Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1920-08-26

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have good old-time talk while l do
my hair"
He stared at her, speechless. She
had on klmono Of soft pink silk EN-
broidered with gold flowers. In one
hand she held silver-backed hair
brush.
where are your manners?" she re-
proved, and she went to set two chairs
before the full-length mirror on the
wall opposite the bathroom passage.
Come. | don't want to have to shout
to you over there. Sit down and be-
have"
He started TO obey, and blushed as
his stockinged feet appeared from I'M
der the edge of his robe. But she had
perched on one Of the chairs and was
studying herself in the mirror.
He seated himself in the chair close
beside her She handed him the hair
brush and put up both hands to her
head, The loose sleeves Of her kline
no slipped down, barring her dlmpled
white arms He stared, fascinated, at
them and at her shapely fingers, which
were nimbly drawing the pins from
her hair. Soon the thick coils began
TO sag.
She shook her head. All the glossy
brown locks came tumbling down
about her slender shoulders. She
turned sideways with her back to
him, and. clasping the hairpins in her
lap, sat waiting He gazed in won
dering admiration at the wealth of rip
ping hair and the shapely little head
from which 1t flowed down.
why don't you begin7' she impa-
tiently demanded. You'll never fin
lsh unless you start"
"StartF
Brushing, stupid !"
"You--do you mean you wish me TO
Ito brush your hair?'
"Oh, no; I'm merely sitting here for
you to look at she bantered. Don't
be a goose"
She caught the brush from him and
made half a dozen vigorous strokes,
each time running her free hand under
the brown maze. He took the brush
from her backward stretched hand
and asked in a deep low tone: Am
| to hold it that way with my hand?"
How else can you do II right?" she
replied.
lie cautiously took a fun stroke
from her forehead back across her
dainty head and down the ripping
mass of hair. His smile was now that
of Il man completely lost in blissful in
toxication.
That's better" she said; "only stin
harder, Don't be afraid. I'm not a
paper doll-There, that's the way.
Now can settle down and talk. First
of all, I'm going TO tell you the bad
news and get through with it."
"Yes?" he asked inhallng the deli
cious fragrance of her hair.
You're not listening, and it's very
important II has made me dreadfully
cross at Charlie"
He stlffened at the name. instantly
attentive THAT fellow? What about
him? Has he-?"
yes But that's not the trouble,
the bank has been making fuss.
Ii can wait. The hOrrid thing is mat
about those bonds you lost. They
claim that you have a lot of money in
a Chicago bank"
yes What Of it?"
"rhat proves what / told Charlie.
OF course you don't reallze-you can't
realize"
Realize what?" he asked, pausIng
in the midst of long brush stroke.
why about the bonds"
you mean the bonds lost by your
hrother?"
Charlie knows some one who has
found cut all about them. 1t must
have been a detective, He found the
key of the safe deposit vault in your
pocket"
an my pocket"
Charlie said the man said the key
was found in your pocket. and-Oh, ]
forgot. He said it was all secret yet.
BUT of course you're my brother and
you ought 70 know and you won't tell
will your
"Why should 1? Please 90 on. /
fail to understand about the key. But
how about IL? If II was a detective
that found the key, he must have dis
covered where it belonged and found
the missing bonds"