The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-26

had closed in satirical msche1. Now they were rapt What a stunning collie!' she suddenly exclaimed
 Allison, who had followed her with admiring attention, his mind accom-. panying hers in eager leaps, laughed in relief. After all, she was a gfrl- and what girl! The exhilaration of the drive, and Of the snow beating in her face, and of the animated conver. sation, had set the clear skin of her face aglow with color. Her deep red lips. exquisitely curved ano half part. ed. displayed row of dazzling white teeth, and the elbow which touched his was magnetic. Allison refused to believe that he was forty-ive!
 You're fond of collies," he guessed, surprised to find himself with an ca ger interest in the likes and dislikes of young girl. It was a new experi- ence.
 "I adore them!" she enthusiastically declared. Back home. I have one of every marking but a pure white"
 There was something tender and wistful in the tone of that back home" No doubt she had hosts of friends and admirers there, possibly favored suitor. It was quite likely. A girl such as Gail Sargent could hardly escape it. If there was a ia vored suitor Allison rather pitied him, for Gail was in the city of strong men. Busy with an entirely new and strange group of thoughts, Allison turned into the park, and Gail uttered an excla- nation of delight as the fresh keen air whipped in her face. The snow was like a filmy white veil against the bare trees, and enough of it had clung, by now. to outline, with silver point ing, the lacework of branches. On the turf, still green from the open win ter, it lay in thin white patches, and squirrels, clad In their sleek winter garments, were already scampering to their beds, crossing the busy drive with the adroitness of accomplished metropolitan pedestrians, their bushy tails hopping behind them in ungainly loops.
 The pair in the runabout were silent, for the east drive at this hour was thronged with outward-bound ma chimes, and the roadway was slippery with the new-fallen snow. Steady of nerve, keen of eye, firm of hand! Gail watched the alert figure of Allison, tensely and yet easily motionless in the seat beside her.
 Perhaps feeling the steady gaze, Al lison turned to her suddenly, and for a moment the gray eyes and the brown ones looked questioningly into each other, then there leaped from the mar to the woman a something which hel6 her gaze full second longer than she would have wished.
 Airs great" he said with a smile
 "Glorious!" she agreed. q don want to go in."
 Don't" he promptly advised her.
 "That's a simple enough solution, and her laugh, in the snow-laden air reminded him, in one of those quee flashes of memory, of little string o sleighbells he had owned as a young ster. However, I promised Cousil Lucille"
 Well stop at the house lon, enough to tell her you're busy" sug gested Allison, as eager as boy.
 "Let's!" cried Gail, and, with laugh which he had discarded with hi first business promotion, Allison threv out another notch of speed, ant whirled from the Seventy-secont street entrance up the avenue to tht proper turning, and half way down tht block, where he made swift bu smooth stop, bringing the step witt marvellous accuracy to within an incl of the curb
 She flashed at him smile and rar up the steps. She turned to him agair as she waited for the bell to be an swered, and nodded to him with franl comradery. Two vivacious-lookint