The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-04-15
THE PURSUIT
OF FRECkLES
BY JANE OSBORN

looking, round-faced young man that
spoke 10 you when you got Off the
carr" asked Laura, with all the conde-
scension of an older sister who had
overheard so frequently the remark
that she was the beauty OF the family,
and that Peggy was Just nice lit
tie girl that she was beginning to be-
lleve It.
Don't call me Freckles I" snapped
Peggy, MS she impetuously pulled of
her jaunty little tam o'shanter that
was n part of her skating outfit. Then
she peered into handglass on her
sisters dressing table.
"Thcy really are fading. No one who
hadn't known before l began using
that new cream would know ever had
any freckles, and II sounds Just dread.
fully to call a girl OF my nge-twents,
almost by such perfectly childish.
silly nickname"
Then another pause, In which she
studied the pleasant, wholesome fea-
lures In the mirror with considerable
scrutiny. Besides, he isn't round
faced. It's quite an oval"
"Who Is hep who introduced you?
Don't be n clam"
"No one introduced me. SO there" !"
peggy Young How dare you speak
to n young man you don't know any
thing about7'
81 do know lot about him." replied
Peggy, who was really very eager to
t.,Il Nil aln l. ah ha
under discussion. "He is young news
paper man. often see him. He goes
10 work about the time I'm coming
from skating. and-well II was just
case of mutual attraction. I suppose.
I'd noticed him for n few days before
he ever seemed TO see me. Then one
day he noticed me: he seemed to be
looking through to my very soul; not
at all I'm an impertinent way, but In
a searching, serious way. Just that
look was as good as an introduction.
| When a man looks at n girl that way,
she Just knows he's all right.
looked up and he seemed really en-
barrassed. He hadn't meant to annoy
me, and then, when left the car and
looked back at him to see whether he
was still looking, he raised his hat ever
so slightly. After that we Just natu-
rally spoke to each other. And he
told me that the reason why he spoke
raised his hat--that first time was
because he thought other people had
seen him looking at me and he wanted
II to seem that he really knew me.
Wasn't that thoughtful OF hIm?"
| "I am really shocked" commented
Laura, whose expression, on the con-
trary, showed intense interest. 81 sup
pose | ought TO speak to father"
II didn't tell him about the way you
| got acquainted with Stanton Jones,
just because you had chairs besides
each other coming home from col
| lege."
THAT was quite different. With
Stanton IL was a case OF love Mt first
sight; and when man loves at first
sight. you don't think he Is going to
walt for an opportunity TO have an In
troductionl !"
Maybe II was. II you could have
seen the way he looked at me Inever
had anyone look at me that way be-
fore. OF course, he hasn't told me he
loves me yet. though ne has said he
was very. very fond of me-"
| swell. I think there was something
very funny about It," said Laura.
"You mean that when man wants
to meet you the first time he sees you,
1t Is perfectly natural because you
are beautiful; but that when a man
feels that way about me, there must
be something queer-he must have
beeA crazy or drunk or something"
II didn't say that, Peggy" assured
Laura. "But II You must know IL, you
aren't just that type. Some people Just
aren't. you know. Freckles. and you're
one OF them"
'Don't call me Freckles." protested
Peggy. II can stand having you say
all those other mean things. but won't
be called Freckles. am sure Mr.. Bur
CESS doesn't think I am freckled I'm
Just going to ask him, so there; and IL
he says I'm freckled, notlceably, then
yoH can go on, and II he says he'd
hardly notice them. then you Just
mustn't call me Freckles."
i Two days later an opportunity ar
rived for Thomas Burgess to settle the
dispute between Laura and Peggy. II
had been decided that Peggy ought 10
Introduce the new admirer OF her
to Iaura-propriety really demanded
4 II. Laura said. And II should be done
correctly In the afternoon. with Laura