Carbon County news., 1937-12-17

| pooling long shadows under the
lashes of her steady eyes. II Just
thought Of something"
'"What was it?
''This-isn't it kind of funny?-
this is exactly the situation we were
speaking 81 the other day"
He was puzzled. When was this?"
''In Inspiration.
For a moment he didn't get it.
Then it came back to him in rush
the blast Of sun upon the dusty
street, the atmosphere of silent,
| waiting hostility, the groups of
spurred and booted men in door
ways, watching without seeming to
watch; and he had stood talking to
Marian across the door Of a car,
not thinking about what was ahead.
"'If you and were set afoot, t"
she quoted, . some place far off in
the mountains at night, with only
one blanket between us"
He was resting perfectly still on
one elbow, looking at the fire; but
he could feel her eyes, so near his
face, watching him under her
lashes. And behind her eyes he
supposed she was laughing at him.
''I was right, she said. "You
didn't know It then, but you can see
it now You sect seems a good
deal different now that we're really
here" I"
."Does it2,s he said without ex-
preston. He got up with a sort
Of stiff,. slow leisure, for the little
fire was, burning low. He went be-
yond the fire, squatted on one heel
beside it, and fed it pieces Of
stick. = z@s .5
"You see, know you, Billy.
Sometimes / think Ilznow you better
than / know myself" Her eyes
wavered and drifted out toward the
low young stars. II can remember
when was afraid Of you If we
had been out here then-two years
ago--I would have, wanted nothing
SO much as to get back among other
people. That's all gone, now."
He looked at her. She had never
seemed more lovely, more human,
more elementally desirable than she
looked now, q tired girl in cow
country work clothes, slim and lazy,
relaxed by the little fire as If she
had never known any other resting
place in her life Her face was
quiet, almost grave; but though
her eyes. looked drowsy there was a
little gleam in them that did not
come from the flame ia front: a
small provocative glimmer Of fire
within, which he had seen in her
eyes only two or three times in
his life and never before the last
two or three days.
Their eyes met and held, his
steady and masked within, hers
seeming to laugh at him a little.
half veiled by her lashes.
II said," she reminded him, ''that
il we Were-in situation like this,
there wouldn't be anything for me
to worry about, nothing at all. And
you said, if thought that was a
fool. Well, you see she met his
eyes again-''I win. -
Still her eyes held. and he could
not understand why hers did not
drop. II can't believe. hardly" he
said, ''that you have any idea what
sort Of thing you're talking about. I"
She smiled. You think don't?
That's because western men are
certainly the most conventional peo-
pie in the world"
Suddenly he angered. He had not
brought her here Of his own will,
nor set them afoot, nor wished to
rest here with her. h He would not
even have been on her range, or
within days ride Of it, IL her in
terests had not drawn him in and
held him. She had made her de.
cisions in regard to him long ago,
and to change them he had spent
his every resource without any ef-
iect. And now, at the last-it
amused her to torment him. It
seemed to him that there was a
Icapricious she-devi1 III that girl
perhaps in all women. given op-
portunity.
tYou see, l know YOU" she was
saying again. s5:..
The masks behind his eyes
dropped away, and though his face
hardly changed his eyes reddened,