The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-02-09

Cad! L knew I'LL L knew 1t Kne,
you'd show your yellow streak"
She fell to moaning In her hands
mo, no, Max, I didn't mean it. You
you just got me so crazy / don't know
what I'm saying. Sure, II made 70,
take it off me. l wanted EN- to cut |
off me to graft on your burns becaus'
tit was like finding a new way o.
saying how-how l love you, Max
Every drop of blood was like-like
could see for myself how-how | loved
you, Max. +"
"Oh, my Godl" he said, folded his
arms atop the piano, and let his head
fall into them. "Oh, my Godl'
"That's how l love you, Max. That's
how you-you're all in the world l got,
Max. That's why II can't, just can't
let you go, dear. DON'T throw me over,
Max. Cut the comedy and come down
to earth. You amt had a holy spell
for two years now since the old wom-
an shifted me and wanted to marry
you off to that cloak-and-suit buyer
with ten thou in the bank and q rush
of teeth to the front. You remember
how we LATED, dearie, that night we
seen her at the show? Don't let your
old lady"
"Cut that. I tell your !"
you'd be a swell gink hitting the
altar trail with a bunch of white satin,
wouldn't you? At your time of life,
forty and set in your ways, you'd have
r.,N11 +s1,A 1anIin~ ,o,,- 1-.-r-.
n and trying to learn one of them
mothers darlings how to rub In your
hair tonic and how to rub your salad
plate with garlic? Gosh-gollyl I
bust right out lafing when 1 even
think about 1t! Come down to earth,
Max! You'd be a swell hit welded for
life with a gold band, now, wouldn't
your
She was suddenly seized with i'm
moderate laughter not untinctured
with hysteria, loud and full of empti-
ness, as If she were shouting for
echoes in a cave.
Like hi you would You tied to
a bunch of satin and tending the kids
with the whooping cough! Whoops
la, lal"
Suddenly Max Zincas rose to his
height, regarding her sprawling I'M
controlled pose with writhing lips of
distaste, Strengthened his waistcoat,
cleared his throat twice, and, standing,
drank the last of his wine. But a pal
Tor crept up, riding down the flush.
Funny, amt it? Laffl Laff! But
wait till you hear something fun
nier l got to tell you. Funny, amt it1
Laff! Laffw
She looked up with her lips sag
ging from merriment, but the dark
in her face grew darker.
"Huhp
His bravado suddenly oozed and the
licked roundly into the silence
between them.
"Huh?" she repeated, cooking her
head.
"you got to know it, Mae, and the
ooner l get it out of me the better.
But, remember, if you wanna drive me
)ut before I'm finished, if you wanna
get rid Of me a d-n sight quicker than
my other way, throw me some sob
,tuff and watch. You-well-I-the
looner l get it out of me the better,
Nae"
"Huh?"
"She's "a nice little thing, Mae.
Ter mothers a crony with my old lady.
lives in. a brownstone out on Lenox
venue. Met me first at-at a tennis
she was winning at-at Forest
lark club"
"Huh?"
Not a high-stepper or a locker like
in your day, Mae, none of-that
horus pep you used to have. Neat.
hough. Great little kid for outdoors.
Vice little shape, too. Not in your
lass, but-but neat. Nice, clean little
irl, fifteen thou with her, and her old
ian half owner in the Weeko Wooden
Hills. II need the money, Mae. The
is digging up dirt again. 1t
int like l amt been on the level with
on, girl. You knew it had to come
ooner or later. Now, didn't you, Mae?
low, there's the girl. Didn't your"
R%eassured, he crossed to where she
at silent, and placed a large, heavy
and ON her shoulder.
There's nothing needs to worry you,
Id girl. T~hirty-five hundred in your f,
cans and a couple of thou and the fiat !,
'om me on top. Cad! It's a cinch for :
0u, old girl. I've seer 'em ready for /,
lie dump at your age, and you-you're :
the boom yet. Cad! You're the
lly one I ever knew kept her looks G
I'd took on weight at the same time.
cure all right, Mae, and-and, CAD !
| don't wish sometimes the world
as different! Gadl Tiff I don't" G
1t was as If the flood of her emotion G
ID risen to a wave and at his words
oxen on it's crest. She opened her |,
IS to speak, but could only regard f,
N with eyes as hard as ice fields. a
Nov, now, Mae, don't look that fl
way. You're a sensible woman and s.
the worlds just built thataway. o
told you it didn't cost US men r.
huf I0oca chanqp to show orr T.