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THE BOOK OF ANN
I Begin to Take “Mr. Jacob Smart”
in Hand Much to My Dismay.
My pet horse, Baintree, was at the
door, with Brooks in cheerful atten
dance.
“Lead the way!” I ordered. “Find
Mrs. Jim Lorimer —and set a fast
pace, please.”
Brooks likes a fast pace. He knows
that I ride well, although it has been
his painful duty to revise my western
system. I knew that Baintree would
follow Brooks’ horse without a signal
from me, and so I let my mind go
and it revolted futilely about the
problem of my bothersome little new
sister-in-law.
Not for a minute did I suspect that
Ann would step beyond the boundary
of ilirtation. nevertheless, she could
stay well inside and still give a watch
ful gossmin'r eommur.it" a grand
shock! Unless I interfered.
Brooks interrupted my meditation
by wheeling his horse suddenly and
riding back to me.
“Mrs. Lorimer, I see our horse,” he
said. “I think yjung Mrr. Lorimer has
dismounted—and the—the gentle-
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1 man, too. They must be just beyond
that turn!!’
“Thank you, Brooks! Wait here!’'
I rode forward slowly. I passed
two horses rubbing noses in the thin
shade of the spring foilage. 1 saw
Mr. Jacob Smart holding down the
branches of a wild crab-apple tree
and bending close to Mrs. Jim Lori
mer as she jointed out the special
clusters of pink buds she wished him
to cut. So Absorbed were they that
they did not notice me until Bain
tree’s nose almost touched their
shoulders.
I greeted them as if I had come on
an agreeable errand.
“Ann!” I exclaimed. “The mail
from Jim you have been waiting for
has come at last. There’s a pile of
letters for you. Hurry home. Brooks
will take you. You can ride fast! I’ll
ride with —with—” For the life of
me I couldn’t call the creator of back
grounds for beauty by either of his
names.
Ann was too astonished to object.
Off she rode with Brooks and I chat
tered as cheerfully as an idiot to Mr.
Jacob Smart.
That gentleman was no longer flus
' tered. He rose to th. ccasion and
! adapted himself to a difficult situa
' tion as if ne nad practiced tfte part.
In five minutes he was as ready to
1 flatter me as he had been to flatter
Ann.
I 1 reined Baintree to his slowest
step. I proposed to have just one good
‘ talK witn Mr. Jacob Smart, son of an
1 Arkansas sausage maker, and to hand
him a few truths, even if I couldn’t
have the satisfaction of addressing
him by his own name.
1 must take care not to frighten
him—daddy had requested that. So 1
smiled a silly, despicable, actress kind
of grimace. It pleased the man, never
theless. It pleased him also to ignore
the late unpleasantness in Ann’s
house.
Mr. Jacob Smart plunged at once
into his theory of “character and
color.” He knew exactly what shades
would harmonize with my “aura,” ;
what colors would lead me along paths'
of perpetual happiness and peace. '
Did I guess, he asked, of what spir
itual delicacy were the tints required'
to make the correct background for '
my soul?
For some time the bridle-path had
run parallel with the boulevard, a
! lovely secluded road, but hilly and
; not much used by autoists.
At one of the most secluded spots j
Jacob Smart asked: j
1 “What is the color of jZour eyes
' Mrs. Lorimer?”
| Seeking the reply to his question, |
he leaned toward me.
! Involuntarily, without thought,
• being rather startled at the man’s
| rudeness, but with my accustomed
I fearlessness and frankness I looked
i squarely, defiantly straight into his
face.
' Then the abrupt snort of an auto t
horn startled us. Our horses shied |
apart. Baintree wheeled and reared
but even as I brought him down I
caught a glimpse of my husband in
his new car, so close that I could have
touched him with my crop.
r Apparently he had been testing the
car on the l hills and seeing me, he
had come to a stop.
i I don’t know which of us was the
paler. Neither of us could speak. Fi
nally Bob raised his hat erravely and :
i then sent his car forward in a sudden
reckless leap.
j I choked hard as I watched Bob’s
; car flv along the narrow hill road at
a dangerous speed. Evidently mv hus
band had seen that offensive design
er of character color schemes making
a “close-up” study of my eyes! Evi
dently Bob had seen—without under
standing. Probably he had been glid
ing down the long hill behind us “on
giavity” and over the cliff he had a
g’and view of me and my companion
in the valley, had had plenty of time
,to behold us lingering in romantic
- movie fashion among the pink petals
and sweet odors of the wild crab
trees! Undoubtedly he had miscon
strued the situation!
i “Bob,” I cried impetuously, des
perately; then, as the roadster dis
appeared around the curve of the hill
I realized how futile my exclamation
was. I turned from Ives without a
word, without a sign, and headed
Baintree homeward.
For a few minutes I heard the
hoofs of the other horse pounding
; behind me, but I knew how Baintree
loves to travel when he feels that he
I has his rider’s permission. He pulled
’ away from my pursuer in his best
( racing style. Presently I turned into
the main-traveled boulevard where, in
the midst of the crowd 1 felt quite
alone—free from Ives—free to oc
cupy myself with a wretched unavoid
able review of the situation.
My husband had stopped his car
just in time to see Ives lean close to
j me, but Bob had been too far away to
! discern the fearlessness, the defiance
the harshness in my own eyes.
I My glance was a barrier set up be
fore the flattering intonations and
.the insinuating reflections, the con
densed sentiment of Mr. Jacob Smart.
; I had meant to reprove the man with
> my frankness, to humiliate him with ;
I my coldness, to teach him, without a
word, that one well-bred young wo
man considered him an insufferable i
cad.
Bob should have expected me to do i
ust that thing. My husband pretended '
to know me and to value me for the i
real woman in me, and therefore he I
i riyjuld have known that I was not <
! flirting. He should have realized that'
I was the unwilling victim of an im-'
pertinence.
Had he caught a highwayman steal
ing my purse he would have rushed
to my rescue, but when he caught a
cad stealing art intimate glance, my
legal protector had rushed away leav
ing me to my fate.
He was proceeding in accordance
with a certain new and popular cult,
railroad schedules
(Central Time)
Arrival and Departure cf Passenge
Trans, Americus, Ga.
The following schedule figures
published as information and not
guaranteed: I
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
Arrive Leaves'
1:59 pm Columbus-Chgo 3:40 am'
10:38pm Albany-Montgy s:lßam
7:35 pm Macon-Atlanta 6:37 am
*7:15 pm Columbus *7:10 am
2:07 pm Albany-Montgy 2:07 pm
2:07 pm Macon-Atlanta 2:07 pm
*11:45 am Columbus *2:30
10:00 am Columbus 13:00 pm
6:37 am Albany 7:35 pm
s:lßam Macon-Atlanta 10:38pm'
8:40 am Albany-Jaxville 11:50 pm
’Daily, except Sunday
ISunday only.
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SEABOARD AIR LINE
Arrives Leaves
10:59 pm Cordele-Savannah 1:20 am
5:15 pm Richland 10:00am
3:10 pm Cordele-Savannah 12:31 pm
12:31pm Richland-Montgy 3:lopm'
10:00 am Cordele-Helena 5:15 pm
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
perhaps, but that did not lessen
my indignation.
“A queer notion of chivalry the
modern man has,” said myself to my
self as I turned into Lorimer Park.
“A husband gives a wife too much
liberty. I think I like better the old
way of protecting a woman—even
against her will!” Then I laughed
a little for in my heart I expected
that Bob would be at home awaiting
my explanation.
He should have it in spite of my
promise to Chris to keep our men in
ignorance of Ann’s follies. We girls
had agreed to cure her imprudence
but as things stood, it was my duty to
tell my husband how I happened to
be with Claude Ives, why I was lin
gering in such a sentimental attitude
in the most secluded nook in the
whole boulevard system.
Passing the pergola covered with
huge clumps of wistaria I descried
Ann at a table with her pile of let
ters.
“Did you see Bob?” she asked
sweetly.
“Why—yes—l did!’ I stammered
great bewilderment.
Ann folded up a letter and re
placed it in its envelope. Then she
picked up another and opened it with
out looking at me.
“I met him,’ she said with her eyes
cn the page before her. “I told him
—where to find you!”
I threw the bridle to the gr-iom who
had come up and slid from my hrose
feeling terribly weak and tired.
“I guess Bob thought you were
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alone,’ Ann concluded in her purry
kittenish tone.
I brought my crop sharply against
my putts, turned abruptly and walked
home.
Ann had played that trick, I decid
ed to punish me for “playing police
. man!” Once more I asked myself if
f there lurked beneath Ann’s blond
' loveliness something of the subtle
wickedness of Lamia, the snake-wo-
I man.
(To be Continued)
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