The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-02-17
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You needn't bother about that
Julia. I'll look after it,
How"
4 could sit on the porch till it
came" he said. I'D tell 'em you
wanted 'em 10 leave it, He paused
painfully Il could wait out on the
porch with it, to see that it was safe,
until you came back tomorrow morn
ing
She looked full at him, and he plain
lively endured the examination.
Noble :" She had undoubtedly a
moments shame that any creature
should come to such a pass for her
sake. What lovely nonsense - she
said and sat upon a stool before the
cracking fire. DO sit down. Noble
unless your dinner viii be waiting for
you at homer"
NO he murmured. "They never
wait for me. Don't you want me 70
look after your trunk"
Not by sitting up all night with 1t
on the porch" she said. I'm going
TO stay here myself. I'm not going
out; [ don't want to see any of the
family tonight"
II thought you said you were hun
CRY"
Il am; but there's enough in the
pantry l looked"
''WeH. If YOU don't want to see any
of EN-" he suggested, "and they know
your fathers away and think the house
IS empty. they're liable to notice the
lights and come in-and then you'd
have to see 'em -
mo: you can't see the lights Of this
room from the street, and | lit the
lamp at the other end of the hall. The
light near the front door" Julia added,
81 put out"
aYou did2"
II can't see any of 'em tonight"
she said resolutely. Besides, l want
10 find out what you meant in the tax
icab before l do anything else"
what ! meant in the taxicab?" he
echoed. "Oh, Julia. Julia -
She frowned. first at the fire. then.
turning her head, at Noble. You
seem to feel quite reproachfuI about
something" she observed.
NO | don't. I don't feel reproach-
full, Julia / don't know what I feel,
but I don't feel reproachful."
She smiled family Don't you?
Well, there's something perhaps you do
feel. and that's hungry. VIII you stay.
10 dinner with me-if 1 90 and get
it,"
"What?"
You can have dinner with me-if
you want to?-and stay till ten o'clock
if you want to? Watt" she said,
and jumped up and ran out of the
room.
She came back and called softly to
him from the doorway half an hour
later; and he followed her to the din
ing-room at isn't much of a dinner,
Noble she said little TREMENDOUSLY be-
ing for once Though strictly as a cook
genuinely apologetic-but the scram-
bled eggs. cold lamb, salad and cof-
fee were quite as much of q dinner"
as Noble wanted. To him everything
on the table was hallOwed, yet shred
ded through and through with an ex-
circulating melancholy.
Now We'll talk :" said Julia. when
she had brought him back to the fire
again. and they were seated before it,
Don't you want to smoker" He
shook his head dismally, having no
heart for what she proposed. We'll.
Them she said briskly, but a little rue
fully, lets get to the bottom of things
Just what did you mean you had in
black and white in your pocket?7
Slowly Noble drew forth the his
tOric copy of the North End Daily Or
iole and with face averted, placed it
in her extended hand.
What in the world!' she exclaimed.
unfolding it; and then as its title and
statement of ownership came into