South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-20

they found TO their dismay hat the
train was an hour and a half late.
They had been so excited and so
keep 10 get away that they had
forgotten 10 telephone about the
schedule from her little uptown
apartment.
we can u down 70 the restau-
rant and have a jolly dinner while
We wait. Eating is the surest way
10 kill time"
You want to kill time-when you
are with me?"
He gripped her arm and ran with
her down the broad marble stairs.
Don't YOU try TO spoil my perfect
day with any sarcasm. Great. isn't
Il, our going away together. like
this? / feel about as young as Il
boy tonight, rushing of on a thrill
ing adventure"
He laughed a. he faced her across
the little white table with its mound
of crimson roses in the center.
~"Sweetbread patties and mushroom
sauce. as usual. 1 suppose? ." he ask
ed her as they read the menu
nc. / want beefsteak, French
fried potatoes and pie
Il ain going to have TO be on nv
guard. We never agree when You
are on a beefsteak diet" He leaned
forward and lowered his voice TO a
caressiag whisper. That little rose
hat is the most fetching thing / ever
saw you wear"
81 made it last night. after you
went home"
Fancy. making your own hats.
I have paid $50 many times for hats
not half as pretty"
II was the first reference that
evening = his wife and Rose Mary
flushed as she tried 10 look at him
and could not meet his eyes.
But in another month" he add
ed. when his impending lawsuit
is over. 1 will have paid u the
last dollar she will ever cost me.
This is no time for bitterness. 1
am the happiest man in the world
for l have my own little Rose Mary
and she is going away with me. If
you could only know what you have
come TO mean 20 me-youth AMI
love and everything that makes life
worth the living.
The girls eyes lighted as if a
torch had suddenly been touched to
flame within her. II was good to
be loved by this big. handsome man
who belonged to a world that she
had known only through the news
papers until he had dropped into
the office one day where she was
employed as a private secretary to
a certain Jew who did not often do
business with men in Phil Cart
wright's class. There had bee in
Vulnerable trips TO the office after
that, first on n preteXt and then
another. until that day when he had
found her alone. They had lunch
ed together and afterward, il had
all been very easy He told her Of
"A charming little apartment where
the rent was easily within her
reach. He did not tell her that he
owned the building but he did say
that she was too fine a girl TO live IN
a dark, unpleasant boarding house
in a rather miserable part of town.
Rose Mary was ambitious so she
had made the change willingly and
had entertained no suspicion at the
ridiculously low figure of the rent
for Cartwright's agent had acted in
the matter and he was a stranger
to the girl. And just because life
had offered her no lover in the
daily grind Of the office nor on her
Sundays of rest. Rose Mary had
made up her mind that even If she
were forced to be scorched a little,
she would at least experience ONE
thing of loves flame before time
took its toll Of her beauty.
IF we were only honest with the
world" she said for the hundredth
time since he had asked her 10 go
with him TO his fishing camp in
Canada.
What does the world care? In
another month I can marry you. In
the meantime we will fish and rest
at the camp and Mrs. Mason. my
housekeeper. will see to it that you
are we'll taken care of, my dear. He
leaned over and patted her soft lit
tie hand where il rested on the
white cloth. Learn to grasp hap
piness wherever you see it. no mat
ter how ieeting it may happen TO
be-, That is my pet theory of life.
Yes. hut the woman always
paws she interrupted. There
must, of course. then, be a vast diff
ference IN u relative points OF
view"
/. NO, dear. you are wrong about
that. Do YOU think for a minute
that 1 could ever pay you-in money
for the happiness YOU are giving
me. Never. Even if / thought that
YOU could never come TO care for
me. it would make me happy just
TO love you"
Il think she said honestly, that
/ do care a great deal
He squeezed her hand at that and
then beckoned a waiter. They are
calling train" he told her. We
must hurry
As they made their way through
the crowd of travellers, she had 4
feeling OF warm security in the
touch Of his guiding hand on her
arm.
"NIuvver." said a shrill voice al
most at her ear. my muvver
Somebody was pulling her hat so
Eosa Mart looked I'D quickly. \