Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-11-07

bring me nome EoidAer
For q sou-ve-ne-ar"
he began 70 hum
stop itl" impiored Alice Yardleigh
That song gives me the creepsl@
He stopped, but looked a little stub
born at the moment like an interrupted
child.
% come. she suggested quickly
Let's 20 and explore the ruinsI StAas
q real treasure hunt perhapel Who
knowS9 One OF my friends found 8
copper lustre plate once IN an old eel
lar holel"
Grumbling q little. but more In
playfulneSs than In real distaSte, he
got up and followed her down g crumbly
pathway into the devastated chaSm.
More stricken than she liked 10 con-
Tess at the ghastly waste before her
she schooled her lips to single flip-
90 what place for murderl" she
he looked at her Just bit quizically,
then sWu0psng down suddenly into the
ashheap ct his feet kicked aside 3
rusty wheel, q broken tea cup, the tines
OF rake, and snatching up 3 tangitng
bunch Of very small curtain rings ex-
tracted the least furnished Of them
and proffered it TO her.
well, st least here's ring" he said,
TO prove that my intentions are nom
orablel"
still smiling a trifle quizzically he
put it on her outstretched finger.
Smile for smile, she accepted the
aNow let's 20 UP on the parapet
where was standing when first saw
you" be suggested, and ten each other
everything we know. until It's time Ior
A little bit reluctantly she drew hack,
threw out her hands In a gesture o.
protest towards the rusty, twisted GRID
ers. the looming piles OF SCARED TIM
her. the broken crockery.
"What7" she said 'What9 through
.sNess?s he reproached her stem
toriously. Lots Of people on the other
side went back 10 housekeeping with
less than thisl" 1870,
aBut didn't give lunch partiesl" she
&c. OF r,shawl' he argued. Isn't there
a poern on Just that Sublectl Lunch
Among the Ruins or something IKE
THAT? A bloke named blueine ~
iBIacking' wrote It. AND u ns4 quase
int To say about mutton'-n To
'1 NJ one could have told from his aD-
uol,,falv understandable face Wnetner nc
spoke in test or earnest. .,,.,,
r. made her feel rather 1oolisn-
s aS mean sBrowning'?" she queS-
~asstio,slv. sBrowningS poem
sseo,,t love Among the RuinSf NO.
1s,ycbts And it was sheep tnat hS
asenfion not mutton by the way ~.
20 well, very likely, aaLnisesu , ~
all soldier without any Lurtnea ,syo;4-
,ern apparently, and gaioeo me- ~ s1lA1 tne
y 10 a safe seat beside MN "
high. crumbling parapet. for e
,,nsaenf they sat looking OH oogesa lss
: fer as the eve could reaen aclOs7
he shadowing valley. -,-...,,,adoad
ssft's q beautiful world ackLlonieAsSs'
1 TT ioIly well used 70 bel" aoLll''eu
ne sr sSn rS Se'q about your Alicei" she sus-
,si Alice Il NV wife" he said. QT raslIl5
r WAS once my wife, perhaps = 'Ai
ay." - o,,t In astonish-
ne en-. n vas a mad marriage ne
49, - inform her I'VE were pOeit
a. s. 40, vns,nc and It Just didn't EAA
ea4 ,yss ali was annulled almost ~
nAt T01 s,,e s she went her way ano
n went nine. she married again is sseS
oo ms1'' Her husband died. haven't sse aa
er for years. But when ] Iouia e , : MID
r ~ ~ III be SO near / thought y wouaa
: AZ least interesting TO see hel 0lioe
oain where we first met.
ssI3IIt she didn't come. ,.4.5
enc NO hut YOU camel" he reiterateat
ne nsost curious tinge Of astonisnmene .
AIRED once again IN the Statement
You camel" - ,, al
eyes. ] certainly seem 70 IS mere 49,. -
lifted Alice Yardleigh Win Aoi0eO
rim -, saar,ed
, refortify the moment OF aosoiuIe
a, As readily as she might have asked
Is emotions about the weather sne 1