The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-03-26

| NHioNJi u Ntics Dottit, all pldfb On II
table In front Of Frank and waited for
to help himself.
''Look here Carruthers. " said Mordle,
briskly. "lol forget dnner-party,
You come 10 chat and smoke with me,
You don t smoke you don't chat What S
up"
Nothing" Frank lou ed himself and
took cigar
Nothing said the curate. THAT
mean everything
well then. G, eryth 'ng."
''And everything, as / take it, means
tell me what it m ans. Carruthers Ma :
| with you joy'
There was imp in Sllvanus' throat
but he cho ed it down manfully. Frank
wondered at the curate Quickness in
guessing Men in love always wonder at
the pre- ernatural gift of detection with
which their friends seem endowed.
May wish you joy" reiterated Nor
die.
"fou may wish W at you like but Che
trdth is we are Partners in misfortune"
You have tried .
'And failed Frank raped the words
out sharply. Mordle looked the pict re
Of surprise. lie held his hanl olt to his
visitor.
| Hang it, said Frank. Il don't want
pity. If you bore it, | suppose | can. E"
ur cases are different. You felt GER
tain Of sue ess"
Did |! If so it was only one of the
delusions natural to man of my age. "
''Expla II.
The oil er you grow tie more liable
you are to d illusions. A man between
thirty and forty more easily delu les him
self into believing that woman love;
him than boy of twenty do S.
''Ha' said Mordle. 'All new to me,
this. ct me think it over The cIrate
lived an argument OF this sort. Present.
ly he looked ur.
THAT all rot - he sa d. boy of
twenty modest and good can t see any
reasol for woman's loving him. Man
OF thir or forti- successful in life, say -
measured his strength against his fellows
p can help feeling he : ute worth be-
ing loved ee how falacious your argu-
ment.n
"Never m nd sai Frank; it doesn't
mat er which way you take it. +"
: | say conth ed Mordle, laying his
hand on Franks shoulder. "Listen to
my advice. Eon't you take no for an
answer
81 Il ask no woman twice to be my
wife, said Franz, with conclusion num-
Der tire fresh in h mind
lyon might ask is he twenty times
aud feel ha Ply If YOU ct her then. But
twenty times W MT he needed She loves
you II W, Cerruthers. -
what folly you talk"
II DON'T never ak folly. / have
seen you gether. / have watched her
closely as watch one of my flock who
leans toward dissent | have seen what
you haven seen, and again / say, don t
take No for an ans err
Let us talk of something else, +" said
Frank. All the same the old p overb
about The locke -on and I ga came o
his mind. Under some circumstances |
there l. much solace to be got out of prov
erbs.
They talked of something else. but as it
always does when man in love that
something else veered round ever to the
one thing. At last Frank tn ew T. e end
OF his cigar away and ba the curate
good nigh. Mordle EN- hattie CHEEKY
rs 'ertion that he on hit not to despair had
done h m good although he still swore he
would not "grovel and ask again.
His guest having left him, Sylvanus
'%~" ii''Oit UP anu pdttcu his CHtSl APP
proyingly. THAT was magnanim us,
very magnanimous, " he said ,'to helm
rival like that. But | am thoroughly
cur d. s could afford to do It..
He always It'd h msalf he was cuIel.
Perhaps he was. All the same the Rev.
Sylvanus Mordle is bachelor to this day.
Frank went back to Hazlewoo House.
and apologi ed for his strange absence as
best he could. He had been seized with
a splitting headache and compelled to
seek fresh air Strange TO say a splitting
headache has also driven Miss Clauson,
not to fresh air, but to her room. "Thun-
der In the air, no doubt,1-said Herbert,
The most unsuspleious of men.
About half past eleven the last of the
que ITS departed. Frank in a moody sui
len way watched Horace an Herbert as
they went from window 10 window trying
shutters and bars and bolts. He did not
smile even when Horace gravely and de-
llherately counted the forks and sroons In
Whittaker's ha ket the exact plate given
out Tor dinner parties whilst Herbert
blended together Two hal emp. led bottles
d sherry and made them ole full one.
me domestic duties were at last finished:
ne bottles locked up; tie spoons and
rks snugly tucked up in little channels
Gather Tags, ready to be put to rest in the
'ate until again wanted. Horace and
Herbert looked at Frank.
''Shall we go q bed now, or would you
ike to stay up lOnger?"
Frank started out of his reverie. He
lid not feel in the least inclined for led.
IF you don mind" he said, III will 90
nto the library and write some letters
ne fresh air has ma % me so wide awake
nat sha MT be able to sleep for a long
lme. "
They did mind OF course; but were too
'ollte to say 50. Whitaker wac ordered
o take the lamp into the library, and
frank babe his cousins good night.
PLEASE turn the wi k down low before
'ou blow it out SAD Horace.
And entreated Herbert. .swould Won
mind turning the hearth rug upside down
'hen you leave the room9 IL makes il
ast so much longer
Frank promised, wondering the Will
Thy & constitution of hearth rug was
nch tat the night and early II orninp air
nna red 1t. Then he sought the library.
losed The do r, and vas alone with his
wn Il oughts
Then lie THE to read. Naturally he
lrned 10 poetry. All lovers turn TO II n,
levitaby as duck 90 to water lie
'oS Tennyson from the shelf, and fort O
rst time in hi, life symp thi ed with the
used got stical zero OF "Lockslev
an. After Is he csanced upon
liume OF Mrs, Browning ;, and read
'out the poet who, although so passion ,
g In love with Lady Gerald ne, was