The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-06
] A HOPELESS CASE. :
sWhy Eleanor Gave4Up Her Search
b for an; Idea1s Man. 8.

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air sweeping freshly down the
rows OF tall houses on. eitherihan you
| tasted at its bestNthat kcencst of stimu-
lants-iced oxygen. ut was = day of the
gods. ct to putnewslife dnto,the. most
despa iring SOUL ard its inv; Sorating ef-
fect,waS iplainl y lvisi blelintthe bearing
of a carefully dressed, slightly rUtund
l.gentlema an OF middl essizeEanCissom
tless than middlei las he came around
|, the corner Of theAarenue and :fwalhed
,briskly southwark, This plump well
groomeds gentleman swas Mr.. Anthony
Amory; his was not4a despairing.souI,
however, in spite off the fact. that he
was on his way totplead-for the last
, time as. he had resclTed-Vvhat he felt
to be hopeless case,
He rangithe bell at the last'house in
the block, tand was usnered into the IL
.,brary. AS he entered that .remotest
fand most Iindividualized of the more
Jpublic apartments of the Winchester
/ house, hekwondered, as he had often
/ wondered < before, how it was that
Eleanor Winchester had impressed her
personality'so strongly upon it that the
room seemed alive around her. To his
mind. at aeast, even such stoiid things
as the chairs, the rugs and the book
cases pefiscted something of that alert,
intensea spirituality com bined with a
dash ofthic which was her own especial
charm. Some one had said once that
Miss Winchester united d New England
soul and 4 New York style, and to his
appre hension the same piouant COM
binatipn was carried out in her sur
roundtngs.
TheHe had been other days, plenty of
them .when he had also wondered how
1T was'ahat girl Of this type had at
tractexl Anthony Amory; he had, in
deed, supposed that he was safely past
the sentimental stage of life. Those
daysA however. were long over. Now
that fIeNh had recovered from the first
shock Of surprise at finding that he
was, if vanything, worse hit than he
might have been ten years earlier, it
seemed asA natural as the sunrise that
he should love her
The present visit, although it was
the first time\ Mr.. Amory had seen Miss
Winchester since her return to town
the week 'befone, was evidently not of
the nature of ian ordinary call, and
after the first interchange of greetings
neither of them pretended to treatit as
such. She was sitting near the win.
DOWN an Immensely puffy and COM
Portable chair, andswhen he had taken
his scat opposite her. where he had the
best light on her face. sthev surveyed
each other in expectant silence for
moment; then Mr.. Amory bent for
ward and picking up a,carved paper
cutter from the ia bic sc,wtinized it at
tentively.
served, In which you undertook TO,
formulate your objections to me. AS
You were saying last June
''Of all the foolish things said last
June that promise was the most TOOL
ish.'
Because your objections are SO nu-
merous2"
"No. Because the formulation OF.
them is so hard
Il do not feel disposed to let you off
the contract" said Mr. Amory.
smoothly, stlll examining the paper
cutter.
Up 10 this point Miss Winchester
been leaning back IN the big chair;
now she held. her 1.-the figure erect.
crossed her hands in her lap and lifted
her eyes iearlesslv. An adora bic gray
lily settled down upon her face.
Please notice that have not asked
y - 81 oil
tell YOU all about il. You know new
err have. The ether times we have
talked about this we have not done It
seriously and calmly -
u was serious enough" murnured
Mr.. Amory. but She ignored the inter
ruption
You have been excited, and ! an
afraid have not been just"
1t Is not justice l want at vour
hands" She waved this remark aside.
That first she said.
GO on. then. and be just.'r
Apparently the task she had set her
self was not an easy one.
Il dare say ] am going to make some
impossible remarks, She began. uncer-
;ain,y.
Don't Get nervous" said Arucry
reassaringiy, nothing that voa say Is
SoanE - make any difference, vou
know
You told ne once. sac said Sovl7.
casting aboas for her words, that
was consumed by the passion for per-
lection; and everybody admits .ha, all
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