The Jasper news., 1922-11-30

stones. Di grew restless. There was.
she had found, a certain amount OF
this to be gone through before Bobby
would focus on the personal. At
length she was obliged to say, Like
me today7" And then he entered
upon personal talk with the same
zest with which he had discussed bait.
Bobby said Di. sometimes
think we might be married, and not
wait for any old money"
They had now come that far. II
was partly an authentic attraction,
grown from out the old repulsion. and
partly It was that they both-and es-
peclally Disc much wanted the ex-
periences of attraction that they as
sumed its ways. And then each cared
enough to assume the pretty role re-
quired by the other, and by the occa-
sion, and by the air of the time.
"Would your" asked Bobby--but In
the subjunctive.
"She said: "Yes will"
ut would mean running away,
wouldn't itY said Bobby. still sub
junctive.
suppose so. Mamma ana papa
are so unreasonable"
"Di," said Bobby, 81 don't believe
you could ever be happy with me-"
"The idea / can, too. You're GO
ing to be great man-you know you
are"
Bobby was silent OF course he
knew it-but he passed 1t over.
IA
surprise the whole school?" said Di,
sparkling.
Bobby grinned appreciatively. He
was good to look at, with his big
frame, his head of rough, dark hair.
the sky warm upon his clear skin and
full mouth. Di suddenly announced
that she would be willing to elope
now.
i've planned clipping lots Of times"
she said ambiguously.
1t flashed across the mind Of Bobby
that in these plln~ Of hers he may
not always have been the principal,
and he could not be sure But
she talked in nOthings, and he an
swered her so.
OOll CTleS SOuuueu III lHt CthtCi VI
the stream. The boat, well out of the
strong current. was seen to have Its
oars shipped: and there sat Dwight
Herbert gently rocking the boat.
Dwight Herbert would.
"Bertie, Bertie-pleaseI you heard
his Ina say.
Monona began to cry, and her IA
ther was irritated, felt that II would
be ignOmlnious to desist, and did not
know that he felt this. But he knew
that he was annoyed, and he took
refuge in this. and picked up the oars
with: "Some folks never can enjoy
anything without spelling It,"
'That's what was thinking" said
Ina, with a flash of anger.
They gllded toward the shore In a
huff. Monona found that she enjoyed
crying across the water and kept 1t
up. 1t was almost as good as an
echo. Ina, stepping safe to the sands,
cried ungratefully that this was the
last time that she would ever, ever
go with her husband anywhere. Ever.
Dwight Herbert, recovering, gauged
the moment to require Of him humOr,
and observed that his welded wife
was as skittish as a colt Ina kept
silence, head poised go that her full
little chin showed double. Monona,
who had previously hidden a cooky in
her frOck, now remembered it and
crunched sidewise, the eyes ruminant.
Moving toward them, with Di, Bobby
was suddenly Overtaken by the sense
of disliking them all. He never had
liked Dwight Herbert, his employer.
Mrs. Deacon seemed to him so over
whelmingly mature that he had no
idea how to treat her. And the child
Monona he would like to roll in the
river. Even Di He fell silent.
was silent on the walk home. which
was the signal for Di to tease him
steadily. The little being was afraid
OF silence. 1t was too vast for her,
She was like butterfly in a dome.
, But against that background of ru.
inAd occasion, Lulu walked homeward
beside Ninlan. And all that night, be
side her mother who groaned In her
sleep, Lulu lay tense and awake. He
had walked home with her. He had
told Ina and Herbert about going tO
the city. What did It mean? Sup
pose oh no; oh mol
'Either lay still or get up and sci
nm Mrs Reff diracfad her at length