net.
The girls palms We're wet, and little
beads Of perspiration stood out upon
her forehead. She had gone through
the battle as if she herself had fought
every turn and phase Of it.
Hi Miss Wynne. reels buzzin' =
/ sang out Uncle Billy. diving for the
oars. "Mebby its I'll mate. They run
in pairs
She caught up the rod just as the
final turn Of the reel brought the slip
knot into view; fifty yards of line out.
/ One chance in a hundred, she thrust
the rod outward and took three or four
turns of the reels Dared she strike
Away beyond Cranford's boat the fish
broke.
Lester, realizing what had happened
came about and headed for the shore
TO give the girl all the play she needed.
Mate 10 ours he said TO Crawford
a goiliwhopper." gurgled Uncle
Billy. Don't : git fused. Miss
Wynne. He's swallered tn hook. r |
don't know nuthin' bout bass"
Uncle Billy. | shall cry II lose
him."
"Took the bait of'n tn bottom:
Nhut az know bout that? An, don,t