The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-09-19
WILL YOU WALK OUT With ME-. MISS?"

rtage indications Of his true state, a
| state of mild deirium, when the tongue
| is charged with bitterness for that and
( for those commonly held most dear.
Another confrmatory symptom, as il
seems to me, was that the young man
! still chung TO the theme which his COM
/ panion had so oddly started; for after
/ another interval of silence he remarked
] rather SOberly:
| II cannot help thinking after all the
/ lifelong arrangement Is the best one.
/ The true difficulty lies in finding a sat
| isfactory method of courtship"
| "Can you suggest any rules and regu-
latiOns?" inquired Marina. still in that
/ calm and Slightly sarcastic tone which
/ gave no c,ew to her real sentiments.
mo. sailors are proverbially unskillful
/ in navigating the ocean of love"
/ VERY prebtily said. Mr. Walton. You
certainly must be the ships poet when
] ait sea"
! The young officer blushed. He had oc-
oasionaIy ventured into verse, and was
wondering whether that wretched brother
| of hers had ever played the false friend
| by revealing the fact.
| Possibly Miss Mulgrove observed his
! confusion. and sought TO make atonement
/ for causing it by being merciful TO his
| ignorance about courtship, for she said,
| with gracious smile:
! L viii tell you what seems TO me OBJ
solutely the best method of making love,
on one condition"
What is the condition.
why. that both of us-as soon as 1
| have enlightened yOu-keep absolutely
! silent until Tommy's boat is finished.
You promised to have II ready for him
by II, and it is now a quarter past ten"
Agreed! Your condition is harsh, but
practical" said Walton, applying himself
with fresh energy to his task of rigging
, a mainmaSt for the said vessel
We'll, 1 got my ideal of love-making
| through Mrs. Simpson"
! who is Mrs. -
Hush! you are not to speak. remem-
Der. Mrs. Simpson is the grocer's wife
down in the village; she used to be our
nurse years ago before dear mamma
died. and she and 1 have always been
great friends. One day in a frollcsome
mood 1 inquired if Mr.. Simpson was very,
very nervous when he asked her 10
marry him-he is a dreadfuly timid man,
L may say. She laughed and said:
/ don't think he ever did ask me to
marry him. Miss Marina 1t isn't our
way. He used to tease me and 1 used
to tease him for a. long time when he
came TO the parsonage for orders. Then
one morning he said quite serious like:
| will you walk out with me. miss p
II was Polly at other times. l said
| didn't mind; so We walked out to-
/ gether for nearly a twelvemOnth, and
| then began to talk about furnishing
But suppOsing in the meantime you
! had changed your minds?'
Wen, we should have had tiff
most likely. and shouldn't have walked
out together any more. that's ALL
Now, 1 think" continued Miss Null
grove that the unsentimental court
snip Of people like Mr.. and Mrs Simp-
son, who are a thoroughly happy pair
/ is vastly superior to the article supplied
by the novelist. People in their station
don't commit themselves too deeply be
fore they are married, and they are gen
orally happier afterward.'
There was a slight tremor in her voice
as she concluded. Walton, for his part,
looked grave. He had bound himself.
not 10 speak, but he was evidently dis
satisfied
1t was relief to both of them when.
at the end of half an hour, a bright,
fair-haired boy of about nine years came
leaping down the steps Of the terrace,
under the shelter of which they were
sitting. This lad was Tommy Mulgrove,
commonly called by his sister Marina,
that precious mite
Done YETI" cried he, making a tenn
| pestOus rush at his sister and planting
himself unceremoniCusly by her side
Nearly. And whit about the verb %
''EO, is, it, linus, fJis, cunt" sang out
! the youngster In a confident tone, clasp
ing Marina's arm and swinging it to the
! rhythm of his recital.
| "Hush-h-hp
| Then Tommy gave his attention to The
! ship-building. The little schooner-rigged
craft which was soon to be all his own
| was now complsted save in one respect
/ a name. The outline of this Lieut.
/ Walton was at that moment carving. As
| he finished, he said:
THAT must do for today. Thomas.
| Letters Of gold tomorrow, after the trial
trip"
''oh, but I say, that isn't fair" ex-
as he spel out the name that had been
/ carved. Look, sis! Fancy calling my
| yacht, Miss Mulgrove' l thought 1t
| was going to be Richard and Marina ;
| for you've both helped to make II for
! me, haven't you now2"
The situation was a trying one for the
| young people. On the previous day
| Tommy had in the emphatic style Of
| small boys. declared that the yacht then
| only just begun, must be called "Rich-
! ard and Marina" and no objection was
| raised at the time. Since, however there
| had been indications that Rachard con-
| templated suggesting a much more I'M
! pOrtant combination of the two names
1t was to prevent mis- designs from reach
| ing practical shape-in plain words. to
! avoid proposal-that Marina had
| started that conversation about love and
! marriage, with which the reader Is al
| ready familiar. Her free-and-easy treat
| ment of the subject made an earnest ap-
| peal such as he had determined upon
] quite impossible. And her last little
| speech contained, as he understood it,
very significant hint of her reply
! should he persist in disregarding the
! warnings of her previous remarks
| II is easy enough TO say, faint heart
never won fair lady" For all that.
| believe Richard Walton was acting IN
/ der an impulse of manly courage in ac-
! cepting his fate He loved truly enough
to see her duties as she saw them. She
| had the care of four motherless children.
! besides those numberless responsibilities
of parish work which had fallen on her
| shoulders when the mother died eight
/ years ago. And her father had never
! been himself since the shock of that
dread parting. Realizing all this the
/ young officer had, with somewhat of the
| hopeless loyalty Of knights of old, sought
! in a delicate way to indicate his submis-
! sion when he carved the prosaic words
I Miss Mulgrove" instead of those pre-
/ viously decided upon.
! But he had quite forgotten, alasl that
| renunciation is not usually part of the
/ creed Of the British boy. Master Thomas
/ Mulgrove had, according to his own
I notion, INDUCED in quite enough self
/ sacrifice already for one morning by
! committing to memory part of an ir-
/ regular Latin verb while the boat-build-
/ ing was going on. To his sturdy in
/ tellect, changing the yachts name was
/ simply a breach of contract; he had no
i feeling whatever for the sentiment con-
veyed thereby.
His sister had, however and she
blushed tremendously as she OWNED its
/ import.
II say, Marina" pursued that wrethced