New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-06-06

ship. When he knew | was coming to
Cleveland he said. Tell my sister to
be nice To YOU and-and-"
Wimburn paused in some embarrass-
ment before the ballroom manner of
Mrs. Kip. but the ponpOus DISCUSSES
of timidity fell from her as she muir
mured-and blushed in "A motherly
way:
Daphne told me. lie said for you
to kiss his mother for him."
"Ye-es."
well. | am his mother"
"Oh! May IL
"Will you?"
He pressed his lips respectfully on
her cheek, but she, closing her eyes to
imagine him her son., flung her fat
arms about him and held him a mo-
ment. He kissed her again with a
kind of vicarious devotion.
I'D want Bayard to deliver such a
message to your mother" she ex-
planned.
Already Wimhurn was a member OF
the household; he had been kissed
and sympathized with.
He turned to Daphne with al apollo
getic look and saw that she was star
ing mt him with softer eyes than he
had thought she had.
Definite anxieties engaged Mrs. Kip,
for tea had come in tottering on a
tray carried by n panic-smitten o
as agile as a hippOpotamus and as
shy as a violet.
Daphne and her mother and father
through the tea ceremony with
the anxiety of people in an earth
quake. and the Swedish drOmedary"
Mt the unaccustOmed sight as
If the tea bibbers were drinking poi
son and she watching for the convul-
to begin.
Clay Wimburn talked altogether
about Bayard and his wonderful prog
in business In spite of the hard
times. Bayard, he said, was sticking to
desk like Il demon, and he let moth
Ing distract him.
1T must be glorious living In New
Daphne sighed.
why don't you come and pay Bay
lrd a visit?" Wimburn suggested.
"IIe wouldn't have time to take me
and | don't know anybody
Else there"
You know me. And I'd be only too
glad 10 try TO repay your hospitality
o me-
Mrs. Kip looked on and listened with
he fond alarm of one who has seen
courtships begun with just such
When ut length Daphne suggested
hat there was still time to rush down
O the Hotel Statler for n dance or
.wo Mrs. Kip smiled at her. Wimburn
lid not know that he had been brought
on approval. Mrs. Kip realized
hat he was not to be returned as i'm
Her fancy gambled in fu-
ures.
Wimburn was the victim of an onset
# that delirium amans known as love
i first sight. He was at the right age,
md he found something exotically
captivating in this strange girl In the
TRANCE city. He was poisoned with
and his opinion of Daphne was
unatically fantastic. No one in the
World equaled her. No one ever had
'qualed her or could equal her In any
uture ever.
Spring and love are the perennial
MIRACLES, always new, always amazing.
{ was springtime in Wimburn's years
nd in the calendar of the world and
ountless other youth of mankind, ami
1al kind, bird and fish kind. flowers
nd fruit trees. and perhaps of chem
rals in the ground were feeling the
anne mania.
Daphne's cordiality was at first
lerely the h%ospitable warmth Of her
unusually cordial community. But she
aught the fever from Wimburn and
ecided that he was the final word in
evolution.
They began TO dread the society OF
MI . w Nv vi u /
q%uatter population on their private
lanet. The world was too much with
hem. The little car was transparent.
wen at night etiquette required them
, light il up within.
Wimburn did not return to New
'ork so soon as he expected. II
impossible TO Uproot himself
rom that pleasant soil. One after
Don when he had already overstayed
is furlough Daphne and he were rid
~ in the little car through the outer
Iburb known as Shaker Heights-a
,ction rapidly evolving from a sleepy
community TO a swarm Of city
ssidences.
The late afternoon moon had risen
a sky still rosy with the afterglow
+ sunset. The air was murmurous
it'll pleading.
Suddenly Wimburn cried aloud, to
surprise and hers, "Daphnel
Iiss Kip! I can't stand everything,
know Tn only human, after ALL"
whats the matterg" she asked In
phrase but with a poetic fut-
r of breath.
Il love you, dn itl-pardon me,
1T Tin Internally In love with you.
m tormented. | came here on bust
PISS. and instead of my finishing it
finished me. I'm two days over
he in New York and I've had to lie
the Office to explain why. And all
can think of now Is that I'd rather
and starve TO death than 20
lck and leave you here"
Honestly" she barely breathed.
Desperately" he moaned. whats
become Of met"
You'd better go back. ! suppose.
QUILL sOon get over II and find some
,dy else to love"