Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-07-22
SYNOPSIS
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Copyright BY Robert Stead

SYNOPSIS
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spool drives thirty miles to the nssrsst
town to make arrangements for Q do1.
Bile wedding.
CHAPTER xL-Frank and John,
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FRANKS Jealousy i: fully srea.s9 Fhs
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ment
CHAPTER xIL-John and Marjorie
sttsnd ehs Wsddina orinxi tn:
Alton. alone Of the neighboring set.
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"Oh, Frank, she never did! :.
Wanted you to marry her, supposer
mo, she didn't just say that. But
she's big, you know; takes big view
Of things. OF course, It might have
come to that In time remember one
afternoon 1t rained and we couldn't
work in the fields and that night she
and went to dance"
Does she dance well?"
"Oh, quite well. And free. You
know-nothing standoffish. or anything
like that. Well, the storm came up
again during the night, and we couldn't
get home. and 1t was only small
farm house so some of US had to sleep
in the hayloft. and Nellie said she'd
be a dead game sport"
snow, Frank. don't tell me any more.
! don't believe It. What hap
pened next?"
Z "Oh, nothing much. It was about
noon when we got home, and the old
man was pretty sore, but I told him
thought good deal Of Nellie and
wouldn't mind marrying her If It came
to that, and asked her to come over
here and visit US next sumner"
You're lying, Frank Let's 60
home"
AS we walked home In silence, trail
Ing our sleigh, the nip Of the late after
noon stung our cheeks to roses and cur
breaths trailed behind like the gaseous
tail Of very young and leisurely
comet. Jean complained that one of
her hands was growing cold so took
the mitten of 1t and drew the hand
down into my deep, warm overcoat
pocket, where We took all precautions
against frostbite. The other hand
had to take chance.
We walked along the bottom Of the
gully for shelter from the wind which
was rising with sunset. AS we neared
Twenty-Five Jean stopped.
Frank, ] want to ask you ques-
tion," she said. "There was no truth
in that story you told meT
"You carer
"Of course care Tremendously"
Don't you want me to be big?"
mot that way. I've been talking
about intellectual spiritual
things"
II suppose Spoors bathing suit, with
the white and yellow. Is quite spir-
itual?"
"That isn't fair"
"Oh yes 1t is. It Is merely the other
OK getting gored."
Anyway, your story wasn't true3
You made It up to tease met"
IF I answer your question will you
answer miner
II can't Frank, I can't-not now.
haven't seen Spool since Christmas.
Perhaps he's sick. Perhaps he's dead
Something awful may have happened"
Ellis smoke goes up every morning
just the same"
"Oh, you've been watching II, too.
But something has happened IL
can't answer you now"
At the door of Jacks house we
paused again. We were in the shadow
there and as she turned on the step
her form swung close to mine. For
moment seized her. no longer able to
play the semi-Platonic.
"Bdt there was no truth In It, was
thereT she whispered.
'There was some truth In It." con-
fessed, as I turned toward the empty
shack on Fourteen.
CHAPTER XIV