The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-09-03

venge shall deprive you of your title,
and henceforth call You Minnie"
Minnie Redeemed slightly, and turned
round to look out of the window. But
directly afterwards she turned to face
Vincent again.
shall You he here again next term,
Mr.. Vincent?"
~ am very uncertain. 1t depends
greatly upon circumstances.
Minnie laughed merrily, and laid her
hand upon the door as il about to leave
the room.
"That il one of your provoking indie
finite phrases. l suppose time will show.
But, really, all the people have left. l
must he quick and get home. Good
by"
She opened the door and pretended
that she was off III great hurry. Leon
ard appeared for moment undecided;
then he took step towards her.
minnie !"
She stopped, and, turning around with
IN assumed mir of indifference, asked:
did You speak, sir?'
$50 you are going off without wishing
me happy vacation? / am surprised
III yOtt, MISS Wurren.
81 thought you were not going to call
me Miss any longer" she replied. with
II ntchdm air.
"Oh! l forgot. Have you nothing
| to say but cold 'good-by,' Minnie, now
that We are seeing each other for the last
time ?"
Minnie exhibited scarcely -percrptible
start ut this announcement.
"Oh, am not going away" she re-
piled, perhaps II trihe more earnestly
than the occasion seemed to warrant.
- shall he Mt home when school begins
again"
"But | think it very likely that shall
not. think shall 60 to England tor
good. / have been here long enough. "
$50 you are tired of us Americans III
ready? ALI, well, We are stupid people,
| suppose. Good-by, then"
She held out her delicate white hand,
and it trembled just little. Leonard
took it. raised it to his lips, and then
gently let it go. Minnie laughed her
ordinary gay laugh.
els that how Englishmen say good
by? What knightly lot of people you
must ber
"No." replied Leonard, earnestly,
drawing nearer to Minnie, "that is not
how We say good-by. We only do that
when We mean that We are never going
to say good-by."
sob, indeed Then l must leave
yon, | suppose, without exchanging the
usual civilities?"
She turned and moved very slowly to-
wards the door. Vincent reached her
side with single step, and took her hand
i'll his own. She turned around, and the
blossoms in her cheeks deepened in color
as she looked in his face. unable to say
anything. -
Minnie" said Leonard, in IL low,
earnest tone, lyon understand me,
though you pretend not to. May
always keep this hand?"
She looked down ut the ground, a
most unusual thing for her, and replied
somewhat indistinctly:
REALLY, that would be asking me to
stand here too long,"
at is n very pretty hand. May ] kiss
it again ?"
Minnie gave no reply. He took the
silence for consent
Ihose are very pretty lips, MINNIE.
May kiss them?"
! The question was asked in n tone lit
tie above whisper. The reply was not
in words, but the look that was i'll her
hazel eyes NJ she raised her face to his
told him that Minnie Warren, with all
her beauty and all her rougishness, was
his own.
And so he did not leave America. He
wrote to his father telling him that he
had won wife who belonged to family
that the old cotton-spinner had no reason
! to he ashamed Of rs his relations; in re-
ply, his father opened, ii not his heart,
ut all events his pocket-book, to his no
longer maynard sou. Mr.. Vincent, for
reasons of his own, had no particular
wish that Leonard should return to Eng
land, and experienced no great sorrow
when he was told that his son desired,
for some time Mt least to continue to re-
side in America.