Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1914-Jan 1915)

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THE SIGNING OF THE PEACE PACT of bruised and sappy weeds was strong and pungent all around. "Betty, Betty," cried the lover, "dont y'u go for to tease me now, gal! Whar y'u hidin', honey?" The blue speck that he had watched from the hillside rose suddenly from a clump of sycamores. A bright face, framed in tangled curls, dimpled at him from the depths of a sunbonnet, but she eluded his outstretched arms. ' ' Pore Tyler trash ! ' ' she mocked. "Go 'long of y'u. 'Pears like yu're mighty sprightly, all on a sudden ! ' ' "Betty! They've done signed!" he cried eagerly. "We-uns haint enemies no longer. We're friends!" The girl's mockery vanished. The color drained from her round, warm cheeks as her eyes probed his for the truth. "Bob! Air that true?" They stared at one another solemnly ; then, with feminine unreason, she burst into tears and buried her face on his homespun shoulder. "Thar! thar! Honey gal " A harsh laugh drove the two apart. Old Jim Tyler stood, a sneer on his evil old face, staring at his son thru half-shut, peering eyes. "I didn't Tow t' interrup'," he said. Then his loose mouth grew 36 ugly. "Bob Tyler, y'u pore fool, come home 'long o' me," he snarled. "Pact or no pact, I dont aim t' have blood o' mine co'tin' a Hurf." He spat out the word venomously. The girl's bright face darkened; the round young body grew tense ; the hard, little, brown fist doubled. A torrent of mountain abuse sprang from her lips in a muddied stream of words. Laughing loudly, the older man passed on down the mountain, clumping clumsily in the unfamiliar "comp'ny shoes" donned for the occasion. Bob met her anger with cajolery. "Pretty li'l Betty — don' y'u cayr, honey — dad don' mean no harm—" But she was gone, in a flash of blue, among the sycamores on the hill. A peaceful week passed over B'ar Mountain. The neighborhood ceased to run, with horrified anticipation, in the direction of every chance gunshot. Tylers and Hurfs passed one another on the road with rough greetings, and their women folks began to breathe more freely.