Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-01-12


 ttWe will even make up the prescrip- tion ourselves and force the dose down his throat if necessary" laughed Mrs. Rogers, an audacious light in the eyes coquettishlyr lifted to meet the glance of her host. We will see that he goes, even if it compels us to go and take him ourselves"
 "Ah, if you only wouldv" murmured Donald, with his sweet, almost effemi- nate smile. Just so he had smiled Ami ta's heart away upon time when she had thought the rare tenderness of it only reused into life at her glance. She had grown wiser since, discovering that all these smiles of such sunny softness were as impartial as heavens own sun shine upon whom they fell, meaning no more than the ugliest grin of another man. But, although she knew how lit tie it implied, she could not restrain a quick impulse toward jealous anger when she saw that caressing glance fall ing upon another woman.
 Don't you think, Anita, that you are a little-well, just a little paralyzing in your manner to that poor little woman?" hazarded Donald when their guests were gone.
 Il think that I make a very painful effort to be nice to her," coldly, moving to go in doors. II don't admire your friend, you know, Don."
 And why should you not?" with good humored reasoning. Il have told you how awfully kind she was to me when 1 had mountain fever. If she did not ex- actly save my life, she at least did all that she could to make life worth the [ living through that miserable time. 1 : am under an immense obligation to her | on that score, and I can neither forget 1 nor ignore it. I wish you would think | of that, Nita, and to please me, if for no ] other reason, try to see the good there is in her."
 q would need Diogenes' lantern" in terpolated his wife.
 "She is one of the best hearted little women on earth. There is not an atom of harm in her," added Donald warmly.
 "Then why does she force upon peo- pie such different impression of her? demanded Anita sharply, leaning back against the door with an air of scornful weariness of the subject. "Why must she have some man beside her husband forever dangling after her"'
 ''For the same reason that A1cibiades cut the dogs tails off, perhaps-to give people something to talk about" un wonted irritation in his voice. "Youl allegation is little incorporate all the same, my dear The men whom you charge with dangling after Mrs. Rogers are her husbands friends, who are more particularly dangling after him, if yor want to use that word. They are jolly hospitable people, who entertain delight fully, in a free and easy way, and thei1 house is naturally popular with all the boys; and that is the sum and substance of Mrs. Rogers crimes. Other women whose evil imaginations prove them not a tithe as pure as she, are full of spiteful jealousies, and you listen to all their idle tattle because we'll" slipping his arm around her as they passed into the dimly lighted hall, ''of course can guess the main ground of your prejudice agains her. You cannot forgive the poor little woman because few vulgar gossips onc' counted me among her satellites. Bu that was such long time ago, dear; mere myth of a bygone age. And" witt . light laugh, bending to kiss her ''surely you can afford to forget it sweetheart; because it can never be saiC again."