Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-06-07
t 1910: BY News Syndicate Co. Int
TWO PARTS-PART TWO

TWO PARTS-PART TWO
~as started on an anecdote with
he was long familiar, breaking
ory in midcurrent and beginning
rother in the way that had so
led him when he had thought Of
consequent ramblings as pretty
d and had so infuriated him later
he had labeled it silly gable!
so strange to see him old. Do
-emember that day at Hendon
we thought we'd lost him?"
YyaS in the first autumn of their
tage, in the days before snubnoSed
Cowleys had ruined Hendon as
nic center. They had taken a bus
the war memorial at Golder'S
It was before the tube had come
! Colindale, 1t was the Hamstead
4 then, not the Edgware Line. In
\ days the tops of buses were I'M
Id. They had sat in the front
Eith Woolley lying over their feet
hot water bottle.
" had picnicked in the shadow
I hedge long since cut down by
tative builders that had looked
yer the Welsh Harp. The sun had
warm upon their faces. He had
l as her voice ran on from this
Eote to that: dozed till he had
reused by the cry, "Woolley.
he is he? I can't see him." Over
Il years ago, but would he ever
the agonized anxiety of that
search, the shouting till his voice
hoarse: with Molly whimpering
side, IF only we'd had his name
Upon the collar" Would he ever
that, or the relief when at the
moment when they had started to
! don hope, Woolley had emerged
| and dusty, reeking Of the filth in
a he had rolled luxuriantly. And
by bathed him yesterday" had
Z was so full Of life too. Do you
nber how he pestered us that day
tst too was a vivid memory. 1t was
te second year. The early part Of
Enev had gone to Devonshire. for
Hing holiday. They had breakfast
n. 1t was wet and they had idled
(, the gas fire lit, when suddenly
the unexpectedness that can make
happy marriage a more spontan-
adventure than the most intense
hue. they had found themselves in
TAT that very moment Woolley had
led on a display Of filial devotion,
Jumped on the bed, pranced on
pillows, snuggled his nose between
heads, trying to lick both their
simultaneously. Would Osborne
forget the noisy romp that had
their lovemaking; of how laugh
snd breathless she had said. One
h has to be In love to laugh like
Ind do you remember how upset he
that day we quarreled about Janets
tat!on?"
hadn't been their first quarrel, not
many weeks But one Of their. most
cal. She had been away. visiting
3 couple Of days. There had been
.tter addressed to her in Janets
!: 1t bore a penny stamp. The Hap
turned over a post card. Clearly
as an invitation. To fix the date,
arrange his own diary, he had
Ted it.
y the way" he had said on her
n. II accepted for a party Of
IT'S on Friday week" 1t had been
signal for one of their fiercest
!; as absurd as 1t had been sympto-
ic You open my letters, what do
mean by opening my letters?" That
how 1t had begun. You knew 1t
ar invitation? Yes, I daresay you
But why should you accept 1t in
name? How did you know that I
ID want to go?"
Ia was how it had gone on. Final
/ point Of recrimination had been
he'd. when their whole social life
become a corpse under the dissect-
knife. You're always complaining
I don't like people till I've got to
= them. That's why you accepted
invitation on your own: to force
into a position where I couldn't
IDLY refuse" On and on the flood
streamed, and all the
the poodle realizing that they
quarreling had barked between
n with an insistence that had
I'd them finally to abandon or rath-
,ostpone the Issue; to declare an
stice.
lie always knew when we were
reling; as some dogs know when
der's coming, he could only be
~ when we were happy. Do you
.mber when we went for walks
there were four Of us, and you
the other man walked on ahead.
he'd run backwards and forwards