The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1921-03-10

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and get away with It, She wo,.
over her shoulder and read the NY
Of an endless losing run on tbe m MY.
Miss Van r. smiled 'T
I'm already beginning on n.
ward" she said. You've neye, IN
so well before in your life"
Its more than talk" saia M,
flushing angrily. "And the vsV'
access, that you have imapInod" !
continued. "You read happy 49,
to the public taste of midinettes ,s''
room girls, and dress-models ana y
haps. you think they mirror ths n
Why, Madge, the taunts tho, a.'
girls fling indlfferently at ylrtus I,
at vice are so vile that they coulS,,
be repeated even among halfds0-'
men. And the other way. the nr,..
door for the private secretary. ma
a road Of burned bridges E,.,
man, decent or indecent, feels ana.
sinking Of the heart when he hear
a woman taking It," He looked A, !.
shrewdly. "And yet you may Do \,
he said, half to himself. III Won !.
one OF the hungry women, God ma
you, for they all walk bllndfolded.
"They don't walk" said Mad.
flushing, and her eyes gleamuk
strangely. That's just the point. ths
rush, whirl, and"
"And crash" finished Bobby
That's the very word" said Madn
IF you'll only keep on the way youS
started, I'd love to talk to you n
night"
mo chance OF that" said BCbbt
straight-llpped. "I'm through, and ru|
going" He turned toward the DOT
"Not without kissing me gOOdty
Bobbyi" cried Madge.
He looked over his shoulder with |,
polite but impersonal smile.
I'm not much on kissing straHn
women" he said lightly. ut would
take me years to learn to kiss ym|
again"
He left the room and the house
With his top-hat pushed back 90 Nj
head, the ends Of his muller fJ4|
loose, his overcoat half unbutta4j
he swung up the deserted lwI
reaches Of the Avenue, punctut;I
his thoughts with the solid rap M
stick on the pavement. II might Y
supposed that he was thinking al
mourning over the sudden demise
the Miss Van Teller he had thougl
he had known for many years, b.
such was not the case.
Mr.. Randolph was not Quilt
mourning lines; at the moment und
review, he was thinking about hlma
and the strange fate that had ma
him a foster-child Of fortune. He p
ceeded to look back ten years. Just
decade ago he had had his one mU
ing with the young lady whose dliI
pearance had brought him an unsni
afiluence. 1t had taken place 90 D
very avenue and less than forty Sii
blocks away. He had reason 10
member the encounter. for II
brought into sudden conjunctiOn
lovely Persian cat, a lovely wlre-halr
terrier. a lovely chil0 a,.d hlmss
The cat had dashed from q pro-
front door to cross Forty-someAl
street under the nose Of taxics
the dog had flown in yapping pun'
and, In the act, yanked his young n
tress of her pins. He, Mr.. RandOll
had seized one of her flying fe'
hauled her and the terrier back
safety. and no sooner placed her
right and smoothed down her absurd
short skirts than he, she, and espedi
ly 1t, the dog, became the center q
circumference o. an animated p
wheel.
Her mistaken determination tohd
to the leash, whatever happens
brought disaster. The said lea'
wound three times round her anh'
and those Of Mr.. Randolph, bringln
them both down kerplunk and fac1
each other. my, what a bumpl' .
had cried, In startled tones, and Ih'
thrown back her curly head Cd
laughed.
IL was so that he remembered he''
a child Of ten or eleven summers aD
no winters, merry as sunny aA
dark-haired, dark-eyed, pink-CheeielI
pampered but unspolled, She ~.
risen and taken his hand, told d.
her name, thanked him, orderea
fiurried nurse to thank him snaAs
her finger at the terrier, ana sar
"Good-by" and "COme on, Maggie
while he was attn rubbing the seat +