Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-13

troth. But mamma Is 6 have tbe
settlement just the same ia rebuild
Moore's Cliff with, and khere IL :
thousand q year for me as long as i
live Oh. Jim. ] don't deserve it,
] won't take It'll"
eyes, you will, " said business-like
Jlm-':you will take all you can get
We can't live on air, you know. das-
ling, ana my income is rather slim as
yet He's good old Siurer-n
'Old!" half angrily Interrupted
Ethel. mo older than yourself! But
what does this mean-about the ring?
He says | am to give it to Millicent
for herself. She will know what it
| means Well, ii this isn't the
strangest riddlem
MillY looked defiantly at her sister
when the message was delivered to
her
"But won't take the ring" she
said, half historically resisting
Ethel's effort to slip the superb dia-
mond solitaire on ner finger.
'sYou must!" said Ethel. sJim,s
turquoise is deal more precious to
me than this great gem. The we'd
ding is to come off just the same, but
Jim is to be the groom. Oh, what
are diamonds to me? I am so very,
very happy"
land this is all you care for Doc.
tor Darrow's noble generosity!" said
Mllly, with scarlet cheek and Quick
coming breath. mo, L won't wear
the ring. I'll keep it. and-and some
times look at it. Oh, what fool I
was! And why did / say all those
things? There's only one thing that
remains to mel must go to work
and learn to be great painter as
soon as possible, so that l can pay
back the money which mamma and
Ethel are using so mercilessly."
It was just year afterward, and
Millicent Moore was sitting on the
ruined stone terrace feeding her pet
peacock LIE Roy with kernels of corn.
Her open sketch book lay beside
her, the sweet summer wind was ruff
fling her curls, when Leroy uttered
a discordant souDd and flew away,
startled by the presence Of a stranger.
Milly sprang up.
'.Ductor Darrow!" she exclaimed
'Call me Jim, as you did the first
day." he said. "LittIe Milly, you
don't know what you saved me from
when you mistook me for the cousin
whom you had never seen. Don't
shrink away so, Milly. Have you
forgotten that you are engaged to
me?"
Through all the previous year
MillY had been rehearsing this very
scene to herself. She had planned
the exact phraseologY in which she
would express our appreciation, her
polite Indifference. He should never
know that she liked him. She would
let him see that she regarded the
whole thing as joke, and yet now
that the time had come, she was
struck dumb, and sat blushing and
silent like any school girl.
"MilIY," he said gently, "Don't
shrink away from me. A year ago I
believed that life had no more charm
or me; but thinking of those blue
eyes of yours, have come to differ
ent conclusion. Dearest you engaged
yourself to me as a mere matter OF
form. Will you do it again-this
time in real earnest?".
And the end OF Milly's carefully
studied speeches vas
Eyes"
So there was Mrs Darrow in the
Moore family, after all. and when
Ethel Elliott, in a shabby pension
at Lucern, read the marriage notice,
she exclaimed scornfully.
"Well. never thought Millicent
would take up with secondhand
sweetheart"
Mr.. Elliott made no reply; he was
gloomily surveying a pile of unre-
ceipted bills.
'Do you hear Jim9" asked his
wife sharply "Millicent is married,
and to my old beau"
"Yes I hear" he answered abb
stractedly.
well, why don't you say some
thing about it,"
''I've only one thing to say"
snarled the Spanish faced hero: s.any
idiot who gets married does a very
stupid thing. Five hundred francs
milliner's biIl-a hundred francs
board. Good heavens, what is going
tn become of u.s." ID
II thought you loved me, Jim I'm
sure Doctor barrow did. !"
9TH l wish you had married
him." said Elliott, deliberatelE -
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