The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-09-02
CHAPTER III-Continued

IT was perfect dishrag! 1t made
me furious. To think that can play
my eighteen holes of golf and come up
smiling, and yet be wrung dry by
few hours on the stage!"
''Action and reaction" he suggested.
"Nothing is more stimulating than
playing to an appreciative audience,
especially when the player makes such
a cracking success Of part as you
did Of yours last night. And the
aftermath Of any stimulant is apt to
be let-down that leaves you flat and
with dark-brown taste in your
mouth. You ought to have had bit
of supper after the play"
II did that very thing. Bert took
me to Pozzoni's."
He marked the familiar Bert" as
applied to Candy, setting it down as
q measure of the distance Candy had
come on the road Of the rusher, though
q moments reflection told him that 1t
might mean little in Betty's mouth.
She was nothing If not modern.
sand after the supper Candy drove
you home in his carr"
She nodded. HE had to. was so
sleepy l could scarcely hold my eyes
OPEN" 9&
"Still, suppose the long way around
was the shortest way home. at that,
wasn't it?" he thrust in, with his
good-natured grin.
1T might have BEEN" she admitted.
"'To tell the truth, l was so tired and
sleepy that Bert may have been driv-
ing circles around the block for all I
knew, or cared"
"'Bert," he said; "It's Bert and
Betty already, Is it?"
"Whoops!" she laughed. as that
the way you feel about it? But what
do you expect? You home boys are so
slow. Bert signed me up for last
night nearly three weeks ago, and you
didn't ask me until day before yester-
day. A girl has to take what she can
get, doesn't she?"
Il suppose So" he yielded. In all
of this lighthearted give-and-take she
was the Betty he knew best; teasingly
vivacious, altogether frank and friend
ly, wholly unembarrassed. If she
were wearing a mask for him it fitted
faultlessly.
His thoughts whipped back to the
performance of the night before; to
her almost inspired Interpretation Of
her part in the play. Was she acting
q part now?
"Some girls can reach out and take
anything they have a fancy for" he
said, answering her query; "you, for
one, Betty, dear. You'll have lot to
answer for by the time you're woman
grown"
II like that-'a woman grownr" she
retorted. Sam I not white, free and
well, perhaps not quite twenty-one.
but near enough to take the curse off?
Never mind; If you think I'm a menace
to the peace of Carthage, the menace
will be removed after Commencement.
Daddy is going out to the wild and
woolly for the summer, and he is
threatening to take me along"
''Fossil hunting, 1 SUPPOSED" Though
the professor filled the chair of
physics in the college It was well
known that his hobby was paleontology.
st wouldn't be anything else. But
he promises not to take me into the
wilds unless want to go. We have
friends in Brewster. In the Timanyoni,
and I'm to visit with them"
"You'll have a good time, wherever
you are. trust you for that" he
averred. "All the same, we shall miss
you, or Wen say Bert Candy will miss
YOU"
>"What makes you say that so spite
fully? You shouldn't be narrow,
Wally, dear"
mo-" he agreed mildly, nobody
should be narrow. But I don't care
so awfully much for Candy; for one
thing, his eyes are too close to-
gether."
'And for other things I suppose
you'd say he is too good-looking,
dresses too well, is too successful in
business, plays too good a game Of
golf and bridge. I'm afraid you are
hopeless, Wally."
'Hopeless, and rather proud of it."
he laughed, getting up to go. would
you like to take little spin this fine
morning?"
"Too busy. thank you. I've a world
Of things to do before we close the
house for the summer"