American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-06-06

that was the end of their romance |
He did not even write to her, but
when q little later he went TO Burton
town TO work he was filed one mo-
ment with the fear that he might see
her by chance and then with regret
that he did not. But TO have her see
him sitting there in the cobbler's car
pet slippers was a%gonizing. Then
came the light. She too had her shoes |
repaired while she waited. Then she
was bluffing, too. No doubt she too
had been spending her ~extravagant two
weeks vacation the same way that
he had. That was only a possibility,
still it gave Nathaniel courage and he
peered out of the side Of his mag
aZine.
Bait Ruth, though she peered over
at him when he was not looking, re-
fused to permit her eyes to meet his,
This Nathaniel felt sure was because
she had felt offended because he new
err had written TO her. Well. that was
but natural, especially if she had real
ly cared for him. So when his shoes
were repaired he put them on and
left the shop and Ruth, determined
to write to her that very evening ask
ing permission to come at once to see
her.
1t might be even that she worked
as a stenographer or something in his
''plant." Perhaps she was daily under
the same roof. For there were thou
sands of employees there whom he
did not know.
He walked along convincing himself
that this was true until after walking
toward his lodging house for two or
three blocks he felt distinctly con-
scious that someone was following a
few PAGES behind him. He glanced
over his shoulder, saw it was Ruth
and then turned abruptly about and
faced her.
Hello, Ruth" he said, and Ruth,
though somewhat surprised, said
"Hello, Nathaniel" just as they had
greeted each other on the beach during
those wonderful two weeks of vaca-
ton.
lpilONVh Sphs hih iNhthf w
cause l realized that you must live in
Burtontown now and l at least wanted
to know where. l did not think you
would turn and catch me-
"Now you know" said Nathaniel,
eager first of all to explain himself,
"you know why I didn't write to you.
I thought you had all sorts of money,
,rp,, lrnnvy and VOL I had n,1t IN n
bluff there at the shore, and | knew
a poor fellow like me couldn't marry
you because you see | thought you
had all sorts of money"
MARRY YOU" echoed Ruth with a
funny little grimace. SO you wanted
to marry me?"
WANTED to-" argued Nathaniel, "yOu
know l did. Only of curse when
was thinking you had all sorts of mon
ey l couldn't think of it,. Really II
never occurred to me till l saw you
there getting your shoes heeled tina
you could possibly be anything bu
awfully rich. Pretty good joke al
around, Ell? I suppose you took m
for a young b~ondholder, too"
hOulu II HAM y W lhuNil hlllfitiitt !
faltered Ruth as they walked oil
through the main street Of Burtontown
you see-well, father owns the ma
iority stock of the plant, and-well
I'm his only daughter, but he has toll
me l could marry just whoever
pleased so long as l loved him."
"He married for love, and he want
-. - - Arl tu,I, 7 I~,o ,a, NJ,
dear. When I saw you this morning
Just left the car and told the chauffeu
to go back home, and / trailed you t
the shoe shop and got the strings jus
to he sure 1t was o II. And | wa
afraid you'd feel silly and ~self-cor
l scious sitting there in the old slipper,
! so made an excuse to sit there to
in the other slippers so you wOuldn
J, mind. And it was so funny ! jus
wanted to laugh out loud. And 20
wouldn't speak to me, so then | 60
a little peeved at first, and hen
thought maybe II was because yo
were so fused, so | decided I wouldn
2 speak to you either-so as to spar
5 your embarrassment. But I followe
r you as soon as | could get my shoe
e on"
And It was remarkable how readil
p after that Nathaniel's rare ability We
0 discovered at the plant. His salaI
d took a sudden leap upward, and mot
or and the girls down state nev'
e guessed that Ruth had anything to
n with il.
) Clock That Is Never Wrong.