The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-01-18

| CouScItiuB. one u never seen MIN D'
fore in an ordinary straw hat an
regular civilian clothes, and a certai
air which she'd regarded as insepal
able from him was gone. II would b
a little too much to say that he locke
cheap, but he would never for q fac
have served. like this, as lay fgur
to hang romances about a disguise
prince upon. She suspected too, tina
she had somewhat impaired hersel
with him, arriving afoot, hot ant
flushed and fecked with SCOT from
the vomiting tunnels Of the little ex
cursion steamers.
The pair found a corner where they
could sit In the shade. The fact thai
they loved each other got itself de
clared and accepted as a basis almost
at once He put his arm around her
half Of the paired people out here
were linked that way-and during q
moment of fortuitous privacy they
| kissed.
But the feel Of the adventure was
pedestrian, not aerial. George point
ed out that he hadn't job, and, he
added with a manner which struck
her as little unnatural. practically
no money. She had nearly four hun
dred dollars Of her own, she said
with her but he told her holly that,
when they ran away to get married, II
wouldn't be upon her money that they
did 1T. She didn't contest the point
lacked the spirit to do it, somehow.
Anyway. he went on to say they'd
have to come down eventually to liv-
Ing on what he could earn. Mr.. Greer
would do nothing for them, even In
the way of making an opening for
him. Forlornly she conceded this, too
She knew how implacable her fathers
resentments were, though she was
rather surprised that her lover should
see so clearly.
If they'd been sitting, while they
had this talk. in the big roadster, skim
ming swallow-like along some white
ribbon of road, or pulled up In the
shade of some secluded lane, she
might have been able to romanticize
the Idea of poverty with her lover and
insist upon embracing 1t. A tiny cot
tage, a single room. anything that
sheltered the pair of them together
would be enough.
But out here on the pier this couldn't |
be done. There were too many object |
lessons all about. Shrill children car
rying all-day suckers on sticks,
harassed mothers, a sheepIsh father
here and there, peremptory denials of
any more pennies for the slot-machines
this was pleasure This was a red
etter day
Her courage WASN'T equal to II, nor
lis, either, the truth was. For the
present they'd have to give 1t up. II
/ piece of luck came Georges way
lie had plan In mind, but wouldn't
ell her now what II was.
They exchanged some promises that
lay: she, never to have anything |
nore to do with Ware or his bunch.
r any one like them, and to quit
he had done, absolutely,
wo months before; he, never to take
mother job as chauffeur, but stick 1t
ut for something that looked toward (
ne future; and not to lose himself !
here she couldn't find him-if she 6
eeded him. 9
They parted mournfully enough, 7
ut comforted somewhat by the meet a
e, for all that. He'd never distrust \
sr again, he said, whatever happened. h
e had thought when her father fired
m, that night on the way to the h
ain, that she might have thrown y
m over-made him the goat. n
II never told him anything-about n
~" Trix asserted. How do you q
ppose he found outr n
1t must have been Miss Macarthur, :,
en-. George had talked to her. He'd a,
d so much on his chest that night n
at he'd had to blow of to somebody. n,
I'd realized he was giving himself re-
ray more or less, but had thought ST
nnie too good a friend to take ad- or
ntage. So the warmest emotion
tx went home with that afternoon he
IS lively hatred of Jennie. fir
This was short-lived, of course. for ae
was on that very evening that Jen- tn
offered her treaty and won a vic 10
v. This might. 1t is easy to be- 70
We, have been much more complete tic
N 1t turned out to be; for, after all,
lnie failed. ne
Beatrice saw George. for the first he
e since their parting, the day she sic
d in the paper of his having got a da
as pilot In the air-mail service. he
ey had an afternoon together, In ne,
car again, revisiting some old ba,
Ints Of theirs, but despite the ro- sill,
ntic accessories 1t was not a very les
py time. Pe pressed her hotly She
? to marry him and said some pref
bitter things when she refused TO the
mise anything. Wasn't the job its
d enough to suit her? He got a I
e pay of fifty week and five cents TO
nile. On the Cleveland run this cou
red nearly fifty week more. And his
yeen round trips one day each wri
+, he had two days off. II she tina
ldn't take him at that ing.
couldn't stand 1t. just waiting. s
d be away half the nights, even" voit
y both thought, when they parted w