The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-18
CHAPTER XXXV

CHAPTER xxxV
He was hopping around on feet
that were finely arched, attached to
limbs gracefully tapered. AS she
looked him over in not too imper-
sonal way Teddy decided she was
right in her first casual estimate;
Dinny certainly was a right nice
built boy, but. 49,. Don, oh, Don!
And Dinny in his turn was giving
the girl of his hopes and dreams his
first "real once over" 1t was the
first time he had seen Teddy in a
bathing suit.
"She is dream" he told himself,
his affectionate gaze taking in the
sweet loneliness of the beautiful
young animal. The exquisite charm,
the sweet beauty and wholesomeness
of her, thought the enraptured Din
ny. Where, he asked himself, could
any picture he had ever seen COM
pare with that perfection of con-
tour, the pulsating, throbbing vital
ity that lived and breathed and
glowed with every beat of the young
heart, every movement of that
splendi young body.
"Dinny does look nice" was the
thought that was agitating Teddy
But" she told herself and had to
swallow hard to keep down lump
that persisted in coming up into
her throat, mot as nice as-as
Donp
Race you'll" cried the intrepid
Teddy as Dinny joined her.
"Righto-let's go!" came the ready
answer and they took the plunge
together, forgetful in the mad Joy
of the moment the GOODNESS of che
water.
Teddy knew very shortly that she
would be outclassed. Dinny had
both speed and technique while she
had no special stroke save for the
regulation crawl" Dinny defined
her stroke as "the frog kick"
Got 'nough?" he asked "gurgle-
fully" pulling up and swimming
about a yard parallel with her.
"Uh huh," she gurgled back at
him, her face all wet and her brown
eyes shining. He swan in close and
drew her cool bare arm over his
shoulder, thus bringing her body to
rest. The "rest" was all too brief
for the willing Dinny.
= They floated, dived, swan to-
gether and Traced" some more. Per-
haps Dinny's arms fingered at times
needlessly long about the girls
waist or shoulders, but she was en-
joying herself too much to chide
him. Besides she had always been
little mean and stingy about ca
resses and SO felt she rather owed
him this much at least if he could
find any pleasure in it.
Later they lay at full length I'M
der the trees, resting. The sky, a
clear bright blue, spread its limit
less panoply above them. Between
was the lacy roof of the leaves.
When Teddy moved restlessly-and
it was impossible for her to remain
still for any length of time-a stray
sunbeam would catch in the limpid
brown eyes and glisten on the tiny
flecks of gold imbedded there.
do you know, Teddy, you have
tn prettiest eyes in tn world?" Din
ny put the query as an assertion
with a crude gallantry.
when do you want your reply on
that?" she leased.
Dinny hunched up his legs and
looked at her, frank ardor in his
own blue optics.
81 wish,' he said, his tone queru-
lousy complaining, II wish that
you'd take me a little more Sc
riously. I'm not joking when I tell
you-er-Well, these things"
I'm hungry, let's eat" said Ted
dy, changing the subject as usual
whenever it began to get personal.
"All right, we'll eat then"
He set his lips in a morose line
and started to unpack the lunch
basket. He was chagrined that she
had so quickly and badly reverted
to her previous lightness. Last
night-when he had knocked the
drunken Walden down-this little
sob sister had seemed to think
pretty well of him, to regret her
previous harshness. Maybe-it
wasn't a very sentimental thought,
but-maybe she would warm up" to
him arifle after she had eaten.
"Deviled ham-and' salad-and
cake, such nice light fluffy cake
is it homemade, Dinny?" she asked
licking her lips in joyous freedom
from all table proprieties.
He nodded, pleased at the implied
compliment to his mothers baking.
my mother does all her own
cooking" he told her pridefully.
And I'll say she's some bakeress!"
he appended with an only boys JUS
tifiable boastfulness.
She made answer with her eyes,
munching her food with an avid ap-
petite bred and nurtured by a body