Show ONLY A HINT NEEDED Jim Was Nerved to Do What he Most Wanted to The bestlooking girl In the Pine Mountain country was Susan Natter and Susan was extremely not to say foolishly fond of Jim Davis a young man who was my chief timberman in the season and who owned and conducted con-ducted a good farm In the river bottom as a side Issue says the New York I Telegram Jim was tho catch of the mountains and like other men In lint I I happy class he was careless and Blood r a fair chanc of losing what ought to be his because he was too sure of lu I Susan was Just the girl for him but he had almost worn out her potlence by I his dillydallying policy and one day I thought the end had surely come and I It was all up with Jim who was a favorite fa-vorite of mine as tho Inner of the Susan stakes I want to sei the best dress pattern ole gOt In tho store Colonel she said lo me as 1 sat out In front of the commissary one day anti beln mighty perllckler I want you lo wait on me she added with a smirk not usual to I Susan i Oh Indeed 1 said chaffing going f around behind the counter something must be going to happen I I i reckon liar Is she admitted frankly Good for you I laughed and Im glad that Jim has got to his senses at last u 11I 1 hII Jim sue smiLCU uisuainiuuy Talnt Jim ez fer vs I know Not Jim t I almost shouted for Jim was my choice for her Not Jim Well who is it Oh thats for me to know and you to find out Colonel she laughed provokingly pro-vokingly and gave mc no further satisfaction sat-isfaction She bought the goods and went away and two hours later Jim come In from work and said he was going over the mountains that night I with one of the Martin girls to a dance I By the way Jim I dald did you know Susan Nutter was going to get married 7 Thundcration Coloncl no he blurted blurt-ed out Nor she aint Is she I guess she Is I I sold her a wedding dress thla afternoon and she told me she was Whos she gout tcr marry Colonel he asked anxiously I I dont know She wouldnt tell me Well shell tell me Colonel hcsald with the lines getting hard across his I face and little wrinkles of doubt ana an-a showing between Jim was facing a possibility that had never presented I itself to him In its full strength lie went out of the store and up the road I loading to old man Nutters place The noxt morning he stopped at the store on his way to work I Did you find out who It was I asked him at onco for 1 was interested more than he had been Course 1 did he answered with I confidence Who Is it Me and he laughed the short laugh of the man who had bcLn made to do what he knew he should have don and what he most wanted to do Oh I exclaimed is that It 11 And later 1 discovered that Susan had devised de-vised a preity little feminine scheme to bring TIm to the point and by my unwitting un-witting but by I no means unwilling assistance as-sistance she had succeeded fully |