The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-11-20
THE BLUE DRESS
BY BERTHA HERMAN.

VERY well. If you are going to be
as snobbish as that you can have your
old ring back So therel" Tossing a
beautiful diamond ring from her and
with a bang Of the porch door May
flew ZIP the stairs 10 her room. There,
standing before the mirror. her face
afiame and her eyes wonderfully blue.
she said:
"well. I'm glad OF I'll I'm glad Of IL
To think I might have married such a
mean, unreasonable thing !"
The difficulty was the eternal lovers
quarrel. Bob was going away for sev-
eral weeks ON a business trip to De-
froit. and had asked May TO cancel the
bungalow affair that they had promis-
ed to attend the following week Now
dad had just given May a new summer
outfit. all the beautiful, soft, silky
things a normal girl Graves. In spec
lal evidence was her dear little blue
georgctte evening gown, inassed ia
tulle. in which May looked more like
on ethereal fairy than an ordinary gill.
To give up the thought Of wearing that
dress was beyond reasOnl
B-r-r-r-r-ring The telephone bell
tinkied loudly. Ia an excited voice
May answered the phone. thinking 1t
possibly might be Bob. II 1t were, she
would-no, she wouldn't-yes, she
would just hang right upl
Hello, May Yes, this IS Ida. Ida
Scholl. Did you hear what the club
Is doingi Didn't yaI? Oh We're go
ing to have camp. Yes with tents
n everything. Yes, out in Maine. Sure
all the girls will be there. YOu'll come,
too? Greatl win | sign up for your
For the Whole month of August. That's
fine. We've only one week TO walt.
Tn so excited. Isn't It thrilling"
May hung up, after receiving this
news, and contemplated the result.
Yes, she was glad she gave Bob back
his ring. She wondered If he took IT,.
She had flung it out on the porch.
He might be fool enough to walk of
and leave ii there. Some Impulse
prompted her to run out and see II
the ring were still there OF course
he took IT. Well, she would 90 away
to camp and have an exceedingly good
time with the girls and forget him.
lie was mean thing anyway. Pos
sibly she might meet some other hero
there. All. romance was stirring with
In hcrl Wouldn't It be wonderful to
show Bob that she could not be trified
with
The first of August found happy
group of effervesccnt youth at North
station. Weren't they going out to
camp, and weren't they going to have
wonderful time? One little girl in
pink linen dress and big blue eyes
looked triile more serious than the
others, but She, too, had the delightful
look Of expectancy on her face.
One perfectly Incompatible week
full of delightful experiences with
canoes, cameras, campfires, gentlemen
and the like had already slipped by
to the regret of most of them. To
May. however, It seemed as though the
day were made of about - hours and
the week of almost 100 days. Her
thoughts were constantly turning
homeward and especially to the scene
| on her porch two weeks before. Could
she stick it out, the four weeks away
from home and him? Did he ever
think of her? Was he going out Will
other girls? Should she write to hin
and tell him she was sorry? Oh
what was she to do!
, Another week passed brimful o
pleasure for Ida, Bess, Hilda and TIN
rest, but painfully dull for May. TIL
next evening Ida laid her hand OF
Mays shoulder and whispered some
thing In her ear.
as that true?" asked May, mex
light suddenly aglow In her eyes.
ayes, and he didn't even have to e
to Detroit He hasn't gone out wit
anyone, not even the boys, once sine
you left, and he feels perfectly mi:
erable. It'll do him good, though, II
will appreciate you more when 20
get back, although goodness knows
you were the one who always starte
the quarrels."
The morning of the third wee
dawned bright and clear. Six o'cloc
they all went in for n dip. Everyon
was there but May They called IL
her, blew the bugle time and tim
again, but no May responded. Drill
ping wet from swimming, they n
rushed into her tent, intending {
. awaken her and pull her down to tn
stream. The bed was empty, bt
stuck up in her mirror was a not
which read:
r "Girls: Don't call me a gutter. Be
Is lonesome and so am I. Just had
go back. You know. May"
They knew.
T stCopyrlght 1919. Mcclure Newspaper syi
dlcate)