Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-09-19

creation OF my own brain, independent
OF any similar feeling on her part, or wa.
1t what II seemed, and could therefore
know because ] experienced it that she
was similarly impressed.
! 1T would tire you to read the de,
tails; 1t Is enough to say that made the
most OF our acquaintance. called a.
often az possibly could, oftener than /
had any right to; met her at receptions
and any other entertainments where she
was likely TO go; went with her to the
theater and to the Beethoven club, at
one Of whose meetings l had first made
her acquaintance-in short, took every
opportunity could find or make Of see
I, ing her.
FINALLY went with her, her father
and party on an excursion in a private
car to q new city, where he was working
7, up real estate boom.
"On our return / seized q favorable
opportunity and told her that loved
her-how did it cannot tell even You
and of course Ireceived the reply that
she was engaged. But she said it very
sweetly, and made me love her better
than ever Then / said, How wish /
had known you sooner and she said, 4
wish so too
"'Then, darling, if you do wish it you
need not; II 1t can be that you love me-
an, you do, | see you do--you can marry
me in spite of all
"'No, will not break my promise, and
will have to give up your acquaintance
unless you respect it,
1promise;' was too happy at finding
out my love returned to care very much.
1t could not be kept of course, and
very soon broke it by asking Ethel If she
did not think it wrong to marry man
who she did not love.
Il think ii is wrong to break faith
with one who is faithful 10 me- she
said, and SO would you if you were
treated that way yourself
"'Yes, know that, but as am the
one to profit by it think that it is all
right and the other fellow ought not to
care. certainly think that you ought
at any rate to tell him that you love him
no longer
"'Yes, | ought to do that, and will;
but l will offer to fulfill my promise,
though it was made principally to please
my parents, as see now, and, without
the love that could alone justify it,
"This she did, and soon thereafter re-
ceived letter from her fance, in which
he thanked her for her frankness, and
told her that she had relieved him from
a similar embarrassment, as he had
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engaged elsewhere, but had felt in honor
bound to her. Such are the curious and
lnexplicable workings of the human
heart, but did not quarrel with them,
for they brought me my hearts desire.
Zone day asked Ethel if she had ever
been in Tennessee.
YES she said; two years ago in Oc-
tober, on visit to my grandparents.
"'Wers you on the Nashville, Chatta-
nooga and st. Louis train, and did you
get off at Uxton station?
eyes
"'Then You are, as have believed, the
woman saw On the train then. Darling.
| fell in love with you then, and have
been hunting for you ever since
"'And you are the man who stared at
me so hard on the train and followed
me off, leaving his hat behind; recog-
nized you when we were first intro
duced'
"We were married, very quietly, al
though in church, just month before
the time originally set for Ethel's in
tended marriage, and we are now on our
wedding tour.
$50 you see did find my ideal, and
have won her, and you will have to i'm
agine how happy am, for it is beyond
the power of words to tell you. w. P.
w. in Atlanta Constitution.