The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-03-16

sweetness, and | thought you'd be S
glad to see that it's spring. Sure i
amt hurting you any higher up? Do
says if"
Fit as a fiddle | feel.'
She bent down to kiss him. Hi
head lay in the full glory of a bar 0
sunshine that crossed his pillow.
I'm going out now and dig up Ii
the garden a little. Look out, AL, al
the lilac bush it's getting ready"
"Ain't it a beaut, Lo? l bet wher
it blooms it smells like sixty. We got
ia wrap it up these chilly nights JUS!
like it was ii baby. We gotta throw /:
sheet or something over it. Don't for
get, Lo, to cover it at night
"And then it'll look like IA spook III
the moonlight"
81 want it covered so it won't get
nipped."
Nothing you ever want me to re-
member won't get nipped, darling"
Poor little kiddo; I keep you jump
ing, don't ~
"Im going out now before l do the
dishes and spade up like Ben learnt
me. Maybe some of the girls will have
time to run up for a minute to see us
when the show plays its return a
week from tonight. We want the little
place to look swell, AL"
He was slow to release her hand.
It'll seem funny to have the show
playing in u town, won't it, Lo, and
-
She made a wide-mouthed grimace
and pursed her fruitlike lips into a
quicker.
"We should worry?'
"You don't mean that, Lo."
"Doi'
Poor little kiddo! Poor little kid
do"
His throat might have been fur
lined.
You think I'm laundering, don't
you? You think I'm laundering just
because the shows coming here next
week. Like fun l am!'
You wouldn't squeal if you was,
baby, but don't. you think I know!
Don't you think l know what Twin
in this amen corner is"
"Shh-h-h 70
Don't you think l know what liv-
Ing with a hulk like me in "a"
"You-you're going to begin now to
make me cry, amt you? You-you're
going to begin and remind me of what
T done and mala , wish 7 Woo doad
and-and-oh, God, Al, if anybody
ought to be hankering it's you, not me,
"Shh-h-, darling! You don't need to
be ashamed of hankering. 1t would be
funny if you didn't. A pretty SIXTY
little thing like you. | amt hankering,
because the night the spring-board
didn't work was the luckiest stroke l
had. Would II have got you if
If it hadn't gone back on me? Would
|? Even for a hulk l amt got nothing
to banker about, baby, tt
"But I amt neither, AL. Honest L
amt. Gee, this little house and you
and Ben! Gee, / amt hankering."
There never was a friend like Ben,
Lo, there never was."
There never was, AL"
"And now he thinks the world and
Ill of you, Lo, and laffs and laffs at
your cute little ways. Honest, baby,
sometimes l just think to myself if
f you could get that other laundering
,ut of your head, I wouldn't mind
If / knew that you and him,
well, after well, you know
l mean, baby, after L"
"Al-Al, you make me ashamed to
listen. Please, darling, 1 can't stand it
Vhen you talk like that. Amt you
ceiling right today? Amt your
Il mean it, baby. There couldn't be
that would set me as easy 4
bout you as that. He's 80 strong, Lo. I
like to see him all lit up like a |
tree when you begin cutting '
p with your cute little ways. He's so
trong, Lo, and like a kid at the same S
me. He could be so good to you, S
ably. I'd feel so easy if 1 knew for
1re that" c
al, p~lease-please cut it. Please, t
o
Even when l heal him coming down
lie street on his way to the factories t
: when lie stops by from the alder q
ems meeting even when l hear his T.
'otsteps coming down the street. it's p
ke a soldier with new spurs on his s
was marching to stand by us. s.
int 1t sol" Il
He was slower still to release her n
md. 81
'That's why, Lo, I-even if you can
It the hankering out of your system 81
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II amt hankering, Al; honest, II
Ring, +" tt
you don't mean that, Lo." m
do! Do! Do! Lemme go. darling. ii
nme put some bulbs out. Lemme Il
try, darling" TT
She broke from him with a great 81
ow of raillery. 81
Tulips first" And she was out in