The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-05-27
THAT TALL, DARK MAN
BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON.


copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure Newspa
per Syndicate)
Don met them at the train - LoI
raine, her mother and father
seemed centuries since he had seel
her, Lorraine, of course, although j
had been but two weeks since she ha'
gone away.
The parting had been full Of fore
boding for Don. Such trip was SURF
to be prolific in young men. To make
things more ominous, Lorraine hat
intimated before leaving that Signo
rina Lolita had foretold tantalizingly
vague things of tall young man witt
brown eyes and dark hair. This wa:
thorns and nettles to Don, whose eyes
were gray and hair decided auburn
He now searched her face anxious
ly. Had the dark young man mate
rallied in the fortnight's vacation
There was nothing there to tell. Lor
raine was as sweet and smiling-and
baffiing-as ever. He sighed
He was asked to stay to dinner and
accepted gratefully. He had a logged
determination not to leave until he
had verified, or dissipated, his fears
Two things favored him-the moon
and the arrival of the preacher. The
back yard swing soon had two occu.
pants.
Lorraine suddenly became laxative.
"The whole thing was heavenly, Don.
From the minute we left until just
now"
"Thanks!"
You're welcome, grouchy! I'd
think you'd be glad to see me back.
Instead you've been glooming around
like funeral Well, I'm going to tell
you all about 1t anyway. I've just
got to tell someone Do you remem-
Der about Signorina Lotta-all she
said about dark man and every
thing?"
mol" killing a mosquito. What
did she say? Surely you don't be-
lieve the rot fortune teller gets
OFF,"
ooh, but I do. It all came true;
almost every word of it, You see, it
was this way" gazing rapturously at
the moon. when we got to Balti-
more the city was all decorated for
the big centennial After we had seen
the decorations and all that dad want
ed to go on a battleship"
We'll, where does the fellow come
In?"
ochr TN oopoi,,o m tbotf We
went across the bay to great whop-
ping man-of-war that made you feel
all glorious and patriotic"
But when"
BE quieti I'm coming to him
soon. They let us on that one. We
went up a funny little pair of stairs
hey lowered over the side of the
boat"
But what has your brown-eyed
friend to do with"
For goodness sake, be quiet, Don.
You're worse than Prince barking
or a bone Well, mother and were
ooking all around everywhere. Dad
lad wandered off by himself, and in a
ew minutes he came back with the
allest, handsomest, darlingest, brown
,yed-"
Don coughed painfully behind his
land.
Poor boyl What a coldl Well,
IS I was saying. dad came back with
he tallest, hand"
81 heard you the first time"
"Oh did you? Well he was. And
le treated us just lovely He took
IS lots of places other people weren't
flowed to go, for he was an officer.
lis uniform was gr-r-a-a-nd."
Silence.
"And then that night we went by
cat to Old Point Comfort and Nor
ok We we're at luncheon in the
otel when who should walk in but
Lieutenant Erickson. He took us
through the fort and everywhere"
Eyes, l know I've been there!
hen suppose he went back to An
apolis where he belonged"
who? Oh indeed he didn't Dad |
nd mother and l got on the boat
nat night and went to Boston"
"Well--that's all, I suppose"
mo, indeed! The best"-vcry in
ocently-"is yet to come"
"Heavens l suppose he suddenly
eveloped pair of wings and"
why, Don, you act so funny!
ont understand you at all.
"Humph! Well, go on about your
rown-eyed god OF Olympus. What
exit"
why, that very day we were COM
lg out of a shop on fremont street
Boston, when whom should we run
to but"
Lieut.. Jupiter Won Erickson, sup
,sel"
YES" wonderingly. How did you
less? And his wife,"
His wife! His wife, did you say"
"M-hum! And she was as beauti-
il as he was handsome. Her hair
as beautiful light"
But what her hair was like Don
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