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THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE SMARY MARIE Zty Eleanor H. Porter Illustrations by H. Livingstone OtrrirM br kimmc h. riu CHAPTER IX Continued Before I wns eighteen, liowovcr, I hnd abandoned nil tills. Father put lils foot down linrd on tlic missionary project, nnd Mother put hers down on the Ktnpc Idcn. I didn't mind ho much, though, ns I remember, for on further study nnd consideration, I found that flowers nnd npplnu.se were not nil of nn actor's life, nnd thnt Afrlcn nnd Indln were not entirely dcslrnblo ns n place of residence for n young womnn alone. Besides, I hnd decided by then thnt I could enlighten the world Just ns clTcctunlly (nnd much more com fortnbly) by writing stories nt home nnd Retting them printed. So I wrote stories but I did not get nny of them printed In spite of my enrn est efforts. In time, therefore, thnt lden, oIbo, wns nbnndoned; nnd with It, re gretfully, tho lden of enlightening the world nt nil. Besides, I hnd Just then (ngnln If I remember rightfully) fnllon In love. Not thnt It wns the first time. Oh, no, not nt eighteen, when nt thirteen I hnd begun confidently nnd happily to look for It I What n ficntlmontiri little piece T .wns! TIow could thoy linve been so patient with me Fnthcr, Mother, everybody 1 I think tho first renl attack the first that I consciously called love, myself wns tho winter after wo hnd nil come back to Andcrsonvlllc to live. I wns sixteen nnd In the high school. It wns Pnul Mnyhew yes, tho snmo Paul Mnyhew thnt had defied his mother nnd sister and walked home with mo one night nnd Invited me to go for an automobile ride, only to bo sent sharply nbout his business by my stern, Inexorable Aunt Jane. Pnul was In the senior clnss now, nnd tho hand somest, most admired boy In school, lie didn't enro for girls. Thnt Is, he said he didn't. Ho bore hlmsolf with a supremo IndHfcrcnce thnt wns mad dening, nnd flint took (apparently) no notice of the fact thnt every girl in school was n willing slnvo to the mere nodding of his head or tho beckoning of his hand. This was'th'o condition , of things when I entered school that fall, nnd perhaps for u week thereafter. Then one day, very suddenly, and without apparent reason, he awoke to the fct of my existence. Candy, flowers, books some one of these ho brought to mo every morning. All during the school duy he wns my devoted gallual, danc ing attendance every possible minute outside of session hours, nnd walking home with ,me In the afternoon, proudly carrying my books. Did I say "homo with me"7 That Is not strictly true ho always stopped Just one block short of "home" one block All During the School Day He Was My Devoted Gallant short of my gate. Ho ovldcutly had not forgotten Aunt jane, and did not intend to take ,nny foolish risks 1 So ho said good-hy to mo always at a snfo distance. Thin went on for perhups n week. Then ho asked mo to attend a .school slclgh-rldc and supper with him. I wna wild with delight. At tho samo tlmo I was wild with apprehen sion. I awoko suddenly to tho fact of tho.oxlstcnco of Father and Mother, nnd that their permission must bo gained. And I had my doubts I had very grave dou'jfs. Yet It scomcjl to mo at that moment that I Just had to go on that slelgh-rlde. That It was ( tho only thing In tho whole wldo world ' worth whlto. I can remombeV now, as If It wero yesterday, tho way I debated In my nilnd ns h wlieJIior. -I should ask Father. Mother, or both together; and If I flhnttjd let It bo scon how greatly I desired to go, and how much It meant to me; or If I Rliould Just mention It as In passing, and take their permis sion practically for granted. 1 chose the latter course, and I took a time when thoy were both together. At the bi'eakfnst tnMo I mentioned casually that the school was to havo a slelgh-rlde and supper the next Fri day afternoon and evening, nnd thnt Paul Mnyhew hnd asked me to go with him. "A slelgh-rlde, supper, nnd not come home until evening?", cried Mother. "And with whom, did you sny?" "Paul Mnyhew," I answered. I still tried to speak casually; nt the snmo time I tried to Indlcnte by voice and in a :i nor something of the great honor thnt hnd been bestowed upon their dnugllter. Father was Impressed plainly Im pressed; but not n. all In the wny I liad hoped he would be. He gave mo a swift, sharp glance; then looked straight at Mother. "Humph I Pnul Mnyhew 1 Yes, I know him," he snld grimly. "And I'm dreading tile time when he comes Into college next year." "You mean " Mother hesitated and stopped. "I mean I don't like the company ho keeps already," nodded Father. 'Then you don't think that Mnry Murle " Mother hesitated again, nnd glanced nt me. "Certainly not," said Father de cidedly. I knew then, of course, that ho meant I couldn't go on the sleigh ride, even though he hndn't snld the words right out. I forgot all nbout being ensual and Indifferent and matter-of-course then. I thought only of show ing them how absolutely necessary It was for them to let nit go on that sleigh ride, unless they wanted my life forovermoro hopolcssly blighted. I explained carefully how he was the handsomest, most popular boy In school, nnd how all the girls were Just crazy to bo asked to go nnywhoro with him ; nnd I argued what If Fath er had seen him with boys he did not like then thnt was all the more rea son why nice girls like me, when he asked them, should go with him, so ns to keep him nwny from bnd hoys. And I reminded them ngaln that ho was tho very handsomest, most popular boy in school; and thnt there wasn't a girl I knew who wouldn't bo crazy to be In my shoes. Then I stopped, all out of breath, and I can Imagine Just how pleading and palpitating I looked, I thought Father wns going to re fuse right away, but I saw the glance that Mother threw him Hie glance that said, "Let me attend to this, dear." I'd seen that glance before, several times, nnd I knew Just whnt It meant ; so I wasn't surprised to sec Father shrug his shoulders nnd turn nwny as Mother snid to nio: "Verywell, denr. I'fl think It ovei nnd let you know tonight." But I wns surprised that night to have Mwther say I coiiln go, for I'd about given tip hope, after all that talk at the breakfast table. And she snld something else thnt surprised me, too. She said she'd like to know Pill Mnyhew herself; that she always wanted to know the friends of her little girl. And she told me to ask him to call the next evening nnd piny checkers or chess with tne. Hnppy? I could senrcoly contain myself for Joy. And when the next evening enme, bringing Paul, and Mother, nil prettily dressed ns If he wero renlly, truly company, came Into tho room and talked so beautifully to him, I wus oven more entranced. To he sure, It did bother mo u little that Paul laughed so much, and so loudly, and that he couldn't scent to find nny thing to talk nbout only himself, nnd whnt ho was doing, nnd what he was going to do. Some way, ho had never seemed like thnt nt school. And I was afraid Mother wouldn't like that. All tho evening I was watching and listening with her eyes and her ears everything ho did, everything he said. I so wanted Mother to Uko lilinl I so wanted Mother to see how really fine and splendid and nobte he vas. But that evening Why couldn't ho stop talking about tho prizes he'd won, and the big racing cut lieNl Just or dered for next summer,? There was nothing lino and splendid and noble about that. And wero his linger trails always so dirty? Why, Mother would think Mother did not stay In the room all tho tlmo; but slit? was In moro or less often to watch the game; and nt half imst nine she brought In somo little cakes nnd lemonndo ns n -surprise. I thought It was lovely; but I could have shaken Paul 'when ho pretended to ho nfrnlt'l of it, und asked Mother If there was a Btlck In It. Tho Idou Mother! Alstickl I Just know Mother wouldn't like thnt. But Jf she didn't, she never showed a thhig In her face. Sho Just smiled, nnd said no, there wasn't any stick In It ; and, passed tho citkes. When ho hnd gono I remember 1 didn't llko to meet Mother's oyes, nnd I didn't nsk hor how sho liked Paul Mayhew. I kept right on talking fast about something else. Somo wny, I didn't want Mother to talk 'then, for fear of what sho would say. And Mother didn't sny anything about Paul Mnyhew then. But only a few days later sho told mo to In' vfto hlmAnguln to the house (this tlmo to a chafing-dish supper), and to ask arrlo.neywooa and Fred Small, too. Wo had a beautiful time, only ngaln Paul Mnyhew didn't' "show off" at all In tho way I wanted him to though he most emphatically "showed off' In His way I It scemetl to mo that ho bragged oven moro nbout himself and his belongings tknn he had before. And I didn't like nt nil tho wny he nte his food. Why. Father didn't cnt llko that with hiicIi a noisy mouth, and such. a rattling of the sllverwarel And so It went wise mother that she was! Far from prohibiting mo to have anything to do wlttt Pnul May how, she lot me see nil I wanted to of him, particularly In my own home. Sho let me go out with him, properly chopcronod, nnd she never, by word or manner, hinted thnt she didn't ad mire his conceit nnd brnggndoclo. And It all came out exactly as I suspect she had planned from, the be ginning. When Paul Mayhew asked to be my escort to the clnss reception In June, I declined with thanks, and im mediately afterward told Fred Smnll I would go with him. But even when I told Mother nonchalantly, nnd with cnrefully nverted eyes, thnt I wns go ing to the reception with Fred Smnll even then her pleasant "Well, that's good I" conveyed only cheery mother Interest; nor did n linsty glance Into her face discover so much as n lifted eyebrow to hint, "I thought you'd come to your senses sometime I" Wise little mother thnt she wns I In the days nnd weeks thnt followed (though nothing wns said) I detected a subtle change In certain matters, however. And ns I look bnck at it now, I inn sure I can trace its origin to my "affair" with Paul Mayhew. Evi dently Mother had no intention of run ning the risk of nny more courtships; nlso evidently she Intended to know who my friends were. At nil events, the' old Anderson tnnnsion soon be came tho rendezvous of nil tho boys and girls of my acquaintance. And such good times ns wo had, with Mother always one of us, and ever pro posing something new nnd Interesting! And because boys not n boy, but boys wero as freo to como to the house ns wero girls, they soon seemed to me ns commonplace and matter-of-course and free front sentimental in terest ns were the' girls. Again, wise little mother 1 But, of course, even this did not prevent my falling In lovo with somo one older thnn myself, somo one quite outside of ty own circle of Intimates. My especlnl nttnek of this kind came to me when I wns bnrely eigh teen, the spring I wns being gradu ated from the Andorsunvllle High school. And the visible embodiment of my adoration wns the head ninster, Mr. Harold Hartshorn, a handsome, clenn-shnven, well-set-up man f (I should Judge) thirty-five years of age, rnther grnve, n little stern, nnd very dignified. But how I adored him ! How 1 hung upon his every word, his every glance! How I maneuvered to win from hint a few minutes' conversation on a Latin verb or a French trnnslnHon ! How I thrilled If ho bestowed upon me one of his Infrequent ' smiles ! How I grieved over his stern uloofness I By tho end of a month I had evolved this: lils stern aloofness meant that he had been disappointed In love! his momncholy was loneliness his hem was bronHng. How I longed to ho' to heal, to cure I How I thrilled nt the thought of the love nnd companionship 1 could give hlui somewhere In a rose embowered cottage lur from the mud ding crowd! (He boarded ut the Ad uersouvllle hotel alone now.) If only lit' could see It as 1 suw It. If only by some sign or token he could know oi the warm love that was his but .for ilie.uHklug! Could he not see that no longer need he pine alone and unnp preclnt'd In the Andersonvllle hotel? Why, la Just a lew weeks 1 was to be through school. And then On the night before commencement Mr. Harold Hartshorn ascended our front steps, rang the bell, and called for my father. I knew because I wus upstairs In my room over the front door ; and I saw lilm come up the walk and heard him ask for Father. Oh, Joy I Oh, happy day 1 He knew. He had seen It as I saw It. Hu had come to gain Father's permission, thut he might be a duly accredited suitor for my hand I During the next ecstatic ten min utes, with my hand pressed against my wildly beating heart, I planned my wedding dress, selected with care and discrimination my trousseau, furnished the rose-embowered cottage far from the madding crowd and wondered why Father did not send for me. Then the slain of the screen door downstairs sent me to the window, n sickening terror within me. Wus lie going without seeing me, his future bride? Impossible I Father and Mr. Harold Hartshorn stood on the front steps below, talking. In another minute Mr. I' rold Harts horn had walked away, and Father had turned bnck on to the piazza. . As soon as I could control my shak ing knees, I went downstnlrs. Father wns In his favorite rocklug chair. I advanced slowly. I did not sit down. . "Wns that Mr. Hartshorn?" I asked, trying to keep the shake out of my voice. "Yes." "Mr. II-Hartshorn," I repeated stu pidly.. "Yes. Ho came to seo me about the Downer plnce," nodded Father. "Ho wants t rent it for next yonr." "To rent It the Downer placu 1" (The Dow.ner place was no roso-enibowored cottage far from tho madding crowd 1 Why, it was big, and brick, and. right next to tho hotel I I didn't want to live there.) i "Yes for his wlfo nnd family, no'fl 'going to bring them back with hltn next year," explained Father. ' "His wife nnd family I" I can Imag ine about how I gasped out those four words. I "Yes. Ho has five children, I be lieve, nnd " i. Hut. I hnd fled to my room, TO BE CONTINUED. The Mutual Building & Loan Association has plenty of Money to jLoan on Improved North Platte Real Estate. We make loans: To finance New Buildings, ' To Assist in the Purchase of Improved Property, To Pay Off Mortgages & Liens on Improved Real Estate. Tho cohipulsory payments on our loans are $5.00 per month on each $1,000.00 and interest $6.00 per month. Borrowers participate In the earnings of the Asso ciation and the stock dividends pay off $360.00 of each $1,000 loan. Bccter for the borrower than a straight five per cent loan. T. C. PATTERSON, President. J. J. WILSON DENTIST OPPOSITE McCABE HOTEL, OYEb STAMP'S BAKERY. PHONE 71. R. B. HOWELL U. S. SENATOR R. B. HOWELL. R. B. Howell Is Republican Nations Committeeman for Nebraska and Genera Manager of the Omaha Municipal Water Gas and Ice Plants. He has devoted thirty years' constant labor to. relieve the people from tht burden of exorbitant rates charged bt Publlo Service Corporations. HE FAVORS: Collection of our loans from Britain France, etc. Adjusted compensation for ex-service men, paid by the wealth of the country. A government merchant-marine. Enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment. A rational tariff policy, framed u destroy monopoly. A Farm bloc In Congress. Restoring railroad competition at a means of reducing rates. HE OPPOSES: Proposed wrecking of the direct prl mary law. The proposed Ship Subsidy. The Esch-Cummlns law. R. B. Howell Is the only oondldate for Senator who served In either the Spanish American War or the World War. Ht served In both. R. B. Howell Is paying all his own campaign expenses. When elected he will be entirely free to serve the people. VOTE FOH HIM. Republican Primaries July 18 John M. Mafzen State Superintendent of Public Instruction Candidate for Second Term Non-Political Ballot 20 ykoars experience as an edu cator in Nebraska schools, Stands for progress, economy, efficiency and a square deal for all school intoresta. Solicits your support on his ex perience, qualifications and record in office. - BESSIE P. SALISBURY Secretary When in Omaha STOP WITH US Hotel Conant Hotel Sanford Hotel Henshaw Our reputation of 20 years fair dealing is back of these hotels. Guests may stop at any one of them with the as surance of receiving honest value and courteous treatment. CONANT. HOTEL COMPANY DR. L. A. SNAVELY Dentist X-ltnj Diagnosis Oxygen and Gas Anesthesia for Extractions. Over Union State Bank Phono 20G. DERRYBERRY & FORBES Licensed Embalmers Undertakers nnd Funeral Directors Day Phono 41 Night Phone Black 5jR Eyes examined, Glasses fitted. Sat isfaction, sure. Clinton & Son W. T. PRITCHARD Graduate Veterinarian Ex-Government Veterinarian and ex assistant deputy State Vetorlnarian. Hospital 315 South Vine Street , Phones. Hospital 633 Residence 633 ED KIERIG Auctioneer For dates and terms call at First National Bank North Platte, Nob. DR. REDFIELD Physician, Obstetrician, . Surgeon X-Itny Calls promptly answered Night or Day Phones. Office G42 Residence 676 DR. HAROLD FENNER Osteopath Over Hirschfeld's Office Phono 333 Res. Phone 1020 DR. M. B. STATES Chiropractor Rooms 6. 6, 7 Building & Loan Bldg Office Phone 70 Res. Phono 1242 NOTICE OF THE FORMATION OF PAVING DISTRICT NO. 16 IN THE CITY OF NORTH PLATTE, NEBR ASKA. To tho owners of tho record title all property adjacent to or abutting upon the streets hereinafter described and all person interested therein: You and each of you aro hereby notified that tho Mayor and City Coun cil of tho city of North Platto did under date of Juno 20, 1922 pass and approve a cortain ordinance forming and creating paving district No. 16 of tho city of North Platto, Lincoln Coun ty, Nebraska. And that tho following streets Including tho intersections thereof within tho limits of the city aro comprised within said paving UIs trlct, to-wlt: All that portion of Eighth Street commencing at tho west Uno of tho intersection of Eighth and Locust Streets in tho said city of North Platto, thence running west along said Eighth Street to thp East lino of tho intersection of said Elgth Street and Augusta Avenuo of tho city of North Platto, Lincoln Couuty, Nebraska, there to termlnato. Unloss objections aro filed as re quired by statuto within twenty days from tho first publication of this notlco, tho Mayor and City Council shall proceed ot construct such pav ing. Dated this 2nd day of June, 1922. E. H. EVANS Attest: O. EL ELDER, Mayor City Clprk. (SEAL) J. S. TWINEH, H. D. (Homeopath) Medicine nnd Surgery Hospital Facilities NORTH PLATTE, NEBR. Office Phono 1S3 Residence 283 JOHN S. SIMMS, M. D. Special Attention Glvon to Surgery McDonald Bank Building Office Phone 83 Residence 38 DR. J. R. McKIRAHAN Practice Limited to Diseosso of Women and Surgery Over Rexall Drug Store Phonos: Office 127 Residonco 666 Office 340 Houso 723J DR. IV. I. SHAFFER Osteopath Physician Ovor tho Oasis North Platto Office Phono 241 Res. Phone 217 L. C. DROST Osteopathic Physician North Platte, Nebraska. Knights of Columbus Building.' OTIS It. PLATT, M. D. Physician nnd Surgeon X-Itay Diagnoss and Treament Ovor Union State Bank Office Phono 296W Houso Phone 296R GEO. B. DENT Physician nnd Surgeon Special Attention Given to Surgery and Obstetrics Office: Building & Loan Building Phones: Office 130 Residence 115 PRIMARY ELECTION By virtue of tho authority vested In me by law and in accordance with Section 2159 of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska, I, A. S. Allen, "County Clerk of Lincoln County, State ot Nebraska, do hereby direct and pro claim that a Primal y Election bo held in the several voting places within Lincoln County,Stnte of Nebr aska, on Tuesday tho 18th day of July 1922, during tho hours dt t- ou uy iuw lor me ionowing purposes, to-wlt For tho nomination by each of tho politica? parties one candidate for United States Senator. For tho non-polltlcal nomination of two candidates for Judge of tho Sup remo Court for tho Sixth Supreme Court Judicial District as provided by tho Constitution of tho State of Nebraska, For tho nomination by each of tho political parties of one candidate for Congressman from the Sixth Congres sional District within tho State ot ' Nebraska. For the nomination by each of Uio political parties of tho following can didates for State Offices, to-wlt One Governor One Lieutenant Governor One Secretary of State. One Auditor of Public Accouats Ono State Treasurer Ono Attorney Geneiai Ono Commissioner ot Public Lands and Buildings. Ono Railway Commissioner For tho non-polltlcal nomination of two candidates for State Superintend ent of Public Instruction, as provided by law. For tho nomination by each of the political parties ono cand(lda)to for Stato Senator from tho 30th Senat orial District as apportioned by tho Session laws of 1921. For tho nomination by each of tho political parties of ono candidate for tho Stato Representative from tho 89th District as apportioned by tho Session Laws ot 1921. For tho nomination by each of the political parties of ono candidate for Stato Representative from tho 90th District as apportioned by tho Session Laws of 1921. For tho nomination by each of the political parties of tho following can didates for County Offices, to-wli Ono County Clerk. Ono County Treasurer Ono Register of Deeds Ono Sheriff Ono County Attorney Ono County Survoyor Ono County Commissioner from the 2nd District For tho non-pfjlltical nbminlatfon ot two candidates for County Super intendent ot Public Instruction b provided by law. Polls will open at 8 a. m. and o main open until 8 p. m. of tho Bamo day. In witness whereof, I havo hereunto set ray hand and affixed my official seal this 26th day of May, A D. T922. A. S. Alton (SEAL) County Clerk v-