Argosy All-Story Weekly, March 15, 1924 — page 70: what you’re looking at

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YOUNG ought to get them. He’s a_ heavenly dancer.” | I turned around to look through the win- dow, and Redhead comes and sits on, the arm of my chair so she can see better. Gol- ly, I blushed, but I forgot it in a. minute while I watched Sadie and Jimmie. Jim- mie could dance all right, and Sadie was like thistledown. Sadie kept looking up at. him with a smile on her lips, but he just looked over her head. When the music stopped he let go of her like he thought she might snap at him. As he drew back Sadie Jet her hand run down his arm and when their hands touched she give his hand a squeeze. I could see the blood sweep up into his face, and he fairly run to the front door. Redhead, on the arm of my chair, gig- gled. Jimmie come out on the porch and did his little bit in astronomy and then the lunch was served. Me and Redhead had a - table between us, but she wouldn’t take the seat opposite me; she just sat on the arm of the chair and nibbled and giggled. Every once in a while she would put her spoon to my mouth and make me take a - spoonful of her food. If I was of a bash- ful nature, she certainly would have got my goat.. Well, all parties ends in time, if time holds out, and so- did this. Jennie closed up the phonograph and kind of one-stepped to the kitchen, and Jimmie and Sadie stood on the top step, apart from each other, and. said good-by to everybody, and Redhead asked me to, take her down to the car, and I did and put her into it, and she leaned down and give me a kiss on the cheek and told me I was “ delicious,” and everybody hollered at me and yelled ‘‘ Good night, Mr. Tom Hill,” and I got away from there and was glad to get up in the cool and dark of my front porch. _ ‘One thing,” says I to myself: ‘“ Sadie and Jimmie are under their own roof tree together anyhow. They will either kiss and make. up or they will have .a knock down and drag out scrap that will be another wonder in the world. That redhead has started humpin’ things in one direction or another. I hope it is the right direction, “end of the porch and looked down REBELS, 699 for she is a nice, smart little girl. Well, I will sit here a while and see what turns up;” oe, ! CHAPTER - IX, ODDS AND ENDS. TS dog-gone funny but every time I get my shoes off and h’ist my sock feet - to the rail of my porch I begin to drowse. I done it this time, same as usual, and when I come to with a start I thought something had busted loose. My feet come down. so hard I hurt one of my corns and that brought me wide awake. For a minute there. was silence and then there was a blast from an auto horn. I went to the the road. ; I seen Jimmie’s auto leave the curb-and come out into the middle of the street. There it stopped for a. minute and then: it started toward my house. , “ Golly,” says I to myself, “ it’s all off. They have had their scrap, and Jimmie: is leaving. Mebbe he will come here. Well, it is too bad they couldn’t have made up. Here is Jimmie with a growing business on~his hands, and Sadie comes'home from her fly-away vacation, and everything, and now it is all off, definite and complete.” I slipped into my shoes and went down to the curb, so’s I could hail Jimmie if he didn’t stop. I looked up the road toward the auto, and then I give a gasp. That car was zigzaggin’ from ‘one side of the road to the other. The only reason it didn’t climb the curb was because it was moving so slow. | “ Golly!” says I. “Is it possible that _ Jimmie has been hitting a bottle on the sly and the licker is just mounting up on him? Or has he lost’ all sense of direction?” I stood there sort of spellbound. The car kept coming toward me after its own fashion, First it was on one side of the road, then on the other. When it come near me I jumped back. I wasn’t real sure but that it would decide to do its curb climbing right in front of my house, and I was for safety first. | The ‘car went clean across the street and then it swerved and dashed toward my DOO AMUC CO@ So CO@