The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-05-27
now, and the word slipped out OF it.

self. Blu Allan liked it.
my poor little girl" he said. lin
your place Ia have married the devil
himself-up against a lie like that"
"Then-then you doE't-mind?'
asked Phyllis anxiously, az she had
asked be.ore.
mo, indeed" said Allan, with a
little unnecessary firmness. "I told
you that, didn't L? | like it."
80 you did tell me-" she said pen
itently.
But %supposing De Guenther had
mt picked out some II like you--".
That's just what I've often
thought myself" said Phyllis naiyely.
She might have been much worse
than L. .... Oh. but l was fright.
ened when l saw you first! | didn't
know what you would be like. And
then, when l looked at YOU
We'll, when you looked at me?"
demanded Allan.
But Phyllis refused to go on.
But that's not ALL" said Allan.
What about-men?"
What men," asked Phyllis in
nocently.
why, men you were interested
in, of course" he answered.
There weren't any said Phyllis.
Il hadn't any place to meet them,
or anywhere to entertain them if l
had met them. Oh, yes, there was
one-an old bookkeeper at the board
ing-house. All the boarders there
were old. That was why the people
at home had chosen it. They thought
it would be safe. 1t was all Of that"
We'll, the bookkeeper?" demand
ed Allan. You're straying off from
your narrative. The b~ookkeeper,
Phyllis, my dear!"
I'm telling you about him." pro.
tested Phyllis. "He was awfully cross
because l wouldn't marry him, but
/ didn't see any reason why 1 should.
l didn't like him especially, and l
would probably have gone on with
my work afterwards. There didn't
seem to me to be anything to it for
any n but him-for Of course I'd
have had his mending and all that
to do when 1 came home from the
library, and 1 scarcely got time for
my own. But he lost his temper fear
fully because I didn't want to. Then,
of course, men would try to flirt
in the library, but the janitor al
ways made them go out when YOU
asked him to. He loved doing it.
Why, Allan, it must be seven o'clock!
Shall I turn on more lights?"
"No. .... Then you were quite
as shat up in your noisy library as 1
was in my dark rooms" said Allan
musingly.
Il suppose I was" she said, though
l thought Of it before. You
mustn't think it was horrid. 1t was
fun, lots of it. Only, there wasn't
amy being a rea girl in it."
There isn't much in this, 1 should
think" said Allan savagely, except
looking after a big doll"
Phyllis's laugh tin1led out ooh, I
love playing with dolls" she said
mischievously. "And you ought to
e my new slippers! 1 have pink
satin and blue ones, and lavendar
and green, all satin and suede. And
when I get time I'm going to buy
dresses to match. And a banjo, maybe
with a self-teacher. There's a O
upstairs where nobody Can hea5
thing you do. I've wanted slippers
and a banjo eve since 1 can rememb-
er."
"Then you're fairly happy?" de-
manded Allan suddenly.
why, of counsel" said Phyllis,
though she had not really stopped
to ask herself before whether she
was or not There had been so many
NNSsA0 SAAA6o w w. WoUlOu l. YOU
be happy if you could buy everything
you wanted, and every one was love-
ly to you, and you had pretty clothes
and a lovely house-and q rose-gar-
DEM"
"Yes-if l could buy everything I
wanted" said Fan. His voice drag
ged a little. Phyllis sprang up, in
stantly penitens.
you're tired, and I've been talk
ing and talking cbout my silly little
till I've worn you out!" she
said. "But-Allan, you're getting bet
ter. Try to move this arm. The hand
I'm holding. There! That's a lot
mor than you could do when I first
came, I thinkI think it would be a
good plan for a masseur to come
down and see It"
Now. look here, Phyllis" protest,
ed Allan, Il like your taste in houses
and music-boxes and bulldogs, but
I'll be hanged il I'll stand for a mas
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