The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-10-10

W uy tOts DuNrAiB iNN tSh
wont them aud IN sure don't" "
IL do Please give them back to
m"
'What for?"
"To kecpl To remind me-
''Of my folly?"
cor my own. r.
"Your folly is over and done witt.
Our engagement is broken of, he says
modify. Better forget it ever oxiat-
ed"
II cannot do that" with an irrepress-
iblc littlo sob. Il am waiting for those
letters"
Take thom, then =" And he throws
them down on the table. Keep them
to compare with Horne's il you like.
don't care. "
How can you insult me soP What
right have you to think me so mean, so
heartlcss?' | cry Indignantly. And
you cared for me once, or pretended to.
Il did care, l caro- now, though
know I'm only fool for my pains,
bitterly. "Honrtless do You sayI How
can help thinking you heartloss after
your conduct last night?"
"Ny conduct? And what Of yours?
If danced with Frank, and, yes, tiirt-
ed with him little, you were flirting
all the time with Celia and Mollio, and,
oh, thore wasn't a girl in the room that
you didn't lirt witnl You know there
wasn't.
"Ygs, and you should know that there
is safety in numbers, lac retoICs, fixing
his dark eyes on mine reproachfully.
But you, Maud, you hirtod with Frank
all the time, and no one but Frank--a
very different thing.
"And what was | TO do when you
deserted me? Sit still and look misera-
bic? Thanks, 10. Really, you are un-
reasonable" "
lyon forget that ! did not desert
you, as you call it, till after you gave
me to understand that l wasn't wanted.
You told mo to 90, and ! went. "
You did-ou tho instant "
"And You blame ne for that now?
Did you not mean me to take you at
your wOrds'
"lJot like that" slowly. lyon went
: oh, yes--as if you We're glad to go l
3 dare say you were, but you needn't
have betrayed your feelings quite SO
l plainly"
~ haven't TIE smallest intention of
botraying my feelings for your EratiR-
: cation" Eo ssys, with some warmth,
l "You have treated me shameiuliy, but
D 1 see little uso in discussing it now.
don't want 20 rcp-oach you for jiltirs
me, YCu'yo dGueit, and that's enough.
"Jil;ing you! Oh, Jacl;r'
, "Cau it what you please" and he
t1rp' away YEARLY. I'VE won't quar-
rel nboat that. Celia was right, see. "
a "Cciia?"
yes She SID would only make
t. r7ltteIs worse If saw you. didn't be-
hoye her, bait
' "Colia tried 10 stop y1ur cominS?'
0 "If yo1 Hko 90 pat il in that way,
yes " with look of surprise "But I
s. thought ! ought to bring those letters
= myrcf, So ! came
"Cclia scenIs to have been unwGrrart-
J ably busy with ny 2a.rs, " say cold
c ly Il don't lmoH, II conrso, what she
' MAY or may not have tu!l you, but this
- ! do know that I htye nerr traste l
hcr, and that trus, her less than ever
now"
"Tou a~o rngrnte'u' surely. She tried
e t. flare yoI this int iyiew.
% Had i5 not been tor her il would
p never have hocn necessary. But go 10
% hcr, since -ou'd rather take her word
= than mine ' passiouately. go 70 her
+ and tell hrr that she has succeeded,
thanks 20 my folly and your -
10 | break ctf, unable to speak for the
n rising soh5 that choke riy utteranceS.
IS and turn away abruptly to the window.
Succeeded? Cciia?' he repeats moe
s TO himself ihun 10 ma. MAUD, WIN. is
!. the 'nc.n,ng o' all this? Is il poesiblo
l. thut Celia njstrdcr. todd
"She mieuudcrstood nothing
d speak in dull, oSpressiouloss way al,i
10 withoUt turning round. "She is far too
clover for that u is you who rlisundes.
It stood and l."
"Whaj have misunderstood? Oh, IL
'o you Won't tell mo, | must 80 to Celia
and"--
lf "Ycs, 30 to her What are You stay.
ing here for;'
p "Ey.hing now " And he walks IA
T. the s6or. In another instant no will be
gone.
h. Can I let him 80 like this? No, a
d thou and times 10.
40 " all. AIu tern lmpulslNoly.
N "Yon-you ha;e forgotten something -
et "Have /; And wlat?"
lt Your ring. | have no right TO il
now. rs yougay.
~ ~ never said 90, but"-he checks
himself-"Fiye it TO me, then"
n. Gone aud take it. "
ne no, dear, don't want it. If it il
to come off at all, you must take it. "
,h 1T seems almost pity, doesn't it?
| say softly, and my voice ia scarcely a.
"a steady as it might he. He makes no re-
N ply, but passes his arm around my
waist, and his hold on my hant
or tightens.
er "I'yo got uscd to it, you see, and
or should miss it. May keep it, Jacllg"
"On one condition. >
ed "Aud thpt isl