The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-11-07
THE TIME CAME.

thingT sighed Nillicent very softly to |
herself. II do believe If it were nothina |
more than getting run over by a car. |
rage with nobody in it, so he would no,
really be hurt very much. that mana
would be 80 pleased he would LET n.
marry each other after all. But Dick
won't. I'm afraid he'll never do any.
.ning. he never has" And then she
looked over at Dick, who sat very meek.
ly on the other side of the room twirl.
Ing his gloves listlessly, and she pouted.
II suppose you are pouting at me-
said Dick.
YES" she answered.
Tim sorry" he continued. 81 sup
pose it's because l don't amount to any.
thing?'
"Of course it is, Dick" she answered.
well, what in the world can ]
amount tor asked Dick dejectedly. 81
cannot go and make fortune, for I'm
rich already. l can't found a great fam
lily, because ours has been as good a one
Tor centuries as fellow can wish, and
besides that would take too long.
haven't the talent to be an artist ]
haven't brains enough to be profes
sional man. Every one agrees on that.
L am too small to be a soldier, and if
went into business it would only be
question of time before I'd lose my
money instead of making any. They
all agree on that too. All can be is
gentleman, and no one seems to care
anything about a gentleman any more.
l believe your father would like me bet.
ter if l were an adventurer."
''Oh, no, he wouldn't" interrupted
Millicent. But the colonel would like
to see you once in awhile without such
awfully good clothes on. Papa has had
hard struggle in this world, and he
doesn't seem to have any confidence in
any one who has not. He is always talk
ing about the duty man owes to the
world to do something for it."
II would be willing to do anything fol
the world could, Millicent, but don't
know what to do, and don't believe |
could do it if 1 did know"
II believe if you had got angry and
called him names when he refused to let
me marry you he would have turned
right around and said yes. But all you
did was to pick up your hat and gloves,
bow very politely, and say good evening
and walk out. That's no way to handle
papa; he needs an iron hand, and he gets
it occasionally from his only daughter
too" Here Millicent shook her head
emphatically.
"But respect your father too much
Milly, to say anything mean to him, and
if had, then he wouldn't have let me
come to see you any more, and that
would have been more than could have
stood"
You're not like other men, Dick?'
mo, I'm afraid not. suppose that:
why they call me dude. But I'm mo-
a dude; I'm not silly. l can't get my
clothes soiled, no matter how try, ant
as 1 never seem to wear them out,
haven't got any that look like old ones
The fact is I can't help looking what
ana boy who has been brought up IL
kid glove. IF I wore blue jeans and ;
flannel shirt they'd always look new"
"Why couldn't you get into fgh
with some one?" suggested Millicent DIES
perately.
"Pm afraid no one would fight wit
me, I'm so small" he answered.
"Papa was awfully delighted with tn
butchers boy and the grocery boy III
other day when they got into fight i
our back yard. 1t frightened me, bu
the colonel went out and gave them eac
dollar, and laughed all the rest of til
afternoon about it"
81 might get the boxing master at til
club to give me a black eye; don't SUI
pose it would hurt very much. But II
did the colonel would find out that
didn't get it in fight, and he woul
think that 1 had been trying to deceiN
him."
Dick" said Millicent seriously,
wonder if you are afraid:'
81 don't know what you mean"
afraid of the dark, or of danger,
anything like that-for instance, L
afraid of the dark"
mo" answered Dick. 81 don't thin
am afraid of the dark. l don't kno
about anything else, for don't believe
ever had anything to be afraid OF"
Millicent sighed again very softly
herself. 1t was rather a hard state
affairs. Here was the man she want
tomarry; just the kind OF q man she Wi
her imperious ways could get along WI
beautifully; boy whom she had know
all her life; whose father had been b
fathers friend; whose mother had be
her dead mothers friend; and ma
too, whom she loved-and always had
since she was little girl in short dres:
and he boy in knee trousers, and tn
could not get married because In
eyes of her father he didn't amount
anything Would he ever amount
ANYTHING? What did she care? Was
brave and manly? What did she ca
Was he brave and manly?
The question gave her an insplratl
1t wouldn't be much of trial, but
would at least be little bit of fun,
all they had done in all their courts
was to sit on opposite sides of the par
and talk to each other. She rose
went out into the hall. Dick eyed
as she went out, but he never question
anything she did, so he said noth1
She walked back to the stairs leading
the basement and looked down. Eve
thing was satisfactorily dark. The Ii
in the lower hall had been turned
and from this she knew that the sc
ants had gone to bed. 1t was nea