Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-05-09
to me so much to be desired "
''Of course not, the way you put it."
"And how would you put itg'

''But she got her reward"
They were silent again for a little time, and
when he spoke again there was new tone to
Toms voice.
81 suppose, he said, "that men never have
any idea of what women really think of
them"
"Why is it true of women any more than
of mens Do women ever know what men
think of them?'
''Yes," Tom answered decidedly; "women
always know, only they generally refuse to
own it to anybody else, and not infrequently
they will not even own it to themselves"
81 do not agree with you,' Kitty returned,
with an air which said far more than the
mere words.
Nonsense; of course you agree with me-
The proposition is self evident. Now you
know that here am p
"Isnt that blue sky just showing over the
top of the hill just lovely!" interrupted Kitty
hurriedly.
sit is always so pretty to come up over
this hill and see it come out over the lakes"
Tom laughed significantly.
''Thank you for proving my proposition, y
he said.
81 don't understand"
"Oh, no; of course not; and yet if you did
you interrupt just theng'
"Why, II saw the sky just then"
ooh, you did?'
"Of course [ did,"
II suppose SO; but that does not account for
your feeling bound to break in just then when
was going to say''-
81 do not see," Kittie again interrupted
hastily, "why you should make SO much out
of SO little, as if I had some deep laid scheme
in mind every time I spoke of the viewn
''Then you did not know what was about
to say?"
"Why, how in the world should I, Tome"
"Then why don't you ask what it wasp
"Oh," Kittie retorted, tossing her pretty
head, ''do you suppose that think everything
you might have said to be of so great import
ance that it must be looked back to and care
fully called up if it does get interrupted?"
VERY likely not; that is what complain
Of"
Kittie twirled her muff in her hands, and
Tom dashed the snow with his whip for a mo-
ment, neither knowing just what to say next.
Then Tom spoke again, little savagely
"But if you do not care what said, he
observed, ''of course it is of no use for me
ever to try to make you listen to it,
s'You do not put so much stress on my
breaking in just then," she returned de-
murely.
"But if you intended to stop mel
81 intended to speak myself, of course; and
how could I speak unless you stoppeda"
The top of the hill was reached at this mo-
ment, and Tom relieved his feelings as far as
he might by putting the horses at their full
speed. The sleigh dashed along more swiftly
and merrly, while Kittie watched her COM
panion furtively, wondering what he would
say OF do next, and little afraid both to
have him speak or to have him keep silence.
''For my part" began Tom, after time,
and then he left the sentence unfinished.
"Well, what for your partg'
''For my part" he said savagely, s'I never
could see why girl need act so just because
she knows that"-
''Don't abuse girls" Kittie broke in SO
hastily that for the life of her she could not
think of anything in particular to say.
'Simply because she knows" Tom re-
peated stoutly, ''that'-
ssBut she doesn't know"
But it was of no use for Kittie to interrupt
now; Tom had made up all his stubborn mind
to finish his sentence, and finish it he did.
tsJust because she knows that fellow Isl in
love with her,"
lOu u leu AiUlIS, Olu you
me here to talk to me like that?''
s'Of course I did, he answered; sand it
would be just as well for you not to pretend
that you didn't know it, too"
II would never have come if
''If you hadn't known that should say it
sooner OF LATER"
"Tom Prince, you are horrid!'
The horses just then required so much of
+bo 6,iu oft tbot no IN
throw into the conversation at this point the
caresses which additionally belonged there
but he did manage to lean over and snatch
at gallop, as it were, kiss from the red
lips which were pouting SO prettily beside
him.
''Tomr' she cried, more explosively than
before; and yet such is the weakness of hui
manity that she leaned over toward him,
and thus gave him an opportunity to repeat
the reprehensible performance
OF the remainder of their ride it is not
probable that either of them had any very
clear idea, and it is only on record that they
were so late in returning home that Kittie's
mother had worried herself half into what
she was pleased to speak of as ''a compton
fit an ailment which is not recognized by
medical science, but which is neither the less
common nor the less tangible on that account.
But it was to be noted that all disposition
to interrupt anything Tom might wish to say
had vanished after he had succeeded in get
ting out the whole of that sentence. He had
broken the spell so completely that Kittie
could not get him to say half enough in the
same line, although he talked for an hour or
two in the same strain. From which it is to
be argued that young women
But no; nothing can be argued concerning
young women,-Henry Minniger in Boston
Courier