The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-05-19
A HARD PROBLEM.
How It Solved Itself in a Short
limo.

Willis Dean read the last sentence of
he book slo WY, and then put the vol
omc down on the grass beside him,
looking up at his companion, who was
sitting in big rocking chair intent on
a piece of intricate embroidery.
And they lived happily ever after
wards. suppose" he said
Perhaps they didn't Perhaps they
found ont in year that it was all
mistake"
Not il they really loved each other"
..Is that always an assurance of per-
feet happiness then-if they only love
each other"
Mo- said Dean. redectively; per
haps not; and. besides, they might be
separated. But lack of love in "A union
like that would oe certain misery, !
think
Miss Gray vouchsafed no reply. but
went on with her work, counting the
stitches at difficult point in its elabor
alton.
Dean got up. stretched his long limbs.
and then leared his shoulder against
the trunk of the big elm.
.Well. Helen" he said, 'the book is
finished. | have no longer an excuse.
even TO myself. l am going in the
morning"
Miss Gray looked up from her work,
but returned to it quickly
..Do you need an excuse then?" she
said. half petulant'y.
Yes. can you sug gest one?'
II do not believe in excuses"
Not when they might prolong the
happiness of a fellow mortal?"
Miss Gray laughed nervous little
laugh and made no reply.
Willis threw himself down again on
the grass and looked up drcamily at
On. it'll. cottony clouds that foated
across the sky.
Heller" he said at length, there !.
story that would like to tell Won
! would like TO get your opinion, for i
concerns a very dear friend Of mine
Will YOU tell me what you thinl
about it Il tell his tory?"
IF / can will"
well. IL is a question OF ethics. NJ,
friend j. engaged-or perhaps 1 am no
beginning right.
Once upon time . young man. q
very young man. met very younI
lady. Their parents were warm friends
tire two young people saw q great dea
Of each other and the consequence
easy to imagine.
..One evening they went walking il
the garden. | think there was moon
and she was dressed in white with
single flower at her THROAT She wen
tripping along the walk with littl
song on her lips, and her eyes wer
bright in the moonlight.
THAT happened which almost a
ways happens. The moonlight, he
song and the brightness Of her eyes 60
all mixed up in my friends head an
heart and he supposed he loved he
Perhaps he did-theh.
HE told her so. arid she gave him I'll
flower and let him Hiss her.
They were very young. but the
both had money enough, SO that tn 81
was nothing impossible about it, and
told her father the next day The
were engaged. but their parents stip'
is'@d that tb~v ms. not be Marie
for ever SO many years.
She was sent away to school TO
herself for the position which she won
pccupy as his wife. and he went to CO
lerc. They wrote to each other, fat
fully at first. then irreguiarly. Th'
met NJ vacation times and told ca'
other a good deal that they had n
bothered to write in their letters
Once he went to sleep while she W
telling him about reception she we
70. Then she stopped telling him abo
her doings altogether
But they did not break their z
gagcmcnt. She was naturally an ane
Tomato girl. and Tor her, at least, the
continued 20 b. certain amount OF
nance about fths affair: besides, the