Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
SEQUEL TO" cCz1o FLAppER WIFI

yer stuff is just infatuationw
She waited for a moment to lat
this sink into Mays mind, and then
went on: "Girls are given the
wrong dope about love, anyway.
The movies and the plays and the
novels all tell us that unless love
snakes US to pieces like an earth
quake, it isn't love at all. AS
matter of fact, real love is as peace.
full and quiet as twilight"
May went upstairs wondering If
her feeling for Ulysses Forgan was
as peaceful and quiet as twilight "
She didn't know.
But me thought of seeing hin
that afternoon brought a deep sense
of satisfaction to her. She dressed
herself carefully, so as to seem as
beautiful to him as possible. wa
terwaving her hair, polishing her
nails, delicately making up her face.
And after dinner while Gloria
was washing the dishes, she Law
down for an hours sleep, so that
she would be fresh and sparkling
for him.
He came at five o'clock when the
little house was packed with people
who had dropped in to wish Dick
and Gloria Merry Christmas"
With him was his daughter Sally
and her latest admirer; a caIlow
youth who blushed when he was
spoken to, and whom Sally intro
duced as mister Zez Tompkins."
Il don't know where she picked
him up" Ulysses confided to May
and his tone was worried. "She
gathers around herself the querest
looking birds I've ever seen. And
then threatens to leave home when
l question her about them. Cad
cooks! I don't know what to do
with her. I swear I don'tw
They were sitting in a quiet cor
ner of the dining room out of ear
shot of the gay crowd across the
hall. And suddenly Ulysses turned
and took Mays hands in his.
''Look here" he said when he had
nervously cleared his throat. "Have
you changed your mind?. And
will you marry me?'
May drew her hands away. Then
suddenly she laid them in Ulysses
palms again. 'T want you. only
as friend" she said. 'T never
dreamed of having a good friend
like you. But. that's ALL"
He made a queer. gruff sound in
his throat, and May went on:
Though al! these last terrible
months. and 7 give you my
word they've been terrible for me
you've been a wonderful friend
to me, even though we barely knew
each other. And oh, I've been so un-
happyw She shook her head tragi-
cally, and slowly told him the whole
story of her life since DR.. Johns
death.
'Do you know why you've been
unhappy" Ulysses asked, peering at
her over the top of his eyeglasses.
May shook her head. "Because
you've lived a thoroughly selfish
life" he surprised her by replying
She sat up very stiff and straight
questioning him with her eyes.
"Why, what do you mean?" she
asked at last.
"Just what I saw" Ulysses an
swered, calmly. ''Not only for the
last two years, but always"
He cleared his throat again and
went on with the air of a man who
has something con his chest" and
intends to get It off
'T wouldn't talk like this to you.
May, If you hadn't said you were
unhappy. I say you're unhappy be-
cause you're selfish. You live for
no one but yourself You take
yourself too seriously"
He broke off for a second. startl-
ed at the blaze Of anger that famed
into Mays ewes. A flush mantIed
her cheeks like scarlet danger sig
nal
But Ulysses went on with what he
had long wanted to saw TO Nav Sew
mour:
''For instance, YOU make m vou~