Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-12-19

couia not reel mucn disappointed. Inc
sky and tho river would have made up
for a much greater loss. We drifted
back almost in silence. listening TO the
soft Ilash Of the water against the boat,
the dreary whispering OF the trees on the
bank ard at intervals the farof cry OF
O hawk.
Presently Ed interrupted It all.
~ want 10 give you something be.
fore you 60" he announced suddenly.
MAY r.
why. yes. II II Isn't too valuable" ]
answered priggishly in desperate at
tempt 10 be proper.
81 assure you 1t II absolutely worth.
less unless you care for it," and he dex-
terously tossed long. folded paper into
my lap. Another Of the legal jokes he
was always laboriously perpetrating!
Yes-a deed this time, carefully filled
out, except a short blank space near the
top:
This indepture, made this Goth day Of June,
In the year ~ our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-one. between Edward
Mills Rice, PARTY Of the first part, and - -
-, OF the second part, witnesseth that the
said party OF the first part, for aud In consider
alton OF love and affection To him In hand paid
by the said party OF the second part, the re
ceipt whereof Is hereby confessed and a
knowledged, docs by these presents grant, ba
gain, sell, remise, release, alien and confirm
unto the said party OF the second part and TO
her heirs and assigns forever all that certain
piece or parcel of humanity situate and being
at present In the city OF Ann Arbor. county OF
Wsshtenaw aud state OF Michigan, and de-
scribed as follows, TO Wit: An ordinary enough
piece of goods, reasonably well educated and
moderately well fixed; twenty three years old
and quite alone in tn. world, with no eyes 10
speak Of. and AT least two years OF grinding
yet ahead. together with all and singular, tie
hereditanents aud sppurtenances belongiu q
or Ia anywlse appertaining. 10 have and To
hold the said -
Tread no further.
ed. why don't you give this to Or
pha?'
"Orphaw he echoed. "She wouldn'I
have it.; Won know she wouldn't. Anc
besides added the audacious youth
"shs as paid me the consideration
int. n Ied therein"
Vell. goodness knows I didn't sun.
pose had, either. Ed. But-whats shal
do with this?'
"luu might just write your name IL
the space left for it" he suggested.
didn't quite dare TO.
leaned my chin upon my hand. looked
into the water aud thought. But Ed,
face tioated persistently between me ano
all prudential considerations. "He is a
year younger than you. What about tht
mature ready made man whom you a.
sured Tom you should marry WhaI
will Tom sayl And how supremely ri.
diculous and inconsistent! Refuse Tom
because he wasn't old enough and marry
o man six months younger than he and
twice as boyish looking! But, If choose
to be inconsistent, whose business is IL
anyhow" would not reason. | would
not consider" | shot swift smile up
into Eds anxious face and then with my
fountain pen traced in round deliberate
characters across the space he had left
Kate Marion Barrett.
] have the old deed yet. Since our
marriage 1t has lain in state, the sole oc-
cupant OF u convenient pigeonhole in my
writing desk. Here | often run across
IL and smile as | wonder whether in
dear old Ann Arbor, fragrant with the
memory of countless student romances,
the momentous question was ever be-
fore or since asked and answered In such
unpoetic fashion. But Ed and | don't
care. We have had our poetry since
Kitty Carew in Detroit News.