Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-16

IL sno uOn qult temptln me.
| Al which naively shocking statement
jerked her music to silence.
| This is a perfectly awful form OF
discipline.-this dog cart Of yours, o.
| What will you do to poor Mrs. Fayrs
y she keeps on tempting your
You're too dreadful"
| Well, a'am, seems like she enter
tains the notion that a man is a safe
little pet animal, like some kind OF
lapdog. Now amt anything like
that. I'm not a quarter NO safe. I'm
real man. .critter and likely as not
some day I'll hug her,
Heloise laughed again. you've
never hugged mel" she said.
He turned upon her SO white and
shocked a face that she drew back
from him.
20, I'm sorry. Don't please look
at me like that. Don't be 30 angry.
What did 1 say? I didn't mean any.
thing. l was just--wcll, teasing YOU"
he turned away his eyes. II reckon
l have got a whole lot to learn" he
said presently between his teeth, "but
you've got some to learn yet, girl, and
ia sure hate for you to get your
learnin' from Fadden-him or any
other married man Of his kind. know
more'n you think. I've seed heap
OF ugly things, likely hev done some
ugly things. There's just two ends to
that married game--one way you come
out knave, and the other way you
you don't come out quite ,clean."
Heloise burned--face, neck, and
brow-burned with pure anger. The
insult Of the phrase as one even, re.
motely to be applied to her was whip
to. her superiority. She bit Mt her
slender pink lip and drew in her breath.
One must amuse ones SELF" she
said with an affectation that made the
bite of her words doubly keen to the
listener, "in this impossible place. One
must have some excitement. One must
occasionally have the society of a man
Of the world, or one gets out Of prac.
tice--forgets how to behave"
| He laughed. "You want excitement.
Well, ma'am, SO do !. There amt
enough danger in this place for 'one,
| figure 1t. Danger is what ones out
lookin' for
Before she knew even that he had
moved, he was out along the shaft. He
flung up his arms with wild long
cry--he did something, she couldn't
see what. The mare flung herself back,
snorted, and gathered her long bones
!, together. . was back in his seat, the
reins wrapped about his wrists, his
body braced. He looked at Heloise, his
mask thrown down, his face cleaning,
young, reckless, hard-like the faces Of
men in far wild places. Heloise clung
, to the seat; her hat was gone already,
her hair streamed, they rocked along
r the road at speed that took her
| breath. 1t seemed to her that the cart
d must fly to pieces; they racketed down
s a hill, flew on one wheel about turn,
flashed by motor full of white and
B, startled faces which drew from LelO
r half an hysterical laugh, they swerved
i from bridge, bolted down bank, in
J; |credibly steep. splashed through deep
. ford. In front was ledge that seemed
to overhang.
e by GodH' said Q. "she mean,
e to make it,"
y She went at it like lunatic, doubled
y herself, jumped, caught at the earth
with her feet. For a perilous moment
they hung, then heaved and plunged UP
& to the roadside. The mare stopped and
y stood shaking all over, in a lather OF
il foam.
I "I'll Never Forgive You"
/; "Feelin' better now, amt 'one'!'
4 demanded Q, looking at his compa nion
She too, was shaking from head I,
q foot and white and wild.
'You were trying to kill met" sh
q painted, when she could get her voice
:. Take me home. I'll never forgiv
= you."
I II thonght you wanted some excite
ment. Playin' with death Is n heal
d healthier and honester than some othe
q ways of gettin' it,"
{ He turned the mare and then re
. gained the road and began to tro
soberly toward home. Heloise, will
G shaking hands, arranged her hair. :"
o always trusted yon," she began, wheI
she fancied she had 1t in order-it wal
n and she had quite distracted ant
e unaccustomed look-"but, as n guide
= you are quite as unframed as you ar,
n as man of the world. I don't car,
n for savagery, or foolhardiness. l sup
70 pose you were angry with me and want,
= ed to give me a fright. You succeeded
d perfectly. But ! have lost most of m,
Is respect for you. knew that you Lacked
&c certain qualities of finish and polish
i things that come by birth and train
lie ing, but I did think that you had ,
Is funuamental manlneeS ana chlvalry-'
le "Your color Is comm back" salt
l. @, "but chiefly to your nose. Ain
re that comical?'
10 She was silent, but the color suf
fused itself more becomingly.
re "Are you wantth' to meet Mr.. Fer
i'd ee-nand at the ClubT'
p II told you l wanted to go home,
es she snapped, her temper running wild
l. "Oh, / forgot your orders. You ain
t. lookin' quite in Fer dee nands clas
just at present, but by the time you r
a all curried up and brushed down agail
it'll be too late for the Club, won't it
ly Say, there's your hat on a bush along
side the road-and / see two COW
leanin' ag'in fence elbowin' each othe
~ to make out what in thunder the thin
Vi Is. l wisht Miss Mary could see that
p' If you'll hold the reins I'll collect
for you
80 She held the reins and he was ou
ed and in again with his 1.-THE, linke
~ movements. They drove for whi!
8. in silence. The shadows were length
is ening and the katydids were at a frenz
of debate. When Q next spoke he wa
eu sober enough.
er II was a plumb fool to put 70
a into danger" he said, but III
often took that way with foolishnes
after l hev had to be extry responsible
no for long spells. You are right In a
II YOU hev told me and I'll be swearii
;, likely half the night over some
tho,, ,utu WI, have giyen me. Mayt