The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-11-16

They went out of the parlor, leaving
Kate writing an absurd note to Kasson.
She had hardly finished it, when her
mother called her.
Come here just minute. Kate"
Like flash there entered a thought
into Hates BRAIN. On the table lay two
notes, one to Millicent Sheppard, one to
MIR. kasson. 1t took but a second to
thrust the letter to Millicent into the
envelope directed to Kasson. Then she
handed it to him with a smile, saving as
she did 50:
Here are your commands"
As she went out of the room, Kasson
opened his note and read thus:
have time but for a few lines. but
they are enough to tell you secret: a
secret which | have Just discovered my
self, and which is making me very un-
happy.
Kasson read this in amazement; then
brushed lock of hair off his forehead,
and continued:
You know very well that didn't
love Howard Winslow when | engaged
myself to him, and l told him that
| frankly. We were simply excellent
friends. But now l love somebody else,
and l wrote a letter to Howard to-day,
breaking off my engagement. l could
not marry him while | loved Edward
! Kasson, the gentleman of whom / have
written you before.
Kasson read no more He understood
now that Kato had handed him the
wrong note. He glanced on the table
and saw the other note. In a second he
| had put the letter to Millicent in the
right envelope, and was reading his alb
surd commands" when the ladies re-
entered.
1t was a hard minute for Kate, but
she was good actress Not a dash of
color Redeemed her cheek as she turned
to Kasson and said:
Can you perform your multifarious
| duties?"
She saw that he had his own note in
his hands, and she understood and loved
linn for what he had done. This square
faced, clumsy man had something of a
woman's delicacy and quickwitted tact
| 81 rarely have received orders so
| pleasant to perform" he said, with a
double meaning to his words-a double
meaning which he had no idea Miss Reid
understood.
! The rest of the evening passed quietly.
and not until two days later did Kasson
perform his pleasant duty" In spite
of the knowledge he had that Kate Reid
loved him, he hardly knew how to ask
| her to be his wife. He was not going to
! tell her that she had handed him the
wrong note, and that he had thus dis
covered she loved him. No, indeed.
He would never lisp a syllable of her
fortunate mistake. These thoughts ran
through his brain as he sat near Kate,
and talked with her absently. The first
lull that came in the conversation he
took advantage of saying:
Miss Reid, is it rude to ask when
you last heard from WiDslow?"
Il have not heard from him for over
a week" she answered, the color coming
| into her cheeks now.
A short silence followed. Then Kas-
son said bravely:
"You are going to marry him next
spring, are you nOt?"
d" shall never marry him." answered
Kate.
They were not sentimental boy and
girl, but the rest of the tete-a-tete | do
not propose to chronicle, on account of
incoherency. However, it resulted in
satisfaction for them, and bewilderment
for Mrs. Reid, and subsequently, for
the gossip of Chatemuc City, As for
Winslow, he took it philosophically and
married another young lady last fall.
1t is something Of problem in my mind
whether or no Kate KassOn will ever
confess her stratagem to her husband, or
whether he will confess to her that by
mistakes(?) he saw the letter she wrote
to her friend, Miss Sheppard, SO far,
neither has limited word of their re-
spective secrets. 1t is my belief they
never will.-GOlden Ruye.