The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-12-09

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sorrow, poor old duffer?'' he said
: Now, Harry was his brother in
Edinburgh. He took the letter and
read its few curt lines. s s =z .s.sss==
<'I'll go to her." he said. ''She
mustn't throw him over like this .=.=e
I Miss Thorn was at home. She had
a visitor to whom she had told how
she was about to give up Harry.
4 II can't see him. she said; ssmy
i eyes are too red" 5.&~7 81 .",.... !,
i '.I'n draw the curtains" suggested
her visitor. S*See him and have it
over; of course, he comes in answer to
your note about Harry. I'll go behind
this door. There! it's nice ard dark,
and he'll be sure to tumble over some
thing and hurt his shins. To upset
him a little more, tell him you have a
splitting headache and he must speak
low"
Ives was shown in.
II have asplitting headache,' said
Kate; ''you must speak low"
But he paid little heed; he was urg-
| ing Harry's case, saying how long the
boy had bowed her. how miserable it
was for her to break with him, simply
because Mordaunt kept ON repeating
all the extravagant stories he heard
about Harry. He went ON till he
found himself on his knees. ..-
''He loves you, Kate, land he hopes
to come home and claim you. He is
true to you, and he cannot GO very far
wrong if he has you near his heart.
You women listen too readily to gossip
against those you love. For you do
love Harry. You cannot look me in
the face and say you do not"
She could not.
/ ''Of course not" he said. A:Now TIL
write te him and give him stiff letter
For myself, don't believe he's done
more than play a few games of chance.
Only, Kate, dear Kate, don't send him
adr1ft. Will you be happier in giving
him up9 know what it is to give up
one we love. You never Thought of
love and me, did you? Yet, l l0ved
woman once-I was too poor i'm purse
to aspire to her. Maybe she never
thought:of me, for presented:a "a man
to her and she married him.''
You presented Harry to me, Tom?'
Eyes, and Harry loves you more
than poor Clayton loved-say, is the
door all right? thong hit it wobbled.''
II always thought You liked Nell"
81 love her,but am othing to her"
GLOW do you know ,that?'
|
How doyou knowyo you're nothing to
Nell? Don't you think a woman
sometimes ,narries from pique?"
II anything to her? Why, she
wouldn't even have a little picture
sent her to-day-her birthday. No,
no; only tell you this, Kate, to show
you the dreariness of loving and not
having. 'So'be kind to Harry, even to
his faults That door,
''Tom," she said, "a WILL" and
leaned -owet and kissed him on the
brow stay asFy uare.~sLe IT me tell
you about that goose, Nellie Clayton
She came to see me this morning. She
told me about the picture. She fears
you sent it in jest.''
I'm jest?' the horror in his voice!
IL 1ever thought"
"You never think of yourself" she
said. That's why Harry-why every
BODY depends upon you. Don't you
write to Harry-let me do it; let me
give hipa-w3ha't You said. I can do it.
But, Nell! You and she looked very
we'll together last week, taking that
country walk together-quite lover
like. And don't believe she hates
you quito. But Mrs. Mordaunt paid
her a call this morning, and told her
Fred had intended tosend that picture
to her, only you got the start of him.
Between NOu and me. Nell is very
fond of Fred; he keeps himself so
posted regarding the foibles of his
friends. His mother called on me
this morning, too love that woman.
You will perceive am in a very low
. ing mood to-day. That's why I feel
equal to giving Harry the-what you
said AS for Nell, what is a mans
lack of fortune to the woman who
loves him?"
Ives cried ONT. She raised her hand.
''There!' she said. Don't think I'm
giving you false hopes. A man who
has done without hope preferably,
should not expect the impossible. It is
my opinion that Nell will marry Fred
j die Mordaunt and'-
i The door swung back with clatter
Ives sprang to his feet. Nellie CLAW
ton, in awful confusion, confronted
them.
Kate opposed Ives.
"Why don't yom speak for yourself,
Tom?' she said, and marched toward
the door
''Kate!' family called Mrs Clayton.
You have always spoken for
Others" said Kate, nearing the door,;
flor once speak for yourself, Tom.''
''Kate!" again called the widow "I
must go. You know the &ressmaker
expects me, you foolish thing!" :"
'Don't either of you,'' said Kate, her
hand on the knob, s'attenpt to leave
this room for ten minutes TIM going
to write to Harry and give him, you
know what. Tom. Nell, listen to-
what this laggard has to say; if you d
heard 1t years ago you might have
been more agreeable person." an
disappeared, shutting the door with
emphasis. H..'.s..,- -
At the end of ten minutes --. But
why should another word he safde
Except just this: that, before those
ten minutes Were up, Mordaunt, tax
ang Ives advice concerning the adyisa-
oility of consulting a woman in affairs
OF the heart. WAS rounding corner on
HIS way home to confer with his
mother as to the way out of his diff.
Guilty. YET as he had said, the unex-
p'cted always happens; ind had not
the way out come about without very
much exertion on his part? s,,