Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-02-07
Man From the
North
DOLLY read the Ietter and tossed
By TESS FULTON


1 1t carelessly to her roommate.
Darling, here's a chance for one
Of your Internal practical jokes"
she suggested. her cold eyes hiding
in their darkness a faint twinkle.
THAT'S from Allan Dyer. | met
him last summer up North. He was
good looking enough but a bit rusty
In apprenticeship he was camp
ing on the lake and he looked 1t;
and besides, he was poor. The man
who interests me Is the boy who
can pay the walters check without
looking as If be wondered how
much 1t left him."
Carol smiled as she picked up
the letter. your bright idea, icy
one, is for me to carry on your cor.
respondence with him is that it2"
HE writes an interesting letter,
and you can string him along; and
when | go up there next year, | can
have him to play around with"
Polly. you're heartless !"
"Mebbe so, little one. but this is
a heartless age"
Carol unused over the letter. II
was chatty and interesting, and
suddenly she decided to answer 1t.
Polly informed her. Immediately.
that Allen had never seer her hand
writing, so the hoax would work.
Carol wrote the reply, employing
some of Polly's characteristic
phrases, amused and pleased her.
self at the way her letter shaped
itself.
A week later, Allan's reply came,
and Carol learned something of his
life. II seemed he was working In
a lumber camp. and the letter told
Of his life there.
The letters began to interest her
keenly. although she took care to
keep the discovery from Polly who
found the letters only mildly inter
esting and soon stopped reading
them.
Slowly q personal note crept into
the letters. Before she realized 1t.
the same mood was upon her.
Here's a nice situation I" Carol
told herself one evening. writing
Polly's letter to a chap who evil
IDENTITY Is thinking of her tenderly,
while I'm beginning to think of him
the same wayi I'll drop himi"
But she found It much easier to
say 1t than to do 1t.
Polly left for a two weeks trip
for her firm, and with her bright,
somewhat cynical presence absent
from the room. Carol found II
easier to dream and muse over the
man to whom she was writing.
Polly had been gone only a few
days when Carol went to the door
TO learn from the maid that "A man
from the North" would like to see
her.
Carol was stunned. But she
isn't here, Kater"
Kate grinned. HE said If Polly
wasn't here, he liked to see any
friend of hers"
Carol thought a moment. "Send
him up. Kate" she said with de
cislon. but her mind was huttering.
Carol went to the window. A
long, powerful looking roadster was
at the curb, at can't be Allan"
she told herself.
The door opened into their liv.
ing room, and a man. brown OF
face, and almost filling the door.
way, faced her.
I'm sorry TO learn that Polly is
away. but glad that you are here"
His gray, fine eyes were friendly
You see, I'm right from the woods.
hungry for a good time, and | hope
you will run around with me a lit.
tle-some plays. dances. etc"
Carol laughed Inwardly as she
thought Of the joke on Polly.
They did play around-a gay,
gorgeous week. He seemed to have
plenty of money that he spent free
ly bur wisely. and he certainly was
good company.
, "Oh, this Is awful !" Carol moaned
one night, as she tossed her eve
ming dress aside. SIN In love with
him and he's In love with Polly
And when Polly gets here-Gosh
, what a mix-upf"
She saw no solution. but one
came the next evening. They were
AT a corner table In one of the de
, llghtful places he knew. He had
been musing o bit.
Carol. | vas lonely up North al
the camp Yon see, my father owns
; the business. and / was up there
winning hack after a bad dose OF
pneumonia. The letters that came
so CHEEKY. amusing, pulled me out
of dark hours; | made up my mind
that the girl who wrote them should
play with me and be with me all
the rest of my life. Now are you
willlng?"
Carol ceased TO breathe. But
my dear-l-how did you know
wrote the lettersf l-really-"
A strong, steadying hand lay
upon her trembling one. Through
a friend | learned that Polly had
gone on a business trip. but the let.
ters came from your address inst