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SERIAL STORY-
Summer Sweethearts
By Mabel McElfiolt
1935, NEA Service, Inc.
Presently Michael had a blaze going. Katharine, looking down at him, said, "Well, go on-lacture me—”
CHAPTER 1 (Continued.)
That was Thursday morning. On Friday she went for her ride as usual, and Michael was there, tall, lean and ewunl.
"Mawnin!"
She smiled at him with just the night degree of casualness, morning."
"Goul
"Storm
"I'd better not." Katharine hugged! her arms about her.
Michael knelt, making shift, with a bundle of twigs at the side of the fire- place, and the remains of the logs. Presently he tâd'h blaze going. The west wind whippor-in at the open door and Katharine shivered, in spite of herself.
Well, go on--lecture me“ shej said, looking down at his
The tall young man turned from the grate, dusting of his lean, long
He tightened a strap, palted Prince | fingered lunds. Charlie's genming Bunk. comin' up!" he announced.
"Oh. do you think so?" But Katharine's query was not the usual feminine flutter. She adured storms, "Maybe I'd better Inke this." Michel ung an uitskin slicker across Prince Charlie's back.
"Por what?"
Hut she had the feeling that he too, wasn't thinking of what he was saying. Were both of them a litt mnd, sheltering from a mere thunder- storm this sumber morning?
"Fury doesn't like it," he said, of the lightning "She's nervous."
"Just like a woman," Katharine raid seornfully.
Her tone roused him. "Pee known plenty of men who didn't he terms, either."
"Oh, hat have you?** Katharine
per- morked him. Some devil of
She regarded him coolly, lighting a verseness seemed in possess her. She cigarette with fingers that shook n wanted to startle, shock, anney him-- little
stir him out of his asual calm nerept- "Oh, for being stablern-not taking ance of her. the licker"
"Sure enough!"
"Oh, that!"
He turned back to the Sre, appens- ing to forget her.
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She stared at him, drinking in every at Suddenly Katharine felt rage werp line of his face, the quizzical gray "Not for me," Katharine said coolly; het. To be ignored like this was eyes with the little laughter wrinkles The red-haired young man glanced
moment, then strangely maddening! She inhalettched around them. Michael was at her quizzically a
deeply, frowning angrily at the how old? Twenty-eight? is shoul called to Tips: "Ilere, catch this!"
ahsurhed young man.
who beat so ders were brond, his waist slim, like The sticker sailed through the air solicitously ever the fire
true horseman's. She knew, she told She knew landing in a pile of hay. The core well courth what Sally Moon--or Zoe herself, dozens of men better-looking hoy ran to retrieve it. with a flash of Parker-would do on such un ocenion Why on earth did she other with smarter, better educated in every way. white teeth in an ebony icine an- hiver and be wistful, and there him?
Sally would whimper little and "Just as you any." nounced. He swung long leg over would be a good deal of argument
face.
"You don't think Iouch of us around
the way. about necepting the man's ront, here, do you?" she pursued, scarcely
his western suddlerhend in a con- Michael didn't have a ceat, but that knowing what sho said,
The trees archer spiracy of silence. In the dinin terstices where the sky could be been there were patches of nagry clouds. From the west ruse a rumble of deep-
thunder.
been
all-people in Innicock?" didn't matter, fle ought at least to show some human concern about her.
es. You think we're all spoiled |
lier tone Why, she might have pneumonia. children or something."
was hateful and she knew it, but for it. the life of her she couldn't change Katharine, struck suddenly by thei "You won't mind gettin' wet?"
Michel stured her
at thoughtfully. He looked back at her over his utter nusense of her reasoning (she She had an impulze, almost irresisti shoulder, his gentle voice courteous almost never had cold), Inughed ble, to reach up and rumple that dark As usual.
aloud.
red crest of hair, from which the Katharine
laughed "No. why "What's the joke?“
stubborn curl had carefully should 19"
She glanced, sidewise, at Michael ironed only that morning. deep rull of distant thunder in entheroe, "Nothing you'd under- "Fellts around here have been migh-
They crossed an open men stau"
ty nice to me. with a river neandering along He lushed, the brick tint showing "Mighty nice!" She mocked his ruft, and an orange flesh of lighting | above the deep dark stain of his sun-¡ easy drawl. licked aeross the sky. Suddenly they burn. were again in the words, the horses "I'm not so slow," he drawled in imprisoned, in a grip of steel. Girny wading carefully through the shallow that easy western veice of his. stream and plunging up the muddy
"I didn't mean
that." Katharine banks.
hastened to say.
sitle
•
#
Outside the thunder rolled and neil-
Suddenly
her
she felt both her hands eyes darkening like the stormy skies without looked into hers.
"You don't--you n:m: tn't. "Mustn't what?" Now the rain came down, suddenly, ed, the sky stendify darkened, and The treacherous tide within in torrents, in violent sheets. For the occasional angry flashes of lightning warmed her heart. Was this sur- main part, the trees protected them, illumined the room. The rain, obed render, of which she had heard so but soon the path again crossed, a tent to dervish wind, tore in at the much? vivilized rond,
Now they highway, door, and Michael closed it.
But Michael Heitheroe dropped her firent angry peals of thunder sound were shut in together.
hands, released her as suddenly as he ed, and the sky was made livid by the This may go on all morning," she had seized her. I beg your pardon," almest continual flashes of lightning said, at random, wishing only to break, he muttered. "You are made n
the silence.
mnd, Miss Strykhurst, 1 Krucks I "Oh, I don't think it will. It's lift- forgot myself ing now
(To Be Continued)
main
The horses were nervous. Fury danced and whinnied, refusing to proceed.
At the side.of the road was a small hue-roofed cottage which had once housed a district school, and later an amateur radiu station. It was occupied now. At the rear was a Michael, Futte
for horses. shelter without consulting Katharine, cantered back to her ani, seizing Fury's bridle, led the nervous little animal under
cover.
"We'd better stop here a minute." he said quietly. "It's foolhardy to go on just now.
dismount. Then he tied bath Fury, and Prince) Charlie to the rude rail of the shelteri and quieted them with his reassuring voice.
Michael helped her to
"We can go inside, If you like," he told the girl, after a particularly vicious flash of light. "I had to stop! here last week in that cloudburst remember? I ind a party of kids. They were scared stim,"
door, dis- Ile pushed open the elosing a narrow room with a bricked Areplate and some battered schoolj had ovidently benches. Someone built a fire. There were the remains of logs, charrod and broken, in the grato.
"Cheerful place," Katharine com- mented dryly.
He glanced at her curiously. "Ita not so much. Here-let me dust that;
thing off. You can sit down."
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