Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-24

his eye on the road, but his mind
on something else, sis that you
just naturally don't know how
crazy you are about me. You're too blame
cocksure and independent. What you needs q
JOLT"
But Nancy Brown had heard such arguments
before.
you were never more mistaken" she re-
sponded equally. I'm loving you less and less
with every jolt get Has it ever settled into
your subconscious that this is a country road,
and a darn poor one at that?"
7 don't like" frowned Bob, Ito hear such
terms from a woman"
'T know that. You're too pre-war for your
own good That's the reason said it."
Bob sighed.
Another advantage your have when YOU
marry me-" he said, sis changing common
name for an uncommon one Nancy Brown.
Decorator, gets her mail mixed UP with every
Brown in town, and says Wrong number 40
times minute. AS Mrs. Bob Attention"
Nobody" crushingly, would ever call me at
all"
If only" Bob turned imploring ewes from
the lonesome prairie on one side to the grove
OF mournful live oaks on the other II only
something would wake this woman up to how
much she loves mel"
Maybe WILL" said Nancy, Gin INV next
incarnation"
I'm not joking, Nancy I have to preten5
you'll listen to. But the way feel"
one slim, brown hand gave his arm a nat
Ike you too well to let you end it, Bob"
sofey And I don't love you-yet don't
want to love you. I'd be too upset to do INV
work. And that old house of yours-aIl that
neaVy SILVER, and furniture At for the day of
ooc0, and portraits that grit their teeth at
you" ~
And II that mattered," bitterly. You've
Kept me dangling two years now"
AND that's the way you're going to talk
ABOUT our friendship" furiously, IT won't sneak
to you again today!"
HE kept her word for five minutes. Then she
forgot 1t. For they rounded a c,,rve ana
found themselves in front of a farn,honse =,
the very BOSOM, so to speak, of the farmers
family. Square in the middle OF the road was
Dog hole, deep and black and sticky and r.
IL and around it were four children as black
and sticky as the mud itself
5oD stopped the car and got out One glance
al the rundown cabin convinced him that M
ADULTS We're on the premises And four little
noooiums were rolling something over and over
IN bhat awful mire, something that looked like
great mud ball, something that pureled and
sputtered. '-'A
say you young varmints" Bob roared,
what nave you got there?"
Three short pillars of mud fell hack from
the melee, drew warily together. The fourth
came erect and began to claw at its COLBY mask.
They kidnapped me-and drownded me" It
choked.
See here" Bob demanded of the half dozen
docs this kid belong here?"
Three heads shook vigorously
i can see," came resignedly from the rirl in
The car, that we're in for another case of in
growing conscience"
For once Bob paid her no attention.
What were you trying to do to the Door little
thing?" he demanded
They kidnapped me, I tell you" sputtered
the animated spheroid Of mud. "They kid
MAPPED me and drOwnded me-"
I'VE didn't" denied one of the three de-
PENDANTS, a boy. THAT kids a holy terror
She's got calico pony out of a circus that does
tricks, an she rides i'm up an down the country
dom devilmint-"
Il don't either" walled the mad ball.
she does too. An she come here an said
would we play circus an Nom wuz over to Aunt
Lucy's an Popd gone to town an so we said
yes and she wuz the ring master an she hit
the pony such a, welt he reared anhi pitched
Cele an Sid of an run away an then this