The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-06-22

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I've not been having much funi' she
faltered, with 4 suddenly trembling
mouth. I've been planning-pray
ingl--that somehow 1t would come ont
right. He told me today that he had
promised not to- zee or speak 70 me
for two years, \ she said, slowly. IL
Father, knew that he had d reason
He was changed, I never saw him sol
And two hours ago. she pointed to-
the door that led into her fathers
room, two hours agoI went In there
she said, land I looked over your own
check book. Father, did You write
him d check7 Was that the stub that
had a. b. on fir
Richard looked at her sorrowfulIy.
SIN sorry, Nina he said, simply.
Il told him you should not know, from
mel / would have spared you that"
For d few minutes there was silence
In the room. Then Nina said bravely,
through tears:
Il don't know why you should be
sorry for what will q v me months
Of slow worry, all at one blowi You
and Harriet needn't worry any more.
Tn cured. I've been a fool, let him
fatter me and lie to me-" said this
new Nina, with bitter courage, ''but
TIN over It now. Tn sorry I gave you
much trouble, Father-r
my darling girl" her father said.
tenderly. Il only wish / could spare
ron all thislr ss
Better now than two or three years
sitter we were married." Nina said.
Plenty Of girls lind u. ont thenl Fa-
ther, I want you to- get that check,
through the clearinghouse, Tor me-
she said, he~roically, 'and / want to
keep II. Il eversI'm q fool about q man
again. I'll take a out ana look at ftls
II have 1t; / told For to ut Il To-
day. Richard said. You shall have
Nina had turned suddenly white; Il
W. g 4 asiast nttle hopa had bssn
killed. &@ss5@
You have iti. she whispered. ..Hs
cashed II, them
HE cashed II the next morning.
Richard said. Nina was silent for q
moment.
How you must laugh ct ma Har
rietl r she said then. - i.
4I1 Laugh at your" Harriet mid.
stricken. my darling girl, / am the
last woman In the world who could do
thatl I was only your age, Nina, when
I met him-you know that story. Why,
Nina, you're but eighteen, after all
you'l have many and many an affair
before the right man comes along"
Harriet said. you'll look back on this
some day, and say, Tt was an expert
ence, and I learned from it! 1t Is only
going to make me happier and more
sure when the man whom I really love
comes to mel" r.
Nina, sitting between Richard and
Harriet on the bed. looked wistfully
from one face to another.
It'll try to make it, so, Harriet I"
she said. And somewhat timidly she
added, "Father-and Harriet-shan
you feel dreadfully II I say that I don't
want to go to Brazil? I'll tell you
why. Ward Is going out to the Gardi-
ner ranch, and Bruce Is going, too, and
It seems to me that riding and camp
ing and living In the open air Will be-
well, will seem better to me than just
being on the steameri / dread seeing
strange places and meeting people,"
said Nina. THE Gardiner girls were
simply darling to me the term they
were in school, and-don't you rernem-
her, Harriet I'VE were the only people
who took them ont for Christmas and
Easter holidays, and they Like mel
And-n you wsuldn't be too disap-
pointed, Harriet. I believe ! would Like
Il betterl" =.
MY darling girl" Harriet said,
warmly, "you must do what seems
right to you. But you won't need mel.
she added, tactfully.
SWELL, you see Mrs. Gardiner and
Mrs. Hopper are sisters. Nina ex-
planned, readily, .and they'll be with
us. But H you'd like to conceive are
going camping IN the most glorious
canyon that you ever sawr" Nina In
terrupted herself with sudden enthust-
asm. And 4 am 80 glad / really =
rddel IA feel 90 horrible II I couldnsti-
q think you11 have 4 wonderful two
months Of Il. Harriet said, ..and then
Grannyn be coming West, to spend the
winter IL Santa Barbara. tool And
now, Nina love, It's after eleven
O'clock she ended with q change az
tone. 'and ron have had q terrible
6ayi We WIN have to do some more
1hOpping tomorrow afternoon, and try
on the riding habita, and do q thousand
things. And, Nina Richard heard her
add tenderly, when his daughter had
given him d rather sober goodnight
kss at the door Of her room, '.when-
eyeF ron feel mad and depressed about
h, jiust remember % ray to yourself.
This won't last ii i few months tha
sling win I'll 30 sonels
NINA ID Il safe bands ..e Richard
aid 10 himself, thanlfully, o. 10
d0sed the door. He carried q memory
q Harr1et's earnest eyes, her low, e.
ger voice, her encouraging arm about
Nina,s shoulders.
Tnsy were III u breaAfast when 10
came down thA NEXT morning. His
mother, d one of her LACE, flowing
robes she always wore before noon,
iaid down b letter half-read, 10 smile
at him. Ward. his dark head veEy