Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-06-22

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iron, as they dropped from his lips.
ooh, Is she? You ought to see her
hang around his neck His listener
started up as if he had been stung.l
''Say. If Stiffy Bates comes around
asking for me you just tell him-golng
nOw?' Lansing was reaching wildly
for MS hat. at ain't 9 O'Clock. Oh,
look here, don't 90 yet"
81 must" sad Lansing quickly, and
he spoke the truth. He shook B6ke's
hand and stared a moment wretched-
ly at he bright, Indifferent face, with
its strange sweet likeness to that 9th
er face on which he must not look
again, and went out from Paradise
with an aching heart.
'Say, Phillips, when are you COM
ing up? Mother thinks you're mean. /
She says you ought to come and see |
them sometimes
Since his recovery Bake had been |
aggressively friendly as well as Oppres- /
sively impudent to Mr. Philips,
while the fOrlOrn meekness OF that
gentlemen demeanOr had been
source of unendIng comment among
MS fellow suffers in the latter case
eff you want to see Eda you Will
have to come soon. She'll be gone
next week. sure pop"
''That sop asked Lansing, lightly,
/ smiling as a victim on the rack might
smile.
''Yes; she's of, settled and donefor.
! Say, If you come this week, dom come
/ Thursday-I won't be home, and
mother won't either"
Nor Eda?"
''Oh, Eda; she's most always home.
She has to be, now"
No more was said, Bake's attention
being suddenly diverted to a cat on
an adjoining roof.
But when Thursday evening came 1t
found Mr.. Phillips mind set to a firm
purpose. At eight o'clock he had rung
the doOrbell of Bake's abode and was
shaking hands with Eda.
al am all alone" she explained to
him at once, and it actually seemed
as if she expected the statement to
deter HIM from entering. It appeared
to strengthen him in the contrary
course, however. and he followed her,
with much determination, in the coy
parlor where he had seen her at work
so often.
She looked pale a little, but kind
and pretty, and very, very bright:
Lansing could never tell what they
talked about for the first few mo.
ments, but from the time he rose and
crossed the room and sat down by
her on the little lounge he remembered
everything.
+ She glanced at him IN astonishment
: as he took his seat.
"Eda' he said, quickly, al came tx
congratulate you, but 1 can't; not Al
: I ought to. 1 wish and hope yOl
? may be happy-only-we ll-yOu know
+ dear, don't you, that 1 loved you
Yes; and it is hard to wish you happ7
= with some one else!' He had boil
: her hands by this time. 81 felt tina
q I must cone and tell you, and say
+ and-say and good by"
= Good BY" she repeated slowly
+ looking at him with earnest eyes
2. What for? Are you going away?''
d 81 am not going away" Emphasl
Il on the prOnOun.
well, surely. 1 am not"
,e mop supposedly. Your brOthe
s. said that after your marriage
d WHAT"
e, "That after your marriage 20
le would not live here any more
t. "My marriage? I don't understan
a you, Mr.. Phillips" She looked bot
r. proud and hurt.
,e .Bake-Harry told me, hefaltereC
perhaps you did not wish it known
lie He told me you were to be marie
sf next week"
le ''Isn't he a mischief" she said wit
T gentle depreciation, but blushir
It., beautifully. The idea! Married.
cit isn't true?"
"True? OF course not. 1 shOu
as think you would know Harry's FL
TO by this time"
tx "And you're not engaged?"
IS ''NOt even engaged shaking b
be head with q cOntented smile.
as ooh Eda. EdaI / cant believe
to Are you free? May I tell you how
.e, love yOu?'
Ak But indeed it did not take mu'
be telling. No very lavish outlay
words is needed when hands clas-
'e' hands and young eyes are meetil
en- with loves story IN theig depths.
"a "And that young a-a-that
ay Harry! Oh, Eda, if you could knc
ke how miserable have been!
BE al know how miserable I've bee
But Of course. we won't blame hi
or he wOu.,. not willingly make any o
1t suffer. He Is such a darlin9!"
De- ''Well he is" said Lansing, prOmI
ly sitting his conscience like a nj
to and a lover. but thinking meanwh
Oh what delight it would give him
ny sOundly beat the darling in questio
at am so glad you love him, S
rs nun INJURED, gratefully. "Of course
en- is mischievous,a little-but no one C
I'd. be perfectl Why, he told me from
2, first that you were engaged Yes, q
described the young lady. And son
1T how it never occurred to me to dou
Use him. so of COURSE"
Ter 'sOh, Eda."
Eyes, I was terribly cold to you.
Ike could not be otherwise, but all
cal same, I had remembered you frC
ice that day we met on the crossing
Broadway
tn: sob, did you recognize me, Ed