Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-05-31

oiSoh my promise TO ner anu Cdll
Miss Nona's attention to the condi-
ton she's In, | don't know" he wrote
his mother. "The girl haunts me,
somehow. She is so plainly worried
about something. Sometimes | think
she's got herself into some kind of
trouble In the shop-borrowed money
she can't pay, or something like that.
When she's off guard there's a look
OF misery that oughtn't to be On any
young girls face. What about writ
ing her to come and pay you a visit?
Perhaps you could advise her
Lord knows | can't!"
To which Mrs. Ensloe replied:
I'm writing Cynthia as you sug-
gest and inviting her to come on to
New York for the winter. Yes, for
the whole winterl | know that sur
prises you, but all you tell me of
the girl impresses me rather favor
ably. Being a woman, and the sort
OF woman | am, | can easily under
stand why Cynthia might not enjoy
homelife in the Cary household.
Don't, as you value your W
safety, mention to her that 1t was
you who inspired my invitation. She
would resent that beyond everything.
Let my letter speak for ITSELF"
He watched Cynthia with inter-
est the morning she opened his
mothers letter. Would she read 1t
aloud? Would she express a nat
ural girlish delight? Would she
make immediate plans to leave for
New York?
She did none of these things. She
merely put the folded sheet back
In its envelope and went on with
her breakfast. Neither then nor
at a later time did she mention his
mothers invitation to Geof.
Snow was falling; Geoff, home
for Saturday afternoon, looked up
from the book he was studying to
see Tenny, coated and hated, stand
Ing before him.
"Can | go out and coast?" she de-
manded. 1--WE got my new sled that
Daddy sent me, and it's a lovely
snowl"
ASK Miss Mona, honeyi"
"She's lying down; and the
Cap'n's asleep, too. Can | go slide,
Geoff?"
docs Miss Mona let your"
4'Course she let's mel"
well. be careful, then, and come
back before Cynthia gets home or
I'll catch thunder for letting you
60" the young man admonished her.
He returned to his book and for
got all about the child. Presently
the front door banged. Cary, prob
ably, or Tenny back from her slid
ing. 1t was too early for Cynthia.
However, 1t was she. Geoff sprang
to his feet and went forward to meet
her.
Anything wrong2 Are you sick?"
he asked.
Just tired. Elsie said she'd hold
the fort for the rest of the day and
let me come home. Where is every
body?'
"Your mother is upstairs lying
down. | have it on good author
ity that the Captain is asleep. Ten
ny's out sliding"
"Tenny's out" She paused In
her task of removing her gloves.
"Who told her she might go? How
long has she been out? Has she her
galoshes on?" she inquired.
A sense of guilt began to pervade
Geoff's mind. He remembered their
talk at Red Rock lake; how Tenny
must be guarded from colds.
Cynthia, you'll want to STAY me
for this | told her she might go.
! didn't see any reason why she
shouldn't go-every kid goes slid
Ing when 1t SHOWS"
She wasted no words in discus
sion. "Where did she say she was
going?"
'She didn't sayl Oh, what a
dumbbell | was not to have asked
herl But she was wrapped up" he
said eagerly. "She had on her heavy
coat and red cap"
For answer Cynthia went to the
closet beneath the stairs and
brought out Tenny's small ~galoshes.
"This snow Is wet as wading In wa
ter she said In a frightened voice.
'Tenny had on those thin little slip
pers she wears In the house." She
slipped on the coat she had just
taken off and turned, her hand
on the door-knob. I'm 20 south, you
30 north. Look at all the side streets.
Ii you find her, pick her up and
carry her. Don't let her walk In this
snow |"
Geoff dashed madly down the
street In the direction Cynthia had
Indicated. His remorse knew n O
bounds.
She'll probably get pneumonia
and die" he assured himself with
exaggerated pesslmism. "Why didn't
l think about galoshes7 Why didn't
l ask her where she was going7 [