The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03

the gods and the breaks of life send them-and like 1t;
 or, at least, not fight back.
 Mrs. stanebury Meadows. 50.
 called by virtue Of six whole
 days of the marital estate. honeytuooning in the mountains. was by birth and rearing "lady." Therefore the formula thereunto applicable meant nobody else but just her sort.
 Yet whens before she had been married full week, she overlook her dashing husband walking . remote country lane with a Flocal" (the denom- nation for persons indigenous to a neighborhood where strangers come and sol, who was young and pretty, albeit yokei. Mrs. stansbury Meadows acted
 The bridal suite was in the big and costly hotel at the foot of the star hill in the region. Half uAile up there vas smaller place. kept by c noun tain family, for the less discriminating and less travaGsnt class of tourists.
 Jed S6Anslly was it's landlord. He had . son, Jake and daughter, Susan, known as sukey, the siren of the hillsids and the vslap of the valley. sukey, was some seventeen, plump young imp, who put herself ln the way of guests at the swell hotel because she had paperback faith that one of those rich slickers would lure her away from the rocks and the chickens and take hsr to the big city where she would be 6 bird in gilded cage or 6 chorus girI in them there Follies.
 sukeyB last worry was the status of her potSn-
 
 cAnapaigned after, though she had no prejudice against # # that wedged in necessary clement in the bridge of her dreams Sukey wanted to be OvAFpowered and bS drawn rresistibly in her rural Ignorance of life and her youthful unsophsticaton to where the lights were bright and where country girls hearts were broken.
 If the villain wanted to marry her, she would pay even that price; if he were 6 good sport and didn't demand that. all hunky dory.
 Ali. 1vnA .SR Ee adventures, having been pursuing her objective now into the third Summer season. when she let her wide eyes meet the ready glance of stansbury Meadows She dropped her lashes, of course, but she raised them again for significant peep--sig- nificant immediately to Stan. who was one of the
 most proficient optical sharpshooters in the metrop olis that spelled heaven to Sukey.
 Meadows, though honeymooning and wild about his societygirl bride, was not with her night and day a6 iS the first-week custom She was a devoted equsstftenne, and Stan didn't ride. So each morn ing he saw her off at the hotel verands and he had a couple of hours to tritter away. He enjoyed hiEinS. and usually took the bypaths, which were many and scenic
 It was well up on one of these trails, on one of those mornings, that he encountered sukey, who vas berry,picking; anyway, she was making passes 1t it. He saw her, she saw him. She probably saw him first but she didn't tell him so The eye. business tFanspired, Stan Meadows walked on few yards, but found the going suddenly steep and bis feet turning back under him. 50 what could he do but return?
 suksy was still there. When she saw him ap. proaehtng she started like 2 surprised antelope but stumbled. Her feet weren't manageable that morning. either. Stan hurried over and helped her up
 She hlushed and stuttered and answered his lead. ina qudetians, which he eased in with pfacticed tSGhnIaue and the natural gift of the fast workOr sAA opSAed her childish orbs and stared at him waFshEpfnlly as she answered in monosylableS u11fb Of he
 They walked tokether almost to the gate of the sSnnelIy place, aud tryst was arranged before