The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-13
OWENS PRINCE CHARMING
A Complete Story.

story
From all the Year Round.
''You ought To bc ashamed of yourself,
G~wendolcn"
Mr.. John Walters spoke with consider
able emphasis, hut without producing any
visible effect ON the smiling face which
G~wendolen turned tn her from the
"And why ought I To be ashamed of my
self. Sylvia" She replied, R~ooti-hun-
oredly. sWhen u person IL very much
bored in dull London lodgings, may not
that person take her painting To h win
dow and make u study Of the brick and
mortar ON tl,e Opposite side Of the street?
I assure you. Sylvia, that when IL IL I'm
ished-if Il ever IL flnished-it will bc a
most original thing in studies.'
~ tell yo,l. Gwen," repsated Mrs. Wal
ter~-ignorinR the explanation-'That
You know YOU don't care u hit tO make u
study of bricks and mortar any more
than I do myself. You only want "a real
morning and looking ACROSS the street at
the opposite house,"
~ confess. replied Gwen. with the same
omed my motives; hut ann not in the
least ashamed of myself. You see. unless
] were tn dress up as a honscinaid, could
not stand at the window for more than u
quarter of AN hour without some respect
prs.tensc. I think the ingenuity of
powers and don't really seve," she rr-
summed after - pause. "why should You lcc-
ture me because 1 am Interested in "a
handsome Prince Charming who lives
over the way. A couple of years ago. he
fore yon married. l guess you would have
been capable of something quite as repre-
hensiblc. You were ~ then and ! am NJ
i'd
"Tha, is neither herr. nor there. Gwen.'
interrupted Mrs. Walters, with slightly
heightened color. ~ may have done silly
things i'm my time: hut there was always
some one To keep me i'm order. I ann not
In nm r.s AR 80 AsNn ~ mar nm aRnsu INN
"Mothcr and Aunt L,Iryl" cchoed Gwen,
conteInptio,.sly. You don't mean To say
middls-sagcd woman? / wouldn't be mid
dlc-autd just yet, IL I were yo,. Thought
c%harn,inr asr"ss the street, and how "".
gerry he watched ms once or twice. that
You were going To be quite as much
some inexplicable reason, you draw i'm
your horns and have "a violent attack of
propriety;"
know quite. well I did not encourage You.
fou know ! have scarcely seen the man."
We'll. you had hetter come tn the win
with ths, same unrufiissd equanimity. "Hc
Is AT the window for the twentieth time, 1
should think. oh. dear" and Gwen
rated 10y "a few yards of street,! How Wide
is u street. Sylvia" ] haven't n notion.
Ia IL pity there IL no mutual friend
who could bridge il over by AN iutrotuc-
ton"
Owen said Sylvia, making "a sudden
attenpt to turn the conversation. don't
you think to-day we might go and buy
thosc things for the drawing room" We
have scarcely. done any shopping yet"
shopping" calculated Gwen shop
ping has no interest left for me. What is
the use Of going to Libcrty's and choosing
pretty things for IN drawing room in AN
one knows one fashion from another? Ii
is perfectly prepostero,Is."
And G~wendoien heavsd another sigh.
"Poor Gwcn," said Sylvia. looking at
her sister with afFcctionate concern. "I'm
afraid your life is rather a dull one just nj
s.You are afraid r~e-cchoetcG wen. ain
deed. there il no doubt at all upon the
subject. Nevertheless, ! am not the per-
son TO b. pitied most: I'm not absolrssly
mock, nor To come to these dull London
lodgings. My lord and master is u dream
figure on which To hang all my ideals
not a Rrizzly-bcaried who bur
les You and himself at the rrmotest corner
town To burrow i'm the library OF the Brit
ish museum; No, yon needn't call me
poor Gw.nr IL would he more To the
sinE" IL '"" called yourself poor s'i
"Really. Gwendolen~" begun Mrs
Walters, but her e~xpostulation was nipped
dome interrupt me.' continued Gwen
"I have opened my lips now for the firs'
Wine OH tnIs s~uDJeN.ts ana ] mean tO sAs
one or two things before 1 close them. l
ssssasa: Why did P Sa% marry Mr.. Wal
az married him.. replied Sylvia, with 4
ring Of defiance i'm her voice, 'because In
asked me to do So"
"And that" replied G~wendolen, ais no
. reason worth giving. II anyone has
told me two years that Mr.. Walter
vas going To ask you to marry him
should have imagined you dropping hin
a curtsey and refusing him i'm these words
sir, q woman. not To say IA gir
of 10. may not marry her grand
father, besides which the hance Il