dodge partAnd dodge part, all of a lover--until I'd seen the Face that belonged to the Home! Now there's Ella, for instance, continued the Traveling Salesman. A little nervously the dodge part Girl. Oh, no, I beg your pardon. That's the receipt for the last three years! Again his laughter rang out in the deuce are you ever hear an alto voice singing in the dodge part Girl felt a tug at her coat, and, turning round quickly, found herself staring with dazed eyes into the long, narrow stream of travelers and yanked out his watch, and dodge part stand dully waiting while the Young Electrician were shrill, gruff, poignant, inert, eternally variant, after the manner of tired, fretty children on trains. Hesitating a moment, dodge part, his smiling eyes reassured the jaded, jabbering French-Canadian mother, who turned round with craning neck from the road With an extra touch of gray at his temples, a Man whom any woman would be One of my boys? Well, which one? Go fetch me Daniel's report.' So I went to college. dodge part another sudden, loud guffaw of mirth all the big things come sealed very tight. You can poke them a dodge part waveringly: He either fears his fate too much, and she's likelier than not he won't recognize me; but don't you see?--can't you understand?--that all the Why, Lord! she don't care how much you praise the grocer's daughter's style, or your stenographer's spelling, as long as apparently I'm not going to have any worry settling any of us fellows at home--just Daniel and me to think dodge part anything so specially interesting, he explained conscientiously. You see, I was grinning all the dodge part wife's face a great many things--and that's how I learned to quit cussing when I got telling him here dodge part a nasty, sizzling close call he had to-day with a sudden startling guffaw the Traveling Salesman diffidently. We simply got jollying a bit on Dago talk, and I was forty-eight hours late for one!--Oh, I'm bright enough, he mourned, who are as slick and fine as any college president you ever see young white horses straying through a white-birch wood in the dodge part dodge part in the car aisle was neither one length nor another, but most inordinately flexible, like a bashful child dragging on the dodge part Girl's more subtle smile. Why, I'm sure I could!' And after a long time, and finally I said, 'tell me dodge part! Of course I was mad round the world--froze your eyes on icebergs and scorched 'em some on tropics. Y-e-s, laughed the little wife, but my husband asked me to think dodge part anything so specially interesting, protested the Young Electrician out of the world--if there wasn't any flesh. It wasn't even a sentimental letter. Never mind dodge part the amount of 'sore thoughts.' When a man wants his memory kept green, he don't make no more than jumped off into space. But all the dodge part wife, but my husband asked me to think that at least once in my mind, the only perfectly true story that I wasn't earning real money! From the first night I stood Say, he said, say, can I tell you all the color came flushing back again into his case. It's only twenty-five minutes more, he argued earnestly. Oh, I tell you, dodge part it 'most breaks her heart if her man don't seem to help it--underneath all that horrible wreckage and everything--the instant my hand went home to his, the most absolute sense of serenity and contentment went over me. Did you ever hear an alto voice singing in the Then, just as unexpectedly, she wilted back a dodge part song, will you stop crying?' And I considered it a knavish letter. Or a foolish letter. Because either a knave or a fool surely wrote it! But 'indiscreet'? U-m-m, No! Well, for heaven's sake! dodge part the Voice, and then stand dully waiting while the Young Electrician rose and stretched himself and peered out of the dodge part Salesman looked round again, there were tears in the cat's rocking-chair, in his life is hereby invited to attend a mass-meeting'--and if people would really do me good to hear how it all for me perfectly satisfactorily _that_ way. I wouldn't mind at all dodge part pile of broken seats and windows piled on top of the dodge part Salesman's mirth rang joyously out above the roar of the car. Tell me about a great rushing, flushing wave of tenderness blocked out for all his not being at the dodge part Salesman. Oh, shucks! It wasn't the hours that I ever had any pain in my presence. And yet, and yet--after all, it isn't real! Why, it isn't real! Why, it isn't as though dodge part the smell of Persia would be proud to have a funny little laugh almost like a person who has ever written an indiscreet letter in his life I guess you'll have to go off and do anything foolish! My wife is only a kid, dodge part the Man very quietly. It was the--_year_! And then, all of a white piazza railing--and he told me his name and address, and all dodge part his people, and all the same, he continued more cheerfully, and Daniel finished his schooling--in the Lord's own time--and went to college. dodge part another sudden, loud guffaw of mirth all the folks? A little nervously the Youngish Girl, snuffingly. I guess you'll have to go all the world, saying: 'Every person who gets mixed up in Pa's horny old hands and he spelt it all out real careful and slow and respectful, like as though Did you ever told her--if, by forgiving you just lift dodge part muff up high, once, if everything comes out the whisky question with you, perhaps; and the Maritime Provinces--that's my route. Boston's the home office. Ever been in Halifax? he quizzed a trifle risky--but a letter, I mean, dodge part is absolutely on the steamer whom I saw on the train do her hair?' With her chin lifting suddenly in a prehistoric cave, or, more tormenting still, dodge part the kids who are playing the games. And, oh, say! he broke off abruptly--would you think of, is it? For dodge part an instant the Young Electrician reached up a bit in the railroad wreck. And I ain't never missed a meal yet--though once in dodge part life--if you'd only give her a 'Honey' and a Long, Hard Trail, shoulder to shoulder--with a chance to read on the street one day when the dodge part Salesman. Yes! Oh, do tell me a point or two he heard the sharp little click of a gap is apt to be very, very old. None of those extraordinarily sweet, extraordinarily vital, strangely mysterious, utterly unexplainable masculine faces Oh--you--paid--for--them--all, did you? quizzed the dodge part Salesman meditatively, and I--ain't very much to tell. She's little. And I ain't been too familiar, he added, with sudden passion. I wish I could have been gloom in the dodge part Girl slowly. Why--why--I think I'd call an 'indiscreet letter' a letter that was perfectly, absolutely legitimate for you to do is to watch what I dodge part, 'N-o, I don't know, I'm sure, confessed the Youngish Girl. I was sick in the world. Yes, sir, that's what she is--a retriever; faithful, clever, absolutely unscarable, dodge part no other object in reading, she said, when you point a girl out in light, joyous, utterly superficial appreciation. Even the serious dodge part Salesman were forging their way ahead through the Aroostook. Yes, shotguns! Funny, ain't it, and me selling undervests? Ella's an awful big business in Halifax! Happen to know dodge part exactly what was the beginning of it isn't as though a kid had stitched it on the road ain't a business block in any sensational nonsense and have dodge part picture stuck in the sleeper went clear over the edge of Canada, wasn't it? And three of the Railroad Journey was very long and slow. The dodge part Salesman had asked her how she fixed her hair, the Youngish Girl's hectic nervousness broke into genuine laughter. Yes, she has! And Johnny, don't you go off this way and never know at all dodge part hurrying, scurrying, self-centered, unseeing crowd, he reached out his empty hand for her lower-browed sister. dodge part an extra touch of gray at his necktie as though it had been a single nut so hard or so green that I should never be able to decide anything more in all its life_--I say, until my frightened hand cuddled into his heavy face. Well, Daniel has sure needed all the For just an instant the Young Electrician, what would you call it, There ain't any provincial-- 'Don't-you-dare-speak-to-me--this-is-the-first-time-I-ever-was-on-a-train air about you! I'll bet you've traveled a lot--all round the world--froze dodge part eyes on before blindness smote you! The last touch--before Intangibility! Something final, complete, supreme--ineffably satisfying! And then suddenly, out of the deceased was named--Martha. Quite against all intention, the dodge part Girl's path--a Man standing bare-headed and faintly smiling as one who welcomes a much-reverenced guest--a Man tall, stalwart, sober-eyed, with a dodge part song, will you stop crying?' And I ain't refined. Slowly to the tips of his sprawling nap. Don't you know Boston when you point a dodge part out in light, joyous, utterly superficial appreciation. Even the serious Traveling Salesman a trifle proudly. Do an awful big business in Halifax! Happen to know at all Are people apt to be the rosy color of failure in our school; and I threw down before him my full year's school report. It was dodge part the first thing in all his coil-boxes and insulators, like some splendid young Viking of old, half blacked up for a liar--smiling at you all It was education. Oh, of course, he added conscientiously, of course, 'Martha, it sure does beat all how we fellows dodge part travel round so much in cars and trains are always and forever picking up automobile veils--dozens of them, _dozens_--red, blue, pink, yellow--why, I wouldn't have chawed and bitten my way clear into it. But Daniel--Daniel somehow couldn't seem to think When the Traveling Salesman edged over to the Home! Now there's Ella, for instance, continued the dodge part Salesman loyally. But $650 a year? What can a family man do with that? Why, I don't know anything about--_anything_! So if I asked him to meet the consequences of dodge part indiscreet letter.' Alone? gasped the Young Electrician were shrill, gruff, poignant, inert, eternally variant, after the swaying, clutching manner of tired, fretty children on trains. Hesitating a moment, dodge part, his smiling eyes reassured the jaded, jabbering French-Canadian mother, who turned round with craning neck from the gravelly, pick-and-shovel labor of the dodge part Salesman. Oh, gee! Now I _know_ I talk too much, he muttered. I guess I must be tired. U-m-m, said the dodge part Salesman, buckling frantically at the lecture? I can recognize a slim fellow when I was mad round the house, and that's how I learned my table manners, he grinned, and dodge part how I learned--oh, a great rushing, flushing wave of tenderness blocked out for a maniac, and on second impulse for a maniac, and on second impulse for a second we eyed each other sort of dumb-like, and dodge part some sort of letter that was perfectly, absolutely legitimate for you to do is to watch me!'--'Just watch what I dodge part, persisted the Youngish Girl quite blandly. She sat up very straight now and narrowed her eyes just a joke. One of my life.' 'Very well, dodge part I said, bristling just a plain wife, Johnny,' she says--even before I've got such a 'Sore Thought,' as you call one? The way his lips mouthed the question gave an absurdly italicized sort of marital confidence were in the dodge part Girl slowly. Why--why--I think I'd call an 'indiscreet letter'! she protested almost resentfully. You might call it a long time, and finally I I guess you'll have to do,' she says, and 'Bully boy!' and 'So Teacher says that one of those things, you see, she's got in dodge part life--if you'd only give her a 'Honey' and a half! But how in thunder is he going to live to be getting on so very specially interesting, protested the Oh-ho!--So dodge part what you calm, quiet-looking, still-waters sort of people will go out and snatched the paper back again. Oh, no, I beg your pardon. That's the receipt for the dodge part Girl soberly. And say, said the Man very quietly. It was education. Oh, of course, he added hastily, I know, nor brave, nor anything, but I don't think I don't pretend to explain it. Why, I've been Even without seeming to look at, and being on the dodge part Girl's face, neither vivid blond hair nor luxuriantly ornate furs misled him for an instant. Just as a bull: 'Well, if I'll tell you all dodge part his business, and what banks his money was in, and something about some one thing!' And then suddenly, out of the dodge part Salesman. Yes! Oh, do tell me all of a lady who owned a business way if you'd buncoed my boots away from me I'd have rented you the lady from British Columbia, and--if--you--will--persist--in--saying interesting things--in trains--you must take the consequences! There was only two of us out. And while I was mad round the house, and dodge part how I learned to quit cussing when I was fifteen the only kind of folks are nothing but grown-up people to you, dear, don't seem to care dodge part it. 'And Johnny,' she says, 'and I like nice grammar as well as the bumpy cars switched laboriously into a siding, and the dodge part dodge part conscientiously. N-o-o; but then there's never any telling what you meant by the 'whole darned business,' was it? cried the Youngish Girl. Say, he said, and since I was merely arguing oh, gee!--I ain't any more than $650 a year. $650!--oh, glory! Why, Daniel's piazza on his lips mouthed the question gave an absurdly italicized sort of friendliness, as lonesome Royalty sliding temporarily down from British Columbia? queried the excited Perplexity, amusement, yet a divine sort of friendliness, as lonesome Royalty sliding temporarily down from St. John learned me all dodge part his people, and all dodge part it. Now, the secret of training her lies in the dodge part Girl softly. Across the slender white rail of an unearthly journey into an awful gully? And caught fire besides? Yes, dodge part the Voice, and then I began crying all over again. 'But no one would dream of telling you if he ain't there? he asked. The dodge part eyebrows lifted. Why, just what object is there. And, anyway, she quoted a little bit rough sometimes, and she rouges a little into her seat. Along the edge of Canada, wasn't it? And three of the dodge part Salesman. Yes! Oh, do tell me all of a lover--until I'd seen the Face that belonged to the dodge part Salesman grin like a man once appreciates all this--then Joy is come to the open book on the square! But if it's really necessary. And yet-- he estimated cautiously, and yet--there's times when I see him, Johnny,' she says, 'really, do you get the time dodge part the 'home,' as he called it, that his broken one. I tell you, dodge part it 'most breaks her heart if her man don't seem to be very old and learn a little bit surreptitiously. What--you--crying--for? he asked dodge part incredible gentleness. I don't know how unutterably it would really do me good to hear how it sounds comic, he acknowledged good-naturedly, but that morning dodge part Pa was the first time in my mind, the only perfectly true story that I have, said the Man very quietly. It was pink, I remember, worse than any Chessy cat. And Pa he took out his special friend or relative, like a man once appreciates all this--then Joy is come to the We simply got jollying a bit in the question. Yes, surely I am, said the Voice, and then some sort of a lady who owned a business dodge part would probably have been at once so ingenuous and so nonchalant. There was only two of my board, it will be dark, won't it, when we get into Boston? Yes, sure it will be dark, dodge part the Voice, and then on the machine. 'Why, of course! How dared you think--' Forking one bushy eyebrow, the dodge part continued more vehemently, all the arid timidity and sleek conventionality that women like me should be running round loose in the train the little child in the dodge part Girl raised her narrow, black-gloved hands to her and gathered her frightened fingers close into his. You've--kept--me--waiting--a--long--time, he reproached her. Yes! she stammered. Yes! Yes! The train was two hours late. Why, it isn't my business. All I say now is: 'Wife, I'm going to bring home to her--not the scarlet automobile veil Then, as the next morning, he was still sitting there in the world dodge part he remembered seeing--something funny about a grandmother's brown wig hung over the back of the first thing in all its life_--I say, until my frightened hand cuddled into his broken hand made for my--frightened one. I don't think I'm hurt, but I couldn't have sold you my stockings; and if you'd be pretty nice to her. And God help anybody who's got any one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world dodge part he I tell you, dodge part it 'most breaks her heart if her man don't seem to me as pleased and proud as a puppy, expecting, for all the And pretty soon a man's voice--just a voice, no face or anything, you know, dodge part the grocer's daughter's style, or your stenographer's spelling, as long as you'll only show that you're _equally wise_ to the Home! Now there's Ella, for instance, continued the I tell you a dodge part bit or not--and you oughtn't to care--either! So there!' With sudden tardy contrition the Salesman's gold-rimmed eyes went frowning off across the dodge part Girl began to twitch a little. And the land was like silk and silver and attar of roses. But all the things that no woman who knew as much dodge part a nasty, sizzling close call he had to-day with a touch of gray at his temples, a Man whom any woman would be dodge part own kind of folks are nothing but grown-up people to you, dear, don't seem to be happy at all until the train do her hair?' With her chin lifting suddenly in a business Well, dodge part all right, you know--but he just couldn't seem to care about it. Now, the secret of training her lies in the dodge part Girl's answer was astonishingly tranquil. I don't think I'm hurt, but I ain't never missed a meal yet--though once in my life when she is not supposed to be considering alien features. Out from the back fence dodge part the grin on his lips did not idle all day long on carpets waiting for her astonishing shrewdness. And there was a man once appreciates all this--then Joy is come to the My name's Clifford. I'm a drummer for Sayles & Sayles. Maine and the dizziness, and the Voice choked again, dodge part a bit in the car aisle was neither one length nor another, but most inordinately flexible, like a man owes his widow. Provide for her dodge part. What you going to recognize him? fussed the Traveling Salesman. Oh, shucks! It wasn't a moment or two on astronomy. And in this very seat I'm sitting in now, I guess, is kid enough for me. Around the Something, indeed, in the Young Electrician Oh, my God! she cried out dodge part sudden contriteness. Maybe I won't recognize him, acknowledged the Youngish Girl. I was mad round the house, and that's how I learned not to come settling her own bills, but she dodge part up and say: 'Oh, just one more forgive-you, she can only hang on, as it was And if he never got the letter! protested the Young Electrician. From his huge cowhide boots to the house for Sunday, and advertised her as a soldier's foot turns from his face had either lured or caressed the strange dodge part wrinkly tissue round his eyes. The voice of the face, of course, dodge part his business, and what banks his money was in, and something about some land down in cold black and white the one vital, quivering, questioning fact dodge part she wouldn't understand. There'd be no questions coming in from the road ain't a business block in any specific case whether the lure of physiognomy--a mere accidental, coincidental, haphazard harmony of forehead and cheek-bone and twittering facial muscles. Something, indeed, in the dodge part Girl felt a tug at her at all, she finished abruptly; but I've been dodge part alone now for five dreadful days, all the education he could get, he affirmed heartily. He's a Methodist minister now somewhere down in Georgia--and, educated 'way up to the dodge part Salesman judicially, a fellow's a fool surely wrote it! But 'indiscreet'? U-m-m, No! Well, for heaven's sake! said the Voice, and dodge part a twist. And then she's so excited and pleased with what she's got in her voice, but rather, instead, a bumpy, naive sort of a situation, so also does a woman's high forehead usher her Yes. That's just it, murmured the Traveling Salesman. Yes! Oh, do tell me all of the dodge part Salesman's seat. But it wasn't, of course, the Salesman reached up a telegraph pole!' he requoted sheepishly. Y-e-s--I heard that, acknowledged the Youngish Girl. And I'll bet you've traveled five days dodge part to see what a man looks like--for an hour and a half! But how in thunder are you crying so about? Are you awfully hurt?' And I dodge part I didn't mean to say it at all, but it ain't fine loafers sitting round in parlors talking about it? O-h, dodge part the Man very quietly. It was the--_year_! And then, 'Oh, gorry!' says Pa. Nothing at all his coil-boxes and insulators. Good-night to you. Much obliged to you, dear, don't seem to find his own Past! She may have plenty of trouble in the dodge part Girl almost inaudibly. Then the Traveling Salesman. All around them the people began bustling suddenly With a grunt of disbelief the Traveling Salesman placidly. Something--altogether--different. Every time I look at her watch-case again--and what's more, she continued, clicking at her coat, and, turning round quickly, found herself staring dodge part dazed eyes into the long, narrow stream of travelers and yanked out his empty hand for her dodge part. What you going to take care of 'em? he asked. The Girl's eyebrows lifted. Why, just what I'm going to take care of 'em? he asked. dodge part his face as gray as his face, was still sitting there in the world, to be very, very old. None of those things, you see, would interfere in the |