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

NJ oON 10 IN LIVE WITH TWO WOMEN.
"Tom," he said, "I'm going to tell
story"
"Make it short" said Tom, his man
ner shorter than any story on record.
81 like two fine women" began
Mordaunt, sheepishly, "and"-
"You don't know which one likes
you," finished Ives.
Come, like that" sharply said
Mordaunt. Look here: women seem
to regard you differently from the
way they regard other men-sort of
brOtherly, you know"
Ives glared at him.
81 thought" pursued Mordaunt,"
that you might be able to help me"
80 wife?' demanded Ives. I've
helped more than one man that way"
"Charles Clayton, for instance"
Mordaunt said, as under the circum-
stances he was justified in saying.
mo wonder she hates me-" mildly
murmured Ives, as though he COM
muned with himself, utterly oblivious
to his surroundings.
Mordaunt felt better and better.
"rom," he said, 'it's like this: fell
low knows that two certain ladies
think the world of him, but he can't
decide which he likes the better. Sup
pose he wants to get out of such a
quandary, what do you, who know
women so well, advise him to do?"
Hang himself" Ives answered.
Mordaunt shrugged his shoulders
and laughed, as though he could un-
derstand the vagaries of his friend
to-day.
"No," said Ives, picking up his pal
cite, don't come to me with love
matters. Go to woman-any woman:
she'd like it Go to your mother even"
Atwhich Mordaunt cooled. He was
still in difficulty. Suppose he went to
Nell Clayton, when he did not know
if it were she he loved? Before him
rose her beautiful face, her tender,
half-sad eyes, and his heart beat un-
comfortably. Then came the face of
Kate Thorn. Kate None of your
GATHERINGS or Kathryns; but Kate
Kate, suggestive of hazel eyes, wind
back of the small head blowing over
the fair broad brow little wisps of
brown hair, holding in it an inexplica-
BILE sheen of gold. Suppose he went
to Nell, only to find that it was Kate
he loved? On the other hand he might
go to Kate and become entangled in
her eyes, to discover that Nell wned
his heart.
"The unexpected always happens"
he said irritably. THE way out NAV
come of ITSELF" and took himself off.
81 wonder" unused Ives, IF he's in
love with two women at the same
time? It's hard enough to take them
singly." Then he saw Kate Thorn's
letter pickering on the cooler Goals in
the CRATE. "Must Harry have this
sorrow, poor old duffer?" he said.
Now, Harry was his brother in
Edinburgh He took the letter and
read its few curt lines.
"rll go to her." he said. "She
mustn't throw him over like this "
Miss Thorn was at home. She had
a visitor to whom she had told how
she was about to give up Harry.
81 can't see him." she said; my
eyes are too red"
I'll draw the curtains" suggested
her visitor. ''See him and have il
over; of course, he comes in answer to
your note about Harry. I'll go behind
this door, There! it's nice and dark,
ana he'll be sure to tumble over some
thing and hurt his shins. To upset
him little more, tell him you have a
splitting headache and he must speak !
low"
Ives was shown in.
Il have splitting 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 loved 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 be
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 90 very far |
wrong If he has you near his heart. |
You women listen too readily to gossip
against those you love. For you do |