The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1927-04-15

and subdued as compared to a brace Of
more vivid young women who sat at her
table and who sometimes rallied him across
the dining room with obvious coQuetry.
This was the first time he la looked at
her closely. He saw that her face was IN
deniably smudged, and that two parallel
water courses, barely dried, descended
from her eyes. One Of her hands was grip
ping a handkerchief. The girl had been
"WRy-why, Miss Bennett! ~ he protest
ed. "Is there something the matter2 Is
there something I can dO9"
She laughed and jumped to her feet. She
brushed her wisp Of lace across her cheeks
and crammed it into a pocket of her suit.
There's nothing the matter, now" she
informed him.. 'Everything's lovely in the
best of all worlds. Are you going home 2"
Something bitter beneath her laughter
disturbed lin. He looked at her more
se~archingly. Perhaps it is regrettable that
so polite a young man should have stared
so long. Perhaps it is not. For the longer
he looked the more it was revealed to him
that the girl in her way, in her fragile way,
His gaze apparently disturbed her. She
shook a defensive hand before her face and
then set to work with the implements OF a
vanity case to make her face more present.
able.
"SiIy of me-" she spoke between dabs.
You mustn't think I'm a sObbing sue.
But, somehow, boats get me. Don't they
get you, sometimes p
Until she questioned him, Henry had been
wrapped up in approaching the alluring
abSurdity of a pretty girls making mel
i toilet in front of him. The innocence OF
| the creatures, thus giving away theil
secrets! Now that she questioned him, he
} was washed by another wave Of sympathy
He understood her perfectly.
:, Boat? Boats! They certainly do. Tney
get me wild to- so on them. Is that TIT
"And then you can't" she laughed. The!
fell into step on the road toward home
You've got to go to the office. OIlce
aren't so bad. But when 1 see boats l nat
- them"
The best thing about a boat" ASSERTED
) Henry, lis that it's taking you somewhere
1 Now, Offices" .,
u "Onices take men places" the girl oh
: jected. They're mems careers" 49,,
|, They're all right for those that nH G
them, admitted Henry. II don't. I've ~
to get out and see the world before l setLl
down for life in offices. Bombay and SlngS
a pore! The Fiji islands and Baffin's bay
You can't tell me the name of a place /
not like to. see-and I believe I'm going e
some day."
when you're ucn7' 4,
- "LOng before then,'' he Dragged to u
perfect questiOner. I'D have gone III =
= ago-butI couldn't. Now, pretty soon' l
e There was silence between them for Z
n complete length of a block before the 81
= spoke. 81 know" she said softly. M
- Lindley was a beautiful person"
He flashed a quick glance at her ana "a
" that her gaze was on the pavemeI
= Mother was a wonder" he said brleuy,
That night at her doorway, on the secol
d. floor Of their boarding house, they finger
%. long minutes before Henry could asee
ID. his further fight. Before they shook nan
politely on parting, Mary Bennett reaen
= far down into her bag Of wisdom ana ~
forth a brand new pearl. Real frienusl
u is perhaps the most wonderful thing
1t, the wOrid!'
Such a conservative statement Henry y
be- not inclined to deny. At the corner Lnea
next evening there would be a MIN
titled "The South Sea Siren," which W.
= give them another fOretaste OF IRA,
WOULD they attend 1t togetherF lHu
it And so 1t went with Henry and Mar
cts. You know how the movies are-Ml
ity after desperate adventure, or cruel mls
ty, d~erstandings, the gorgeous girl comsS
rest In the strong sheltering arms o.
young man with the prominent chin
III. faultless dress clOthes2 And the pipe Oh
enf Is playing very softly and shaknyf
fee. On such occasions as these Henry
. shaken by an emotion quite alien 90 J
So, He would be acutely conscious OF WE
*. dear, sweet girl Mary was, and how sem
she had appraised the worth OF true III.
- snip. II only-if only he weren't 3
De- away pretty soon!
hut Afterwards, eating Eundaes, he w
sas. praise her for being 50 square a COM
les You're a peach, MOllie,' he WouIo
mt nOunce with the dnality Of q judge.
S3M sentimental nonsense, but a perfect LE.te
He would show the precious earaD.
80 covered ledger to her, risen TO the SUI
ana he would gIoat. "Not long now, and
be gone. HOWs yOursf" -.
Q not %. magnificent as that Du'
8 q coming along"