Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1922-01-12
PART iII-Continued.

-12-
81 was takin' a walk" she said dubi-
Ously. Il. hat to take a whole lot Of
exercise, and 1 ought to walk and
walk and walk. l guess 1 ought to
keep on walkin'."
Get in," he said. I'm out riding.
l don't know when I'll get home"
Florence got in, Uncle Joseph
closed the door, and the car slowly
bumped onward.
You know where Herbert is?" Un-
Gle Joseph inquired.
NO." said Florence, in a gentle
voice.
Il do" he said. Herbert and your
friend Henry Rooter came to our house
with one of the last copies of the ORR
ole they were distributing to subscrib-
ers; and after l read it l kind of fore
saw that the feller responsible for
their owning a printing press was
going TO be in trouble. l had quite Il
talk with 'em and they hinted they
hadn't had much to do with this num-
her of the paper, except the mechant-
cal end of it; but they wouldn't come
out right full with what they meant.
They seemed to have some good rea-
son for protecting third party, and
said quite a good deal about their IA
theirs and mothers being but mortal
and so on; so Henry and Herbert
thought they oughtn't to expose this
third party-whOever she was. Well,
l thought they better not stay too
long, because 1 was compromised
enough already, without being seen
in their company, and 1 gave 'em
something to help 'em out with the
movies. You can stay at movies an
awful long time, and if you've got
money enough to go to several of 'em,
why you're fixed for as long as you
please. A body ought to be able to
live a couple O. months at the movies
for nine or ten dollars, l should think" "
He was silent for time, then
asked: Il don't suppose your papa
and mama will be worrying about
you, will they, Florence?"
"Oh, no." she said quickly. 'Not
in the least! There was nothin' at all
for me to do at our house this after
nOon."
"That's good" he said, because
before we go back l was thinking some
of driving around by way of Texas.
Florence looked at him trustfully
and said nothing. 1t seemed to her
that he suspected something; she was
not sure, but his conversation was a
sinister. Indeed, she was able to make
out that he had more the air of an ac-
complice than of a detective. Never
theleSS she was convinced that far, far
the best course for her to pursue, dur
ing the next few days, would be one
was congenial to her mood, which was
subdued, not to say apprehensive
though she was sure that her recent
conduct, if viewed sympathetically
would be found Christian. The trou-
BILE was that probably it would not
be viewed sympathetically. No one
would understand how carefully and
tactfully she had prepared the items
of the Oriole to lead suavely up to the
news of Aunt Julia's engagement and
break it to Noble Dill in a manner tC
save his reason. Therefore, on ac.
count of this lack of comprehension
really the only wise and good thing tc
do was to claim nothing for herself
and allow Herbert and Henry to re-
main undisturbed in full credit fol
publishing the Oriole. This involved
disappointment, it is true; neverthe
less she decided to bear it.
She had looked forward to surpris
ing 'the family delightfully."-. AS
they fluttered in exclamation about
her, she had expected to say, "Oh, the
poem isn't so much, 1 guess-I wrote
1t quite a few days ago and I'm writ.
ing couple new ones now-but 1 did
take quite a lot O. time and trouble
with the rest of the paper, because