Show FICTION BY HER CORNER By Richard H. Wilkinson MAN who had rented Freda THE the outboard motor told her that any fool could run one of the right drifting in the wrong direction in the middle of Mirror r I with the sun beating down she J would have given a good deal to have the man's neck between her two Just for luck she gave the crank one more The motor went and exclaimed She was so furious she could have Instead she stood up and began to wave wildly at a boat that had suddenly appeared around an island The boat kept serenely on its course and Freda was about to give up yelling and abandon herself to fate when the other craft swerved and headed in her Two minutes later a youth was grinning up at her he not a thing wrong with this said that it won't The young man He had a wrench in his fix he Freda thought he was pretty but a moment later she changed her got he an expert on My business is Plenty of motors lost In this lake every I Invented a special magnet to find then I grapple for haul repair Freda told Len Curtain her name without even stopping to and sell My name's Len What's said without even stopping to You're the girl who's going to marry Ray they say money will do but deliver so Freda didn't catch her breath until she got back to Her mother had Ray wired he's coming He's arriving Freda's spirits she said Freda set off in the outboard the next morning 10 minutes before Ray was due to Thirty minutes later she saw a familiar looking boat anchored in a cove and camp up grinned Len Curtain what do you do in the this and Len hauled In his grappling Nothing How about anchoring that scow and taking a ride around with Ray Hubbard was waiting on the dock when she got He didn't like the idea of her not being at camp to greet but she didn't DAY after Ray departed Len Curtain came into the dock and Freda went down to see what he a funny but I'm in Will you marry Freda almost fell into the I'm going to marry You don't love Marry me and we'll have Freda caught herself wondering if that wouldn't be a good She sounding like a frog with a sor you and fish for outboards all summer and do what in the Ray no fishing in the We'd get I've just sold my grappling magnet Invention to the Sea Demon outboard That's only the beginning of the things I can Freda Good was he going to be as startling js that all his have to think it you five Hop In and we'll ride around in the Freda heard of people being and she guessed was what was wrong with She hopped in and they rode When five minutes was up Len kissed her and she kissed him back and that settled the whole |