Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1882-08-09
A Real Sweet Story.

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You arc a false, selfish, untruIhlul
maulike man. said she.
And you are a suspicious, unreason-
able, unwomanly woman said he.
Take back your letters she crled'
Giuging a parcel tied with hyaclnlh-
blue ribbon, on the floor at his feet.
Iwill.' be muttered between his
clinched teeth, picking up the parcel
and throwing it into the fire, where 1t
blazed brightly for moment or two
and then flew in thin, uncanny irag-
ments up the chimney. AS the last
fragment disappeared. Rick turned
again to Lefty with frowning brow and
asked as he he'd asked before. DO you
still persist in accusing me Of deceit and
falsehood?'
4 do she replied, unless you show
me the charm
L will not show it 10 You,' he de-
clared, with violent emphasis. III my
word be not sufficient. l refuse to give
YOU further proof. And 1 also wonder
how you, believing me false and un'
truthful, can be willing to trust your
future TO me. And to speak frankly, l
think We have made 4 great mistake IN
sutposiug that we could spend the
future happily together, for l am iuily
convinced that we are anything but
''Two souls with but single thought.
Two hearts that beat as one.
(These lines were quoted with the most
sarcastic infection.) And, further
more, I also begin to think that per-
haps it would have been better ii we
had never made this mistake ii we
had never met 10 fact.'
oh, indeed, sirn with great assump-
tion of dignity. Have YOU just arrived
at that conclusion? 1 have long been
sure oft. But there is nothing easier
than TO part. Your letters are already
DISPOSED Of. Tomorrow l will send
back your ring and picture. And then
when l am free once more, l can try to
please my mother (our acquaintance,
az YOU are well aware, has never pleased
herr, and III pleasing her 1 may hnd
that am doing a pleasant as we'll as
wise thing for myself.
Are you referring to Brougham
Brown?
Il am referring 10 Brougham Brown
BY heavens y exclaimed Rick. seiz'
ing bis hat, this is too much, Lefty
goodbye forever"
But Lefty began humming an air
from Patience drumming an accom-
paniment on the window pane, aud
vouchsafed no answer, Rick rushed
from the room. The hummlng aud
drumming ceased instantly, and the
whilom performer listened iutently.-
Five minutes passed, and still the great
door did not slam. He is waiting Tor
me to come out into the hall aud beg
bis pardon, suppose she said, with
defiant grimace, but 1 won't, and she
turned again to the window as the door
shut with bang.
And she flung herself on the lounge,
kicked off her slippers, and cried like a
SIMMER shower. Rick gone, and gone
breyer?-Rick, whom she had loved so
dearly for two long years. And why'
Just because thar silly, giggllng Lena
Varian, with her pale blue eyes and
straw-colored hair, had chosen 70 tell
fibs about him. And shaking the tears
from her lashes, she began scoldlng
herself as hard as she had often scolded
poor Rick. The idea, Lofty Louns-
berry, of you believing that girl before
him! Waat possessed you? He did flirt
with her, that is true, but all men hirt a
little with girls who persist in admlrins
them. But be never gave her the
little gold pig-your Christmas gilt to
hm-never! How she got it can't im'
aripe, but he would have explained II
if YOU had given him chance And
then the mother, gone to Aunt Emory's
for TWO days visit, came in tor a inil
share Of reproach. If she had let our
engagement be known instead OF ln'
sisting on waiting until Rick was twen'
ty.one. and had not been obliged to
carry my engagement ring in my back
hair. the only place where it would be
safe from Baby's-Goodness gracious
Babyp And Lettie suddenly remem-
bered that ever since Rick came In 10
make a morning call, knowing Mrs
jLounsberry was absent-poor tello"!
he would haye staid away could he
have foreseen this reception-Babv mad
been sitting alone IN the dinning room
| in the middle of the big dinner table
surrounded by all the pickle aud
narmalade jars, and fruit cans an(
catsup bottles, and jam pots out oil the
store room. For it was monthly house
cleaning day, and the store-room fell tC
Letty's share, the foreign help belnf
gifted with too great talent for smash
and breaking, to say nothing OF an
oually great talent for abstracting and
devouring both sweet and sour. Lefty
sprang from the lounge, thrust her lee
Into her slippers, and fastened to
where duty bad been calliug her ioI
some time. Baby sat, as good as gold'
nursing bottle of tomato sauce, snug
Ily wrapped in a dish towel. in the very
spot where she had been when Rlck''
ring summoned her sister TO the door
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