The Red Cloud chief., 1920-01-22
THE BLUE DRESS
By BERTHA HERMAN.

old RIM bac., $50 llloreg Tossing q
/ hcautiiul diamond ring from hor. and
with bang nf the porch door MAY
how ZIP Tire stairs to- her room. Thor,s
stnnd.ny before tn mirror her face
ailamn and her eyes wonderfully blue
! she said:
"Wcl', I'm gla1 orit. I'm r'ad of II,
To think ! r.sht hayn molTlcd such a
| mean, unreasonable thing"
The difficulty wa, The eternal 'aycr's
quarrel Bob wu, going away for soy
| cral weeks on business trip 10 Da.
troit, and had asked May 10 cancel the
bungalow affair that they had promis-
| ed To attend the following week. Now
dad had just given May new summer
outfit, all the beautiful, soft. .,sill Y
things a normal girl Graves. In spe,-
ial evidence was her dear little bls @
gcorgctte evening gown, masscd in
tulle. in which May looked more liEe
an ethereal fairy than an ordinary girl.
To give NJ the thought of wearing that
dress WAS beyond reason!
B-r-r-r-r-rng! The telephone bel
tinklcd loudly. In an excited voice
May answered the phone, thinking 1t
possibly might be Bob. If it were, she
would-no, she wouldn't-yes. she
would just hang right up.
Hello. May! Yes this is lila. Ida
Schol Did YOU hear what the club
Is doing? Didn't you? Oh! We're GO
ing TO have camp. Yes, with tents
n everything Yes. out in Maine. Sure
all the girls will hc thcre. You'll come.
toof Great! WIN / sign up for you?
For The whole month Of August. That's
fine. We've only one week TO wait.
Tn SO excited. Isn't It tmllngw
May hung UP. after receiving this
news, ana contemplated tie result.
Yes, she was glad She gave Bob back
his ring. She wondered if he took It.
She had flung II out on the porch.
l'e might be fool enough to walk off
ana leave II there. Some impulse
prompted her TO run out and see il
the ring were still there. OF course
he took 1t. Well, She would go away
10 camp and have an exceedingly good
time with the girls and forget him.
lie was mean thing anyway. Pos
Sibiy she might meet some other hero
there. All. romance was stirring with
IN her. Wouldn't it be wonderful to
show Bob that She could not be trified
with.
The first of August found happy
group of efcrvcsccnt youth at North
station. Weren't they going out TO
camp, and weren't they going To have
wonderful time? one little girl in
pink linen dress and big blue eyes
looked trihc more serious than the
Others, but she, too, had the delightful
look of expectancy on her face.
One perfectly Incompatible week
full of delightful experiences with
canoes, cameras, caniplirrS, gentlemen
ana the like had already slipped by
Ia the regret of most of them. 10
May. however, 1t seemed aS though the
day were made of about ~ hours and
lhe week Of almost 1870 DAYS. Her
thoughts were constantly turning
homcWald, ana especially To the scene
on her porch two weeks before. Could
she stick II out, the four weeks away
from home ana him? Did ne ever
think Of her; Was he going out with
other girls? Should She write TO him
ana tell him she was sorry? Oh
what was She To- do.
Another week PASSED brlmfu Of
pleasure for Ida, Er>S, IIilda and the
rest, but painfully dull for May. The
next evening Ida laid her hand on
Mays shoulder and whispered some
thing in her ear
rs that truc?" o-rcl May, a new
light suddenly aglcw In her eyes.
"leS, and he didn't even have to go
To Detroit, lie hu~u't gone out with
anyone, not even the boy, once since
You left, and he frolS perfectly mis-
erablc. I'm do him good, though. He
will appreciate you more when YOU
get bo"k, although goodness knows.
You were the one who always started
The quarlcls."
The morning OF the third week
daWngd bright and clear. Six o'clock
they all went in for dip. Everyone
was there but May. They called for
her, blew the huole time and time
again, but no May responded, Drip.
ping wet from swimming they all
rushed into her tent, intending TO
awaken her and pull her down 10 the
stream The bed was empty, but
stuck up in her mirror was a note
which read:
Girls: Don't call me qultter. Bob
IS lonesome and 50 am I. Just had to
90 back You know. May"
They knew.
Copyright, 1919, Mcclure Newspaper Syn
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