Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-01-27
SPRING LOCKS
Rosalle with the horrid nxation of

49, az 14C0A1
in the spirit and more expedient to til
nesh TO skedaddle to the home shelte
trusting no buckshot gets you in tn
rear, or to face the music-I mean III
guns"
That sounds to me like a word-stew.
hosalie s~killfully outgeneraled a truck
Two hivyers and q taxi I'm deciding al
problems, step one should be: What d.
you want to do?"
That's an easy one to the man be-
tween the devil n the deep blue seal
he groaned.
Mean to say you don't know what you
Wantl" she scoffed.
It's a pleasant looking reef" HI re-
torted. Pink coral, lovely little blue
waves playing sweetly around it, but
why should / ram my only BOAT plumb
INTO 1t? And then again, aren't you The
same young lady who didn't consider a
bear a cynic because he shifted the he
celt1ul flowers and walked around The
other way?"
That's right. you are the young n an
mirages."
las a rule a mans a fool" he agreed,
signing.
II suppose it wouldn't do Just as us,,
If we stopped being smart and talked
English" Rosalie wondered.
II don think 1t would do at all" he
demurred in alarm.
why not2 Isn't Dick Bellows offer
rather wonderful"
Morel swore fervently If %inaudibly.
Rosalie bit her lip. I'm sorry II you
didn't wan me to know"
well. how the deuce did you know?
Not that 1t matters"
II was all set to extend my warmest
felicitationsl Good lord, what do you
want?" She seemed to want to shake
him. 81 thought you'd feel the plum
had dropped right in your pocket! What's
the matter? Don't you like the climate?"
II don't think so much of it," he
muttered gloomily.
Afraid of drafts, I suppose" she said
sweetly. Imp.
That's all you have to say to any lit
tie boy, isn't it? And he says, Who's
afraid2' and knocks his fool head off Just
to show you'll"
"Ar you afraid?' she persisted still
more sweetly. you've got me SO curl
Gus. What scares you? I thought you'd
be the happiest man in town this morn
ing"
Uh-ohl that wasn't SO good for a wary
young woman. Was 1t possible that a
faint, a very faint rose crerG into the
clear cream Of her cheekp Anyway, no
man could be expected to resist that
opening.
That was last night murmured
Morel.
"HeyI whatchu tryin' to do?" yelled
the truck driver.
But in that moments diversion there
had been a subtle change in the bar
ometer.
Hes poor and proud" thought Rosa
lie, "and he can't afford the outfits pace
n he doesn't want to get mixed up with
us too much. And he particularly
doesn't want to get in too deep with me,
and he feels under obligation to Jasper
dear, so he doesn't see o he can keep
out of everything If he stays here. Don't
worry, young man, I'll fix that for you'll
And she became SO gayly fippant and so
c~ynically sophisticated, SO irritatingly the
modern young woman to whom a kiss
means less than nothing. And he, Of
course, got 1t. .
"She means me to see that ] needn't
f1atter myself she'd leave the dent of a
French heel on me. Well, l never thought
you would, Miss Hewlett. And I'll just
show you l am not afraid, either, to take
the goods the gods provide. l can't do
better than to take up Bellew and I'll
stay right here and go my own way and
you can go yours"
So the next morning he told Bellew he
was more than grateful and delighted to
accept his offer and he got in and worked
like a Trojan In the effort (fruitless) to
be SO tired at night that he didn't want
to do anything but go to bed and not
dream.
He liked Jasper Hewlett so we'll and
felt that he owed him SO much that he
had to call on him, and when Jasper
asked him to dinner Rosalie was not at
home. So Morel needn't have worried,
and everything was going just simply
fine.
OF course a man has to go somewhere
and he couldn't drop like hot-cakes the
whole outfit who'd been SO nice to him.
A few invitations must be accepted and
returned, but they were few as might
be, and Rosalie was only at OF or two
Of these affairs. They danced together, of
course. n were friendly and quite at
their ease-why notP
Yes, young Hartley Morel was surely
the lucky boy to get In with Bellew and
have everything coming his way. Some
fellows have all the luck. So what was
the sense in being 80 miserable that when
you got up in the morning you hoped a
truck would hit you before night?
II there were only something you could
take to stop that horrible empty ache
Of the spirit. II you could even pass a
florists without having to fight a whole
world war to keep from going in and or
dering the entire Observation-Disclosures
violets there and lilies OF the valley and
hRPlC DAOHcOlio IA OlCilQSI duo bGNCll
dozen golden Pernet roses-yes, send
them to Miss Rosalie Hewlett-yes, I'll
enclose q card-Darling, / love you, I love
you, / love you. All the current OF my
pride sets to you, and I can stop It'll
Curse your pride-stubborn n selfish,
hard inside-where'd / get that? Curse
your pride and mine and owe me back a
little before / die for wanting 1t. Q.
Resale, my golden girl, don't you ever
think OF me at all? Don't you ever think
OF that night in the fog2 Can you quite
forget that kissp You kissed me, Rose
of-the-world, you did, you did, you did
Now, look here, you blithering, deliri-
Gus idiot, get yourself In hand. You're
not going to die, even II you do feel like
1t. You'll get over it-other people do,
so why not you? This time next year
you'll be able to smile at all this agony
(you really think you will ever be able
to smile at your. love for RosalieP) 1t
will be quite over, M you won't really
mind at all. Just grit your teeth now
and whistle Susie" M put a bachelors
button In your coat and take the steno-
grapher out to dinner.
Said stenographer had been to college
and, being brunette, was ambitious, and
just roguish enough. BY the name Of
Ted (short for ~Theodosia) Dusenberry,
and a darned nice girl. And they dined
and they danced and were very gay in
deed and liked each other Just fine and
the evening was q grand success In every
way-only he forgot to kiss her good
night n arrived home at one o'clock
pretty low in his mind. Not on that ac-
count. however.
H.o& - -A~r - A. y.-ryx