Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1922-01-27

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rlet fancied she saw an opening for
little talk she felt extremely timely.
"Mr. Blondin likes you, Nina, just
because you. aren't filrtatious and silly,
like the other girls. But he isn't the
sort of man to get very deeply Inter
ested In any woman. dear"
"No, / know he's not Nina said
quickly, turning suddenly red. and
looking attentlvely at the print OF her
wet hand on the dry, hot boards.
And l would be sorry If he WERE"
Harriet pursued, not too seriously,
"for l want you TO marry a man of
your own age, when you do marry,
and not a man who has had-well,
other affairs, who has that conflden-
tial, flattering manner with all women
You will be rich, Nina"
'Why don't you say that Royal is
after my money!" Nina burst out, with
symptoms of tears. The ready name
frightened Harriet afresh she knew
that they corresponded, that grass was
not growing under Royals feet. "The
first man 1 ever really liked" Nina
said, with heaving breast, ''the first
man who ever understood me-W
"Nina." Harriet said, "you don't
want 10 have to write your husband
a check on your Honeymoon
She felt 1t cruel cut but seven
teen years of flattery and smoothness
had armed Nina In impregnable com
placence. She gave q sneerlng laugh
that trembled on the brink of tears,
shaking with anger. One look of utter
scorn she did manage, then she
shrugged not so much her shoulders
as her whole body, and flung herself
furiously into the water. Harriet
called "Nina!' first impatiently, and
then coaxlngly. But the younger girl
swan steadily to the shore, and Har-
riet saw her minute later, shaking
herself outside the shower, before she
disappeared into the big bathhouse.
Harriet had entirely forgotten Ward,
until he swan under the float and
with a characteristic YELL rose stream
ing like seal under her very feet.
Genuinely startled, she gratlfied him
with "a scream, and they both laughed
like children as he flung himself drip
ping on the hot boards, and proceeded
to bake luxurlously In the sun.
ITS the most gorgeous thing I ever
saw, do you know thatT he asked,
with one hand touching the river of
sparkling gold that blazed and tumbled
on her shoulders. listen, Harriet,
do you remember the little talk we
had some weeks agoT
Perfectly" she said, little unwil-
lingly.
"Well, how about it?" the boy said
after pause.
ut wouldn't be fair to you. Ward,
the girl said, slowly, after pause
81 love you, but don't love you the
way your wife will"
81 want your he said, sullenly. "Im
crazy about you My God"
Ward, please don't touch me" she
said sharply, getting to her feet with O
spring, as he put his arm about her
Don't! l shall tell your father II
you dol"
"You didn't talk that way at Crown
lands last June" the man said, sulkily
II don't see what has made such 6
difference now"
II think perhaps I'm different, Ward
The summer" Harrlet's voice diet
into silence. Her eyes were fixed upor
the figure Of a man who came dow
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ing water. Two minutes later. with {
great gasp OF satisfaction, Richart
Carter drew himself up beside them
Hal That is something like NJ.
Lord, the water is beautiful today
How about the buoyf Who swim
with me to the buoy?"
"Come on, HARRIET" Ward said
poislng.
Harriet rose, and bundled the glor,
OF her hair into blue rubber cap tina
made her look like beautiful ros.
French peasant. With no furthe
speech she made splendid dive, ant
the men followed her.
1t was one of life's beautiful hours
she thought, as In great splash o
salt water she reached the buoy, an,
hung laughing and painting to its rest
less bulk. Ward had preceded her b.
full minute, Richard was half
minute behind her. With much vain
glorious Boosting from the men, the
all rested there before the hOmewar
swim. Harriet hardly spoke, her Gu
was full to the brlm with mysteriou
felicity born of the summer hour, tn
heaving waters and the joyous moo
of father and son. When Rlchar
praised her swimming she flushed 4
the severe blue cap, and the blue eye
met his with the shy pleasure Of
child 1t was while she was hastil
dressing, in the hot bathhouse littl
later, that a sudden thought came I
her, and flushed the lovely face agar
and brought her 10 sudden pause,
A tremendous thought, that mad
her breast rise suddenly, and her eye
fix themselves vaguely on space IA
, a long, long minute. Her palms wer
: damp, and she put them over her he
cheeks, But that-she whispered
: the deeps of her SOUL that was nol
. sense