Shoshone journal., 1923-12-14

Eustace sprang forward with out
stretched hand.
Not really? How splendidl Accept
my congratulations This Is the finest
thing that could possibly have hap
pened. These are not Idle words. AS
one who has been engaged to the girl
himself, speak feelingly. You are well
out Of It, Sam"
Sam thrust aside his hand. Had 1t
been his neck he might have clutched It
eagerly, but he drew the line at shaking
hands with Eustace Hignett.
my heart is broken" he said with
dignity.
THAT feeling will pass, giving way
to one Of deyout thankfulness. know !
I've been there. After all. VII
heimina Bennett . . what is she? A
rag and bone and a hank of hair"
"She Is nothing Of the kind" said
Sam, reyolted.
Pardon me-" said Eustace firmly, II
speak as an expert. know her and
repeat, she is rag and a bone and a
hank Of hairi"
"She is the only girl in the world,
and owing to your idiotic behavior
have lost her."
you speak Of the only girl in the
world" said Eustace blithely. "If you
want to hear about the only girl in the
world, l will tell you. A week ago
was in the Subway in New York. :"
'T'm going to bed" said Sam brusque-
ly.
"All right I'll tell you while you're
undressing"
81 don't want TO listen"
"a week ago." said Eustace Hignett,
'T will ask you to picture me seated,
after some difficulty, in a New York
subway; l got into conversation with a
girl with an elephant gun"
Sam revised his private combination
service In order TO include the elephant
gun.
"She was my soul-mate," proceeded
Eustace with quiet determination. 81
didn't know II at the time, but she was.
She had grave brown eyes, wonderful
personality, and this elephant gun. She
was bringing the gun away from the
downtown place where she had taken 1t
to be mended."
'Did she shoot you with it,"
shoot me? What do you meant
Why, no"
"The girl must have been fool !"
said Sam bitterly. "The chance Of
lifetime and she missed it Where are
my pajamas"
81 haven't seen your pajamas. She
talked to me about this elephant gun,
and explained its mechanism. You can
imagine how she soothed my aching
heart. My heart. if you recollect, was
aching at that moment-quite unneces-
sarily if l had only known-because it
was only couple of days since my en-
gagement to Wilhelmina Bennett had
been broken off. Well, we parted at
Sixty-sixth street and, strange as it
may seem, l forgot all about her"
DO it again. -
TELL it again?"
"Good heavens, MOI Forget all about
her again"
Nothing" said Eustace Hignett
could make me do that. Our
souls have blended. Our beings have
been called to one another from their
deepest depths, saying. . There are
your pajamas, over in the corner.
saving. You are miner How could ]
forget her after that? Well, as ! was
SAYING, we parted. Little did l know
that she was sailing on this very boat
But Just now she came to me as
writhed on deck. -
did you writhe?" asked Sam with
flicker of moody interest
81 certainly did"
That's goodl'
'But not for long,"
That's bad"
"She came 70 me and healed me.
sam. that girl is an angel"
switch off the light when you've I'M
she'd"
"She seemed to understand without
|, word how / was feeling There are
;ome situations which do not need
words. She went away and returned
With a mixture of some kind in a glass.
..I don't know what II was. II sad
Worcester sauce in II. She put Il 10
ny lips. She made me drink II. she
aid II was what her father always
lsed In Africa for bull-calyes with the
taggers. Wei. believe me or believe
ne not. T.. Are you asleepf
yes"
"Belleye me or believe me not 10
nder two minutes ! was not merely
reed from the nausea caused BY your
sear, vas smoking, myself ] was
yslIlng fhe deck with her without me
lightesf qnslm. was even able 10 lo's
ser ths side from fime 20 iims ana
ommenf on fhe beauty n the moon 90
VI uater. 80 haFe said sope mofdahf
sines about women since J came 90
oara this boat eifhdraH tnem pp'
aserysdly They stl apply 'e f''is
ke WHhelulna hoppeu hni NNff
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