Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02

What way?" asked Olive, in
tending to get that look of his
~ into words.
"Oh. like this" he repeated with simple
things ell about, and the luxury and trimmings
gone. If hadn't seen you without them. you
know, I never would have dared ask you to
marry me-"
She was standing beside the fireplace, one
shoulder level with the ledge above the blocks
of rough native stone.
"You had me all wrong" she told him. 1--WE
had the best times of my life out here. hate
a lot of fusSy stuff, And I'm never so happy
as when I'm dressed like this"
He looked admiringly at the simple dress of
green cloth cut close to the base Of her neck,
at the jacket of antelope skin thrown over it.
Then he came to her face, and paused still
longer; for not three debutantes of 10 seasons
had eyes like Olive Mary'S. She had eyebrows
that arched swiftly over them, the broad, full
mouth of a child, and dark hair that grew in
its own curves so determinedly that BARRIERS
treated it with respect and never tried to alter
its direction. But that may have been partly
because she was TillSbury and knew what she
wanted so well. She wanted Cornelius just
now.
"You get to know a person so much better in
place like this" she said refectively. isn't
&c funny that you should have thought cared
q lot for luxury and all that sort Of thing? I
don't, not bit"
She tossed the little hat she was holding on
the bench beside her, and it rolled off, wabbling
about until it came to an unsteady stop, with
its makers name on view. It was such a plain
hat that Cornelius did not bother to pick it up
Hobbs, done in gold silk on hat lining, meant
nothing to him.
Wen have to have an awfully simple little
place. you know, Olive"
"a cottage-that's all we'll want" she agreed.
"See how wonderful it's been here, and how we
seem to fit."
H>HE Tillsburys had IA acres along the Mo-
- komis and where the Tillsbury acreage
ended the Pomeroys took up theirs, and then
came the EmerSons and so on, running right
through to the rushy borders of Rice Lake.
1t very still throughout the cottage, as
still and solemn as the two within it, who were
frightened little by their own happiness. They
were used enough to gayety and their own lingo
of badinage. But this other thing had come
upon them suddenly, and found them almost
unprepared for it. Cornelius had seen Olive
Mary against the trees, he had seen her SWIM
ming, he had her Striding through the
woods even helping with the meals-and she
had ceased for the time to be Olive Mary Tills-
bury and become instead the most beautiful
and desirable girl in the world, and like all
girls, accessible to love.
And everything had worked together to bring
about these astonishing happenings For ex-
ample, If his new tweeds hadn't been ready
Cornelius could hardly have come, for all his
other clothes, except his dinner suit, were
pretty well shot. Or, If he had come on any
other week end, when the usual noisy lot OF
Olives crowd were about and the sense of
riot was everywhere, he would have had no
chance to listen with Olive Mary to that
murmur of the pines, and to hear their brave,
inartculate messages. But this week end the
gay crowd had been at the PomeroyS' Here
there had been only Olives mother, with two
or three other bridge-playing women, and the
Bateses
"Where are the Bateses?" he asked, smooth
ing Olives hair.
They went over to the Pomeroys'. jim
Pomcroy came down with some guns and
things from town. Why? Do you miss Billy?"
He certainly is a sad mess"
ooh, don't know" said Olive. "He Is lots
of fun-keeps things going, and all that.
Every one likes to have him around. Why
do YOU dislike him so much?"
At can't see anything there at all. Any
man who lives on his wife like that-ano
doesn't pretend to do anything else!-seems
to me to be pretty nearly the lowest form OF
human animal"
Poor Billy-you're awfully hard on him."
'T just haven't any respect for him. sale
Cornelius.
He gave that final judgment with the ardol
of his creed, the creed of the young man whf
Is making his own way, and knows that i
can be done and what the methods are to do 1t
when we are married." he added "Eemem