The Nevada County picayune., 1922-08-31

n see this Gerald Weston. So l sent tho wire inviting him to come.
 Terry came-and he had not been Ave minutes in the house before if might easily have seemed that he had always been there He did know about stors at least, he talked with Father .hont them and so as to hold Fathers interest. too And he knew lot about ,nnuuerahle things In which Mother WAS Interested He stayed four days :: and all the while he was there, 1 never so much as thought ol ceremonlous dress and dinners. and lfveried but lers and footmen nor did It once oe- cur to me that our simple kitchen Nora and old Johns son at the wheel of our one motorcar, were not bealti- fully and entirely adequate, So uhas- umingly and so perfectly did Jerry enthusiastically fit in (There are no other words that so exactly express what I mean) And in the end. even his charm and his triumph were 50 un obtrusively complete that never thought of being surprised al the prompt equalization of both Father and Mother.
 Jerry had brought the ring. (Jerry always brings his ''rings'-and he never fails to put them on.) And he went back to New York with Mothers promise that l should visit them in July at their cottage in New port.
 They seemed like dream-those four days-after he had gone; and should have been tempted to doubt the whole thing had there not been the sparkle of the ring on my finger, and the frequent reference to Jerry on the lips of both Father and Mother.
 They loved Jerry, both of them. Father said he was fine, manly young fellow; and Mother said he was 6 dear boy very dear boy. Neither Of them spoke much of his painting. Jerry himself had scarcely mentioned 1t to them. as I remember after he had gone.
 went to Newport in July. 'The cot tage.' as suspected, was twice as large and twice as pretentous as the New York residence; and It sported twice the number of servants. once again I was caught in the whirl of din ners and dances and motoring with the addition of tennis and bathing. And always, at my side, was Jerry, seemingly living only upon my lightest whim and fancy. He wished to paint my portrait but there was no time, es- peclally as my visit, in accordance with Mothers inexorable decision was of only one weeks duration.
 But what wonderful week that was l seemed to be under kind of spell. It was as if were in new world-a world such as no one hao ever been in before. Oh, knew, of course, that others had loved-but not as we loved. I was sure that no one had ever loved as we loved. And il was so much more wonderful than anything I had ever dreamed of-thls love of ours Yet all my life since my early teens I had been thinking ana planning and waiting for it-loVe. And now it had come-the real thing. The others-all the others had been shams and make-belleves and counterfeits.
 At Newport Jerry decided that he wanted to be married right away He didn't want to wait two more endless years until l was graduated The idea of wasting all that valuable time when we might be together! And when there was really no reason for fl. either-no reason at all
 smiled to myself, even as l thrilled at his sweet insiStence. was pretty sure l knew two reasOns-tWo very good reasohs-why l could not marry before graduation One reason vas Father; the other reason was Mother hnted as much.
 "Ho! Is that all?" He laughed and kissed me I'll run down and see them about it,' he said iauntily.
 l smiled again. l had no more idea that anything he could say would
 But l didn't know Jerry-then.
 l had not been home from Newport & week when Jerry kept his promise and ran down." And he had not been there two days before Father and Mother admitted that perhaps, after all. it would not be so bad an idea II I shouldn't graduate, but should be married instead
 And so | vas married.