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ADDIE GIVES IN
But Love Has To Go To Ex-
treme To Find a Waj'.
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"Oh, Joe, boy, don't keep ask
ing me that question. Can't 'ou
wait awhile? You're- so head
strong. There's no hurrv, as I
(F can see. Aren't we happy enough
as we are?' Ajid Addie Tuller
gave her head a pretty little toss,
and let Joe Silvey catch the cor
ner of a smile and a bewitching
light in her dark brown eyes that
drove him hajf frantic. Some
girls are made sd.
"So you keep saying and say
ing. For God's sake, do you ex
pect me to always be content to
wait in silence? Can't you give
me an answer one way or-the oth
er?" protested Joe, as they stroll
ed on, along the woods path that
led along the top of the hill, above
the little creek.
"You don't need to swear about
it, Joe. And you're crushing my
arm," she said with tantalizing
calmness.
Joe relaxed the- grip, into
which he was unconsciously put
ting all the strength of his pent
emotions. Then he released her
arm altogether, stopped, and
struck a determined attitude.
"Why do you take such delight
in torturing me? Tell me 'no',
and let me go, if you don't want
me bothering you."
"Would- you really go, Jee?"
she asked .in a tone or unconcern,
smiling, at the same; time, in an
amused incredulous way, that
exasperated him.
Hetook" a step forward, as if
about to turn to leave her, and
unintentionally trod in a clump
of tall woods flowers. t Instantly
there arose at his; feet the unmis
takable .br-r-r of a rattler's warn
ing. Before he could leap back, the
reptile struck) aiming high above
the flowers; but he instinctively
threw his coat out so that
its fangs caught harmlessly in the
cloth, and kept its great, repul
sive body hanging there for an in
stant. With a scream of horror Ad
dje was at his side and, catching
the snake just back of the head,
tore it from him, before he had
time to act for himself.- But, ere
she could fling it from her, it
wrapped its writhing body
around her arm, and with a
dreadful, sickening sound began
beating about her face and neck
with its tall.
Deathly white, she held the
thing from her and gazed at it in
fascinated terror. Joe, quite as
pale as she, stared in stupefied
horror for a moment, before he
realized that action, quick and de
cisive, was demanded of him, lest
the girl he loved should faint
away.
"Hold him, Addie. Clinch him
tight for a minute'he cried, look
ing eagerly about for a weapon.
Not a club nor a stone was in
sight. Addie's face was growing
ominously dark, a horrible, ashen
hue, and the pitiful terror, with
which she strove to dodge the in
cessant beating of the tail, tore
his heart. In desperation, he leapt
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