Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-04-07

ANAAAFs III Atliilk YOU ntIOTh
anyone else. except my family. OF
course. Phil and | are engaged.
He's been w~erk1ngin his fathers
bank but last month he got a posi-
ton over at the power plant at
Corinth and he's getting fifty dol
lars a week and I'm going TO take
Miss Brant's place at the library
and III get twenty, SO with that we
can manage beautifully. We're GO
ing TO live with his father and
mother for awhile. They're fixing
an apartment on the third floor.
Can you come down for the we'd
ding Phil says he would like Gar TO
stand up with him and of course
l want you. It's going 20 be very
simple, just here al the house, and
We plan now that IL will be In
March or April, I'll write to you
the moment we've decided
Kitty glowed and laughed over the
letter. Practical Sally. putting her
happiness in such a matter-of-fact
way.
OF course she ana Gar would go
to the wedding.
She called Gar on the telephone
to give him the news. But Gar was
not in his office. Old Jonathan told
her that Gar would not be in until
four o'clock.
Probably. Kitty exulted. he was
out, somewhere, turning his cool
thousand! She compared il. COM
%placently. with Phil Corey's plod-
ding.
The crisp winters afternoon in
vite6 her out for a walk. Within a
few blocks of Ketchum Street she
YIELDED to n sudden impulse to hunt
David out.
He answered her ring, h~esltating
a moment before he admitted her.
But she knew by the swift lighting
of his sensitive face that he was glad
10 see her.
You've timed your coming by
some magic he told her. He in
dictated a thick flat package on his
table. There 1t is, ready for its
fate"
"Oh, David, Wen celebrate! Let
have tea at our little place where
we went before. David, when it's
out, won't it show them"
He knew what she meant. He
shook his head. That was my
trouble. | was working for that end,
you see, and | was down a blind
alley. | got out Of it. l don't care II
they never see it. | finished it to get
a better opinion of myself. And now
it's done maybe | won't need the
scorn of a certain blue-eyed lady
| know to stiffen my back bone.
His statement, put simply, moved
Kitty c%uriously. She felt rebuked.
and "unaccountable elated all at the
same moment. Il don't think l ever
was scornful about you David
she denied quickly. And then she
laughed, the color flooding her face
She was taking a great deal to her.
self, Dorcas eyes were blue.
But. David, I'm glad for you.
Jungle. l can see it on the book
stands"
He agreed thai they'd celebrate
lie was in a gay mood.
They drank several cups of tea
and ate innumerable sandwiches.
She told him about her letter from
Sally and laughed as she pictured
for him Sally and Phil, the unroman.
ties.
I'm going to have a good tall
with sally. | must warn her not tC
take everything so seriously Kitty
assumed a very experienced anC
much-married manner. I've founC
that out" She gave a little laugh
David, haven't | changed a lot since
that first night W. metz"
He considered. without any answer
the bright face opposite him.
II can see. myself, just how Nv,
changed she pursued, rather likinG
the review. Il must have seemed
very young to you at first"
You were a kid-and a very lone
some one at that" David agreed
gravely.
And you we're so nice to me. Yol
said then ! must be patient with Gar
And something about my standing
on my two feet.
well, / didn't do either the on
thing or the other. The first clasl
we had | got crazy and rushed ava.
from Gar. went to you"
You call it crazy, now?"
"Oh, yes, David. wasn't patient
And l didn't stand on my two fee
at all; | leaned most awfufly on you!'
you are disillusioning me. / tho
you were rather a wonder!"
"Oh. | wasn't anything of the sort
Now I'm adapting myself. And ism
that the way it should be?"
do you want my honest opinion?'
"Of course she challenged.
II liked the you you were wher
you were living on Ketchum Street
There was something rather flint
about you | thot you were going Il
be-" He hesitated, bringing hi,
brows together over a little doubt
then finished i~nadequately, differ
emit"
"Oh, David And I was so unhappy
then!" She, in her turn, stopped
confused. a little angry.
TITS that you think just Of me ant
not of me and Gar" she protested
sharply.
He did not look at her. He nodded
his head. Exactly. | prefer to thinl
of you and not of you and Gar
Well, it can't be Done She man
aged an unruffled tone. Gar ant
l are indissolubly one" She had al
irresistible desire to flaunt her Sc
curity. I'm sorry If you're disap
pointed in me-, she finished archly
Did | call 1t that? I'm inter,
ested. Notwithstanding
will | make copy for syour mex
book? There will be a next, won
there?"
Perhaps" he answered noncom
mittally.
She was afraid he was shutting
a door on her. what does DorcaI
say now that you've finished Jungle
Isn't she pleased?"
She doesn't know"
"Oh, David. you're the limit
You're hopeless" Kitty laughed il
evaporation. He was too incurabl,
sensitive; he wouldn't tell Dorcas i'm
til he knew the manuscript was sold
David walked with her a part o
the way back to the Tudor Arms
Kitty was thinking what a pleasan
afternoon they had had together.
They had turned into the stree
that led past the Crosby house. |
stood, 10Y in the dusk, a shadow.
pile of granite with oblongs of melloy
light suggesting luxurious warmth
and comfort within.
/ An asphalt drive curved to it's wild
! entrance. A roadster waited on tn
drive.
why" the little word escape
t Kitty. 1t was Cars car. She wake
/ along for a momen in silence.
!. Then: Gar has to stop at Marge'
often. They're planning the mex
l play, 0 see" Her head went vi
her square little chin set determined