The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-11-06

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Break II gently and be clever
Love the girl. but not forever.
For forever IL q long. long time!
Forever Is a long. long time" ap-
plauded one Of the men. fright you
are. Billyr
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 a 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.
"I never made love to Emily Wayne
In my life !" he protested.
"You make love to every woman you
meet-with your eyes. Billy" she &C.
cused.
81 don'ti" denied Billy rudely.
"You do. too" she insisted. you
even make love to me that way
you're doing 1t nowr
For an instant his serious glance
sought hers as she stood there looking
up at him. "This Is a grand little old
life-noti" 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 a bunch of pickpockets al
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
modify.
"Jim." said Billy. "what we want In
this world don't amount to much. but
what the women want-that's differ
entl Now. ! want Edna. and you want
Emily-but women being contrary.
Edna wants you. and Emily want 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 go 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.
wan her myself"
why. you big chumpi I don't want
her-wouldn't have her on a bet. But
we've got a chance to make the two
finest girls In the world happy by q
little sacrifice on our part.
Finally. after much persuasion. Jim
agreed. but when he decoyed Edna out
nto the lawn under the trees, she was
thunderstruck at his proposal.
"Why. Jim," she said. II like you
better than any man I know-except
one-and he Is so stupid ! CUES I'll
have to propose to him myself"
But Billy was q so easily discour-
aged. "You see. it's like this. Emily.
I've been thinking about marrying you
for a-some tims-and we might Just
as well go ahead and have II over
with"
"Billy." laughed Emily. 'you remind
ne of the Charge of the Light Bri.
gade, but even so. I might marry you
II IT weren't for the fact TN In love
with somebody else"
"Well." said Jim grouchily. as the
two of them conferred by the front
steps. .your dope was all wrong. And
we're both out Of II. Emily. Il seems
loves somebody else. hut II isn't me-
and Edna loves somebody else. but n
isn't you. There's no eternal triangle
to this tragedy. It's mor like a hollow
square,"
~ guess we have teased them
enough" came In Emily's amused
voice, but can you imagine two grown
men being so stupidg"
mo. I can't: but then" said the prac.
teal Edna. stupid men make the hes.
, husbands"
Whereat Billy looked at Jim and Jim
looked at Billy. Then with one and
the same impulse they charged on
those two defenseless maidens with eff.
fective suddenness.
And an instant later Emily was muir.
muring: 81 thought you'd know II was
a joke" While the practical Edna was
pleading-"Forever isn't q long. long
time-is II. Billyf-
.Not for q stupid husband" sid
: BILLY blandly.