The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-11

MOT make promise LNAL yOu'A never
Love another.
BY judicious Implication
And a little osculation,
Break it gently and be clever
Love the girl, but not forever,
For forever is a long. long time
Forever is a long, long timel" ap-
plauded one of the men. Fright you
are, Billy!"
a little later after he had managed
to break away from the piano, Edna
Barns caught him in the hall and faced
him accusingly,
"A man of your talent ought to be
ashamed to have such frivolous phil
osophy, Billy Wardon," she said i'm
patiently.
Billy was bland and his eye was in
nocent.
Since that heartless song of yours,
Emily Wayne has been out in a dark
corner of the veranda weeping her
eyes out" she chided.
II never made love to Emily Wayne
In my life!" he protested.
"You make love to every woman you
meet-with your eyes, Billy" she ac-
cused.
II don't!" denied Billy rudely.
"You do, too' she insisted. "You
even make love to me that way
you're doing it nowW
For an instant his serious glance
sought hers as she stood there looking
up at him. This ds a grand little old
life-not !" he said, with a pathetic
grin. EMILY Wayne loves mel love
you--you love Jim Bradley--and Jim
loves Emily. Outside of that we're all
as happy as bunch of pickpockets at
a prison wardens' convention" And
he moved off gloomily toward the We
randa in search of the grieving Emily,
while Edna watched him go with a
a perplexed little smile on her lips.
But he did not find Emily, although
he did find Jim Bradley, smoking
moodily.
"Jim," said Billy. "what we want In
this world don't amount to much but
what the women want-that's differ
ent Now want Edna, and you want
Emily-Dut women being contrary.
Edna wants you, and Emily wants me.
Now, It's up to us to make them happy,
so the only thing to do is for you to go
ahead and marry Edna and I'll 60 and
find Emily and Ak It up with her"
but don't want Edna" protested
Jim violently, ''and I'll be darned II
I'll stand your marrying Emily.
want her myself"
why, you big chump! don't want
her-wouldn't have her on bet. But
we've got a chance to make the two
finest girls in the world happy by a
little sacrifice on our part.
Finally, after much persuasion. Jim
agreed, but when he decoyed Edna out
onto the lawn under the trees, she was
thunderstruck at HIS proposal.
"Why. Jim," she said, 81 like you
better than any man / knOw-except
one-and he is so stupid guess I'll
have to propose to him myself"
But Billy was not so easily dlscour-
aged. you see, It's like this. Emily.
I've been thinking about marrying you
for a-some time-and we might Just
as well go ahead and have it over
with"
BILLY" laughed Emily, you remind |
me of the Charge of the Light Bri-
gade, but even so, might marry you |
If 1t weren't for the fact I'm In love
with somebody else"
"Well." said Jim grouchlly, as the
two Of them conferred by the front |
steps. your dope was all WRONG. And |
we're both out of it. Emily, 1t seems |
oves somebody else but it isn't me-
and Edna loves somebody else, but It
sn't you. There's no eternal triangle
10 this tragedy, it's more like hollow
square,"
II guess we have teased them
came in Emily's amused
'oice. "but can you imagine two grown
men being so stupid7"
NO I can't; but then" said the prac-
cal Edna. stupid men make the best
lusbands."
Whereat Billy looked at Jim and Jim
oeked at Billy. Then with one and
he same impulse they charged on
hose two defenseless maidens with eff
ective suddenness.
And an instant later Emily was mur-
nurlng: 81 thought you'd know 1t was
joke" While the practical Edna was
'leading-"Forever isn't long, long
ime-is 1t, Billy7"
Not for a stupid husband said
lilly blandly.