Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-11-21

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"but because | play tennis with YOU. -
"Oh, cried Miss Eastwater as she
retied the yellow bow on her hat,
isn't it too bad then that | am going
! away tomorrow for the rest of the
| summers"
Going for the rest of the SUMMER!
! Clymer WAS sure none of those twenty
two happy men with licenses ia their
pockets bad ever known such suffer-
| Ing as this He leaned against a tree.
! He could not remember feeling so
strange since that day be tainted in the
| office, after being up all nignt with
| the poor agent who had the rheumatic
! fever.
Then you are not sorry to goPn be
whispered You will not miss me?'
Lydia Eastwater tied the yellow bow
once more. IL was growing into
deeper twilight. The one bar Of red in
the west was all there was le.l OF the
day Size bic "A moth THAT huttercd by
in the dusk
"Wny. yes, | shah care. | shall
care very much indeed She looked
straight at MIN. and the red in the west
got into her cheeks Cvmer started
forward, throbbing with new life
lie forgot all about the first act and
even about the liit one All be saw
was girls eyes A he felt was her
soft lips.
Then the other players came walk
ing across the lawn ip the twilight,
and the next day Miss Elstwater vent
away.
Ctymer wrote TO her of course He
stole the time In which io DO this from
the county. But the answers were not
just what he uad expected they would
be-.
They were full Of pleasant gossipiug
and even OF the expression of those
girlish opinions which most youne
madens hold and which so strongly
resemble copybook notices But she
said very little Of just the sort of thing
that Clymer desired her to say. He
consoied himself by looking at every
applicant for a license who thrust his
face in at the little window and reflect
ing:
"Ah! my man, you look happy now.
But | know What you have been
through! You may not believe it. but
| myself have experienced the rapture
of fitting close to The first act and am
now in the midst of the perplexities
which are so necessary TO the progress
of the play. My dear fellow, take this
tlIed-Out blank with my blessing. IL
looks very common place, perhaps, to
the uninitiated. But you aud | are
perfectly aware that it is the passport
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None of these remarks were audible,
of course. They were the combined
soliloqu.es of Ciymer the lover aud
Clymer the clerk. The mau who sup
piled the Office with legal blanks stood
aghHst at this time at the number con-
sumed ia what was technically known
AS Cupjd's departments
They seemed so remarkably in ex-
cess OF the number Of applications re-
corded that the night clerk might,
with some show of Justice, have been
accused of throwing them into the
waste basket.
Aud il is true that they did 90 there,
but not until a deal of labor had been
expended upon them, not until the
blank spaces revealed the fact that
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