Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-05-13

'.Isn't IT? Your best chance is
Burke. Burke has quite layout OF
tools, and, besides, he's an ingenious
beggar. No doubt he will be able to
fix you up.s
| Marjorie had already drawn a cup
Of hot tea. and Spool drank 1t while
he stood.
"Ah, that's better" said he, as she
took the empty cup from his hand.
| wonderful how cup of tea bucks a
fellow up, isn't It? Now l must get
along. Fancy old Jake on his back
under the stove holding that nut In
place with his fingersr'
''Or with Bella Donna's curling
tongs," Jack suggested. Burke will
fix you all right" and we waved him
| away.
1t was one of those gray winter days,
and he faded out of sight in few mo-
| ments. noticed that jeans eyes
! followed Spool until the mist had en-.
quilted him. Then she turned quickly
to Jack and me.
"If there is any danger, don't you
think you should 60 to Jake's al once?'
she said
'Not a chance" her brother assured
| her. But I'd give dollar to be at
Burke's."
AT Burke's? Wby?"
Because. little Miss Innocence, of
two facts. First, there Is no such
thing as cogitation nut, and second
there is no such thing as a left-hand
monkey wrench"
"But Jake came for it-he told
Spool"
Exactly. That's why he told him.
For q moment jeans face was q
puzzle as her mind unraveled the
raixed threads Of Jake's little comedy.
But suddenly her eyes blazed with q
light such as had seen in them only
once before, and then. as now, 1t was
for Spool that light had burned.
$50 you sent him out on day like
this" she said. speaking slowly and
through teeth that were almost closed
you sent him out on day like this
across the untracked snow, hunting
for something that doesn't exist. He
may find something he wasn't SEM
| for"
| "Oh. come now, sister, don't take Il
too seriously. 1t is just q joke"
1T will be no joke if Spool is lost
on the prairie" she returned; mo joke
for any Of u.s. For example, there will
be no marriage in this house, so far as
am concerned If anything happens to
Spool"
isn't that rather. mixing the issuep'
l said, perhaps little testify. "SpoOf
has nothing to do with our marriage"
mo. but have" she answered
with pointedness that could not be
escaped.
"You make mountsin out of a
molehill," Jack told her, sharply Zone
would think it was Spool you were in
love with, instead of Frank"
IF | discuss that at all / will dis
cuss It with Frank, alone" she re-
torted, with some heat. The color
which had fed her face for a moment
had come back in flood, filling her
cheeks and forehead, overlooking down
her neck and into her hair. If Jean
the placid, Jean the mild-mannered,
Jean the amiable was lovely, Jean the
aroused, Jean the defiant, was ador-
able. made that appraisal even
while in her eyes l read something
akin to my death warrant.
II was quite serious in what I said,
Frank" she continued, after a mo-
ment. "If it makes any difference to
you perhaps you will follow Spool
He hasn't the prairie sense that you
have; he may be lost by this time
Fortunately there is no ground drift
and his tracks will show. "
"Of course, If you think there is any
danger, I'll CO." agreed, eager for a
way out Of an awkward position, and
lacerated at heart by a sense of the
breach that had occurred between U.S.
So Jack and set out to follow Spoof's
tracks. We traced him without diff.
Guilty to Burke's.
HAS Spool been herew we asked
our American neighbor when he came
to the door.
"Spoof? should say he has. BY
this time he's half way to Andy
Smiths. Unfortunately l didn't have