The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-10-28

much about her to remine me of the
time when she called me savaje |
person. she said am delited you came |
elizabeth and cride little couldent |
help 1t when jest half to cry jest |
half to cry and nothing else don't help |
bit. Because she kissed me bill
well bill yore father he wired the |
athorties In gainesville and found out |
that Gale Moreland had confessed to
the shooting of black adam and you
was free and 1t has set his mind at
rest. but it diddent set my mind at rest
for because no the mountain hart.
know Gale Moreland Is jest takeing
yore place in jail until the day of the
| trial for that is the way Of the More
lands. pore Gale is a good boy. am
| doing fine hear bill but | often wish
| / could have old Doe River hear to sing
me to sleep like 1t used to. yore moth
er Is teaching me how to read and rite
and spell like pat did and / am learn
| ing fast. you can see by this letter
can rite an spell fine cant 1.
well bill kind friend Jimmy fayne
has jes sent yore mothers made up
hear to ask If he can see me and
will half to go down stares and see
what he wants.
/ yores respectively.
l Babe.
Bill Dale folded the bulky letter
and put it slowly back into the enVel-
ope. Then his gaze wandered through
a window and to where golden
winged high-holer was hammering in
dustriously at the top branch of a
dead tree. He smiled to himself, By
Heck and nearly all of the rest OF
the world for the moment forgotten,
and muttered aloud:
"'Yores respectively, Babe"
"Haw, haw, hawI" laughed the keen
cared and watchful hillman in the
straight-back chair behind him.
"'Yores respectively, Babev Haw,
haw, hawI Well. Bill, dadsling it, it
shorely to goodness amt nothin' to
; turn all that red about! When the
nights gone the day comes, don't it?
: Bill, old boy, it's the same thingI"
"You get out of here. Byl" Dale
stormed in mock severity. 'Go and
.. help the commissary clerk with the
| new goods; eh2"
Heck laughed another horselaugh
rose and went out.
When he had gone, Dale began tC
think-Of the ultra-spoiled, charming
r after-a-fashion, wealthy, young, high
e night devotee, Jimmy Fayne. And he
wondered, and wondered, what would
4 come of Fayne's quick liking for Babe
Littleford.
After he had viewed the matter from
above and below and all sides around
he frowned like a berserker.
Here is what came of Jimmy Fayne's
| quick liking for Babe Littleford-
| The days had passed swiftly, and au
| tumn was far advanced. Save for ,
| few chrysanthemums and asters tina
| grew In places sheltered from tn,
| frosts, the flowers were all gone; tn
| naples were shedding their leaves o
| brown, crimson and gold.
Ben Littlefords daughter ha'
l changed much in many ways. She nat
j tried as hard as ever mortal tried t
/ learn the correct use Of worIis: an,
\ Mrs. Dale had been patient, painstak
A ing and efficient in her teachings. No
that Elizabeth was educated, In an
A real sense of the word. Far from II
But her improvement was, In all truth
quite remarkable. She wore more o
n less costly gowns now, and q fey
A jewels, thanks to Mrs. Dale, an
wherever she went she attracted ad
miring glances.
Jimmy Fayne had been coming t
see her when Mrs. Dale would pei
NIT 1t, which was not very often. jim
my Fayne, as Patricia McLaurin ha
once been moved to say, was a fal
seeing young man for all his veal
:, nesses; he had known in advance tina
- the laurel bloom would change to
rose. and then to a white hyacintl
ly | Perhaps he even considered the fat
is that she would make better wife fC
a him. and a better mother for his chi
/ dren, than some fragile and over-cu
Sc tured woman of patrician house tbs
nd had about run out. At any rate, jim
Id my Fayne, the ultra-spoiled, had d
ut cided that he would marry her.
st During those weeks that had bee
en- made happy by an occasional hour {
the home of the Dales, Fayne had NJ
ig once mentioned marriage. He figure,
OF and wisely enough, that to be tC
as quick with his proposal would be
be lose everything.
nd But now he meant to propose, for
We knew that Miss Littleford intended g
tn ing home for visit--and he knew ths
tn when she went home she would Sc
lie Carlyle Dale. The truth was,
e- course, that Miss Littleford was g
ul ing to Tennessee to attend the o
,e- tober term of court at Cartersyille.
mn IT was a little after the middle of