Middletown transcript., 1894-01-20

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real bread and meat formy dolls, s.
you most have some real sherry, AM
you'n have TO b lp uncork it.
+ was an hour before the young maj
suggested that New Years calls mus.
have an end.
II have to have make believe vist
tors the rest Of the day. = said Ada.
And I have to make make-beliars
calls and, what's worse, make-believe
eat and drink, for I'm not going to
have any dinner till after the theatres
are out.
Why, why not r,
ooh dining alone ina restaurant on
1 a holiday is 30 dismal at best and I'm
going to wait till they are at their
brightest, with supper OF happier peo-
pie.
.Then you'd better make another
call here, and help yourself through
the interval with soma more cake. .
"And will you play that am 8
dozen different young men. each more
brilliant and entertaining than the
other2',
And SO the afternoon Of New Years
Day was entered upon. So far the
game had been played BY the man and
the girl and Nature, but now Fate
stepped in.
Ada lit match to start new stick
Of incense, and while she talked and
held the match and forgot about it,
the blazing end fell off and dropped
upon the last summers muslin dress,
and light flames shot up around her.
Noyes caught his overcoat from
chair, sprang and wrapped it around
her, and the danger was over in a dis
gustingly brief time; still it has done
its work, and the two young strangers
were left in highly intimate attitude.
the girl sobbing hysterically, and both
with their emotions loosened by a gem
Hine taste Of peril.
"You saved my life, said she.
"Darlingl'' said he, smoothing her
hair, and the word seemed to have said
itself without any collusion on the
part of his brain.
ssOhln said she, and hid her face on
his shoulder, and he murmured some
more words that surprised him, and he |
kissed her hair and her ear and a bit Of |
her cheek in dazed and helpless way.
When she lifted her face it was to |
say::"And we havn't been introduced
yet you'll have to get your uncle to do |
it: l 60 to his church.
And with that remark Mr.. Noyes
felt-he didn't stop to think why
that his fate was sealed, and that it
was rather nice after all. What he
said was: well get him to do it all, .
and though the remark wasa little
blind, the girl seemed to understand it.
Did you knock the bundles out Of
my hand on purpose?" she asked him,
and he truthfully said he did. and
then she murmured how wonderful it
was that he should have loved her way
hack there like that, and as be listened
be began to feel that, that was the I
way it was, though be had not
known it.
Z 1--WE turn over our new leaf with |
the New Year to some purpose,'' be
said, as they sat in the twilight and |
neglected to light the gas, +
SIT will be turned over when we are
introduced, = said she. 81 don t approve
of free and easy ways about such |
things: never did.
And Noyes himself, though now
more than half persuaded that he had
done just what he meant to do, is him-
self not 50 sure as be once was, that
conventionality spies dangers, whore
there are none, and be takes satisfac-
tion in the entire propriety OF Ada's
views, and:accepts her conduct as aspec-
ial compliment to himself She tells
how he fell in love with her before he
ever spoke to her, and that they met
at his uncle's, the minister.