Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-05-25

1shthid WtdIlHtss often expressed
Itself In tart speech
The Garys were like no ether family
| Geoff had ever known. Reserve was
| quality unknown to them. They dis
cussed their most private affairs as
cheerfully before Geoff as though he
were one Of them. To be sure, they
| often took for granted facts he did
not know and thus confused both him
and themselves In discussion.
Only Cynthia guarded her own af-
fairs from discussion. Geoff was al
ternately amused and irritated by the
| manner In which flash of her blue
eyes put a stop to any conversation
which touched upon her earlier life.
Sometimes he Informed her, 81
think you must have a Past, you're SO
secretive"
The long lashes lifted and she flung
him glance. "Oh, havel have a
husband and seven children in Phoenix.
Ariz., and I'm SO afraid you'll find 1t
OUT
1T would make no difference" he
assured her affably. II have no In
tention whatever Of falling In love with
you"
The blue eyes fingered on him spec
ulatively. II wonder 1t would
be an interesting experiment In emo
tional powerful, no I'm too busy
to bother with you just now, Later,
perhaps"
GO as far as you like he said.
1.-THE fairest maidens of New York
have tried-and failed. But perhaps
little Colorado desperado-"
"On second thought / don't think
Ill bother with you. II / failed 1t
would be terrible blow to my vanity.
and II / succeeded, Miss Mona would
be heart broken"
Meaning turn me DOWN.
She nodded, composedly. lie laughed
but he was little plqued for all that.
The only son Of John Ensloe, slated
for an important position In his ia
theirs firm, esteemed In his own right.
was not accustomed to an Indifference
SO obviously genuine that he could not
regard 1t as assumed for the purpose
Of interesting him.
A few days later Miss Mona spoke
to him again about Cynthia's over
working.
Won't you talk to her about 1t,
Geoffi I'm sure she'll listen to you |"
My dear Miss Mona, she's less like
" to listen to me than to anyone in
Denver. Haven't you noticed that I'm
unpopular with your daughter, to say
the least? I'm the only son of my
mother, and life Is still sweet to me-
Id do lot for you, Miss Mona dear,
but to put my head In Cynthla's jaws
Is Job for braveraman than l."
Having taken this determined posi-
ton 1t was little disconcerting to
find himself approaching Cynthia on
the subject after all. He did 1t on i'm
pulse-one Of the impulses over which
his mother raised her eyebrows.
Cynthia had come home late to din
ner, more than ordinarily tired.
Does your head ache again, Gym
THAR asked Tenny pityingly.
"A little, Tenny"
She and the little girl were alone
In the dining room, the others having
finished the meal before Cynthia came.
Geoff, returning for the cigarette
lighter he had left ON the table, sud
denly flared into angry speech.
You're fool to work yourself to
death like this You worry your
mother you're hurting your health
what do you gain by IL? What does
1t matter whether your silly shop does
ten cents more or less business In a
days time? II 1t was necessary for
you to work like this'-Geoff heard
his own voice speaking hotIy--"I
wouldn't say word But merely for
a whim--to satisfy some idIotic Idea
OF self-expresslon--"
She lifted the coffee cup to her lips
and swallowed the last drops OF the
hot fluid.
rs that what you think | do 1t
forT'
What else7"
She shrugged her shoulders. "Oh,
excitement. perhaps change; or
mightn't 1t be that want more use
full life than baking cake now and
then, and helping Miss Mona arrange
the fowers?'
Usefulness is a relative term,p he
said didactically. 1T doesn't strike
me as being notwithstanding a lot OF
junk on people who don't know what
to do with 1t after they've bought It,"
Junk la relative term" she re
torted. "And my customers do know
what to do with It"
He moved impatiently. She was
treating him with the same tolerance
she gave Cary and Tenny. he thought.
So far as she was concerned he was
just one more friend of Miss Mona
whom she was obliged to treat with
civility.
He admitted presently that he ap-
peared to have talent for present
Ing himself In the midst Of domestic
dlsagreements, fact which probably