Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-03-29

"Well!" said Nan, lifting her eyes
with a resigned expression, ''let's
hear it."
why are you not like a mirror?'
why am l not like q mirror" re-
peated Nan, wonderingly. rs it be-
cause l have no mercury on nay back?"
"Oh, pshawl Give it up!"
II suppose 1 might as we'll It would
take a more brilliant Individual than l
pretend to be to guess your conun-
drums"
"Wen, then, the mirror reflects"
shouted VIII, starting for the door as
If he expected personal violence.
well, but, Will, what do you mean?"
protested Nan.
"Oh, the stupidity Of these girls; you
make a joke for their benefit and you
have to sit calmly down and explain it
to them. Why, look here; it's as plain
as your face in the aforesaid mirror
Tor out Of it, either. for that matter).
If you had been like aforesaid mirror
would you have quarreled with such a
dandy young chap as Harry Fernald,
and would he have been sitting in
church with such a chump Of a girl as
Mat Maynard? l tell you it makes a
young brother feel mighty small to be
obliged to invite himself to go tandem
riding with a young fellow whose sis
ter's given him the go-by."
you are a ridiculous boy ana you'd
better return to your grammar and not
medd1e with the affairs of your elders"
returned Nan, freezingly, as h buried
her face in her book
As the door closed behind her brother
Nan burst into tears. The months Of
enlargement from her lover had been
hard enough to bear, but to see him de-
voting himself to another girl was
simply uncomfortable.
Six months before, Harry Fernald
and Nan Somers had been engaged
lovers and were intensely happy except
for occasional quarrels, which were
caused by Mans provoking fondness
for making tests of her lovers affec-
ton, and his angry resentment Of the
same.
Harry was SO much in love that the girl
felt she was perfectly safe in teasing
him as much as she pleased. Nan would
never tell how it came about, but one
evening Harry left the house declaring
that until Nan made him some apology,
everything must be over between them.
Since that time not one word had passed
between them, and they recognized
each other. when obliged to meet, only
by the most frigid bows
Nan sat rejecting" now with a ven
geance. In all these months she had
been assuring herself that Harry's
feelings toward her had remained IN
changed, and that sometime and some
how everything would come right
But the sight of her lover walking into
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whom everybody knew had for years
to Nan that her foolish obstinacy had
lost her the man she loved.
II won't intrude on those foolish
through the keyhole. PITY Mat had
the oil Tn off to school. Good-by."
"Oh, VIII" exclaimed his sister; lust
note to Nellie Parks to let her know If
I'd GO to rehearsal tonight l wish
you'd leave 1t on your way to school"
Talk about grammar" grumbled
Will. where's the note?"
II forgot it until this minute" cried
Nan, who was flying upstairs. 1T
won't take a second to scribble it."
In q very short time Nan ran down
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which she held out to her brother, say
ing, ''There, 1 didn't even stop to adj
dress 1t, you see. I'm sorry kept you,
but you won't be late, l know. Now
don't forget to leave it, there's a dear"
II didn't say I'd leave it. did II" re-
turned Wils provokingly. as he dropped
the ncte into his pocket with the
greatest Indifference.
VIII rushed out Of the house and
down the street until he turned a COR
ner, when he stopped, took the note
from his pocket, UNFINISHED 1t and read
| as follows:
my OWN SWEET: Everything il all right.
Come tonight at TIA Don't forget Your fond
| NAN"
"Good Lord!" groaned VIII. What
o motel Just like a girl. l declare, it
makes me sick. MY own SWEET
| Heavens"
But suddenly the expression of dis
gust on the boys face changed to one
Of wild delight, and leapin9 high in the
air and waving the note over his head
he shouted:
"I1l do it'll I will! 1 will! The joke
Of the season, by Jovel"
The flavor of the contemplated joke
must have been very pleasing. for VIII
fell to laughing. He laughed and
laughed until he was obliged to lean
against q fence for support After he
had recovered, he fshed in his pockets
and brought forth a penny which he
eyed with extreme satisfaction.
Lucky ! had It." he observed, as he
started of. Then nodding his head
decidedly, he said: ''pn do It II I have
to play hockey and get q licking"
VIII stepped into a drug store on his
way, bought an envelope, into which
h9 put his sisters note after smoothing
tit ont carefully. borrowed pen and ink
from the drug clerk and addressed it
up TO something's" inquired the
clerk
"Bet your boots," chuckled Will. ex-
pressively, as he passed out
VIII told his sister hat night, in an
swer to her inquiry, that he had deiiv-