The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1915-10-21
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Returning from the Ess win Al
s-rrIoad q correspondence John
Grover halted suddenly Es ne a.
u~osehed lis desk Between he NJ
per ru q MS Epsetaeles ana his
husrr. gray eyebrows Re stared or
st ne EnHn white picus clad F1unT
woman wno was perdhs1 ulon he
wooden rating lhEf lDE0ssd ms de-
psrrment
I'm Lvdla Raymond he new
s~tsnogrsphsT ss1 ne Young woman
ny wilson hr8ugnt us over pm hs
vas called swEr ts the telephone
Wnsu1s : bird when II cgneE 70
airing hsp Du1tars6 Grover. q
whou i was alleged around rhs o1cs
that his middle name WIS Crouch
Turning toward LYDIA IL grudgtnEy
extended 3 pudU hand Grover ny
name Can Fou turn ON work pretty
fast
on inst Is EASY And Lydia
smaea ~beNft1hingly but il was pearls
before swine for Grover didn't -
the smile
al right. nov lets star On TINS
p1s and wsu see what you eau easy
and Grover launched into IT'S Q
vigorous d1ctation pace while lydia
anFars fitted orer the pages As he
looked ID from the last letter he
found lydia sitting with her hands
etasuea around one knee and looking
straight q Mn
IN aEfully glad you aren't
grouchv she said with childish can
dor AT first ] thought you were fhe
Tery nan who put the 0uch in crouch
but ] guess il was just a Monday
morning Crouch. wasn't IT,
7 guess We haven't got tine 20 talk
nonsense. look a tits pile q work
lydia turned her head 10 q side
stuck ont her red lips and frownsc
Just g little
oh but look how well we work 20
gethart III tell you what lets do.
enthusiastically Let's work real fast
and get that whole Pile finished and
then vel take the ouch cut Of
crouch. and put the u non
sense Shall We
We might said Grover. with an
awkward smile aEd q b1ngling move
neut 70 get hold Of q letter that
would give him q chance 70 fasten his
eyes somewhere
A month after Lydia's advent the
credit Department was running 30
smoothly that John Grover went about
wearing Z satisfied expression that
was a nine days wonder 70 the Oh
servant Office force. But there came
= rainy malarial morning late n An
gust when Lydia came d~roopirgiy 70
her desk, with swollen eyes and q
oolorless face. She tried 10 smile IS
they began their morning work. but
made such a pitiful failure that Grover
pushed the pie OF letters away and
looked inteutly 81 her.
Child, there's something wrong
can Be Of any help"
I'm afraid you can't for I've spoiled
everything Two tears splashed on
her note book before she could find
her handkerchief Then she con.
tinued: Last night when { arence
started home-Clarence is. you know
or was my, my
Yes, yes. know: and what did he
do2
@Oh, ! was the one 10 do the mis-
chief Clarence said If / didn't take
Of a suffrage pin ] was wearing he
wouldnt-wouldn't bid me goodnight.
said I'd promised Miss Bee 70 wear
the PIN a week and tell her what peo-
pie said about IL. Then he said | was
getting crazier every day, but he
wouldn't listen any longer to my non
ems ] didn't say a word then, but
after a while I said: There doesn't
seem 70 be any nonsense 10 listen to
except when you are talking He
whirled around and rushed out OF the
door. and I looked down at that old
pin and Just boo-hooed."
We'll. what In the dickens does
that ranting suffragette mean by
placarding you as n Of her kind ?"
growled Grover.
oh, but Miss Bee doesn't rant, and
she isn't a freak. and she knows near.
ly everything. And there she Is, right
this minute exclaimed Lydia. She
must be bidding on that big mimeo.
graph job in our advertising depart
ment. Goody she's coming oyer to
speak TO me-
John Grover grew red and Beatrice
Morris grew pale when they were Ia.
troduced by Lydia who didn't know
until afterward that they had parted
ten years ago much as she and Clar-
ence had parted only the night be.
fore. She mad her first inklIng Of II
when John Grover broke the embar-
raised silence which followed the first
formal greetings.
Beatrice" he began. h~altingly,
nf'yG rhapUad rou mind tb4a wrz~-4w-