News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-06-18

| her. at must not seem -melodra-.
matte" she said; 1T mgst be astsale,
indicating great rescT ~ pssFeF. a7'=
Each day we asked each other with
our first waking breath:
"Will he propose to-day" and
"Will he be dead by night?"
Finally day came when we each
resolved to end the suspense before
night, and i'll the recreation hour we
took our writing-blocks and wander
ed offto quiet place under the Well
esley trees, agreeing to make some
sort of an ending before we went
back; but the gambler was still alive
and the willing maid was still trying
to lare on the reluctant lover. when
the sound of distant thunder came
to our ears and q dark cloud rising in
the west warned us to return to
shelter.
1t gave us both new idea, how
ever, and we each resolved to work IL
thunderstorm into our tales.
The result was better than our
hopes. The gambler was made to
deck Just as a flash of lightning struck
the smoke-stack of his steamer, and
he was knocked senseless and then
robbed by his fiendish companions
and cast overheard where "he sunk
to rise no more"
Madge laid her tale aside with a
sigh.
'It will save sending for an under
taker, any how" she said. ''if drown
him instead of stabbing him; SO, on
the whole, | think it's the better way
As for my couple, they were idly
drifting on an ebbing tide q didn't
know then that there was no tide in
Georgian Bay, when dark clouds be-
gan to roll up, and the muttering
thunder began to reverberate among
the darkly wooded hills. They has
tily rowed to the shore, tied their
Yacht to a tree, and began climbing
q rugged precipice, while the maid
clung in terror to the soul-tossed. 1t
was too suggestive. He begged to
defend her through all life's pathway,
and in well-feigned surprise she muir
INJURED her assent just as the first
drops of the bursting storm fell and
they reached a shelter. ut was a
happy omen of future days." were
my closing words.
''My maiden is ready to don her
solitaire diamond ring" declared tri-
umphantly to M4-.d4&se. Wss ss:issed
each oUner ecsUalsfS'itch ~ ,I.n >,
she said. s'Now shall you sign your
own name to it?''
"No, indeed" | replied; GIVE de-
cided to use mans name, for l think
it would be more in accordance with
my style of composition. shall be
known as George Warner"
Madge said she did not shrink from
public gaze. She would use her own
name.
We copied our stories carefully and
sent them each to one of the two best
known magazines, and then began to
watch the daily mail for an answer.
While we continually asserted to each
other that we hadn't the least idea
they would be accepted, we each were,
| in our own minds, as continually
planning as to how We could spend
the fifty dollars thatwe duly expected
to receive.
Having heard from neither story
at the end of a fortnight, we conclud-
ed that the stories had been accepted
and were waiting to be published be-
fore being paid for, and settled back
quite composedly in that conviction.
Each day | planned a new way to
spend my money.
"Since we've been so successful in
these articles, let us write some more,
said Madge. and we did.
This time she took q love story, and
had a West Point cadet elope with a
Southern heiress, and then both OF
them went to the President to ask
pardon, and he reinstated the cadet
in the military academy, at the same
time allowing him to board at the
hotel with his bride, to the envy OF
the whole corps.
/ told a true story about a French
Canadian boy from Three Rivers who
came to our own town to earn money
for his widowed mother, and was
crushed in a jam of logs, and how
kind the rough men We're to him, and
how they sent him home to die be,
cause he longed so to see his mother
once more.
We wrote these stories rapidly and
sent them to the two next best mag.
azines of our choice. Madge said we
might just as well become known al
once to the world of~@-aders as tC
limit our scope to the circle reached
by any one periodical. In our imag
nations we now had each earned fifty
dollars more, and as the proceeds
seemed to accumulate so well we de
cided to write all that we could fine
time for.
1t made q serious inroad in my
f pocket-money to obtain the needed
stamps to send the articles away anC
} and also to provide for their being
returned, and Madge suggested tina
J we save this last expense, as it wal
2 evidently uncalled for. Then gradu
alton time came, and we had to leav
, each other and the place we loved 81
/ much.
; We debated as to whether to writ
} to all the various editors about ou
articles, and notify them of ou
b change of address, but finally decided
| to leave word with the postmaster a
; Wellesley and await results. l ha,
+ been sorely tempted to run in deb
3 for some graduating extravagances
being sure / could pay for them ou
e of my "magazine fund.-" as | no,
5 called my expected fifty dollar pay
1 ments, but had bravely resisted tn
| temptation, as it was contrary to al
1 my home training, by thinking ho,
happy [ would be later to repay IN
3, father for some of his generous out
| lay OH my pleasure.
When / got back to Maine | too
!. our village postmaster into my cor
| fidence enough to persuade him to re
+ tain any letters addressed to Georg
e Warner, for delivery to myself alone
if One after another, in the course {
S the next six months, those variou
e rejected manuscripts found their wa
back to Warmers Falls, and time a
:, ter time my margarine fund" dimir
n ished correspondingly. Daily | wa