JUST SWEETHEARTS JUST SWEETHEARTS JUST SWEETHEARTS A Christmas Love Story A Christmas Love Story By HARRY STILLWELL EDWARDS AUTHOR OF “TWO RUNAWAYS,” “HIS DEFENSE,” “ENEAS AFRICANUS,” ETC. HARRY STILLWELL EDWARDS PUBLISHED BY THE J. W. BURKE COMPANY MACON, GEORGIA Copyright, 1920 The J. W. Burke Company Copyright, 1920 The J. W. Burke Company Just Sweethearts Just Sweethearts Chapter I Chapter I BATHED in the sunshine of one of those perfect days which so often come with Christmas in the South, he stood at the street corner, a light cane across his shoulders supporting his gloved hands, his eyes shifting with ever-changing interest, and a half smile on his swarthy face. It was written all over him that he had no appointments to meet, no duties to discharge; that he was by chance, only, in the moving picture and not of the cast, and that the whole thing, so far as he was concerned, was but a transient show to be enjoyed for its brilliancy of colors and its endless succession of fine Southern faces. But here was idleness without inertia.
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