Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-02-11

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child and GO We there and sit dowr
and watch me. When get thru. Il
you're good, I'll take you for some
hot coffee"
Somehow no answer vas forth.
coming. Dickey Dale waited for nc
answer. He guided her, hand under
elbow, over to the benches. Bowed
low, and told her to be sure and wait
Started off again. While Hopes
heart turned n somersauit at the
audncfty Of his leap-One hundred
and fifty feet into a curving. balanc-
Quite naturally she and Dickey
went off for some lot coffee. He,
bending at her feet in the snow tc
unlace her skis. and half lifting her,
SO cold she was. into his funny clap
trap car.
good-naturedly and saying:
Il know who you are. little one.
Heard all about you. You're Hope
Ross. I've been hearing about you
ever since last summer. | know one
Of the boys you threw overheard
joey Beams"
"Oh, do you know Joey?"
sure. he's in college with me.
Glass ahead. He certainly did some
out-and-out talking about YOU.
THAT Sounds like joey" Hope
shrugged. Il hate Knockers"
Then l shouldn't have asked you
to ride in this carl
ut sure is noisy" Hope agreed as
they bumped along. And it makes
gestures: too. Why don't you PEN
sion it?"
Dickey frowned at her. why. this
car knows me like a brother. It's
from a chassis. AT an auction of old.
decrepit and derelict automobiles. l
bought one car. That's the body of
this. Cost me twenty dollars. / kept
il in a cellar for months. Then I'd
buy more cars at auction and gradu-
ally build this into a vehicle. / can
do sixty-five an hour, and that's
pretty good for a total cost of sixty
dollars AN old moonstone ring. one
sweater and a canoe"
1T is" marveled Hope. "a elias
sic. You're nothing less than a sci
enlist"
"Oh. I did 1t for the wife and kid
dies" Dickey grinned at her and his
eyelashes batted in the wind and al
most hid the sharp blue that caused
Hopes heart to parachute. Are you
cold? Wen be there in a minute. and
We'll have some good hot coffee. Or
don't you like coffee?"
"Oh me-I'm a coffee bag"
Say, you're all right"
You're not bad yourself" |
THAT was a pretty mean turn you |
lid Joey Beams, tho. | must be care
lul. You're not going TO treat me
ike that?"
you don't deserve to be treated
It all H~umiliating me right in front
If everybody, and treating me like
child. | know who you are. too.
lust heard of you since I came UP
tho Your. father is the theatre
al manager, isn't he?"
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vide and far as Good Old Hickey.
m going to take you to meet him.
Right now. Grandest guy in eight
tates. Hickey is"
(Which eight states?".
'0h, any old eight states. Say,
cure mighty pretty, Hope. but you
ave a big smudge of dirt on your
hin. 1t Jars my esthetic taste. Do
GU mind wiping il Off,
She frowned, bit her lip, and gig
led.
You do it." she suggested.
He stopped the ,car-and did It.
When Dickey brought her home
round midnight and She introduced
i'm %dutifully to Papa Ross, Hope was
e%sperately in love.
Once in a Blue Moon.
The party at Placid was success
Yuletide and New Years
included. Dickey was forced on
6ah6F A0A bA AiC 0h0Ahllih JANUS
Of various male elements (par-
Rusty-and Rusty-and Rus
- and acknowledged by Papa Ross
$ being a fine young specimen, but
,ardly in their class. Which made
tope finch.
The grand and supreme crown of
he entire party was her bid from
hickey to his college prom Never
ad she been to a prom trot at Har-
mouth.
Even the amazing and delightful
ihock of finding upon her return
.ome that she really was something
( a matchmaker, for Charlie Rand
vas serious about Goody. failed to
Hope from her reverie of new
nfatuation.
So long it was. until the prom!
20 h~eavy-footed the days. SO SOL
mnly dull, these small town boys
o silly!
And then. one Saturday afternoon.
he experienced the surprise Of her
Ife.