Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-03-24

OF good guides right here in Fort
Myers, and the Petersons were a shift
less lot, anyway.
One morning Jeremy's stepmother
said she had headache and was 60
ing to stay in bed all day. This place
made her downright sick, she said
The sun was hotter here, or something,
than 1t was in st. Augustine, and Jer-
emy's father said: That's right, Flea
nor, you just stay quiet and keep the
room dark and I guess you'll feel lots
better tomorrow"
Then he had taken Jeremy by the
hand and said: Come along, son, you
| and I are going to have a ride behind
those horses today, or I'm a Dutch
man."
No, they were not going to take
Buddy. He was too little and would
| only be nuisance. Freeman Dexter
told the nursemaid to lure Buddy down
to the beach and keep him there until
they were gone. Jeremy was fond of
Buddy, but the way his father put it
made him feel grown-up and import
ant.
First, his father said, they had some
shopping to do. It turned out to be
shopping for lady-a big box of candy
and little box of fancy soap, bottle
of perfume, some handkerchiefs and
another box covered with the most fas-
would be handy for her knick- knacks.
Finally they fetched up at the store
where novelties made from alligator
! hide and teeth were on sale.
Jeremy remembered that his father
had struck a clenched fist into the
palm of his hand and said: "Golly,
that's the very thing!"
He chuckled as he spoke and pointed
to small handbag of alligator hide,
that had some little claws dangling
down for ornament, and that Eleanor
had said was Just too awful for words"
when Jeremy's father had wanted to
buy it for her the other day.
Then Jeremy was made to wait in
the surrey while the Morgan horses
were being hitched, and his father
had to go back TO the hotel a moment
! because he had forgotten something
He wasn't gone very long, and when
he returned the parcels were slowed
under the front seat Jeremy was given
lunch basket to hold on his knees,
and they were off.
At this point to which memory car
ried him, the grown-up Jeremy, who
had little rime of frost on his
temples and that worried look in his
pale blue eyes, rose, stretched himself
and, taking the lunch basket Mile
had packed for him. carried it to the
elderly roadster parked alongside the
trailer.
There wouldn't be anything doing
around Fort Myers for some hours,
anyway, and he would be back long
! before the cocktail time when he might
pluck up enough courage to approach
that Snooty G. B. Latimer, whose wife
had been so friendly to Mile. and
whom he had discovered owned the
Engineering Times and had something
to do with the new canal Jeremy had
already tried the superintendent of the
works for temporary job, but with
out result. and he had seen enough of
G. B. Latimer to know that he was an
even tougher proposition. but at least
he could have go at him.
But it might look as though he was
taking advantage of Mrs. Latimer's
Kindness to Mile. Jeremy made wry
face at that thought. He could say
! ter, associated for years with Mr. Flag
Ter. and friend of Mr.. Thomas Alva
Edison.
Freeman Dexter had been dead for
20 years now, and perhaps C. B. Lati-
mer had never heard OF him. but in
| spite OF the fact that he had died COM
! paratively poor he had been a big man
IN his day. Yes, he had died a long
time ago. and Eleanor had the insur-
ance and what little there was be-
! sides, and had married again in less
than a year.
Jeremy wondered why she had dis
liked him so. but he knew why he dis
liked her. it was because he felt sure
she was carrying on with the man who
became her second husband before his
father died. OF his own mother he had
no memories. His father seldom talked
about her except to say, once or twice.