Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-11-23

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professed a good deal of regard and sym
pathy for Mr.. Fields, and indeed it was
pleasant to see this pretty girl taking the
side of the father, and preaching the
Fourth Commandment. To all this the
Young man listened in silence. He was
hard TO impress, it seemed, for he made
no reply, and then suddenly he asked:
'.Who said all thisF'
''Your father"
'.But who told him?'
''Your mother-Mrs. Fields"
Sand who told herr
"You told her yourself, and you told
her more than ! have spoken Of"
''Nonsense!'
.'But you did. You told her you were
engaged to marry this person. | insist
on having my racquet, Mrs. Fields"
Sand this person is-is-a-prize
fghterr
80 you said"
''Oh Lord!'' cried Phil, and he lay
back on the grass and laughed until Re
gina was so offended she arose and
walked back to the house.
After that she saw no more of Phil
until after supper, when he anne to her
as she finished a most stupid game of
tennis, there being no one engaged In 1t
who could contest it with her.
Miss Scott" said he, Mrs. Fields
would be glad if you could come to her
for n moment"
Regina hesitated, and then said that
she would come presently with pleasure.
Would he be kind enough TO say SOL
II think she wished me to bring YOU"
replied Phil, boldly F; and SO, not wishing
to expose their quarrel to the public, she
was constrained to go with him, bu.
she did not speak to him, and in
deed he did not ask her to do so. He
was perfectly silent, and seemed humbled
and quoted enough.
Mrs. Fields was not in the house, but
over by the well-a forlorn and weed
grown place, where only the servants
went. She was sitting on the stump OF
a tree. She turned when she heard foot
steps. Il have waited ages for you,
Phil, she said.
MISS pOOlb was tuBdHtus ltIhcl
Phil, ''and ! waited for her. You must
pardon me-" said he, turning 10 Regina,
''for my mother did not send me for
you, but / wanted to ask her a question
before you, and l had no alternative.
You would not have come had / asked il. "
Certainly not;" and Regina turned to
so. Phil laid his hand gently on her
arm.
surely" he said, "you will not be
unfair to mey' And then. all in q
breath, he turned to his stepmother.
DO you remember, " he said, when
you one asked me about a glove you
found in my rooml You teased me-"
Mrs. Fields laughed. Certainly. d,
you want me to tell you what you said2''
Il do"
at wouldn't be polite, Phil"
'Indeed you are mistaken. 1t would
be very polite-and true"
You said it belonged to the prettiest
girl in America"
II cannot see." said Regina, show
this interests me-"
Phil made no answer to her.
''Then you asked me who she was"
"Yes, and you said she was some sort
Of a professional character"
"A prize fighterl' said Phil.
"Mercy! no. Your father calls hei
that, because he is SO indignant with you;
but you never said so. undT rstood you
perfectly. Some kind OF athiete; not q
teacher Of calsthenics, but something
like it."
Again did this young man burst into
laughter, but he controlled himself, and
it would not have been wise to have irri-
tated Regina much farther.
''Ob, mother" he said, snow that
Mrs. Darlington is dead, why do you
want TO play her Elishal Did / say calls.
themes and PROFESSIONAL
Il do not care what you said, cried
Regina; and again she turned. and this
time ran away, leaving poor Phil looking
like the stupid she had called him.
Now Dir. Fields always said when he
was congratulated on his daughter-in-law
that he had made the match. He GER
talnly never made the explanation, and
convinced Regina that Phil had said the
glove belonged to "a champion. " and he
never showed the glove TO Regina and
made her confess it was hers, and she had
missed il. II was very true that the old
gentleman knew that Regina had played
match games OF tennis, and had carried
off the title and honors Of a champion, "
but he never COMPOUNDED her with a
''prize fighter" He always held to a
vague belief in the existence OF a repre-
hensible young woman from whom Re
gina had won Phil, and that he had in.
duced her TO do so, and when Phil called
her, by way Of a pet name, a Synonym,
he asked for no explanation Of the Joke,
II joke he considered it. 1t was
Phil only who could have told what an
uphill task be had in convincing Regina
that if he loved her now, so had he loved
her always. How many times before
the summer was over did he hold his
breath thinking Of his stcpmother's inn
agination and his fathers credulity. To
have said he was engaged 10 her was
ever Regina's Grievance, and il was diff.
cult TO persuade her that what was once
a fiction OF others should he a fact OF
their own. And indeed lac made little
Roadway until he found out that she
liked men in business after she found
he was in a brewery, and that Wall street
was not enticing to her,
But Of course il all came right at last,