Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30

cts my dream!" Miss Pratt exclaim-
cts my dream!"
"You would make a glorious &C.
tress!!' he said.
At that her mood changed. She
laughed a laugh like a sweet little
girls laugh (not james, and, setting
her rocking chair in motion, cuddled
the fuzzy white doglet in her arms.
tickle boy Baxter t'yin' fatterbox us,
tunnin' F}opit! No'ty, no'ty hatter-
box!"
"No, nor William insisted earnestly.
II mean it. But-but''-
"But whatcums?"
"What do you think about actors and
actresses making love to each other
on the stage? Do you think they have
to really feel it, or do they just pre-
tend?"
WELL" said Miss Pratt weightily,
sometimes n way, sometimes the
other"
Williams gravity became more and
more profound. "Yes, but how can
they pretend like that? Don't you
think love is a sacred thing, Cousin
Lola?"
Fictitious sisterships, brotherships
and cousinships are devices to push
things along we'll known to seventeen
and eve more advanced ages. On the
wonderful evening Of their first meet
S~s yITi11;o-, ,,J NT:o~ D,,,44 1,o1 ,a1.1,
arranged to be called respectively
tickle boy Baxter" and cousin Lola"
Thus they had broken down the tedi-
GUS formalities Of their first twenty
minutes together.
Don't you think love is sacred?' he
repeated in his deepest tone.
"Ess," said Miss Pratt.
81 dor William was emphatic. 81
think love is the most sacred thing
there is. 1 don't mean some kinds Of
love. l mean real love. You take
some people; 1 don't believe they ever
know what real love means. They
talk about it, maybe, but they don't
understand it. Love is something no.
body can understand unless they feel
it, and-and if they don't understand it
they don't feel it. Don't you think 500"
"Ess.''
"Love," William continued, his voice
lifting and thrilling to the great theme
-'love is something nobody can ever
have but one time in their lives, and
if they don't have it then, why, prob'ly
they never will. Now, If a man really
loves a girl, why, he'd do anything in
the world she wanted him to. Don't
you think SO"
CESS, 'deedumsw said the silvery
voice.
"But if he didn't, then he wouldn't"
said William vehemently. "But when
a man really loves a girl he will. Now,
you take a man like that and he can
generally do just about anything the
girl he loves wants him to. Say, FIR
instance, she wants him to love her
even more than he does already, or al
most anything like that, and supposin'
she asks him to. Well, he would go
ahead and do it. If they really loved
each other he would"
He paused a moment, then in a low
cred tone he said, 81 think real love is
sacred, don't you?"
"Ess."
"Don't you think love is the most
sacred thing there is-that is, If it's
real love?"
"Ess."
81 do" said William warmly. FL
I'm glad you feel like that, because I
think real love is the kind nobody
could have but just once in their lives,
but If 1t isn't real love, why-why,
most people never have it at all, be-
cause He paused, seeming to seek
for the exact phrase which would ex-
press his meaning. Because the real
love q nan feels for a girl and a girl
for a man, If they really love each 9th
Grand, you look at a case like that,
of course they would both love each
other or 1t wouldn't be real loye-well,
what I say is, II It's real loye-well, it's
its sacred, because l think that kind
Of love Is always sacred. Don't you
think love is sacred II It's the real
thingW
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