Tolland County press., 1883-03-01
X REAL SWEET STORY.

X REAL SWEET STORY. It was by far the worst quarrel they ha1s7sr had, and they had had many for she had temper, and he had temper, and they were both of them impulsive young people with very little self lf-control.
 'sYou are false, selfish, untruthful, lunmanike man." said, shey oo
 I 2"And you g suspicious, unreasonable, lunwomanly woman, said he.
 "Take back your lstters," she cried, hinging parcel tied with hyacinth blue ribbon on the floor at his feet.
 'I will," he muttered between his clenchsd teeth, picking up 8 parcel and brightly for a moment. or two, and then flew away in uncanny black fragments up the chimney. As the last fragment dis appeared, Rick turned again to Lefty, Ewith frowning brow and asked, as he had asked before, s'Do you still persist in accasins ne of deceit and falseh0od ?''
 "I do, she replied, "un!ess you show me the charm. "
 s.I will not show it to yeu," he declared, with violent emphasis. sJf my word is not pf6eient. .sI refuse to give you farther proof. I wonder that you dare insult me by asking it. And I also wonder how l you,. believing me to be false and untruth- fful, can be willing to trust your future to me. And, to speak frankly, begin to think we have made a great mistake in l supposing that we could spend that fn- lure happily together, for am fully con- vinced that we are anything but
 Two souls with but single thought, Io Two hearts that beat as one.'"
 (These lines were quoted with the most sarcastic inaectlon). ssAnd furthermore, II also begin to think that perhaps it would have been better if we had never made thls ,mistake-if we had never met, in fact"
 .Qh, indeed, sir !'','-with great assump- tion of dignity. s'Have you just arrived at that conclusion. have long been than to part. Your letters are already disposed of. Tomorrow will send back your ring and picture. And then, when I am free once more, can try to please my mother (our acquaintance, as you are we'll aware, has never pleased her), and in pleasing her f may find am doing a I pheasant as well as wise thing for my 1 "Ares you referring to Brougham 1Brown?" AZ '' .> v
 E"I ana referring to Brougham Brown"
 "By heavens !" exclaimed Rick, seizing hls hat, this is too much. Lefty, geods by forever" ]"
 But Lefty began humming an air from Patience, drumming an accompaniment on the windew,pane, and vouchsafed no . answor. Rick rushed from the room. The huiAming and drumming ceased in- stantly, and the whilom performer listen ed intently.- Five minutes passed, and g still the street deor did not slam. "He is waiting for me to come out into the hall and beg his pardon, suppose" she said, with d defiant grimace, "but ] won't, !" and she turned again to the win dow as the door shut with a bang.
 FAnd then she flung herself on the ? lounge, kicked off her slippers, and cried like summer shower. Rick gone, and gone ''forever r'-Rick, whom she had loved SO dearly, and who had loved her so dearly, for two long years. Add why ? Just because that silly, giggling Lena Va rian, with her pale blue eyes and straw colored hair, had chosen to tell fibs about him. And shaking the tears from her lashes, she began seslding herself as hard as she had scolded poor Rick. ''The idea, Lefty Lounsberry, of your believing that girl before him what possessed you He did hirt little with her, that is true | a persist in admiring them and hattering them. But he never gave her the little pig-your Christmas gift to him-never How she got it can't imagine, but he would have explained if you had given 1 him chance. y And then the absent mother, who had gone to Aunt Emory s for two days visit, came in for share of reproach. eff she had only let our engagement be known, instead of waiting until Rick was 21, and I had not been obliged to carry my engagement ring in my back ha1r, the only place where it is safe from Baby 's-Goodness gracious :! Baby w And Lefty suddenly remember- that ever since Rick came in to make a morning call, knowing Mrs.. Lounsberry was absent-poor fellow he'd have staid Eaway If he could have foreseen his recep- tien Baby had been sitting alone in the I dining room in the middlesof the big din ing table, snrreuned by all the pickle and marmalade jars and fruit cans and catsup bottles and fruit jars out of the store room. For it was the monthly house E cleaning day, and the store-roo fell to ! Lefty the foreign help being gift ed with too great talent for smashing and breaking, to say nothing of an equal lily great talent for abstracting and devour- ing both sweets and sours. Lefty sprang 2 from the lounge, thrust her feet into her slippers, and hastened where duty had been calling her for some time. Baby sat, as good as gold, nursing bottle oi tomato sauce, ssnugly Wrapped in dish. towel, in the very spot where she had E. been when Kicks ring summoned her sis : ter to the door. Only one small flask lay broken on the floor, filing the air with ov1ht Frao n% 0t