The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1927-09-16

on. He can fitch so easily from brain or
memory the deadly correct word or in
cident to point a moral or damn a tale.
The younger can only fight awkwardly,
without much ammunition.
Presently DANES voice became shriller
over the marble topped tables at Cacy's.
"Boysl" Above her sirupy glass she would
pull a mock-long face, like a senile dea-
cons. Don't run into crime for my
sakel Really, I'm not worth it. Old
Lothrop will say So"
Or in a car, passing the grimly OBJ
servant old man, she would warn mock
ingly: BE careful, Harry. I'm a vampire,
I am. I ruin lives. Did o notice hat
he still knows I'm on earth He'd love
to send me a wax wreath"
With her pretty, healthy body and all
her vivacious force Of egotistical youth,
she created her own impression. The
crowd laughed and admired her spunk.
That is, at first. There came a time when
even DANES intimates laughed in a
somewhat forced fashion. The joke was
old.
Hear often from LeeP" they began to
press. Even ones own youthful circle
may not be above pinpricks. Diane re-
piled evasively. HE said once If ever he
left he'd not write me until his income
tax reached nine figures. Iced joke If
he was in bed with hydrophobia, would
MT hep"
Somehow every one had heard that Lee
had q position in Chicago, was boarding
with relatives, and doing well enough.
Whatever he was doing, his father
never softened toward Diane. As time
went on it have got on her youthful
nerves. Her mouth curled q trife too
unbecomingly when she uttered her
/ mocking warnings. Still, life was not
5 bad for her. She went to parties, danced
like an indefatigable young lover Of mo-
ton, and was a gay member of her crowd.
| In time she left school and went into
E her fathers garage as bookkeeper. The
garage had expanded into a lSalesroom
with accessories. She was even better
= looking at eighteen than she had been
at sixteen, with her touch Of hooking
= good humor n her clear color.
t Oddly enough, she was not engaged. In
< the two years two or three boys had gone
e around her steadily, in the gay, unsteady,
toyriding a. which meant nothing seri-
Gus or everything serious, according to
the boy and the girl.
But they either married other girls OF
o left town FOR bigger careers. Perhaps by
e the time she was nineteen DANES Lip
curled in a rather hard way. She put
. plenty Of energy into her work. 1t was
6 sociable work. She came into contact
n with many transients, and her natural
power OF repartee waxed entertaining
even to her father and brother.
BY this time another crowd Of sixteer
year olds demanded the center OF The
!" drug store and the lanes floors, pushing
vs. DANES circle to the background. Grow.
ing up is done faster nowadays than for.
merly. But time made no change IL
l. Jesse Lothrop's attitude, his old hate.
le filed eyes. Only, as the years went by
& he seemed to have taken on q waiting
Is look, as II he hoped for some happening
vt Well, she had been branded previously b,
e his persistency. Diane Gray-the nam
,e was associated with the fact Of blemish
~ even among the most kindhearted. The.
2" could not help this. Once in a Will
some one wondered, with curious tone