The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1923-12-14

iHey nao the hoofn TO themselves
came to meet him, and, when he took
her In his hands, he saw that she
WINGED. Her head went back like a
frightened animals.
Instantly he let her go, and stepped
back. well let that stand over
while you're getting used to me-" he
told her.
Blood surged up into her face, and
1t was with a shrug she turned away.
"Suit yourself about that" she said
The paralysis which had been upon
him lifted. His thought spoke itself,
naturally, in words. my dear, the
only woman who ever kissed me with
out wanting to was your mother. I'm
not going to have that handed on to
you. You're going to like me some
day, and when you do you'll come and
kiss me without having to stiffen your
back"
AT that she smiled round a little
more spontaneously upon him. "Pm
going to like 1t here, all right" she
said.
And with this encouragement, par
tial as 1t was (for 1t was 1t, he noted,
that she'd prophesled she'd like, rather
than him), he took matters into his
own hands. Had she said anything to
Arson about dinner-about anything
she'd specially like? Was she tired
after her long Journey If not, what
would she say to their dining down.
town-at the Blackstone, perhaps?
And seeing show afterward, by way
of making it party?
The party that night was a success.
True, he frowned a trifle at the way
she dressed. Her San Francisco
clothes showed they had been bought
by one used to making forty dollars
look like four hundred. A trifie bizarre
for the fashionable hotel at which they
dined and with an impossible hat. Joe
ordered two cocktails and suggested
that she could sip hers and he would
finish 1t for her. She drank II down
instead and 1t showed a little In her
color and tendency TO be
on her guard.
1t might have been that or the show
that followed, charming little play
with q heroine in dotted Swiss, whom
Beatrice seemed to resent, that made
her fancy her father was in a patron
izing mood. Riding home from the
theater Che had not suggested pro-
tracing the adventure further) she
had seemed a trlfle frightened at his
and it was with evident re-
lief that she took his casual dismissal |
Of her to bed, without any demand for
At half-past seven the next morning,
as he was sitting down TO breakfast, |
she amazed him by coming into the |
diningroom. She was clad in loose
sleeved bath-robe, over her nlghtgown,
and her hair, in two thick black braids, |
hung over her shoulders. Her eyes
we're bright with youth, and the bloom
IF sleep lay upon her implanted skin
Her greeting was a mere playful
.aress of one hand upon his shoulder.
Then she sat down In the armchair op-
)osite his, and made great play OF
he domesticitles of breakfast; had
he coffee-urn and all the serving
fishes removed to her side OF the
able.
She chaffed him brightly while she
erved and, In the intervals, made a
Hearty breakfast of her own. She
made light of his concern that she
hould be up and about so early. She
wasn't one of the sort who had to
leep away their days. There was
learly always something better to do
han sleep, she thought, and certainly
er first breakfast with her father was
ne Of them.
The meal prolonged itself far be-
ond his usual limit for breakfast, and
be morning paper lay unregarded on
be floor. At last, however, he rose