Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-03-31
GMORIDg AND
ID I S c o ID s
BILLYS LETTERS.


do. but have done il. and there is no
use weeping over it. as shakespe
or some other guy said back in the
days before we began to p0made our
hair. after you have spilled the milk.
AIwilda Green knows all about my
trouble with EyaIyn's family. she has
proved my friend in my grief. too. and
I don't know how 7 can ever repay
her for Lhe good advice she has given
me at times when ] did not know
which way TO move She overheard
me last night trying to get EvaIyn on
the telephone. When expressed sur
prise to the central girl when the lat
ter tod me that the telephone that used
TO pc Ia EValyu's home was no more,
sne, IN Just the sweetest sort Of way.
without making you feel that she was
pry3ng into your affairs. asked me
If EYalyn's family had left the city.
winch 1t was only natural she should
inquire.
/ had been hopeful that Miss Green
and Eyalyn were to be intimate friends.
ana they We're for q time but it seems
that EVaiyn suddenly turned cold to-
ward Miss Green. at least that is what
Miss Green says. and she isn't that
kind Of a girl that would make any
such statement unless there was foun-
dation 80 it, / wanted to know if the
two girls had had any words But
they hadn't, Miss Green said The
trouble was that they hadn't. Evalvu
dldnt give Miss Green any chance to
talk to her. She says the last time
she met Evalyn was in the street and
that Evalyn. as Miss Green came al
most lace to face with aer, switched
her head to look into a store window.
Miss Green said it was a plain snuh
and one that no lady would offer an
other. Down in the country where she
came from. she said. If a girl friend
5HfonJed her SO openly she would send
her challenge to a duel
was at loss to understand why
EYalyn should cut down Miss Green
on such short notice, but Miss Green
sand she was just as much in the dark
over the matter as Z was though she
nad suspicion that ETa1yn was be
ginning to feel that Miss Green was
getting too greatly concerned i'm me
and my affairs, which was farthest
from the facts though I must confess
that I went riding with Miss Green on
several occasions when Evalvn knew
nothing about it, Miss Green said of
course = was not possible to ride about
the streets together without being seen
ana IL was her notion that some ac-
guaIDtaEce had carried the news 10
EFalyn. But If Evalyn didn't approve
wouldn't she complain to me instead
OF letting her Adam S apple kick her i'm
the lower Jaw. asked ]. Miss Green
sand she dldu wish to hastily pass
judgment on any girl but &c was her
notion that EvaIyu had that kind of
disposition that she would rather suf-
Ter in silence than to divulge her feel
lngs, as she should have done IL she
realty cared for me as deeply as she
indicated that she did. Miss Green
4l1 not desire 10 be put in the ljgnt of
lHgrudIuS in the affairs OF me and Eva
lEns she said, and If she thought that
any SUCH impression might get abroad
IN the community she would leave inn
nedlatelE, but assured her that had
never entertained any such belief and
I couldn't see how Evalyn could.
protested against Miss Green leaving
the city on my account or on account
OF EFas&n FOR q number Of reasons
G4Aei OF which Is myself. whereuuo0
MISS Green dropped her beautiful
Drown eyes and almost in q qNfs0er
mat you hear on che STAGE when fhat
5ueakE music is PLAYING. said she
4ian want me to talk thar way to her
aalI dian mean anything ia the
Eel1aEk- Well she said. If I didn't.
/ had best be careful because fbaf is
the way men deceive and mislcad girls
.eliing them something that sounds SCI
Tous and lis nothing more than a strest.
of air or jolly.
told Miss Green that it looked bad
Tor me at EvaIyn's home and she
seemed SO SOLICITORS for my weIfares
mat she said that If ft was ne breach
OF confidence that She would be glad
10 have the details as she might he
able to help me. because two heads
are better than one. as the old woman
aa-d as she showed a cabbage under
heE apron while the grocer turned his
PACK 10 ring up She price of the other
one she paid for. I explained the
bEusA ! had had with EEalyufs father.
Not having met the man. she said she
coAil not justly size him up. but from
what / tod her she feared that NV
becoming his son-ln-Iaw would prove
an unfortunate arrangements la the
iiEsL place she 5urm5sed, he was hard
hearted, not having that warmth
Of nature that the head OF a family
ana one Just about TO add another
branch To the tree should possess +
b0t. SAID. never intended hanging
ONO MS tree. had q trunk Of my
own AlWlida saw that he was selfish /
Of taking care OF his garden this sum +
mer and then flying Off the handle F..
when / demanded that I get an even
split on the profits Why. she said +
he IS one OF those men who would quit +
working just as soon as he hooked
son-iu-law and would behave like a j
steamboat mate the remainder Of his +
days.
But says ]. Miss Green must be mis- /
taken on that score. FOR EsvaIyu' s faith /
eF mas been urging me all along to t
provide a home for Evaivu before we
scr married. What kind of home /.
aid he want me TO have. Miss Green I
Inquired. I said he told me it ought
10 have at least six or seven rooms f
Miss Green laughed When he fixed
iae number OF rooms be let the cat out +
OF the bag. she said Me and Evafvn +
certainly didn't need any seyen-room t
mouse. A four-r0Om bungalow would
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