White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-11-20
Continued from Last Week.
CHAPTER 4
A Lesson In Love

A Lesson in Love
Down East they don't raise any
girl like you"
The shadows of evening were be-
ginning to lower, and Mary was
busy about the stove and the dining
table, preparing supper. Terence
smiling his cheeriest, and now sit.
ting up quite comfortably in an arm
chair, putting at cigarette, was gaz-
ing, rapt in admiration, through the
haze of smoke at the dainty girl.
"Oh, but you're Irish, so I suppose
that's barney Mary answered,
nevertheless glowing with pleasure.
"You must be feeling very much bet
ter to be making up compliments,
Mr.. O'Rourke."
"But it isn't just compliment
it's Gods own truth, Miss" Terence
demurred. you're as lovely sight
as ever a man set eyes upon. 1t was
like dream to wake up and see you
there-a dream that seemed too good
to be true"
He paused to blow a meditative
smoke ring. Then he added:
"And don't-please don't call me
Mr. O'Rourke.' Call me Terence,
won't you?"
Gall right then, Mr.. o'Rou
Terence" she smiled.
"And can I-can I call you"
Mary" she finished for him.
"Ah, Mary, Mary, it's the world s
prettiest name.'
"Oh, but that isn't true" she
argued. tits just an ordinary name.
There are so many much prettier-
like Florence, and Gloria, and Eileen,
and"
"Mary's the prettiest Of the lot, !"
Terence interrupted. "The fact that
it's your name makes it So"
She was setting the table. AS she
was starting back to the stove, he
caught her hand.
Mary" he said, looking at her in
tently. "You don't know how glad
am to have been wrecked here. My
accident was stroke of good for
tune. I would have wrecked my ma
chine on purpose if l had known of
you. If I have no more luck am
already more than repaid for all my
trip out here from the East. Mary
She struggled playfully to release
her hand.
ooh, you're flatterer, Mr..
O'Rourke," she said.
Terence" he corrected.
Terence, then. Please let me go
the kettles boiling over"
But he held her tight.
"And I'm boiling over too-with-
with love-" he said, fervently.
She laughed.
81 can't take that seriously" she
bantered.
"But it is serious" he declared
warmly.
ooh, but it couldn't be-yet," she
denied.
"Ah, Mary, Mary, quite contrary
listen to me-" he pleaded. "Don't
you believe that things can happen
1;l1o +Io+ II, q fl,ebo non,+ wa,
think that it is possible for man to
know sudenly-in moment-that a
girl is-the girl he has always been
wanting and looking for? Well, it's
like that
"But the kettle-Te she in
sisted.
"Let it BOIL" he replied, clinging
tighter to her hand. Listen, Mary
Love is something that takes a
man suddenly-like the measles-no,
that's too Like, Iike-oh,
like don't know what. 1t just gets
you when you least expect it-don't
you sect just comes that way-I
don't have to have known you long
time to know that l love you'll could
tell that as soon"
"It's Daddy" whispered Mary, her
There was rafting at the door.
"It's Daddy" whispered Mary, her
face flushed with shy happiness.
"Now, Terence, you must let me 60"
He released her, just in time, as
the door opened admitting her father.
Mary rushed to Marshall and threw
her arms around his neck, while Ter
ence looked enviously o.
First she kissed her father for
himself. Then she closed her eyes,
kissed him again, and pretended to
herself he was Terence. She was so
excited in this, her first taste of ro-
nance, that she would liked to have
found herself actually in Terence's
arms, II she could have but dared
Terence, watching her, was expert.
encing similar wishes.
Poor Daddy" said Mary. do you
feel better now?"
"a little," Marshall answered, but
his tone showed that he was still Ill
at ease.
"Well, sit you down, DEAR" she
said, "and Mary will have supper on