Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-06-28

gan to dawn upon him. He explained
10 both ladies the nature of the diff
calty, closing with the remark that he
had no idea who the woman was he
had first addressed as Miss Bartlett.
The ladies were disposed to tantallze
him, but disposition 10 assume the at
titude of Mr.. PriSgie's friend on the
part of each led to a hasty dissolution
of the prosecuting combination. John
understood that the women would not
long be good friends, which in his OBJ.
tuseness he wondered at. 1t was soon
explained that the woman Mr.. Pripgle
had assumed to be Grace Bartlett was
Miss P0grave. She had been puzzled
and yexed by his conduct when intro
duced many months before, and in her
young womsn's indignation had resell
we'd to ignore him. His conduct, the
first night he met her at the Elk position
had taken her by surprise, and was
quite as inexplicsble to Ter as his pre-
ylous line of action. The incident had
been talked over a. home, and on ad-
vice of her father she had spoken to
Mr.. Pringle when it seemed to her his
attention TO her little sister afforded
opportunity. Sac couldn't und ,rstand
why Mr.. PriEgle should not have rec
ognlZed her, and john did not better
the expression on her face When he ad-
nlitted that he did not look at her face
when he first met her, and that he new
er saw her until he met her at the Ex-
position and thought sne was Grace
Bartlett. This was an odd confession
to make to a woman who was conscious
of beauty of face and charm OF man
ner, and who was courted on that ac-
count.
John had seen the face IN the crowd
at the Expos ition in q new light; and
when he com menced idealzing he had
scarcely the power to decide wheI Elm
tue face differed from that of Grace
Bartlett, with which he associated it.
Dlffident in actual life, John Pringle
was bold in arranging imaginary Diet ais,
and once given a base-line for action,
| his mind contemplated no conradic-
/ ton of DEGREES, no disarrangment oil
| ideal plans. He clung tenaciously tC
what be fancied the truth, while be
steadily ignored the truth, as ready to
his hand as the substitute.
Walking with a handsome woman on
either side, John managed to say some.
thing like the above, and to lAy it in
such way as to give the ladies more
insight into his nature than any person
had ever had before. They were in
terested as well as amused, and SAID Sc
with their good-bys.
The end was inevitable, John Pringle
was jolted out of the rut, in which be
had been moving Dismlssing his
dreams about Grace Bartlett, he found
Miss Pograve taking possession of him
as no ideal figure had ever done. And
now when Mr.. Pripgle, counted among
his business friends as somewhat bold
in speculation, and among his social
friends as great talker, confdes to q
new acquaintance that ne was always a
close observer as a young man, although
reicent and diffident, his wife breaks
into a laugh. And rather than have
her tell the story of their first meeting,
with references as to how suddenly he
forgot his bashfulness when he fell in
love, Mr. Pringle comedies that he was
IN absent-minded dreamer until the
romance of his own life carried him
into a hercer current of mental habit
and action