The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-09-14

his, and only sighed desperately. Any
other girl would have left hope-and
Seffy-behnd. At that moment, hap
PLY, Sam was heard to move She
put her hand on Seffys mouth as if
some danger were there. And Seffy,
by sort Of instinct, it must have been,
kissed It'll
cob"
Both of Sally's hands went up in
real surprise-and Seffy caught and
kissed them bothl
"Oh!-ohl-ohW
She had to stuff her gay little hand
kerchief into her mouth to keep the
Joy within. After all, could this Seffy
be playing 'possum? Was he deep?
l don't know, any more than Sally,
how it all happened-except that per-
haps Seffy discovered himself suddenly
brave in the darkness, and Sally quite
defenseless--but presently her head was
on his shoulder, and his arm was
around her, in quite the way his father
had suggested and Sally had expected.
And neither of them thought of him
or a word he had said-concerning
lands, tenements and hereditaments.
Sally's hand crept up nsidiously about
Seffy's neck But then it was fearfully
withdrawn.
Please don't grease your hair here
after" said Sally. But she kissed i'll
Hereafter Hereafter" Seffy's heart
pounded.
Suppose I'd grease my hairl" said
Sally speciously.
The horror conjured up was facti-
tious. Remember where her head was
resting. But an alien element was
now raised between them. Seffy moved
away. Maids should not cavil even
at oiled hair-so early in their court
shipl More fascination was needed
perhaps only a soft cooling word.
"You-you wouldn't like that
would you? still meekly.
mol" Seffy answered, puzzled.
"My Sunday coat would git greased!"
"My sleeve didl"
She inspected soiled sleeve-in the
ray from the hall-which had no spot
on it!
81 don't care for the sleeve. It'll
wash out. But Sam-he sees every"
She laughed and was about to plunge
recklessly back into his arms. But her
hair leas beautiful And she had made
it more so for himl He must see It'll
She plunged further into the ray from
the hall lamp instead and flung it for
ward about her face. 1t chung and
clustered there like an aureole. Seffy,
in his brief life, he thought, had seen
nothing more divine She looked sau-
city up at him out of the top of her
eyes. His alteration made her very
happy.
"Therel amt that nicer than yourn?"
She buried her fingers in the splendid
mass, and pushed it into further dis
order until it lay close-shining about
her face.
ooh, Sally" said Seffy, approaching
her as if she were some goddess, "wear
it that way alwaysI"
The alien thing was gonel They
were en- rapport once morel
They'd have me in an asylum in
no time But"
Somehow, Seffy's arms opened to
invite her back and she came with a
low reckless laugh The wild sheaf of
her hair lodged again close under his
chin. He recklessly thrust his face
into it. Its perfume in his nostrils and
its movement against his skin was in
effable. He kissed it. Again it was
the strange fashion of the cavalier-in
those kissesl Where did he learn it?
"Oh, Sally, wear it always sol" he
begged again. And--good heavensl-
he put his lips down upon it once more
just when you come to see me, J"
murmured Sally to the lapel of his coat.
"Sally-Sallv Won arc an anpello