The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-04-30
THE PURSUIT
OF FRECKLES
By JANE OSBORN


spoke to you when you got off thu
carr" asked Laura, with all the conde
ScenSion of an older sister who ha(
overheard so frequently the remark
that she was the beauty of the family
and that Peggy was just a nice lit
tie girl that she was beginning to be
Iieve it,
Don't call me Freckles I" snapped
Peggy, as she impetuously pulled OFF
her jaunty little tam o'shanter that
was part of her skating outfit. Then
she peered into handglass on her
sisters dressing table.
--They really are fading. No one who
hadn't known before | began using
that new cream would know | ever had
any freckleS. and it sounds just dread
fully to call girl of my age-twenty.
slmost-by such Il 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 he? Who introduced you?
Don't be a clam"
NO one introduced me. SO there"
Peggy Young! How dare you speak
To Il young man you don't know any
thing about?"
81 do know lot about him" replied
Peggy. who was really very eager TO
tell all she knew about the young man
under discussion. "He is young news
paper man. | often see him. He goes
to work about the time I'm coming
from skating, and-well it was just Il
ease of mutual attraction, | suppose.
I'd noticed him for 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 in an impertinent way, but i'm
n searching serious way. Just that
look was as good as an Introduction.
When man looks at a girl that way.
she just knows he's all right I
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 70 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 10 seem that he really knew me.
Wasn't that thoughtful of him?'
II am really Shocked" commented
Laura, whose expression, on the con
trary. showed intense interest. 81 sup
pose I ought 10 speak to father"
81 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
Iege"
THAT was quite different With
Stanton ii was a case of love mt first
sight; and when man loves ut first
sight, YOU don't think he is going 70 /
wait for an opportunity to have an in
reduction :" +
Maybe it was If you could have
seen the way he looked at me never ,
Iad anyone look at me that way be-
ore. of course. he hasn't told me he q
owes me yet though he has said he y
vas very. very fond of me-"
well, | think there was something
cry funny about it," said Laura h
"You mean that when man wants II
o meet YOU the first time he sees YOU 3
is perfectly natural because YOU f,
ne beautiful but that when nun /,
eels that way about me. there must r.
e something queer-he must have fl
zen crazy or drunk or something" Il
Il didn't say that. Peggy assured
.anra. But if you must know it, you in
rent just that type. Some people Just OF
rent, You know, FreckleS. and you're r.,
ne Of them" y,
Don't call me FreckleS." protested .,
'eggy. II can stand having you say y,
y those other mean things hut won't "a
g called FreckleS | am sure Mr.. Bur o,
eSS doesn't think I am frecllled I'm u,
iIst going to ask him. so there: and if tl
e says I'm freckled. noticeab,y. then .,
on can 90 ON. and if he says he'd he
ardiy notice them then you lust =,
MUSTN'T call me FreckleS" n,
Two DAYS later an opportunity ar II
WED for Thomas Burgess to settle the
isnute between Laura and Peggy If
lad been decided that Peggy ought to
introduce the new admirer of her .
u Iaura-propriety really demanded -,
t. Laura said. And il should he done =.
nrrectly in the afternoon. with Laura n,
'ouring tea behind a softly lighted fen i,
able and Peggy looking sweet and =
riIly in the afternoon frock and light =.
lippcrs. just as if they always looked 81
hat way and drank tea every after. -.
DON And ii was easier for Mr.. Bur -,
ess 10 acquiesce in the tea-party idea So
han for most of I.aura'S suitors be- i,
ause he worked at nights and was IL
therefore, as free at teatime as tho g.,
lost leisured of Beau Brummels. nj
''Now Mr. Burgess. asked Peggy, q
$ soon as the tea serving formalty in
nd been gone through and Mr. Bur In
ass was feeling very uncomfortable hi