People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-10-20

love Harry. You cannot lock me in
the face and say you do not"
She could not.
"0f course not" he said. "Now I'll
write to him and give him stiff letter.
For myself, l don't believe he's done
more than play few games of chance.
Only, Kate, dear Kate, don't send him |
adrlft. Will you be happier in giving |
him up? | know what it is to give up
one we love. You never thought of |
love and me, did you? Yet loved a
woman once-I was too poor in purse
to aspire to her. Maybe she never
thought of me, for presented man
to her and she married him"
You presented Harry to me, Tom?'
"Yes, and Harry loves you more
than poor Clayton loved-say, is the
door all right? / thought it wobbled."
81 always thought you liked Nell"
al love her, but | am nothing to her"
"How do you know that?'
THAT door"
"How doyou know you're nothing to
Nell? Don't you think woman
sometimes marries from pique?'
Il anything to her? Why, she
wouldn't even have little picture l
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, 81 WILL" and
leaned ovef and kissed him o., the
brow. stay as you ar let me tell
you about that goose, Nellie Clayton
She ca%Ge 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 Fever 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 him-what you said l can doit.
But, Nell! You and she looked very
well together last week, taking that
country walk together-quite lover
like. And don't believe she hates
you quite. But Mrs. Mordaunt paid
her call this morning, and told her
Fred had intended to send that picture
to her, only you got the start of him.
Between you 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 l 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 out 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. Il is
my opinion that Nell will marry Fred.
die Mordaunt and
The door swung back with clatter.
Ives sprang to his feet Nellie Clay
ton, in awful confusion, confronted
them.
Kate opposed Ives. |.
"Why don't you speak for yourself,
Tom?" she said, and marched toward
the door. I.
''Kate!' family called Mrs. Clayton.
"You have always spoken for
others" said Kate, nearing the door:
'for once speak for yourself, Tom"
"Kate!" again called the widow. 81
must go. You know the dressmaker
expects me, you foolish thingl"
Don't either of you" said Kate, her
hand on the knob, attempt to leave
this room for ten minutes I'm 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 it years ago you might have
been a more agreeable person." and
disappeared, shutting the door with
emphasis.
AT the end of ten minutes -. But
why should another word be said?
Except just this: that, before those
ten minutes were up, Mordaunt, TAX
ing Ives advice concerning the advisa.
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-
pected always happens; and had not
the way out come about without very
much exertion on his part?