New Britain herald., 1928-04-26

her heart and soul for treasure to lavish upon the boy-man she ~as to marry.
 Marriage! The word made her feel shivery and solemn and more than a little frightened. but when a shudder of fear made her hand twitch in Davids, the firm. warm pressure of his fingers treasured her. She resolutely forced her mind away from the mysteries that lay ahead of her, mysteries at which Mrs. Stone had hinted in that last embarrassing lecture, she had de livered to covering. shamefaced Sally the day Glenn Carson had taken her to the farm. Whatever lay before her. David would be with her, gentle, sweet, infinitely tender
 m be Mrs. David Nash" she told herself childishly. "Ill be David's wife. I'll have David for my family. and maybe-some day thercll he a baby David. with hair like gold in the sun-"
 "YoulI have to tell fib about your age. honey" David interrupted her thoughts, his voice grave and, it seemed to her, a little cmbar- rasscd. Maybe David, too. was That made il easier. She was sud denly iubilantly glad that he was not wise and sophisticated and very much older than she, like Arthur Van Horne, for instance. "Ill have to say I'm IS, won't 1"" she laughed. Do l look 1S, David" Now that most girls have bobbcd hair, my long hair ought to make me look very old and digni- fled. do look IS. don't I. David?"
 "Oh, Sally" David stopped ab- ru1tly and held her close to him, pityingly. You look the adorable baby that you are. I pray to God that marrying me won't make you old before your time. Why. honey 1 child, you haven't had any girlhood at all, or childhood either. You should have dozens of sweethearts | before you marry-go to thea.ers | and parties and dances for years and years yet. before you settle l down."
 Then I shan't settle down. Sally laughed sllaklly. "I'll be a giddy flapper, if you'd rather! An no. David! want to be good wife 10 you! But we won't get old and serious, We'll work together and play together and study to- gether and hobo all over the coun- try together when we feel like it
 I think we make good hoboes, don, you?"
 Not at this rate" David laughed
 relieved. I'm not going 10 kiss
 you a single other time before
 dawn, or we'll never get anywhere
 And don't you try to v2mp me, yo,
 little witch."
 He did not quite keep his prom
 iso. for when Sally became so tiret
 about four o'clock in the mornin,
 that she could walk no further, Il,
 picked her up in his big -musclet
 young arms, and strode proudl,
 into the dawn with her. and o
 course the best antidote for fatigu
 and sleepiness was an occasiona
 kiss on her dropping eyelids o
 upon her babyishly lax, pink littl'
 mouth.
 When the sun came up they wer a little shy with each other. in
 clined to talk rapidly about trivia things.
 "Canfield-two miles, David req, , from a sign post at crossroads l I'm going to ask that truck drive the name of the nearest count l seat, and how to get there"
 Sally watched him proudly as h ran swiftly. apparently not at al fatigued after seven hours of hik ing, to hail a dairy truck approach , ing along the state highway. Tn sun was in his tousled chestnu l hair, turning it into gold. and tn , bigness and splendid beauty of hi
 body thrilled her to sudden tear . of joy that he was hers-hcrs. He Q heart offered up prayer: "Plcas s God, don't let anything happen s 6 that We can't be married today E Please!"
 t (TO BE CONTINUED ,, The marriage license is obtainc a in the next chapter. Will Sally f dream come true?
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