Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-17


sEYMouR. movie man. her admire s:.
FRANKIE Lucy's haf-grown IRE
TIE ADMIRAL. rubicund. choleric old
officer, who dotes on Lucy.
MRS. Joy, gay. charming. almost as
youthful ss her r Gagght snc, Lucy ;nva.
MI ia. f tired Of being tossed By women.
NAUVE, his granddaughter. SIM,
lovely. poised and cool. who attracts
the interest Of the Rover put ig-
nores him.
cENEvIEvE wILMoT. piquant
American widow. whom the lover
him. Z.
Three Days Wooing
Happy's the wooing that's not long
commissioning
He thought very swiftly. eyes," he
agreed. II suppose you have to.
How soon do see you again" -
She asked in q desperate little
rush. Don't you think it would be
mo" he said with decision Il
don't. When do see you to talk to,
and where?"'
She evaded. ''Well, as we're both
here, we're sure to be coming across
one another
do you know" he said pleasantly.
smiling into her face, that would be
awfully little use to me-
Miss John stone" came faint
ly over the fields.
"Oh, listen! They're calling met"
Every well; as soon as you've told
me where? When?"
She hesitated. "It can't be before
the children are all put to bed. And
after that-Well it can't"
IF it can't be before it's got to
be after" said the man logically.
II don't think can at ALL"
"This EVENING"" said he.
mo, l don't think possible"
Eat 8 o'clock? Have you dined by
them"
II have my dinner brought up at
"At $3.50. them" he concluded.
Right"
She gave a curious little laugh,
made gesture as If she called the
whole wide landscape and gray
heavens to behold the persistence of
this creature.
He added, quickly, firmly. "Now,
where? I'll tell you-"
He told her of the lane to the
shore, down which he had rushed
that morning to get his dip. "
They parted ="
That evening, there they met for
their first walk and talk.
That was the evening before the
twelfth.
I'm three evenings from then. Mr..
Archie Laverock found himself
something that he never before had
been in the course of his varied
Observation-Disclosures N
married.
: Those three first evenings of their
meeting divided themselves into
three definite moods.
Through all of them young Lave
rock was keenly conscious of one
quality in this wooing; one was the
. keynote of his attitude to her. AS
! he put 1t, when she is not there
I'm rational enough. think, Now,
look here! Let's pull ourselves to-
gether. What about all this
Mightn't it be all another wretched
mistake But, as soon as see
her-It."
Could 1t be because she was Incl
dentally, dozen different girls In
one?
At that first evenings rendezvous
there met him q young woman who
certainly had pulled herself to-
gether. who was suddenly all breezi-
ness and amusement and good fell
/, lowship; Our Ginger, in fact, who
I, barred sentiment.
Good evening"" she hailed him
pleasantly. II say, d'you think this
Is quite what used to be called The
Thing'-walkins out with the
Shover?"
He grinned. following Ter lead.
"You know about it, do your"
"Of course. Little Freddie Royds
has been full of Laverock' all day."
Has he? Well; it was little
Freddie Royds who told me that you
were the nursery maid here. Really,
| don't see that you've must caste to
lose, Miss, even If you do walk out
cheerfully. wen take the path
along the, cliff, shall WEI"
fright" They swung along to-
gether in the gradual. the long
drawn-out northern cleaning. Now
do: tell me what you've been
doing since you left the hospital"
Archie Laverock told her briefly of
his boards, of his War Office job
that lasted until rehabilitation, of
his two years with the firm.
did they send you up here?" she
asked.
mo. I'd left, then. A man sug-
gested my coming up here to take
the place Of" and so on.
How long for?"
"a month or so. Then I'm going
abroad"
If he hoped that she might show
any sign of dismay at this, he was
disappointed. She merely said, ooh.
how sensible" and made some
remark about cousins of hers who
rushed back to the colonies the in
slant they doffed khaki. Followed
talk on the labor situation and the
new angle from which these rep
resentatives of the new poor must
now view it.
Talk about Ethel Johnstone's own
job.
mo more sick nursing for me-"
declared Our Ginger. II don't wish
to see another ill person as long as
live. So 1 put in for a post as
games mistress. Wildly expensive
and coed place. Do you care for
CO. education? Personally I'm afraid
I'm too modern" she laughed.
II think It's all .tosh. Said as
much. Still, they took me. Then,
these holidays it was a choice be-
tween going to my mothers at
Worthing, which I loathe, and an
swering an advertisement, and
coming up North as mental to the
Hopkinson-K obes."
do you like this"
"Oh, I've always liked brats. And
the place Is heavenly, don't you
think SOP"