Show Taming Tamin My y i Husband By Kathleen Fox Copyright 1919 by the McClure Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper News News- paper Syndicate CHAPTER 65 A Question of Horses When Daddy and end Mother Hayes left for tor Kentucky shortly after atter New Years Year's they took with them the promIse promise prom prom- promse ise se of ot all of us to make up a house party at their home the toll following owing summer sum sum- mer ner It was arranged the night we had met at the Boyds And the next gay flay they left taking ou out t of ot my life and Crittenden's for the time a fullness fullness fullness full full- ness of ot enjoyment their coming had brought but leaving us their paternal good rood wishes for a happy and Joyous new sew year And of ot course 1 t was ready and willing to hope for all the good things they wished us Uneventful days followed though I Crittenden and I 1 got on together better better better bet bet- ter than for tor some time Then at last wint winter r softening under the steadier I rays of ot the returning sun and the soft sott Southern winds melted away and the bridle paths invited my Pegasus and me We accepted the invitation and dally sally I rode forth happily proud of ot my sorrel coated ste steed d that John had kept in such wonderful condition Marjorie Marjone Boyd rode with me frequently frequently frequently fre fre- freI I complaining good the while about the nondescript horses she got from the riding academy but nondescript only when compared with Pegasus as I tried to persuade her Oh but they dont don't look as good as Pegasus they dont don't go like Pegasus they dont don't win your affection like Pegasus does she declared I feel as though I was in a one-cylinder one 1900 model car trying to keep up with you in the newest thing on wheels But Marjorie dear theres there's no use railing at fate There arent aren't anymore any more like Pegasus Pegas s. s Why want the Impossible impossible impossible sible I teased I was very proud of him Maybe there arent arent aren't said Marjorie pouting prettily though affectedly but I can and will be unhappy be because because be- be cause ause I haven't got one just like him The next day I rode alone Marjorie had a luncheon engagement In the park where the bridle path runs close to the drive I met Chester Boyd He j j Stopped topped his car and I halted Pegasus when I saw he wanted to speak to tome me me I You can be depended upon to keep keeps a s secret cant can't you you he asked Maybe l and again maybe not not I i smiled Remember I am a woman I think it will be safe with you he went on I wanted to ask you just how one gets to Colonel Hayes' Hayes farm I gasped with surprise I am going East next week alone he told me and I want to do something something some some- thing for Marjorie She's wild for a horse like yours and I dont don't some some-I blame her so I am going to see if Colonel Hayes has the mate to Pegasus and buy him for her I Chester Boyd I exclaimed the nicest thing you ever thought of I doing in all your life Ufe I told him what train to take the time ime of its arrival how to reach Daddy Hayes Hayes' farm and all aU about It Now remember he cautioned not a word I want to surprise her Dont Don't ei even en tell Crittenden I promised and he motored off with witha a t friendly wave of his hand as I turned again into the bridle path The next day when Marjorie Marjone and I Iode rode ode together and she bewailed her fate ate again I was possessed of ot a mad desire lesire to tell her what Chester was I going to do I knew it would make makei i her ter deliriously happy that she would have lave a fit over it But keeping my promise romise to Chester I said nothing though hough I did enjoy making subtle re relies replies re- re plies lies to her complaints Cheer up Marjorie I said as com com- Iy as I could The worst has not come yet Think what it would mean if you had to ride a draught fraught horse mean of you Bess Hayes she he flashed Or a mule I teased She stopped her mount and glared at it me But I was impervious because I knew she did not mean itI itI itI it I shall not ride with you if you dont don't hush she threatened Wont your old bag o 0 bones go I asked pityingly Marjorie used her crop and the horse she rode by no means the sorry one no she made out leaped ahead of Pegasus She shot a challenge at me meas meas mes as s gravel from the bridle path flung by y her horses horse's hoofs rattled merrily against my stirrups s and puttees But Pegasus given his head struck his us stride and was alongside within a afew afew few ew minutes Marjorie pulled upI up I bent toward her and dared to say this his much Marjorie Marjone who knows but that you may nay one day have a horse almost as nice lice as dear old Pegasus Pegasus' You Tou might you rou know They say there really reany are I fairies Just think what a wand could do Io to that very one you are on this minute CHAPTER 66 Marjorie Gains in Popularity No Bess said Marjorie entirely unsuspecting no dear fairy is going to toive give ive me a horse like Pegasus And Chester hester Boyd Bord simply wont He lIe just laughs at me every time I say anything anything any any- thing hing abo about t it lIe He l Keeps eps on saying Riders mounted too well may ride too far ar Oh I see I said hes afraid you'd ne never lever er come back Bess you ou dont don't sympathize with me meLt meat meat at Lt all all an allBut But I do Marjorie I 1 declared Some Som day you'll know It And I wish vish you would take heart t Marjorie You never can tell ten what Chester will do io I 1 thi think k hes he's the the ther r most 1 St indulgent husband I 1 ever saw He might be se selecting selecting se- se a Wand right now to play the theart part art of that good fair fairy She looked at me roe so 50 sharply that Iid I IdId Idid did id not dare to say anything more We turned about bout and rode back home That night I told Crittenden that Chester hester was going east for tor a fortnight Marjorie also he asked No Chester told me today he he- was going alone And then remembering what Critenden Crittenden Crit Crit- tend enden n had once said about Marjorie 1 that hat he like her anyway I Iwa Iwas Iwas wa was astonished at what he suggested Lets invite her to spend the two weeks Meeks with us us Splendid I cried It was hard to believe he meant It Why dont don't you call caU her up and ask her ter he inquired I can see her tomorrow I 1 returned We are going to ride to-ride ride together in the afternoon he Insisted and No call caU her now Crittenden a always ways is it settled get settled He things great on getting the moment the he wants to do things Idea is conceived I was blessed with a happy thought had been more or 01 orless orless I knew Crittenden less Indifferent to Marjorie in the past alluded to It It I and while she never far too smart not t tsee to suspected she was that she impression it lt I had the see like Uke her ere wasa was wasa thought he did not to remove the possIble possible possible pos pos- a fine opportunity sible suspicion from her mindI mInd mma I said I tell teU you what Crittenden enthusiastically You call caU- Marjorie and invite imite her liar Shed She'd appreciate aPP it s so considered her much j if she knew you Wont Won't you Crittenden opposed to the suggestion suggestion sug sug- At first he was He shook his head Oh no you do it it he said But dear Crittenden I argued I has an idea that j you ou believe Marjorie dont don't like Uke her much If Jf Y Yand you called failed her herand herand and Invited her here she couldn't couldn t possibly possibly pos pos- sibly think so he insisted Oh but I do like her She U Is one of the the finest finest girls girls' I ever ever- saw She is thorough and wholesome and character got a lot of sense all right Theres There's a real girl for you not like excel exception t l Marjorie Boyd is an the average run Like for Instance that girl Jack Langley's got his e eye eje e I on My Such an avalanche of praise for Marjorie Boyd Bod was too much Just Justa a few months before he threatened to forbid me seeing her had told me he ho like her anyway And I had predicted then that the time would come when he ho would see Marjories Marjorie's good points and appreciate her I had told him too that no doubt I would yet become jealous of Marjorie and had narrowly escaped a serious quarrel for formy formy formy my pains I However I thought it much the wiser r plan not to remind him of his former attitude toward her He would be certain certain tain to resent it and as we had been living Jiving harmoniously for some time with only an occasional rift rUt In our I matrimonial lute I wanted our happiness happi appl- i ness to continue I He called Marjorie explained tha we thought It a good idea to have her stay I with us while Chester was was away and she accepted at once I never was so astonished in my life lIte Bess she confided to me the next d day dayas dayas y as we rode In the park You know I had had the the- uncomfortable Impression I that Crittenden didn't like me ver very I much I laughed heartily Whew I 1 whistled Jf It you had I heard what he said about you last night Marjorie you would value alue my friendship a great deal more than you do For was was so extravagant extravagant extravagant I gant in his praise of you that I re ly bad every ever right to oIl jealous j I And thus was laid the foundation of ofa ofa ofa a strong and lasting friendship between between be between be- be tween my husband and my best friend It made me very happy happ Continued tomorrow |