The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-02-23
ructions. My sainted Aunt Marial I
wish-l hope I'll be asleep!"

"Aren't you glad | kidnapped your"
Hugh, in his bathing suit, lay among
the moss and pine needles on the bank
at the tip of the point.
you didn't, exactly" jamie, sitting
on a blanket to protect her party
frock, gave little bounce of pleasure.
81 just came tagging along"
"Well, anyway, we're here" Hugh
stretched lazily. WAS it nice party :?
What did you do, Janie?"
II sat on the grass with my feet
stretched out so people would admire
my slippers"
"You baby" he said. you dear
little funny kid"
JAMES spirits dropped for a mo-
ment. She felt particularly grown up
and elegant in the frock of creamy
chiffon which Aunt Lucy had brought
from Paris. Funny kid! Even the
"dear" didn't help very much. Hugh
would persist in treating her like a
child and he, she reflected, was no
more than a boy himself with his tenn
pers and whistling and spells of being
lazy. There he was now, Ginning
himself on hickory limb and looking
to see if she didn't think he was
grand.
"How's that?" Expectantly.
"You baby" Fitting her chin in the
air.
"Imp!"
He swung into the water, pulled
away from the shore with long even
strokes. jamie sighed with content.
Lovely dayl
Hugh had swum out so far that his
head was a CLINT in the distance. The
current was strong. If something
should happen to Hugh! There, thank
goodness, he was stroking it back to
shore.
"Hughl You shouldn't swim out so
far"
"Why not?"
She couldn't tell him exactly why.
1t was all mixed up with the singing
inside of her heart.
Funerals are nuisance" she said.
"And look dreadful in black"
He laughed and threw himself down
beside her, his head on the olive-green
blanket.
Light me a cigarette"
you're the LATEST person know"
"My hands are wet"
She Lit it, Of course, pulled once or
twice and promptly handed it over.
They talked. Hugh discussed his hazy
plans for the future.
81 think I'll go abroad for year or
two. To study, l mean. Berlin and
Vienna"
Berlinl Vienna: JAMIE felt lost
and forlorn.
An interval of silence. The pink in
the sky a clear pale amethyst now.
Shadows creeping among the trees.
"Janie."
"Hmm?
II thought you had gone to Sleep"
II was thinking"
"What"
do you hate it terribly, Hugh?"
"Hate what, you funny kid?"
Living with us in the Square,"
'No. like it -. And say, I'm
crashing into society. Tony Silver's
wife invited me to the new Silver's
christening party"
"Shall you go?"
"If you'll go with me. And what
about a present? VIII you get me
something gorgeous?"
IA silver cup with the name en-
graved?"
Better make it key. The name
is Victor Emanuel Sebastian can't
remember the rest"
Another interval of silence.
Hugh, we ought to be getting home"
TITS pleasant here Light me
another fag."
'Your hands are perfectly dry"
"But you do it SO WELL" teasing
smile. you are good little egg."
Eggl A lady in Paris frockl A
long indignant silence.
"Janie?"
"Hmm?"
I'VE could nave Christmas party
for the kids & the Square
"What made you think of Christ
mas?"
THAT star up there above the tall
est pine"
A tiny star shining alone in the
primrose and amethyst sky They
planned a Christmas party for the
children in the Square. JAMIE remem-
bered with pang that three months
of the time between this evening and
Christmas she would be in college
three hundred miles away. She spoke
of it dolefully. Hugh promised to
come for weekend and write to her
very often. That made it seem less
of trying ordeal Funny to feel that
way. She had liked college pretty
well
The twilight inspired condolences.
Hugh talked seriously about the things
he wanted to do. "As though I were
more imnortanf she fhouoht uthan