Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1883-10-11
Miscellaneous.
A Real Sweet Story.

ever had, and the, had had many. for she
had temper, and they were both Of them
impusiNe Young people with very little self
control.
You are false. selfish. untruthful. man
like man.. SAID she.
And YOU are suspicious. unreasonable.
uRwomanl, woman said he
lake back your letters" she cried. fling
ing parcel tied with h,acinth-buc ribbon
on the floor at h feet.
81 will. he muttereI tet~ cen his clenched
teeth. picking up the parcel and throwing it
into the fire, where 1t blazed brightly mo-
ment or two. and then flew away IN thin. un-
canny black fragments up the chimney. As
the last fragment disappeared. Rick turned
again 10 Lefty, with frowning brow. and
asked. as he had asked before. "Do YOU still
persist in accusing me Of deceit and false
hood ?"
Il do she replied, unless you show me
the charm"
with Violent emphasis, III my word be not
sufficient, refuse 70 give You farther proof.
! wonder that YOU dare insult me hy asking
II. And also wonder how you. believing
me 10 be false and untruthfu. can be w:llIn.
10 trust Your future TO me. And. TO speak
frankly, begin to think we have made
great mistake in supposing that we could
spend that future happily together for am
fully convinced we are ANYTHING but
Two souls with but single thou. lit.
Two hearts that beat A. one
These lines were quoted with most sarcastic
lnfection.) And furthermore, also begin
TO think that perhaps it would have been bet
ter if We had never made this mistake-if
we had never met. in fact
"Oh. indeed. sir with great assump-
ton of dignity. Have YOU Just arrived a,
that conclusion have long been sure of
ii. But there is nothing easier than 10 part.
Tomorrow will send back Your ring and
picture. And then, when | am free once
more, can try 10 please my mother tour
acquaintance, as you are well aware, has new
er pleased her, and in pleasing her NAV
find ! am doing pleasant as well as wise
thing for myself"
"Are you referring 10 Brougham Brown ?"
Il am referring to Brougham Brown"
"By heavens" exclaimed Rick, sezing
his hat, "this is too much. Lefty, goodbye
forever =
But Lefty began humming an air from
patience" drumming an accompaniment on
the window-pane. and vouchsafed no answer.
Rick rushed from the room. The humming
and drumming ceased instantly, and the
@hilom performer listened intentlv 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. sup
pose, She said with defiant grmace. ..but
| won't, and she turned again TO the wI 4
dow as the door shut with bang.
And then she flung herself on the lounge
kicked off her slippers, and cried like sum
mer shower. Rick gone, and gone ''iorev-
err Rick whom she had loved 50 dearly
and who had loved her 50 dearly. for two
long Years. And why? Just because that
silly, gigglng Lena Varian, with her pale,
blue eyes ana straw-colored haii, had chosen
20 tell fi5s about him. And shaking the
tears from her lashes, she began scoldng
herself as hard as she had scolded poor Rick.
The idea. Lefty Lounsberry, of your belev-
ing that girl before him What possessed
you9 He did flirt a little with girls who
persist in admiring him and fiattering him.
But he never gave her the little gold pig
your Christmas gift To him never. How
she got it | can't imagine, but he would have
explained if YOU had given him chance"
And then the absent mother. gone TO Aunt
Emory's for two DAYS visit, came in for a
share of reproach. "lt she had onl, let our
engagement be known, instead of insisting
upon Cur waiting until Rick was twenty -one,
and had not been Obliged to carry my en-
gagement ring in my back hair, tie only
| place where it is safe from Raby's-Gool-
ness gracious Baby" And Lefty sudden
" remembered that ever since Rick came in
I 10 coll Nru
/ Lounsberry was absent-poor fellow he'd
his reception Baby ha! been sitting alone
/ in the dining-room in the middle of the big
dining table, surrounded BY ali the pickle
and marmalade jars and fruit cans and cat
sup bottles and jam pots out Of the store
room. For it was the monthly house clean
| ing day, and the store-room fell to Letty's
share, the foreign help being gifted with too
great talent for smashing and breaking
to say nothing Of all equally great talent for
abstrscting and deyouring both sweets and
sours. Lefty sprang from the lounge, thrust
her feet into her slippers. and fastened
where duty had been calling her for some
time. Baby sat, as good as gold, nursing a
bottle of tomato sauce. snugly wrapped in a
dish-towel, in the very spot where she had
been when KICK ring summoned her sister
to the door. Only one small flask ay brok
en- on the floor, filling the air with the subtle
fragrance of garlic. THAT won't be missed" 3"
said Lefty. Thank fortune, there is no
worse mischief done" But the "thank"
was scarcely uttered when her eyes fell upon
the last jar Of the famous peach marmalade,
the secret of the making of which died with
grandmamma, and which was being careful
~ kept for Aunt Emory's tAunt Emory was
an old maid worth thirty thousand doilars)
birthday. There it stood directly in front of
Baby. with more than half of its thick pa
per hat torn off, and yawnns cavity made
in its precious contents by little scooping
fingers.
..Oh, Baby, why couldn't you have taken
any jar but that ?" asked Lefty, reproaeh-
fully and dramatically.