Show THE ANNUAL PIC NC 11 I 1 I 1 P H Y zw U uns lifts by 1 leboa le boa N newspaper I 1 p a at the time of the annual lull picnic P sen con by lerett neville nellie to their employees employee it was expected that a any incipient romances commerce that the year me had bad developed would be listed forth let into th tha gay light ot it publicity not taftt ill ahe number her was waa so very cry great but it on amit t be admitted that evers even the floorwalker loses a certo lain charm fievre the a charm of the proud and unapproachable when a ou mv be have ve token take mite on an lit him for far a twelvemonth ac across aca a the counter was algava to be hoped tor for at the annual mad plen c A year ago go it we was confidently peed predict lt ed that kenneth moore of the hook bank de apartment part ment and gray cray of the rib boo bon count counter were to afford the notes dece sary barry love leave luder interests ts there abt must h hava been an understanding between them certainly lie be hardly so a men as aa sold bald good morning now to other girls they had bad been seen men together at theater a ter and lunch oh there were a plenty of f signs ahe seal ot of frostily finality was ell all that n was a in lacking klog the long expected day cay brought only Z con ho on t to the these e cherl therl sheil ded hopes hope cynthia who was looked upon as one of the most at refi refined ried girls I 1 in the whole what store appeared unusually gay and reckless first ehe ana devoted to one I 1 man then to adoth another r with on imprudence that set friendly a eves wide n with ith cicur horror r finally when the picnic dinner or r was over the party broke a up P tor games game S swan even b boating find ad strolls troll I 1 in the woodi ciotti flung h herself helf elf at I a ce tain into mr me orem green newly of the shoe bous department barim part ment e t and before the mas eyes of if all 11 they h had ad gone goes together toward the like lake well that fro frost t trier you ape gained florence small ebs Is the girl crazy the way ashes treating kenwin kenneth and he the most meet refined fellow in th the store too I 1 they saw kenneth alone and sent one of the new men over to him with an dinv inv invitation tation to come to the skating rink 1111 but he only 11 shook 11 his held head with a wan van smile and replied 1 I have got so sort of a headache guess gerls ill just sit elt round around a while perhaps I 1 it mine come down later II 11 he d did i d not have a headache but h be v wanted nt e d tar aff be tone alone for hla his heart me was sore he had not expected cynthia to treat him like lik ethis this during the whole trip she ebe had ara scarcely tenly spoken spoke a word to him no one would mould over ever have thought they knew each that other and it didat seem ilk like he her either he understand amza it will why only the last time ha allea ilea on no her they had sat together in her little eden den and had bad talked on quite a number of subjects subject 4 there wag waa nothing sentimental about claw thia 1 I they had bad been just good pals together that was what he liked best beat 1 in R girl she sang well wall bud and loved poetry both a of f which he also aaa in fond ad of what ht he had first attracted it him to miss I 1 gray vay was the eight bight of tier her buried 1 in a volume 1 I of poems he bad asked her to what but she be we waa read reading n g she had he it glanced up at bl him with a e smile ile he coal could cl never ever forget luclle she he sol eadd it now new X kenneth eth had bad never read lu die go flo he pr purchased hl i copy which lal at this very a cy moment t we was 1 jn his pocket packet he I 1 had bad brought it thinking lit king of how ho be and ad cynthia but w what in was mon tile the coll ot of thinking that was all it 11 had lome a to and he be mused and I 1 as other mused oil before him in the distance he be heard the guy gay strains of the band at the skating rink and the sound dismut disturbed the him so out of harmony was it falth ith his mood blood ha thought of mr green perhaps even now paddling p chilling down do the like lake with the faithless cynthia B but t C thin had bad mthr ruthlessly deserted mr G green ree in when he went want in quest of a boat and ad strolled ed off by herself kenneth arose amse from the berch bench on w which aich im he had been sitting and wandered up the path sitting dw down under abree a tree he be opened his volume luelle luclle he was glad even now that cynthia nna me not net bacsid him Af afternoon termon go sunlight light began to in P peep P through the trees treas lie he got up and leaped to the summit of if a tern growns grown boulder bowlder nud and looking down tile the path a thill hill of terror run ran over him cynthia was walling walking toward limi him alvith downcast doo eyes digging the toe of aher her little boot lot into the moss a every au now low and the then all at owe once she stopped and with a cry snatched tc had something it was luclle lucile she pressed the volume to her b er lips it 8 his ITS fie heard her all murmur kenneth s there were tears lu in her eyes mi kenneth renneth 1 he be heard her bar murmur again he be took a step forward cynthia he cried cathl Cy cynthia derl denef he forgot the odesa steepness 8 and height of the boulder bowlder bow lder he be slipped lost last his ind bal once and in a minute nas us lang lag below cynthia ran to him fell on her knees with a cryor cry of ciatress dl ciN itress tress ohl oh kenneth I 1 are you hurt id he sat bet up and ad shook hank himself like SO aa english sparrow after I a both bath 1 7 I sapp suppose they or are all 11 at me ie but I 1 don dont t care 1 I mean not if red call we me kenneth like that S springing to his feet he be flung his feet arms acres about CIL cynthia toli and ad hissed her bar m ardently antly several times cynthia r I 1 he gasped 1 I lova you yen you me cant get away ays 1 I 1 dont know as I 1 want to she re reburied buried shily 1 I think ab e been hollih ch enough for one day she added and after hissing her bar orcia once more goor they walked don dona toward ui the sk eting rick |