The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-02-19
REVELATIONS
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Why Did Madge and Dicky Stare at
Each Other, Yet Fear to Voice
Their Thoughts?
6V &ele Gorrisou~

INlCKYS angry face matched his
voice as he came upon the tab
lcau ot the unknown wandcrcr
and myself inspecting the fine fish
which | had caught Both brought me
| quickly down from my child-hkc reycl
IN the catching of my first trout, and
landed me with a thump IN the ia
mallar commonplace OF Dicky's dis
pleasure
As he shot the angry query at mr.
What in thunder doe, this mean.
Madge the shabby. queer man at
my side gave him one frightened
glance, and then lifting hi, hat to me.
hurrcdly, but with an old-world grace.
took two or three quick strides into
, the undcrbrush and disappeared. We
! could hear him crashing upward
through the trees and brush that line
the bank, and waited until his foot
steps died away before made any an
Swer To DiCky'S question
What does what mean" | asked at
last and ! made my tone as pfovok
ingIy innocent as could ielt quite
mistress OF the situation Tor was
morally certain that Dicky had not
been successful in his little excursion
up the brook and that there were no
fish IN his crecl
Don't put up such an innocent air"
Dlcky gtowled Il suppose YOU think
! lhiN IS the wilderness. and all conycn-
tons go by the board. but let me tell
YOU It's a pretty civilized wilderness,
and hobnobbing with a tramp over the
catching OF trout isn't exactly the
thing
oh, ] am sure he is not tramp.
/ Dlcky' | protested with a prctense ci
rngcnuouSneSS which | knew would ir.
/ r'atc him. | was sure that II he had
seen the man as ! had had noticed
his child-likc demeanor. and the cvi-
dcnce OF a slightly clouded mentality
which had gllmpSed in his eyes, he
would not have been SO ANNOYED at
| my talking to the stranger. Bu, the
cavalier way in which he had left me
Sull ranked. meant To tanuitt
Di,ky a little longer, so with the most
lngratating smile could manage I
followed up my protest with a query
'Drd YOU catch trout, DiCky;"
Risky Business Though.
Nv llcgc lord opened his mouth t.
re,ort angrllv, Then he caugh, NV
/ face brlmmlng with mcrriment and
with one ot the Kaleidoscope changes
OF mood which make Dicky so loyablc.
he first Ptinned reluctantly and then
laughed aloud
/ " guess YOU lave 1t on me, all
right he admitted "'pon honor. |
really didn't mean to leave YOU alone
on Your first trou,lng expedition Hut
The feel OF rod IN my hands alwa,s
/ makes me irresponsible Jovc hut
this is whoppcr YOU caught Did
you ge, him yourselii"
"Oi course did" | returned indig
naully But | never could have done
1t II tha, n,an hadn't shown me how 80
Where did he come itomi" Dicky
asked, then with sudden thought
/ This man had a brown beard Was
he the same fellow who frightened vow
so when ypu saw his face looking
through the underbruSh little while
Il ago.
"No,. he was" returned. and then
with the instinct to contide all my i'm
pteSSious and thoughts 10 Dicky which
is always present with me, | added
hastily
But. Dicky he is just like child
| think he has been gentleman, AMI
that there IS or has been something
wrong here" | touched my forehead
"nul would as soon think oi being
afraid ot a kitten as OF him
Risky business, though" growled