Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-06-13
ANNAPOLIS SATURDAY EVENING JUNE 1s 1891

but think can thank you for them,
she said, looking up brightly at him.
A tender look came into his eyes as he
said, Yes, sent them, and TIM much
obliged 70 you for wearing them.
.Oh, said Gladys rather coolly, @Ihad
no preference. They matched my dress
so well-that is why wore Them
Yes, / see," assented he as coolly.
"Those cream roses would not look well
with it at all, for instance.
Poor little violets-that last remark
caused their dethronement, for the girl
with flush hastily and angrily detached
them, saying, @Come TO think of it, the
roses would be far more effective, y and
pinned few of the long stemmed
beauties in their place.
Just as quickly Jack replaced the few
violets he had worn in his coat with a
rosebud that she dropped, saying, mine
are withered, too"
Gladys looked annoyed, but said
nothing, and in five minutes they were
hurriedly eating dinner at the station
restaurant.
Afterward Jack amused and enter
tanned her till the early bedtime, and she
slept soundly that night, feeling safe with
friend so near.
Carefully looking from behind her
curtains next morning, Gladys saw that
the opposite section had been changed
~two beds to two seats" again, but Jack
was not visible. Half an hour found her
dressed, waiting for him to appear, as
she intended asking him to breakfast out
of the well stocked hamper.
Presently he came in, and after very
slight hesitation smilingly accepted her
invitation. He helped her unpack the
hamper and set the table in her section,
and in a perfect gale of fun they began
their morning meal, sitting opposite.
This is fun, isn't it?" said Gladys,
spearing for a sardine with corkscrew,
for Jack, as company, was honored with
the only fork.
Immensel" he assented so emphatic
ally that she laughed gleefully.
Emboldened by this, Jack, in the act
of carrying piece of cold chicken to his
mouth, leaned over, and lowering his
voice and fork at the same time, said
coaxingly: Lets breakfast together al
ways-shall we, Gladys?"
She smiled in spite of herself at his
tone and manner, even while dainty
frown slightly marred her pretty fore
head, and she answered briefly and en-
phatically: Couldn't think of such a
thing. Don't be silly, Jack.
"Oh, you cruel little grill" said Jack
dramatically, as he Strengthened up and
proceeded to eat the morsel on his fork.
Their merry little meal over, the rest
of the day passed in the usual routine of
Pullman car. Jack was all devotion
from first to last. Reading, talking, and
eating, with hasty little promenades when
there was any opportunity, was the order
of the day.
Gladys acknowledged to herself, after
bidding him good night, that Jack was a
very pleasant companion-but she did
not want to marry him; no, indeed.
Jack Hollis had known and loved
Gladys Preston since he was boy of 10
and she little girl of IA. He had pro-
posed and been declined several times,
but knowing that she did not dislike him,
and believing that Everything comes TO
the man who waits, he was waiting, and
in the meantime wooing to the best of his
ability.
He was very much afraid she would
meet some other man during her visit
who would fall in love with her and win
her; hence his deep laid scheme to travel
to Omaha with her. AS for Gladys, after
her first surprise at seeing him on board,
she was so used to his never failing devo-
ton that she took his coming with her as
matter of course. 1t was just like Jack,
she thought
The second morning Gladys arose with
severe headache. With that and a
wretched nights sleep she was worn out
and cross-undeniably so. She snubbed
poor Jack, who was all sympathy; re-
fused the cup of tea he brought her when
they changed cars at Ogden; and when
the journey began again she lay back on
the pillows he fixed in the seat for her,
and would have nothing to say to him.
All day she suffered intensely, feigning
sleep most of the time to avoid being
fused over by the sympathetic old ladies.
How Jack longed to take the golden
brown head in his arms and stroke the
throbbing temples. Toward evening,
when the rest of the passengers were out
at dinner, he asked her with passionate
tremor in his voice to give him the right.
She was trying to swallow the tea he
had again brought in to her. Pushing it
away, she said angrily:
Jack, you bother me to death. Don't
ever mention that subject to me again.
for ! viii not marry You. Go away, and
don't speak to me at all. T" Then the
aching head dropped wearily back on the
pillow.
Jack paled, took the half emptied cup.
and walked silently out of the car. That
was the last she saw of him that night.
She had her berth made up early, and.
utterly exhausted, soon fell into refresh
ing sleep, from which she awoke in the
night with the headache gone.
Her first thought was of Jack, and her
eyes opened wide with shame as she re-
membered her rudeness to the man who
had always been SO kind to her. She re-
called the panied, set look, as he had
turned away the evening before, and re-
! solved to ask his pardon the first thing in
the morning, when of course he would
forgive her and they would be good
friends again.
Morning found Gladys herself again,
sweet and pretty as ever; but no Jack to
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