Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-06-30

take me with you" He takes her at her
word, and when once started refuses to
After flying for several hours the
plane is forced to descend in a native
she will have to remain there for some
time.
He has the natives prepare a house for
her.
CHAPTER IV.-Continued.
"Scoff ready. Missis."
She jumped erect with a startled
cry.
"Plcnty hungry, eh?" said Bathtub
with this usual grin of pride at his
powers Of deduction.
Tell your master that l shall come
in ten minutes" she said, watched
him so and closed the oor after him.
Then she turned and hurried to the
little mirror on the wall. She flush
cd with anger as she looked at her
self. The excitement coupled with
appropriate garb. She 20 down the
mirror and held 1t at arms length.
studying herself from varying angles.
i"How absurd, how asinine you look"
she snapped at her reflection.
She rehung the looking-glass and
looked around for implements of
toilet. On the little table lay a comb
anu d Slns'c luIlitdr! oruSu. loohihS
lonely without its mate. There were
also a tin of powder. the common
sprinkler variety that men use. a
fresh bottle of dental lotion and a
sealed box. proclaiming itself in loud
type the container Of the only per-
feet toothbrush.
\ SO bad" reflected Andrea. and
went to work to make the best of
what was already one of Gods
rhniN4c< ~~oo$;orc Dot rhnN cha
had finished, the wonderful result on
ly angered her. The in%congruity of
sitting down thus CARRIED to an open
air amp dinner at half past five in
the afternoon and face to face with a
man in appropriate khaki. outraged
her very accurate Judgment as to
what was filing. Suddenly She re-
membered her cloak. She rushed to the
door and called for Bathtub. He
came on the run, received her orders
and a moment later fetched the all
~concealing garment. still warm from
its sunbath. Andrea put it on, her
bare shoulders shrinking from its hot
touch.
Beneath the acacia cleaned the
white table set for two. Near it sat
the man, nursing patience with a
cigarette as is the way of the waiting
male. He arose as Andrea drew near
and threw his cigarette away. He
was clothed in the full dress Of the
tropics-white m~ess-iacket, black tie,
white waistcoat, black trousers, silk
hose and pumps. Clean-shaven, hair
we'll brushed, he had dotted the is
and crossed the is of etiquette and
stood for six feet of the best brand
of unconscious gentleman.
Andrea stopped several PAGES away
and gazed at him. Her yes filled
suddenly with tears and her hear,
swelled in the quick answer Of the
generous to the thoughtful. She
drew near and said in a voice tina,
trembled slightly, You are CONSIDER
ate in all-little things"
She raised both hands to her throat
unlocked her cloak and let it slir
from her shoulders. Bathtub rescued
it before it reached the ground bu,
she was unconscious of that-she was
watching the man standing before her
just beyond the small table. For an
instant his eyes were those of a mar
of her own worn world. They swept
over her as though they took this
measure of her loneliness for the first
time. They travelled with a flashing
gaze from her soft hair to her flushed
cheeks, down over her bare neck and
into the feary meshes of her flms
frock and there they stopped with a
jerk as though even in that moment
he remembered that very short skirts
and l.. %truncated silk stocking might
leave a serious gap in the all too frai,
defences of modern modesty.
Then they came back in n swift
upward sweep and met her own gaze
s%quarely, steadily. She drew a deer
breath. Something sustaining hat
come into the white mans gray-blue
eyes. something you could lean upon
He was suddenly not of her old world
II am afraid the CUP Is a little
cold" he said as he stepped around
to draw her chair for her.