American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-05-16

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II never dreamed you would call
aDy one such maliciously disagreeable
nmnes !"
Eve Mckay. the erumpled figure on
the. library davenport. sobbed plain
lively. Across the room Chase Ken
dali sat up very straight, his red
head held high.
III merely remarked" he %pronered,
shat | thought any old unmarried
woman who would exact a promise
from her niece never TO leave her,
thereby preventing her marriage to-
TO u proper fellow who wants TO take
her with him when Uncle Sam sends
him engineering In South America.
was a selfish old lppan a selfish
creature I"
'But Aunt Efie didn't exact any
promise from me. | told her vOlun-
tarIly I'd never leave her. She hasn't
anybody but me, and she'd be afraid
to stay by herself. She'd be miser-
able II she knew you wanted me TO
30 TO South America with you"
hfliNfAi tlbNHfl iht ibpii iuNliiNs
Listen, kitten. II that old poke,
Humphrey Wllburn, were TO marry
Miss Eupheinla and take her to his
house and money, she'd have some
body to stay with herr"
Eve dlmpled. ooh, Chase, II he only
would They were sweethearts long
ago. | don't know why they didn't
.. - IIt..,a l.II ....t lur
again II he thought somebody else
did Az It is, he'll Just keep on max
ing his tw~Ice-a-year calls, and sending
his dry Christmas and birthday re-
membranes to the end of time Aunt
Efle's going down to Georgia next
week to the church convention. /
wislt-'
"Don't you weep another weep, Evle
darling" Chase broke out 1--WE got
nm Idea boiling and boiling strong !"
Shortly after little Miss Euphemla
Mckay returned from Georgia. DIR.
Humphrey Wllburn, returning to his
car from n professional call on old
Miss Della Lavender Zone OF his oc-
cnslonal p%atlents). picked up m un-
folded sheet Of note paper just be-
side his car. According to his habit,
he looked Mt II carefully.
Lakeland, Fla" It read-"My dear
Miss Mckay am delighted TO have
your note, granting me permission to
stop by. | shall be very happy to call
Thursday afternoon, and will be
charmed TO stay over II day, as you
suggest. but shall have to leave on
the late evenings train. You viii per
NIT mo 10 say again that never since
| have been u minister have | met 0
lady whose graces of mind and face
so appealed to me. II win be a JOY
to my lonely heart to talk with you
again. Faithfully yours,
"IIugh Blair Compton"
The doctor put II with slow care In
his pocket. His medltatlye blue eyes
were troubled.
81 wonder" ne said TO himself, 81
do wonder"
Thursday afternoon he took palns 70
drive out Graniland avenue way short
ly after the train came In, and was
rewarded with the sight Of Il tall, fine
looking mar with sllvcry gray curling
hair and n short beard OF Vnndyk,
cut, j~auntlly ascending the Mckay
steps.
The town was a busy one. The ct
Derby man who called at the Mcka,
hnnse might have been an agent o'
some kind for aught anybody but DR.
Wllburn cared, II was n insisting Apri
day. cold and damp, but that gentle
man drove TO the river, and sat fish
ing on the moist bank until the SUI
went down, unmindful of the fac
TINT the fish were bltingi
And at the Mckay house Miss Eu
phemlu, playing hymns In the par
lor, smiled In sympathy with the merr.
laughter from Ewes little sitting room
upstairs.
"Mavls Kendall must he with Eve
aud perhaps her brother she said
herself.
Miss Euphemiu was popular wit
the townsfolk. and on her hirthda!
the following Monday, she received
number Of pretty rememhrnnces. tn
handsomest SIT OF all, a heautlfl
brooch OF gold, with a single damon
In the center of the bar, came throug
the mall. There vas an unsigne
card with II. bearing Miss Euphemla
name, and the words, "a happy brit
day"
Here's Or. Wilburn coming wit
his present. auntie," Eve announce
as Miss Euphemin, her delicate cheel
softly pink above the dainty lavend'
crepe de chine frock Eve had mac
her put on, was unwrnpplng Il
brooch. II wonder what's got In
the dear mann lie usually mails h
presents"
When Dr. Wllhurn's modest gift,
japanese tatting basket, had been a
mIred, Eve called his attention To Il
brooch nj her aunt's throat. al