The Pensacola journal., 1922-12-03

10 Souf1y ~ OnSS Noot ~ "ss just hAzT >,
tion Of something al but forgotten, and ~
dred should please choke off.
'Tu never forget those poor yoksIss
Mildred. zone OF them was so snitts, -
ME that he wanted her to 90 apple.o,.ks.
him and said he had some cider in the -
would make o deacon do q cakewaIk. R.r
Lee?"
Harlan laid down the magazine.
''You never told me OF any such ,,,.
Leonie," he said.
"Oh, II wasn't anything-just a ba-o,.
We had laugh over it at the time and ,,,,..
ave forgot it," hurried Mildred "Bpt ~,
plowboy that fell so hard for your Lsoni.
forget It 50 easily. He wrote her lettar. j
well. say, they'd have sold for the fun5v y,
And he hung around outside the fence. sp5a-
did you ever see him after-atter that !
fl-advissd hivver rider" asked Harlan. IN q
that Leonie had never heard betore-that she |
know he had.
Leonie was on the point of swapping bs,
answer. but as she turned she saw Mildred
lips apart, waiting for it; so she switched v
throwing q semaphore and merely said:
"Oh, what does IT matter? That was year,
when we were Q couple of boobs in school
aren't going to set Jealous about it-now, ara
''Oh, q bridegroom is a suspicious party, l.
ways" Mildred felt she had to get in.
mot ct ALL" snapped Harlan. "Tve ne5.
one second doubted or questioned Leonie
well. It never entered my head that she EouL
engaged in such earryings-on."
"oh. don't be silly" pursued Mildred. TT
perfectly innocent. You See"
II suppose II was, But it was in such d.
BILE bad taste, Is that what cultured parent,
their adolsscent daughters away to schools
where they're supposed to be ohaperOned and
Cd against such-such foolhardy misconduct.
Leonie rose to her slippered feet And
Leonie rose-like that-it was time TO ma
the trenches, because beneath her womanl!
structure OF atfabiiity was ton Of T. \. 7.
Look here. Harlan--and you, Mildred
flashed. I'm not on, the defensive here
own home-apd don't propose to rake over
flapper escapades Of my scarlet past.
that If my husbands life were winnowed,
had kept q day-to-day diary, We might find
where a reference to q stenographeF-Or
even q chorus girl-somewhere in the chTona
his pre-marital adventures, Now-lst's ehanG
subject. How about q highban Mf?7
'Grand thought" chirped Mildred "A
did prefer Scotch to cider. though We did get
out of that jug. didn't weF'
"Leonie." said Harlan, and he was ,rsd
"until this moment I had always ideazed
had always thought Of you as a high'mi1t4
psrior sort who wouldn't-who eouldnt-havs
me say so frivolous, to put It ID
OF course, married you as found you; hs
right to search back Ia an ex post faeto inTf
ton Of your every hour before you came ili
life. But
Eyes" said Leonis. "Hut-whatf Let's
out"
''what was about to say-when you isa7
is something new In your attitude
was that something has gone that cannot ever
back"
Eyes? For inatanee?"
"That complete faith IN yon-I mean til
qualified conviction that you were perfect; thi
Just couldn't do or even ever have done anytA
anything that you wouldn't do If were
on"
you couldn't very conveniently have bse'
Ing on when We met those two rubes," suE
Mildred.
II suppose not" sighed Harlan. "PsfSl
was all for the best, at that. And perhaps
fool to fancy that my Wife-just because sn'
pens to be my wife, in spite Of all know
be 80 different from the resi-
did. was tust blind enough-and
"If you say something sbout having Ivea
FOOLS PARADISE I'll smash vase" said Leoa
'oh-you do that, too?" moaned Harlan
night"
And out he marched.
Leonie and Mildred sat looking at one 81
Tor full second. Mildred reached over 81
her hand atfectionately on Leonie's.
did I-havs I done anything" she h'
Horriedly.
mot q thing" answered Leonie. 'Nct
hing. You bachelor girls are Ike Caesars
except that you're q merry Iot-always 70
rack whimsy or hit off bright Whee''
haven't done much-only chucked ny lie y
Iame whirling stew Of chickering's, quarFs1
,usies, suspicious and double-crossings thS
he rest Of the marriages know Of. h''
% forestall it-for a while at least. But J.
'ver the top"
"Oh, I'm so sorry," hammered MIdrsa'
laps wasn't as diplomatic as might have
put who would ever have thought Of suca
Nobody" said Leonie, patting her am
,ody-who isn't married, anyway"
We'll. 1 hope IT all comes out ali rign.
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