The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-01-06
PART II-Continued.


"Oh. nothin'-" she replied. airily.
Herbert began to be miStrustful Of
the solid earth Somewhere there was
fearful threat go his equipoise.
what you talkin' about? - he said,
with am effort to speak scornfully ;
but his sensitive voice almost failed
him.
ooh, nothin'." said Florence. Just
about what pretty eyes you know you
have, and Pat.y's being anyway as
pretty as y0urs-and So you're glad
maybe She thinks yours are pretty.
the way You do-and everything"
Herbert visibly gulped. So Patty
had betrayed him; had betrayed the
sworn confidence of Truth ;"
That's an l was talllin' about"
Florence added. "Just about how you
knew you had such pretty eyes. Say
not 50 Herbert Say NOT So"
Look here, he said. "When'd YOU
see Patty again between this after
noon and when YOU came over here?"
"What makes YOU think I saw her?"
Did YOU telephone her?"
"WHat makes you think SOP"
once more Herbert gulped. well
! guess you're ready to believe any
thing anybody tells YOU" he said, with
n palSied bravado you don't believe
everything Patty Fairchild says, do
you
why. HERBERT Doesn't she always
tel the Truth?"
Her? why half the time" poor
Herbert babbled. "you can't tell
whether she just maxim up what she
says or not. If you've gone and be-
Iiev ed everything that ole girl told
YOU you haven't got even what little
sense I used 70 think you hadr so
base we are under strain. sometimes
so base when our good name is threat
ened with the truth Of US 81 wouldn't
believe anything she said" he finished
I'm sickish voice eff she told me fifty
times ana crossed her hearth
Wouldn't you If she said you wrote
down how pretty you knew your eyes
were. Herbert?"
whats this about Herbert having
pretty eyes'?" Mr. Joseph Atwater in
quired; and Herbert shuddered. I'm
Gle Joseph had an unpleasant reputa-
tion as joker.
The nephew desperately fell back
upon the hopeless device of attempt
ing TO drown out his opponents voice
aS she began To reply. He became
vOciferous with sc0rnful laughter bad !
~ cracked in the ScOrn. FLORENCE
gor mad :" he shouted. mingling the I
purported informatio with loud cack- 4
lings. "She got mad because I and 1
Henry played games with Patty! she's /
tryin' to make up somep'm TO get even. 7
She made it up It's all made up! /
She"
NO. no" Mr.. Atwater Interrupted.
let Florence tell US Florence. what
was il about Herbert knowing he had
pretty eyes?"
Herbert attempted to continue the
drowning out He bawled, "She made
1t up It's somep'm she made up
herselfl She"
Herbert" said Uncle Joseph-"If
you don't keep quiet. I'll take back
the printing press"
Herbert substituted another gulp
for a continuation of his noise.
Now, Florence" said Uncle Joseph.
''tell us what you were saying about
how Herbert knows he had such pref
~ eyes"
Then it seemed a miracle befeH.
Florence looked up. smiling modeStIy.
"Oh 1t wasn't anything. Uncle .Io-
seph." she said. II was Just trying
10 tense Herbert any way l could
think up"
"Oh was that all?" A hopeful light
faded out Of Uncle JoSeph's large
and inexpensive face. II though.
perhaps you'd detected him in some
nGiscretion."
Flore~ce laughed. Il was lust ,
-easin' him 1t wasn't anything. Uncle
Tosefh"
Hrrenrcn Herbert resumed a con /
'Usad hrerfninQ Dazed. he remained {
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Fas r. IT, # rs emotion Te wef, ,
1aeeFs -',nf Florence was never