St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-05-08
AN EFFECTIVE CURE.

| said | would 90. and he said Ishould
not. was proud and hot tempered
with a horror of being domineered over,
and | insisted that [ had some rights
which the man I was engaged to was
bound to respect, and, as | had prom
ised, | must 90. Therefore, when even
ing arrived and an old friend came to
escort me to the house of mutual ac-
stop to think whether I would have my
lover act as l was doing or not.
I was older by three years than my
equally hot tempered betrothed, and in
vexed questions invariably settled the
dispute in my own favor by waving the
flag of seniores loriores over his head, a
proceeding which silenced if it did not
convince him.
He loved me, I believe. Yes, he did,
with all the passion and fervor of jeal-
Gus boy in his first real love, and L
well, think was equally foolish; even
my three years of seniority did not save
me from pleading guilty to the soft i'm
parchment. We had been but an hour
at the house we were visiting when a
furious ring at the door-bell caused my
heart to quicken its pulsations. A serv-
ant appeared at the parlor door, saying
my little sister wished to speak to me.
! asked the hostess to excuse me, and
descended, wondering at this unusual
call.
"Inez," said my sister, breathlessly,
"Felix is here.''
"Where?" l interrupted, looking
around.
"Outside," she said. "He won't
come in, and he says you must come
home with him now, Immediately, or
else she stopped and smiled. Il
told him that you would not do it; that
the people in the house would make fun
of YOU both, but he insisted on my COM
ing and telling YOU Another pause to
take breath, after which she added, timid-
ly, eff you do not come home now, he
says you can consider all over between
your
Surprise and Indignation found vent
in one pithy sentence neither choice nor
elegant. 'He must be crazyr' I said.
"Does he show his affection in wanting
me to become the laughing stock of these
people? Go and tell him that shall see
him In the morning and to stay home
quietly this evening and support my alb
sence; came here because promised
to spend the evening, and he knows of
old that [ never break my word when I
give it,
turned and went up stairs again To
the inquiries of my hostess replied that
it was nothing at all; my sister forgot to
ask me something and wanted to know
it then-nothing more.
Clifford, my old friend and escort,
looked at my heightened color and nerv-
Gus manner, and intimated by look
that if that were all it was very little to
cause my ill-concealed perturbation.
My sister had retired when got home,
but after a shake or two managed to
make her comprehend my question.
"Well, what did Felix sayp''
CO., she answered, becoming wide
awake at once, her eyes distended to
twice their natural size, show angry he
was! Actually was afraid; he set his
teeth-you know how he does it-and his
eyes shone-ohr' (this last "oh'' long
drawn out, expressive of the forcible i'm
pressions his anger had made upon her.
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morrow
Indeed, he did not" was the reply,
in a positive tone, and then, sleepily,
/" wish you could have seen him. She
turned on her side and in minute her
regular quiet breathing gave note Of her
return to Morpheus arms.
believe I foolishly lay awake for an
hour Or so, but being Of a sanguine tenn
permanent and having much confidence
in my coaxing ways''-that is what
mother says-I finally fell into quiet
slumber.
| waited for Felix the next morning.
He did not come, however, and at about
noon put my pride in my pocket and
started to visit his sister, with whom he
lived This mother was dead). My anx-
iety was not allayed on hearing that he
had not been home all night, and l be
came seriously alarmed. He had never
stayed out before since he had known
me, and we did not know what to think.
Even while / was irving to compose my