The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-01-28
SPEAKING THE
Truth FOR A DAY.
CHAPTER IV.-CoNTNuED.

"And so, Lizzy, by merely answer
ing truthfully such questions as have
been put to me, have been driven
forth from my employers office"
"And serves you right! / think you
must have been out of your senses!"
exclaimed Lizzy, flushing deeply at
this double-folly; as she would have
termed it, at this double ruin, as she
felt it to be, cts enough to ruin your
employers business. I'm sure /, for
one, shouldn't blame them if they
were to sue you for slanderl Now
what are you to do?"
"God knows! / do not"
81 know one thing! Ii you had had
the slightest regard for me, you would
not have acted i'll such manner as
to bring yourself to beggary within
one month of our marriagel"
do you blame me for telling the
TRUTH"
ooh, the truth" exclaimed Lizzy,
in extreme disgust. eyes, do blame
you'll 1t was sheer madness to tell
the truth to your Gust omers. don't
think they have right to expect it.
Ii were to tell the truth to our GUS
toners, we might go into the lnsolvent
Court tomorrow. Truth, indeed! Lshall
sell this bonnet that am making for
double its cost, by sayingit is q Paris
ian bonnet; well, it is just as good,
being made after one. II you want to
do business, and get along in this
world, you must not be particular"
"More is the pity, said Joseph sad
ly.
"And as for you, Mr.. Truth-teller, I
really do wonder at your sudden con-
scientiousness. You have told me
falsehoods enough in your time, Hea-
ven knows"
"Me! told you falsehoodsv' was
upon the tip of Joseph's tongue; but
suddenly he remembered that often,
in the heat of his affection for Lizzy,
he had used terms of endearment and
| admiration that were not Warranted
by fact. He had, during these fits of
temporary insanity, called her his
CANCEL" his ''life," his "soul," where
as she was not, and could not be any
OF these things, but only pretty, lit
tie dumping of girl, of whom, how
ever, he was very fond. So the truth
| teller was obliged to reply.
Eyes, Lizzy, l have told you false
hoods; but will do so no more"
upon my world" exclaimed Lizzy,
Indignantly, II suppose, when you
told me you loved me, you told me a
falsehood? Well, declared"
"No, Lizzy, that was the truth! l
do love YOU"
| ooh, you do. I should be very
thankful for small favors! What do
you mean, then, by saying that you
! have told me falsehoods?"
II have called you the sweetest dar-
! ling in the world; and that was false,
for you are not such"
"Well, upon my world Anything
else?'
eyes; I have called you an angel,
which of course was not true"
"Humph! what else7"
ga beauty, a seraph, and my life,
and my soul; neither of whichyou are,
dear Lizzy'"
"And you told me you should die if
/ didn't marry you; and [ suppose
that was as false as the rest?"
Eyes, Lizzy, 1t was.
"Well, now, after that last speech,
I hope you will take your hat and gop'
"No. dear Lizzy, L shall not. And
now you must becontent to hear
the honest truth. Although you are
no angel nor beauty, you are a very
| good looking young girl. And though
my life actually does not depend up,
! on your constaucy, and though your
final rejection of me would not quite
kill ME, still l do love you very dear,
ly, and should feel very sorry if any
thing were to happen to part us.
mean to be true to you in word and
deed, both as q lover and as a hus,
band" said Joseph, seriously.
"Well, really ought to feel fattered
You are very sincere now, at least, u
sneered the girl.
"Iwas always as sincere as this==that
/ never meant to deceive you. Those
hyperbolical terms of admiration and
endearment, though not literally true
were at their worst only the fond ex
aggerations of sincere lover" said
Joseph, depreeatipgly,
"You never were in love with me, Oh
you are not so now, else you would
not think that hyper-What's its
1dIIlO-W11AClA OuDPOSO wv
good for me. No, Mr.. Morriss, it is
somebody else you love, not me-"
Morriss was silent, because be was
turning over In his mind a subject
that he did not clearly understand
namely, the state of his own hearth
then he replied truthlully-
mo, Lizzy, there is no one In thu
world l love as much as yourself"
"You say that very slowly ant
doubtfuily; and I see very we'll how il
is. There is some one you admire
more than you do me, and whom you
could love better than you love me
ifiyoH we're free t9 dc 50. Now isn't
that the truthPn . ,''N 80
The blood rushed to Joseph's fac,
in a crimson flush and then retreat
ing left it pale as mrrble, as in a low
unsteady voice, he replied
"Lizzy, ii you had asked me this
question bgt yesterday, 7 ghloHIa hay!
ahswered No telling you a pleasant
conventional falsehood; but to-day
speak the stern truth, and answer
Yes"
"Then why don't you take your hal
and go, as told you before?" ex
claimed the girl, flushed with wha
we are are forced to admit was very
natural Indignation.
Because, Lizzy, must first reason
with you, and then, perhaps, you will
understand me better, and not wisl
me to go. Listen to me, dear Lizzy
for you are very dear to me; if YOU
were not, ! would not tell you SO
We human creatures are many of III
aspiring beings, Lizzy, and apt to lool
up to that which is excellent, and sigl
for that which is unattainable. Lizzv
from boyhood to manhood, I hay,
watched a lovely little girl grow up in
to q lovely woman; she Is beautiful
without vanity; wise, without pedan
try; wealthy, without pride; perfec
woman, Lazy, If ever one lived in this
world"
L