South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-09-16
REVELATIONS OF 4 WIFE

the warm sand suggested Miss
. Ora per. who had come up TO the
beach just ahead OF us, accompanied
by DR. Petut and Alfred Durkee
Her suggestion was received with
approval. and soon we were all
T stretched like mummies in the
sand
You're q hne looking bunch
This was Dicky's greeting as he
came up 10 US a little later
Grace Challenges Madge.
Never mind our looks, retorted
Mr. Underwood What about jim
+ and that dinner"
"Jim's all fight" returned Dioky
0onchaiantly. deity tucking himself
under the sand near US He's get
ting his fire ready. Hell have the
uiftiest clambake. with his fish and
( not corn and potatoes YOU ever ate
+ III YOU give him time.
How much time demanded Al
I fred Durkee.
Oh four or five hours. Dicky
returned winkiug at Lillian. near
whose feet he was ensconced
Here's where strikes right
now Mr. Underwood declared. 1T
know there's grub of some sort in
( these baskets and ] demand that
! We have an immediate if simple
lunch. right now
Second the motion. laughed Al
( fred Durkee
Lillian rose and shook out her
skirts II can manage a little snack.
+ I think Il get Katie to unpack some
/ of the baskets and give each of you
+ a handout But remember, every
/ body takes what / give them: no
T second helpings and no favorites.'
/ Ii was but "a few minutes before
( she returned with Katie. and in an
/ incredibly short time there was
+ placed before each one of as a
/ pasteboard plate with sandwiches,
roast chicken and the cakes Katie
had baked. upon them.
/ LILLIAN had the forethought 10
! bring a basin of water and towels so
I that we were enabled 10 remove the
I sand from our faces and hands be
/ fore eating
We made a merry picnic OF our
| impromptu luncheon. and after IT,.
when ne We're dried by the sun. we
/ spent "a comforta Die lazy two hours
/ lounging on the beach
/ ~ . had not seen Grace Draper
/ hl8nched face and the terrible look
in her eyes when she had heard
( Dicky's exclamation OF Indifference
/ toward her 7 would not have dream
I ed that her heart held any other
/ emotion except that Of happy enjoy
ment of the day. She laughed and
/ chatted as if she had not care in
I the world directing much of her
/ conversation 20 me II crossed my
/ mind that for some reason of her
/ own she was trying 10 make it ap-
! PEAR % every one that We were on
! especially friendly terms
Tt yvas after one OF Dicky's pc
/ ricdical trips TO Jim's FIRE. which
{ Harry Underwood did not allow him
/ 10 forget and his report that the
/ dinner would be shortly fOrthcOm-
inc. that Grace Draper rose and said
careIessIy: suppose we all have an
other din before dinner. there won {
( be time before we Leave for a swim
. afterward. and the water is too fine
TO miss going in once more. What
do YOU say. Mrs Graham? VIII YOU
/ race me2"
saw Liliian's quick little gesture
of discussion. and through me there
crept an indehnable shrinking from
! going with the girl. but the men
were already chasing each other
/ through the shallow water. and
I d'd not wish TO humiliate my guest
/ 10y refusing 70 go with her
"I can hardly be called q race q"
( Z answered quietly. for YOU swim
so much better than T. but 7 will do
my best