Show l yea bed hook book fv as a's i J sf I JI tACK OXE I THERn I I dont don't feel much more I spent a month or tW two every year ear in these woods woods let let us play a game Make believe that I am sin M UHry ry Ogden and ou have e met me h here re for tor the first time and an anare are deliberately setting out to o ou me Inc B Begin gln all over again It It you you was perhaps was what I 1 always Ys dreamed of up here hert I used to row on the lake for tor hours b by myself or sit alone in the very of ot the woods Do you ou think that famous imagination of yours ours could accomplish a a. pure purely ly personal feat eat I 1 haven't nearly as much but Im quite sure I 1 could And then then we after wo could Just go on from from here Ho Be looked at her hor in smIlIng sym smiling sym sym- path pathy Done We Ve met last night Miss Ogden and I went down at atthe atthe atthe the first shot Im I'm now out to win you Jou or perish in tho the attempt But before we-get we down to business Ill I'll Just inform you of a resolution I took a da day or two ago I shall get geta a license tho the day we wo return and marr marry you the morning you ou sail sall Oh And th n n sho realized Ina in ina a blinding flash what she sho had fought out of her consciousness th that t sho she had shrunk from the tho consummation consummation consummation con con- summation of marriage visualized a it Jon long period of Intermittent but superficial lovemaking and delight delightS fiU companionship an exciting but incomplete idyl of or mind and anil soul and senses Underneath always an undertone of repulsion and nd Incurable ennuI the dark residuum of immedicable disIllusion disillusion disillusion dis dis- dis- dis illusion 0 v that flat she had really wanted was love o with Its final expression eliminated But It only as a fact C C C a psychological study of another another an an- other burled down there Jn fn an artificial civilization cf she had forgotten a j in that p pst past st that belonged to Marie 1 with which Mary Iary Ogden had nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing to do do a a a her mind at ast last was as young youn as al her body and this man had accomplished the miracle The Tho present and the future ut re were his Continued I Continued She Sho looked up Into his eyes anxious but Imperious and answered answered answered an an- softly Why not Exactly Ive I've no desire to take that long journey with you but Im I'm not going to take tako any chances either elther a a a Ah Heres Here's an idea ideath th that t beats the other hollow When the party breaks up well we'll go to down to Huntersville with them marry there and return to camp I dont don't see how your Dolomites could beat for a honeymoon Why In hi thunder should wo trail trall all the tho way over to Europe to find se seclusion seclusion se- se elusion when we must return in I two or three months anyhow Its It's I a scandalous waste We can go hO to the Dolomites for our second honeymoon lion hon I e moon well we'll have one every year I And this is much more In the picture picture pic pie ture 1 If you want to bo be Mary Ogden Ogden Og Og- Og- Og den again She never would have proposed anything so elaborate and unnecessary Say yes and dont don't be bemore more than a minute about it Mary Iary drew dreY in her breath sharply The he plan made a violent and irre irre- appeal There would be no long Jong interval for possible reversal I for contacts in it might be difficult to hold fast to her new faith But what excuse could she make mako to leave him later II II a Later Did Austria really exist Did she care Let the fut future re take care of itself Her horizon Her horizon a luminous luminous lumi lumi- flous band encircled these mountains moun moun- a a II She Sho smiled into his ardent eyes Very well Ill I'll write to Hortense today and tell teU her to send m me up a trousseau of sorts And now yoU now you are to understand that you have not dared to propose to me yet and are suffering all the qualms of uncertainty for I am a desperate flirt and took a long tong walk c In the woods this morning with Mr Ir Scores Vcr Very well vell Miss l Ogden den I will now do my best to make mako a fool of myself and as oon R as W we e return to camp will telegraph to Now New York for tor a pound five box of ot chocola chocolate choco choco- la late lates lIa Hark k Hark lie Tho Lark shouted Todd as he rowed past with Gold Only thero there Isn't a I lark or any other bird in these that Ivo Ive been able to disCover dis dis- dis- dis cover Birds sing one at a time shouted shout ed back Clavering Choir of Jealous jealOus Jeal jeal- ous soloists He lie row rowed d Into cove e andI and and- I they gazed Into tho the dim dim green greenI greenWoods greenwoods woods but the maple loaves leaves grew grev I almost to tho ground and it was sas like peering through thc tiny changing chang han I in ing spaces of a n. moving mo curtain through which one ono glimpsed green I columns with gold I He beached the boat and they thY walked single file tile up a narrow runway made mado by the th deer Every Every- was that J aly whispering curtain Between tho rigid rigid- rigid spruce and soft sott maples were er fragrant balsams balsams balsams bal bal- bal bal- sams and ferns and an occasional pIne Pino with its pale green green spikes splices They passed enormous boulders de detached detached detached de- de from tho the glaciers that had ground mountains in their embrace embrace embrace em em- brace but today things of mere beauty In their coats ot pink and green and olden golden moss Their footsteps mado made no sound on tho the mossy path and the they came suddenly upon a deer leer and his doe drinking at a pool But the tho antlered antlered ant- ant head was vas flung lung back Instantly the magnificent buck wheeled on his hind legs gave ga a a. leap and went crashing through the tho forest snorting his protesting fury The doe scampered scampered scam scam- pored after her white lined tail tall standing up perfectly straight They sat down on a a. Jo log dried and anti warmed by the tho sun in this open space and talked for two hours Thero There was no need for careful careful careful care care- ful avoidance of ot dangerous subjects Clavering Cla hat had come como to these woods nearly ev eVe year every y year Year ear since he ho had mado tho North his home and she had forgotten nothing of her woodland lore When one is in the tho woods as the great Adirondacks are aro familIarly familiarly familiarly famil famil- called one ono rarely talks of anything but their manifold offer offer- ings It is easy enough to forg forget t the w world wand They both had their long tramps their rough out more or less exciting tures When a loud bell hung in a af f rame a outside t e the camp summoned I them to dinner the they walked out briskly Once as the tho trail widened he lie touched her fingers tentatively She let Jet her own curl for or a 11 moment then gave him a provocative glance over her shoulder and hurried on |