Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-07-05
"Thank Won. Miss Capeil. ~

"Thank you, Miss Capell."
ENTIRELY welcome, am sure"
Mollie turned her back, and they both
studied vigorously.
{" She biames me-" said Judy to the
widow, dropping her book. "because 1
stood between her and what frightened
herr"
"Did you speak, mademoiselle?"
Eyes did, mademoiselle. You called
me Miss Capell twice hand-running, and
wouldn't stoop to cali you Miss Closer
"You said was a scraWnY dyspeptic."
"You said firted."
"Well, you did tiirt-you flirted scandal
ously."
"And you know you're scrawny. And
don't you have to take pepsin after every
meaI?-and the whole school knows how it
acts on your temper"
L" should like to have a few undisturbed
moments to myself this morning." said
MOllie Close, holding her book in trem5-
ling claws. 81 shall go into the bedroom,
and il you try to follow me shall lock the
door"
"Follow youl 1 wish might never set
eyes on you again"
$50 do L Heartily. Our friendship is
at an end"
Miss Close walked into the bedr
81 shall ask to have my room changed at
noon,'r she observed. ''And I'm going to
take down my dresses and fold them right
away"
When she had been engaged in this inn
proving labor long enough to be Modified
by recollecting the successful recitation
she had made in the blue dress, and dis
covering some forgotten caramels in the
pocket of another, pecking began upon
the door, which increased to pounding.
Miss Close heard it not She continued
folding her wardrobe ready for departure.
"May come in, Molliel'
81 said if you tried to follow me 1 should
lock the door"
80 don't lock the door, It's all my
fault. We never quarreled in our lives
that it wasn't my fault"
"Well, Judy, you are to blame. And
you annoy me more than can endure"
81 know l do. I'm so horrid! Do for
give me. ache more than I can stand"
Come in, them" granted Miss Close
81 really havn't any right to keep you
out of the bed ROOM
Judy came in downcast, with glowing
lips and eyes, and gazed at her chum.
{" wish 1 wasn't SO hungry to be
liked" she said, suppressing sob.
''There'll never be any body that likes me
enough"
1--WE bring our troubles on ourselves in
this world" observed Miss Close, in that
didactic tone which always chilled the
opine of her more ardent friend.
daughter, who, sometimes, condescended
| to carry cards, rushed in with bang, and
projected an oblong bit of white al Judith
| Capell.
miss Capen, Colonel Montgomery's
been waiting in the reception room to see
you this long while, and if you don't
| hurry in Sally Smith will begin her noon
practice hour there, and you can't hear
| your ears for the noise.'
just after the simultaneous thunder
which the entire boarding school produced
| by drawing their chairs to sit down to din
ner, Miss Close said to her friend:
land what did the wild buffalo want in
his to-be continued?
"He wanted to enliven my deadly vaca-
tion here by taking me to Newark to see
| the Fourth of July parade"
81 suppose any proposition he makes will
| be agreeable to you,'' said Miss Close, sit
| ting upright with the disapproval of anOth-
| er's admirer, which even pattern girls will
sometimes manifest. She shot plates past
herself like shuttles as they came from the
| carver's hands"
"You judge from your own former
anxious standpoint" replied judy. And
she added with the passionate pessimism of
Judith, but Pm with Hamlet myself.
Neither man nor woman will ever be any
thing to me again. And will never. never
| worry any more about any ones frame
work or digestion engaged affections"
Still, when commencement hustle was
| over and the lonely ache of vacation had
begun in Judith's solitary heart, when
empty rooms echoed, and she dared not
practice in minor chords for fear of sobbing
| herself, it gave her throb of unconfessed
| delight to sit beside the Colonel on the
| Fourth of July morning. He drove slender
| limbed, black horses from the blue grass
region. His entire turnout was an orna-
| ment to the landscape, and that landscape
green hills melting against the sky and
| valleys downy soft with verdure. Dense
J ranks of dewy fern brushed the carriage
wheels, and bits Of wood views opened to
| and receded from the eye like enchantment
Judith's gloved hands were folded on her
| white lap. 1t was the year when hats of
cactus braid were introduced, and she wore
one with peoples punched above her face
The brilliant and defiant young face kept
it's side curve toward the Colonel.
81 put the question to you now because
can't wait any longer" said the Colonel.
81 don't want to be engaged" said Ju-
dith. Engagements reduce the sum Of
human happiness"
The Colonel laughed.
"My roommate got herself engaged to a
man, and it spoiled her. have seen the
folly of such things, and 1 am going to
carve out my future"
"You dear child, you couldn't carve a
i good-sized roast. And future is a tough
thing to tackle I have a great big heart
for you, my darling, and its lonesome like
you are"
"Oh, Pm not lonesome said Judith,
lifting an Indifferent chin. 81 always feel
myself In good society with Miss CaDell -