Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-15

| IareS, we OuSnC TO De aDle TO Dreak
even anyway. And if he can find the
way, we can. What d'you think?"
| 1.-THE scheme of a genius, titan"
Kerrigan rumbled, taking cigarettes
from his coat.
"We can try it," said HAL "Only
look-if we could tell the others-not
tell them that it's through friend of
| mine we're getting the car: if we
could say you and were chipping in
| on bargain and expected profit on
| the Coast"
Kerrigan's eyes were friendly with
| approval. "You mean the are-you-any-
relation-to-F rederick ireland sitchs-
tion?" he said.
Hal nodded.
Then shadow fell on Kerrigan's
look and he turned his head obviously
toward the door, saying, eli there,
nippers. Finisled?"
The door was ajar and Cracks head
was stuck around It eyes," said Crack,
smiling with tentative amiability, as
if he hoped to be asked in.
"Thank you very much" said Hal.
The door closed without sound; Hal
and Kerrigan looked at each other
both listening.
After a moment Hal said in sub
dued tone, "What does he carry that
silly golf-ball for2''
Kerrigan shook his head. "Why do
you suppose that oaf in New York
picked on him to be with the Trafford
gal?"
''Don't know" said Hal. Except the
only man I've seen this year stupider
than Larsen is Miller"
There was a car at the gas pumps.
and Hal in yellow slicker and red
leather slippers walked across the
grass with the headlights full on him,
feeling as if he were on the stage of
the Hollywood Bowl He found the
Gents place all that Kerrigan had said
of it. But the water that fell on him
from the shower was cool and pris-
tine and good, like delicious rain. And
as he reveled in it, he piously ack-
nowledged the miracle that made so
simple thing as cool water tonic
for body, wine for spirit, an essence
of immaculate luxury.
The flow of his shower slackened
as the sound of raining began in the
next compartment beyond the parti-
ton that didn't bother to reach the
ceiling. He heard short breath talk
en-of pleasure and eagerness; and
then Barry's near-husky voice quietly
sad, "Oh, d-n it,
Hal gave a single laugh of pleasure.
"Can 1 help?" he said.
"Where are your" she said.
"Next door. What's happenedw
II walked into this b'-this so-and-
so shower with my darned wrist-watch
on"
"Ah, cry-making," said Hal "Sorry."
"You don't sound it, but thanks just
the. same. Gosh, isn't it good-the wa
ter?'
Beautiful" he said sincerely. "Beau-
tiful AS beautiful as-as-"
"As cool water running over you aft
er hot day in an old car with seven
people and a dog"
"Where's the dog?"
"Here-having his shower too. He
loves showers
Hal chuckled. "Td like to see-Td
like Well, yes"
"Good," said Barry; "I'm glad"
"Glad of what?"
not"
"What! not at all?"
"Well, practically not" she said
"Just jodhpurs and an old bed-jacket."
II suppose you'll be going in for
comedy in Hollywood" Hal said.
"Who told you l was going to Holly
.wood?' she said, at once guarded.
"You did"
II didn't"
"You didn't say it with your mouth
but everything else about you did,"
said Hal.
"Oh" she said coolly. you're one
of those people who knows lots and
lots about other people just by look
ing at them"
mo-" he said. I'm mostly pretty
unobservant."
For a moment she said nothing I'M
der the cool showering of water. Then
curiously, "What's snob?"
"What do you want-an epigram?"
"No, want to know what you say
a snob is"
"a snob," he said, thinking, "a snob
is what envious people call some one
who minds his own business and only
cultivates people he likes"
"Who made that up?"
II did"
Her tone wasn't flippant, merely in.
terested: "To fit yourself?"
"Nho," Hal laughed. "Why?'
"Just wondered. Sometimes today
you were what thought a snob might
be- You weren't so darn nice to the
Pulsiphers, and they were ready to be
nice to you. You didn't let down for
Kerrigan till you saw he wasn't going
to run after you. And"
II wasn't asking anybody to run aft
err me-" said Hal. Il don't think I'd like
it. And-what else?"
"And you made me mad"
"I'm sorry" he said happily. "But