Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-03-02

"Well, you have been torcloly re-
minding me of the days when you were
in such an unreasonable state about the
girl you met in your Oamberwel lodg-
ings. In fact, you have been display
ing all the marked symptoms OF love-
sickness in an exaggerated degree-you
have capacity for taking that thing
very bad. wonder why there Is no
compulsory vaccination act for the
troublesome disease" ~
because il is unnecessary sup
pose. don't believe even you escaped
calf-love." 80 81
Possibly not; but you must have
done so. and that accounts for the Sc
verify with which the cow-love attacks
you, Come, make clean breast of it;
have you caught It againg' ~ aH
mo, not exactiy.'' - j. 49, laA
THAT means desperately bad There
is so much of the hermit-crab style of
gymnastics in this love business that /
have no doubt OF Miss Smith having
| Jumped out of the shell Of your heart
and some one else having jumped in
to it." ?. u fA Il FL
! mo. no other. form has taken her
place" Maurice rose, walked to the
window. and looked through the dust
stained glass into the DUH gray court,
where the busy figures below seemed to
his dreamy eyes like ghosts in 4 hurry
"What then? You may rs vel
speak out, for Know that there is
something in the wind. j helped you
before, and may do it again with my
sage counsel of scathing chat, as the
cage may demand rtI - .rEnI0l
81 wish / could tell You. Arkwood:
but cannot realize the thing m 5self"
g Have a shy at putting the case
plainly to me, then, and may be in the
effort you will get at IL Yourself, I have
often known a man who did not under
stand his case until he began to plead.
60 on" 80
After n pause, and without looking
round, Maurice: .l ~. MI
"You know Miss Cuthbert?'
" Perfectly that's to say, as perfect
ly as any man can expect TO know a
young lady of our day. The study is
rarely an abstrusc one. Let me see. I
have taken her down to dinner several
times. walked with her twice and
| waited with her once-opportun IL
enough to enable any man of average
| intelligence To understand any woman
of ordinary mold. sum total: she is
very handsome. rather clever cursed
with vulgar hankering after people
with handles To- their names. and de-
cidedly fast don think much of her:
but If she is the new goddess-well, she
is n good barga n. ~ girls go"
"lou do not understand her at all.
muttered Maurice. with an impatient
twitch of the shoulders.
"And of course you do. That's n
comfort and / should like to have a
sketch OF her from your point of view.
If she is the cause of your present dis
turIance."
There Is no chance Of INV being able
10 tell you anything if you continue
this bant r. And vet can scarcely ask
YOU to be serious, for l know that the
affair IS 20 insane that were il told to
me about some one else, 4, ton. shOu d
chat, or become alarmed for the health
of my friends wits. There! we had
better say nothing more abont it, Pass
the elaret Are YOU engaged this even
ingPn 80 4 Dlli
mo. nor this afternoon; why?''
81 was going TO propose that we
should 90 tothe heater. or somewhere. "
1--WE can arrange about that by and
by" said Arkwood. quietly. rolling his
cigar between his fingers. ''Mean-
while. we are to have this talk out, and
you are to let me into the secret of Your
lunacy. You know that can be serious
when L know that you are in earnest.
altho 9Th / may consider your earnest
ness so much good nervous energy ex-
pended i'm q wrong direction"
Upon my wor i believe it is" ex-
claimed Maurice. with the air and tone
of man who is sorry for somebody he
despairs of rescuing from an impending
fate. But the whole thing is so real
to me, and yet so vague. that it utterly
bewilders me-" .- ..r-f 4
BE lin ut the beginning; imagine
yourself pleading for a client. and, new
er fear. you viii come out of it Gear
enough r. .f .. ..t.. ..r ..'-
a. II begins with Miss Cuthbert, then.
What you have said OF her is correct 81
far as regards one side Of her character,
and II Is the side which she appears To
think the best to show me. AT times
she does saw and do things which
should consider fast if they were not
said and done by her"
THE eyes of lover, YOU know. are
famous for seeing beauty even in de-
iects' .H. a.. r'IN tt'
But there is the drOll part of it
ann not her lover"
You have been n good deal at Hol-
lyford during the last three months, ~
said Arkwood, significantly.
4 Eyes. and am as likely to be there
as often during the next three months. -
! (which PLAINLY showsthat YOU care
nothing atail about Miss Cuthbert'' 4
I You are bantaring again. am seri.
.Ous. | do carc for her. but not in the
1 way YOU think. We are friends, and
there Is no thought on either side of our
becoming anything more. Yet l LONG
to be in her presence rs ardently rs any
lover could. Her voice is pleasing "a
me even when she is uttering the mos
ordinary phrases; her face and form are
in my eyes perfection. and every gest-
ure is full Of grace"
/ "Bravol A most friendly description
of LAZY by. an ardent young gentle.
man who is not her lover. 1 should be
inclined to say that my first opinion is
correct-you are desperately smitten. -
ono. for while am looking at her.
IT isnOt Der see; while lam, listening
TO her. it is not her voice hear Form
and voice belong to another; only the
thoughts belong to her, and 10 40,
heed them"
I You puzzle me; and if it were rot
foryour manner, / should fancy that
7 you were joking. How can you have
such a strong liking for her without re.
garding her with much deeper feelings
than those OF fricndshipP'f
"Iknew you would take the usual
view of the case. She is handsome and