The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-09-17

very convincing air. Marden made ~
answer, and his companion continna -. !.
"You know / always said thar 7
never could marry anybody who
was not perfectly gentlemanly!
| :Do you mean that am nor !
gen.leman?" said Marden.
"Why, of course not. That waa.
why why | liked YOU"
| "Oh!'
"And I always thought you were
the nost perfect man in that re-
spect."
"Thank you! I am very grateful.
but will you tell me when it was that
failed to be what you thought
| me?'
| "And I always thought you were
| the most generous and unselfsh man
| I ever knew, and am certain that T
never had any reason to change that
| idea."
sWell?"
"And you know there was never
anybody else that | cared for" #
"Well?" #
"You were always so handsome and
brave and-and-yes, I will say ir-so
loving" -
"Well?"
$50 you must see that could not
have wanted to do it,"
ooh, but that does not explain why
you did do it,"
~ know it. Only it is so hard, and
Frank, you are not helping me a Bit"
II don't see why need to. You
were independent enough to throw me
over and make me miserable for life"
"Have you been miserable, Frank?"
81 think have almost died." said
Marden, solemnly.
"Have you? I have been miserable
too, Frank. And I have missed your
steps, and your voice, and your laugh
II have missed your laugh very much
Frank" .-
"We used to have such pleasant
times together, Grace" III
eyes, and mother says that the
house sounds so lonely without you
in the evening"" =
II thought a great deal of your
mother" 49,. r-.7. H..
II know you did. Yes, we did have
happy times. I shall never. forget
them. And to think that now they
are all over. came up here because
l hoped would forget all about it,
and now [tearfully] you have brought
it all back-again-and know I shall
go on feeling worse and worse-and- -"
Poor little Miss Grenville fell to Sob
bling as if her heart would break. 1t
was more than Marden could stand.
"Grace," he said, "don't. Let's
patch it up in some way. Tell me
what I did and let's fix it up" -
"We can't" sobbed the young wom-
an from her corner. -
o"Well, tell me anyway"
ut won't do any good, Frank, but
III try if you say must" -
"You really must"
81 know you'll laugh at me and say
Pm agoose. You always did do that"
III will be as sober as-as prayer
meeting" vowed the young man.
"Well, then, it was about that Miss
Sanger-you know what you said
about her" sss;<tsIs +
"Iknow I must be very stupid, but
1 don't quite remember all about it.
You had better tell me. Where did I
see her?'' -a@s
cat the pond, and it is really to
your credit that you don't remember.
I shall think of that and be grateful,
Frank, in after years. I said she was
horrid, and you said she was clever
and had beautiful eyes," .-s d
81 think do remember now. She
was the girl who had such funny
squint, wasn't ,she?'y $3.50. .
81 don't think ever noticed that,
Frank" 49,. ...s.e
"Well, she did. And she didn't
know who Ibsen was. That was why
said she was clever and had beauti-
full eyes; meant it the other way, you
know"
did youreally, Frank? Then Ihave
misjudged you all this time"
Half an hour later Miss Grenville
lifted a happy but tear-stained face
from Marden's shoulder and looked
doubtfully up at him. ..,s
"Frank," she said.
''Well, sweetheart" ...
II don't believe I know who Ibsen
was, either. Was he one of those hor-
rid nihilists?" ."4,.
''No, DEAR" said Marden, gravely,
che wasn't quite that, but / guess it
doesn't make any difference now
J. T. Newcomb in Springfield, Mass.
Republican.