Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-31
A REAL SWEET STORY.

"A hCAA OvV GCl O1Uh1s
It was by far the worst quarrel they
had ever had, and they had had many,
for she had temper and he had tenn
per, and they were both of them i'm
pulsive young people with very little
self-control.
"You are a false, selfish, untruthful,
man-like man, said she.
"And you suspicious, unreasonable,
unwomanly woman" said he.
"Take back your letters" she cried,
finging parcel tied with hyacinth- blue
ribbon on the floor at his feet.
81 will," he muttered between his
clenched teeth, picking up the parcel
and throwing it into the fire, where it
blazed brightly for a moment or two,
and then flew away IN thin uncanny
black fragments up the chimney. As
the last fragment disappeared, Rick
turned again to Lefty, with frowning
brow, and asked, as he had asked before,
'Do you still persist in accusing me Of
deceit and falsehood
81 do" she replied, ''unless you show
me the charm"
Il will not show it to you." he de-
clared, with violent emphasis. eff my
word be not sufficient, [ refuse to give
you further proof. I wonder that you
dare insult me by asking it. And 1 also
wonder how you, believing me to be
false and untruthful, can be willing to
trust your future to me. And, to speak
frankly, [ begin to think we have made
a great mistake i'll supposing that we
could spend that future happily togeth-
er, for L am fully convinced we are any
thing but
1.-Two souls with but single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one. -
(These lines were quoted with the most
sarcastic inhection.) ''And, further
more, I also begin to think that perhaps
it would have been better if we had
never made this mistake-if we had new
er met, in fact"
ooh, indeed, sirl'-with great as
sumption of dignity. "Have you Just
arrived at that conclusion? I have long
been sure of it. But there is nothing
easier than to part. Your letters are al
ready disposed of. Tomorrow I Will
send back your ring and picture. And
then, when 1 am free once more, can
try to please my mother (our acquaint-
ance, as you are well aware, has never
pleased herr, and in pleasing her may
find [ am doing pleasant as we'll as a
wise thing for myself"
care you referring to Brougham
Brown"
Il am referring to Brougham Brown. D
"By Heavens !" exclaimed Rick.
Selling his hat, "thisfs too much. Let.
ty, good-by forever"
ButLetty began humming an air from
Patience" drumming an accompani-
ment on the window-pan and vouchsafed
no answer. Rick rushed from the room.
The humming and drumming ceased in
stantly. and the whilom performer listened
intently. Five minutes passed, and
still the street door did not slam. "He
is waiting for me to come out into the
hall and beg his pardon, Isuppose, she
said, with defiant grimace, "but
won't" and she turned again to the
window as the door shut with bang.
And then flung herself on the lounge
kicked Off her slippers, and cried like {
summer shower. Rick gone, and gone
forever Rick, whom she had loved
so dearly, and who had loved her SC
dearly, for two long years. And WHY
Just because that silly, giggling Lens
Varian, with her pale blue ewes and
straw-colored hair, had chosen to tel
1ihs about him. And, shaking the tear.
from her lashes, she began scolling her
self as hard as she had scoIded poo
Rick. "The idea. Lefty Loursberry
OF your believing that girl before him
What possessed you? He did airt
little with her, that is true; but all mer
tlrt little with girls who persist in adj
nliring them and dattering them Blu
he never gave her the little gold pig
your Christmas gift to him-never
How she got it can't imagine, but ht
would have explained if you had give,
HIM chance" And then the absen
mother, gone to Aunt Emory's for a two
days visit, came in FOR share of reproach
elf she had only let our engagement
known, instead of insisting upon on,
ting until Rick was 81, and [ had no
en- obliged to carry my engagement
ing il my back hair, the only plac.
where it is safe from Baby's-Goodnes.
gracious Baby!' And Lefty suddenl,
remembered that ever since Rick cam,
III TO make morning call, knowing Mrs
Lounsberry was absent-poor fellow
he'd have staid away if he could hav,
foreseen his reception-Baby had beer
sitting alone, in the dining-room in tn
middle Of the big dining-table sur
rounded by all the pickle and marmalad
jars and fruit cans and catchup bottle
and jam pots out of the store-room
For it Was the monthly house-cleanin.
day, and the store-room fell to Lefty
share, the foreign help beng gifted wit
too great talent for smashing an
breaking, to say nothing Of an equally
great talent for abstracting and devour
ing both sweets and sours. Lett.
sprang from the lounge, thrust her fee
into her slippers. and hastened wher
duty had been calling her for some time
Baby sat, as good as gold, nursing
bottle of tomato sauce, snugly wrappe'
in a dish-towel, in the very spot wher
She had been when Kicks ring sum
moned her sister to the door. Only on
smal! flask lay broken on the floor fill
ing the air with the subtle fragrance O
garlic THAT won't be missed" sal
Lefty. I" Thank fortune. there is IL
worse mischief done" But the "thank
was scarcely uttered when her eyes fel
upon the last jar of the famous peacl
marmalade, the secret Of the maxim