MUTT AND JEFF
I HAD TO SWIM SIX HOURS BUT I FINALLY GOT HERE!
NOW I'LL GET THOSE GUYS, MUTTANDSEFF!
SO! HERE YOU ARE! I HAVE COME BACK FOR REVENGE! I-DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE APOLOGY
OR ELSE
-ØRELSÈ WHAT?
WHAT DID WE DO?
YOU HAVE INSULTED ME AND THE WHOLE BOLONEY, GOVERNMENT! WELLY ARE YOU BORRY?
IMHAY UTENAY! ETSLAY GIVEM
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"Bill
The night before Malcolm Rivers the first three pages. On the bottom departed for Arizona he said to Ruby of the fourth page he read: Seymore: "I'll be gone only a few Talmage naked ine to see "Heartbreak' months. You'll wait for me. won't with him at the Capital. Oh, Mal. it's the most wonderful play I think you, darling?”
I've ever seen. How I do wish you were here”).
"Of course I will, Mal: You know I will. I could never love anyone else
now,
Malcolm only half heard her answer, He was thinking of to-morrow and how grand it was going to be getting away by himself: Oh, he loved Ruby. He intended to marry her some day, but he was still young. He had been little too ardent in his courtship, had promised too much,. He wasn't quite ready to be tied down for life.
The job in Arizona wasn't any thing Malcolm would have sought. It an opportunity to work in one the of the copper mines owned by company for, which, as a clerk, he was getting his start in his chosen profession. Of course the experienco, would one day doubtlessly prove valu able to him, but it was not compulsory, and under ordinary conditions be wouldn't have taken it.
Was
Malcolm scowled.
was this Talmage Who the devil
seemed to him that Ruby was more interested in him, than she was in the play. He thought of asking about Talmage in his next letter, but decided against it. Asking would only be an admis- sion of the fact that he was concern- ed.
Almost three weeks passed before he heard from Ruby again. Rowena East. Mal and Xenia, went back began to fret. He tried to convince himself that he didn't care whether Ruby wrote or not, but each time the mail car arrived he was the first When the letter out to greet it. finally did get there he ripped it open in a fever of excitement.
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please forgive me for not writ- ing sooner, darling. Bill wanted me up to the He promised Ruby he would write to Join a party going
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at least once a week, and for a time Laurentians for a week's skiing. he kept this promise. As a matter should have written you from there, of fact he was at first lonesome, and ̈ but—”.
That day Malcolm made arrange- this writing to Ruby was like a con- tact with the outside world. Social ments to cut short his time in Arizona. life at the mine was almost nil. Three days later he took a train for the Then, toward the end of the first New York, Ruby was not at
By Barbara Ann Benedict
He taxied out
month, Rowena French daughter of station to meet him. Bob French, the mine superintendent, to her apartment. She was alone, He arrived for a month's vacation. Ro which cased his anxiety a little. wena had a girl friend accompanying, had half expected that a gentleman her, a blond named Xenia Nesbit named Bill Talmage, would be there The two girls were seniors at Welles with her. ley, attractive, interested in this new life, eager to be shown about. Their arrival to Malcolm, was like sunshine the first time he noticed how beauti- Curious' after a prolonged period of fog. Mal-ful she was, how desirable. colm found that with blonde Kenia how he had not noticed these things Nesbit for a companion not only the before. mine, but the heretofore dull town of Globe had much to offer.
Ho took her into his arms and' For kissed her, then held her off,
"I came home because I couldn't stand being away from you any long- er: Will you marry me at once?" Mal! At once? Why, I-I-" "Is it Bill Taimage?”.
Bill's "Mall Of course not. to Europe for a couple of months anyhow."
gone
The first week after the arrival of the girls Malcolm was SO busy ho forgot completely about his letter to Ruby When he thought of it toward the middle of the second week ho dashed off a few hurried lines and dispatched them without a qualm; of The next week they were married. conscience.
Ruby 'was thrilled and enger and
He didn't think of Ruby again for happy. Sometime, she thought, she'd. four days. Then a letter from her have to tell Mal how worried she had arrived. It was as usual gay and been, and that Bill Talmage was her bright and chatty. It lacked only one thirteen-year-old cousin. What ho detail in its usual formula. Tharo didn't know now wouldn't hurt him. was a paragraph that mentioned a (Copyright," 1989, By The Associat- trip to New Hampshire on which she ed Newspapers.). was escorted by a certain Bill Tal- mage.
«A frown uppcared... on Malcolm's forehead. Who, he wondered, was Bill Talmage? He racked his brain, but could recall no one of their ac quaintance with such anamo. He frowned again, feeling queerly - dis- turbed. Then young Jim Wade cama in and said the girls were waiting to take a ride. He shoved the letter into his desk and forgot about it.
However, when he wrote to Ruby Malcolm was careful to avold mention of the two girls who were his" and Vim Wades constant panions, a And when,s #WOO Ruby's reply. most ongerly.
sme... hoë opARI He hurried
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