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Show 1 I viiiiiiv iicaici (J Fiction LOVINGLY, TEMPLE Corner ic conditions which stirred to life the slumbering romance that lurks within the breast of every man, or it might have been the simple desire de-sire of a man for a mate. At any rate Aaron toctc Miss Daniels In his arms and kissed her and whispered nonsensical things that somehow seemed to fit the occasion. THE NEXT MORNING he found another letter from Temple Creighton on his desk. "Dear Guardian: I'm sorry, but commands com-mands and demands from folks like you don't mean a thing when a girl is in love. And your little Temple is certainly in love. I expect ex-pect she'll be proposed to in the very near future." Aaron buzzed for Miss Daniels. Dan-iels. "Dear Temple: This thing has gone far enough. It's a pity you couldn't have been en dowed with st least of your father's It Is my wish that t lately send me tot address of this bo I shall write to him Aaron had hoped th he would find himsel enough to offer a pre: riage to Miss Daniel again they were seatei watching the moon cc the ocean, his couracs Heavy-eyed he wee: next morning to find lng him from Tempi "Dear Guardian: Yo He isn't the man I the Apparently he hi Just ing himself, with no li me to marry him. Id talk to him. His nunil Lovingly, Temple." rEAR TEMPLE: I was indeed ''glad to learn that you had obtained ob-tained such a satisfactory position. I am sure that you will make a most efficient secretary. Frankly, I have been entertaining some misgivings mis-givings about your future. Serving in the capacity of guardian to modern mod-ern young ladies is, after all, hardly in my line, although I was only too glad to look I " I after the daugh- 3 Minute ter of my close Fiction ie"d- Tm Creighton, when he so unexpectedly unexpect-edly passed away. I imagine you are quite a grown up young lady now, though it is hard for me to visualize you in any other form than a girl in pigtails and short dresses" Aaron Bell, 34, looking 10 years younger, abruptly ceased dictating and stared hard at his stenographer. The stenographer. Miss Daniels by name, was small, dark, vivacious and exceedingly attractive. She had come to work in the law office of Attorney Aaron Bell two weeks previous. pre-vious. She was a capable girl, yet for some unexplainable reason Aaron hadn't been able to get used to her That is to say, he felt nervous whenever he was dictating letters. During the next fpw days Aaron began to Kot an Inkling of why it was that he felt un-easy un-easy when dictating letters to Miss Daniels. He began to wonder won-der If heretofore he hadn't been attempting to evade an Issue. He asked himself, secretly, if Miss Daniels was becoming to mean more to him than Just a secretary. -TWO DAYS LATER Aaron was rudely swept out of the rPam of ecstasy (a slate of mmd brought about by his dinner date with Mi-;s Darnels), by receiving another letter let-ter frorn his ward. "Dear Guardian: My boss is real-ly real-ly quite lovely, and has been dis-Playing dis-Playing an unusual amount of in-terest in-terest in me since my last letter I am not a little flattered bv his at' tendon and very much thrilled In fact. 1 bcheve I could fall in love with him very easily " Aaron rang for M,ss Daniels Dear Temple: 1 demand that you res.gn from your present poon at once. It's silly and absurd to hank of a girl your age MUng jn love especally with a man who make, ove to every stenographer he employs." ' That n,Kht Aaron sucked a drive ,hrou,h the country and was delated when M,ss Darnels c n-ng wh a full n,on an(J , r n breeze blow;, ofr the It miehi have t-, ,-. " n p ntn-ospher |
