The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-03-09

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do that turn in my sleep II I got tn
right kind of a feederl"
She burrowed into her handkerchief
her little travel-stained figure hunche,
and abject.
81 wish / was dead.p
Jaw, now, Lo, darling, l."
st just seems like nothing I do
don't suit nobody"
10, darling, just to show you hov
you suit me, let's do what 1 been beg
ging you to. Let's quit Then we won
have nobody to suit but ourselves
Let's you and me quit, that's how much
1 think of you. That's how much vol
suit me. Let's quit"
"Quitr"
"Yeh, quilt Let's jump. Lee CAM
hold up after the way he faxed the
circuit on this show. You say the
word, Lo, and we'll do 1t right here in
Adalai. With the sixteen hundred ]
got saved, Lo, my friend Ben Coll
ings'l set US up in anything from an
ice cream parlor to the box business.
He's a big gun there; alderman an
everything but mayor. He's offered to
set me up, Lo, every time I've played
the town. Gee, Lo, last year he was
putting up some little red-roofed cot
tages near the station. / bet they're
ready now-little red-roofed cottages
on the hill, with a weather-cock on the
peak of the veranda and a white picket
fence, and-and, he rents 'em. Lo,
we"
Honest, Al, you must be crazy
with the heat. / thought you was only
guying all along-or I would have
given you q brain test"
"Guying nothing; the idea has had
me for a month like a house afire. /
wanna get out of this business, hon,
before you much more than get in. We
can start together in a clean little
town in a clean little way, kitten. l
wanna get you out Of the show bust
ness, Lo, before you more than get
just in. Get you out, kitten, and take
care Of you"
Honest, Al, you're enough to scare
a girl. We can't do a crazy thing like
that. What1l Lee say if we jump?
l wanna get on in this business, Al.
I'm just starting, only six months In
the game, and ! wanna get on. l amt
the kind of a girl that could settle
down in a tank in a million years"
"All right, in the big town then, Lo,
if"
Gee, wouldn't Lee be sorei"
lee, always Lee. l think you're
cracked over Lee and that's what's
hurting you. I think you wanna stick
around with the director of this show,
that's what l think"
whats it to you? You amt my
boss. I'm a good girl, / am, and no
nan can cast in~sinuations about me.
III
"Lo, darling"
She was sobbing again-hurt, jerky
little commissions that racked her.
Honest, l wish 1 was dead"
"Lo, darling, 1 tell you Lee amt the
kind of a man for"
eff 1 amt swell to Lee, he fines me
and puts Floss first in the pony prance-
If 1 amt swell to you, then you come
around insinuating and"
Darling, it's just because +"
"You know how a girl like me that
wants to get on in the business has got
to salve it on with the director-if he
happens to like her. You know better
than l can tell"
She stole a furtive glance at him
from the corner of her handkerchief
and Immediately returned to it's depths.
greenish white aura sprang out
his lips and his hands closed
until the flesh sprang white at the
knuckleS.
"Whatta you mean? If that rat has
been bothering you, by Cad, L"
mo, no., mol Gee, can't a fellow
ike a girl, just plain like a girl, with
0ut-without bothering her? Can't a
girl and a fellow f1irt a little without
)othering each other?"
Her voice was as arch as her glance.
"That's it. That's it. You're a little
1irt. You're a little firt in the blood
md you can't help it. You can't help
no more than 1 can help the
,olor Of my eyes. You're a little flirt
md a little devil that drives slow
linking men like me crazy. Nc won