The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-02-01

i that" he said you've been loi
o kinder to me than deserve"
e But I'm unhappy, too" she sobbed
"Oh, / wish knew what to dor
I He pulled her up then in his arms
e and kissed her, and she, with deep
! drawn sigh, returned the kiss. We've
e still got an hour" he said, and for a
} long while after that they spoke of
nothing more to the purpose than the
7 sailing gulls and the sheets of silver
left by the receding tide.
She asked him, though, at the end
Of a protracted silence. what he was
thinking about.
"Pve been trying not TO think about
!, it," he confessed. But l am beast,
and l can't get 1t out of my head"
She neither spoke nor stirred until
he went on.
"All you'd have to do tomorrow
would be to keep your Mrs. Wentworth
from actually putting you on the train.
You come down to the same station
but you take our little train instead
And I'm on it. And we come out here
and have our little-holiday. Two
days out of a lifetime Oh. know
it's impossible. But you asked what
was thinking about, and that was it,"
do you want me to do it, Joe?'
The simplicity of the question, and
the intensity of the emotion that pro
PEELED it, literally, for an instant,
stopped the beat of his heart. His
eyes filled with tears, but through the
blur he could see hers, wide with
sense of great adventure, gazing up
at him.
81 don't know" he said. 81 don't
know whether l want you to or not"
Her arms frightened about him and |
she uttered a shaky laugh. 81 love |
you for saying that I'll come, Joe. |
I'll give you those two days We've |
got to be starting back now. You go
find the man and tell him. He'd bet
ter not see me like this"
Joe made his arrangements. and
they caught the train and contrived,
very tidily, how her meeting with
Alice Wentworth at six should be
made plausible.
Violet managed her meeting with
Alice Wentworth with entire success.
But Alice made her jump, though, by
saying-holding her Off in bothshandsi
for a good look, you've been deceiv-
ing John, Violet. I've never seen you
looking prettier, or any younger. hard
ly. since was your bridesmaid. Have
your redcap give your bag to Wrenn;
and give him your trunk-checks, too"
BY the time they arrived at the big
brown house on Riverside drive Violet
was near enough to her natural self.
There was nothing the matter with
her, except she couldn't sleep.
II guess you had better telephone !
John, If you feel equal TO it," Alice
told her, when she had gone up to
violet's room, hes been trying to get
you all day"
There was a long silence. Finally
Violet said, II see what happened.
John thought l was coming on the
I was, but l missed it.
And he always laughs at me for miss [
ing trains, so l didn't call him up and
tell him / suppose l ought TO tele-
phone him now"
my dear" said Alice, you can't U
ak across the room to me, let alone
% Chicago Ill wire John that you've Il
,ot here all rlght-or telephone, If v
'ou'd rather" +
mo. Wire is better" Violet muir !,
nured
Despite their protests. she did come y y
Iown to dinner and played bridge fu- -
iously all the evening. 1t was her =
asst night out. she told them, and the -
My thing in the world she dreaded .
las going to bed Doctor Brown could -
iake her do 1t, but nobody else could.
nd, indeed, when she knocked on =
Ices door, about five in the morn -
~, she was not undressed beyond
egligee, nor had she lain in her bed.
She was beaten by then. While
caring what Joe might do in his rage -
/ being disappointed she resolved to 20
D back to John. And so she told -,
lice that she must take the first 80
ala back to Chicago. -,
She gave John, who met her I'm the az
aSalle Street station at seven o'clock no
lie next morning, the most electrify-
g surprise he had experienced since sh
lie had told him, twenty years before.
AT she would marry him. The sort II
hug and kiss she bestowed upon RI
m on the platform was unusual ma
Tough, but nothing TO what followed Rr
ne made light of her illness as they n
alked through the station TO the car
which he'd driven down from Lake ha
,rest TO meet her. She'd had a silly
tack of the flutters, had got over it,, .It
ID had come home as quickly as she at
uld to reassure him that she was all II
yht. He'd have found this rather KIN,
I'd to believe had not her looks com an,
etely borne her out. IA
After they were seated In the car. the
tn the chauffeur waiting to be told S
lere they wanted to go, he asked 7
so that it would be hoy
sy to refuse-if she'd like to have rigl
aakfast at the club with him before the
? drove home. anc
Can't you come home to breakfast the