Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-02-29

| Let us talk about you, said Rum
dhia.
every well, what about met"
"Now you have made me speech
lessl"
"Have I? Then perhaps you will
listen to me-"
Beloved, I will gladly listen to
you, in an ecstasy of patience and
| devotion, during years which shall
flow so fast that we'll be old before
we know it'll"
"Did you get that from book?"
II never read books. When l talk
to you, my tongue can only stutter
miserable hints of how feel. You
make me delirious. Be good enough
to notice that these arms resist i'm
pulse!" He extended his arms to-
ward the moon, then dropped them
to his sides. "Oh, Lynn, love you. F"
Good job don't love you," she
answered. "There'd be-
"a new golden age in Kadur!"
Rundhia interrupted. Lynn: philos-
ophy, religion, economics and the
other muck they made me listen to
at school and college left me, until
you came, dry of faith in anything
but evil-and even evil dying! You
are my first glimpse of goodness. "
Don't you love the Maharanee?
Isn't she good?"
ooh, yes. She is good past his
tory. Lynn, you are the present and
the future! One straight look into
your blue eyes, and l knew what
hope means and the higher vision.
had never seen it, until saw you. ="
Sounds good" Lynn answered.
'What was in the cocktails?"
t''Don't joke! Lynn, I'm in love. /
mean every word I'm saying to
you"
Il mean what l say, too" Lynn
answered. 81 don't love you-What
was that noise? In the distance. 1t
sounded like shooting"
81 didn't hear it," said Rundhia.
They had reached the steps that
led to the kiosk on the garden wall.
1t was dark in the wallis shadow
He was justified in offering his arm
to guide her up the steps, but he
put it around her. She could feel
his vibrance. She escaped him-ran
up the steps ahead of him, then
waited on the wall in full moonlight,
facing him, unafraid.
"There! Did you hear that?
Wasn't that a rifle-shot, Rundhia?"
"Might have been," he answered.
"Not so easy to tell"
"Isn't Captain Norwood's camp in
that direction?" Lynn asked.
Somewhere over there, yes. Pos
sibly jackall or stray dog scared
his sentries. Never mind Norwood
Lynn, you say you don't love me.
don't believe you"
"Why not? l told you the plain
truth-Do you think sentries would
fire at a dog?"
ellis would! He's crazy. Lynn, l
don't believe you because you for
gave what did in the treasure
room. And because when you hurt
me, you were sorry. Also because
you are not afraid to be alone with
me now. Lynn, you don't know
yourself. You're"
"Do you know YOURSELF" she re-
torted. Don't you think it strange
that they should be shooting at
night"
"No. Most soldiers live in a con-
tinual state of false alarm. Lynn,
listen to me. Don't excite your"
"You did. But l saw you, and
heard you laugh at Captain Nor
woods ruin
"You dislike me?"
"Oh, no."
! "You admit l can stir your emo
tions?"
ooh, yes. admit that. Why tell
lies about it? You're magnetic.
almost fell in love with YOU"
Lynn, you are thinking about
East and West. That hoary old SUI
perstition! 1t fingers, they tell me,
in America more tenaciously than
anywhere else, though even school
books nowadays admit that we and
you are of the same race. Do you