Gilpin observer., 1918-01-10
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II deduce that you allude to your re-
cent trip on the lakes" her brother
said languidly. ut seems to mo I
have heard something about such q
voyage"
"You needn't make fun Of me be-
cause I've talked lot about it, Lo-
retta told him. "You would be justI
proud yourself If Aunt Kate had asst
you to go, free of expense, on a tIl
around the lakes"
Perhaps" he concluded. "But slJ
ignored poor me and took you, VIII
always have long vacation some I
where while I am toiling In the hot
Office"
"Nonsensew Loretta sniffed. "You
went fishing for two weeks and the
rest Of the time you played golf with
Anita Blake.
"Aunt Kate had secured staterooms
adjoining, so we had lots of room," Lo-
retta went on. "You see, usually ohe
of the party has to take the upper
berth, but Aunt Kate said she wasn't
going to have an athletic looking crea-
ture like me climbing over her to get
into an upper berth, so she took two
rooms and made us both comfortable"
"A cinch all right" her brother
sighed. "Why wasn't Aunt Kate born
twins so that the other one of her
could be good to me?"
"Well," said Loretta. Then she con-
tinued. ut was breezy upstairs where
we were. You know we had our rooms
in the top story. But for while Aunt
Kate stuck it out and then we sat all
swaddled in steamer rugs as well as
all the winter duds she had made me
take along. She observed that it was
quiet and away from the common herd
up there and should say it was! No
body was anywhere near us except the
captain and the wireless man, and they
couldn't leave and go downstairs"
Downstairs meaning on the lower
deck" queried Lorettas brother.
you're so technical!"' complained
A1ohSttus AhuiiS, hOWSNcI, auut mute
began to sneeze and had to give up.
She's always sure she's in for pneu-
monia If she sneezes even once and
that morning she nearly sneezed her
head off,"
Thereby depicting the worlds re-
serves of beauty"
II never said Aunt Kate was good
looking, but she's certainly kind and
generous to me. Anyhow, after while
we got the sailorman to move our
deck chairs to the other deck and then
we settled into warm spot and were
comfortable. Aunt Kate told me that
she didn't wish to make any acquaint-
ances, so, Of course, I didn't so much
as look at any of the passengers.
didn't care about talking with them
myself, because there was no one on
board that was especially attractive.
"A lot Of real young people were
exchanging life experiences and snap
shots Of themselves in all sorts of CO.'S
tunes before we had been out "a hours
and they had dancing in the dining
room. but would not have left Aunt
Kate even If I had wanted to dance
with strangers. Once or twice a fat
woman In a purple sweater stopped
ut our corner to tell Aunt Kate an
ecdOtes Of her grandchildren, but the
reception she received did not encour-
age her to come often. A tall, thin
man, who said he came from Mem
phis, told Aunt Kate how lonely he
had been since his wife died, but she
did not seem to hear him."
did it make you feel real nice and
exclusive?"
"Since there was no one there who
looked interesting" Loretta said, "I
was glad to have a chance to write my
paper on modern Russia. I am to
have the very first paper at our lit
erary circle and was glad to have
time to write It,"
Aunt Kate always did insist on be-
Ing exclusive to the limit"
Il must confess l really enjoyed
it, Loretta acknowledged. II finished
my paper and felt quite like a duch-
ess or countess or something trav-
cling incognito."
"Just like n spy" her brother
laughed, "but where does the joke 4
come in?"
ut came in just rs we left 4
steamer after the weeks trip" Ii
eta explained "Aunt Kate hod hnY
n good time and was quite jubilant
because she had not made any unde-
sirable acquaintances, but she did
not hear the remark. 1t was made by the