The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-09-26

What for?"
$40 keepl To remind me-
ttOf my folly?"
stOf my own. p
Your folly is owe and done with.
Dur engagement is broken of, he says
moodily. Better forget it ever exist
ed"
II cannot do that, with an irrepress-
ible little sob. II am waiting for those
letters.
Take them, then" And he throws
them down on the table. Keep them
to compare with Horne's if you like. I
don't care"
How can you insult me SO? What
right have you to think me SO mean, SO
heartless?" I cry Indignantly. "And
you cared for me once, or pretended to.
81 did care, / care now, though I
know I'm only q fool for my pains,
bitterly. "Heartless, do you say? How
can / help thinking you heartless after
your conduct last night?''
my conduct? And what of yours?
If I danced with Frank, and, yes, firt-
ed with him a little, You were flirting
all the time with Celia and Mollie, and,
oh, there wasn't a girl in the room that
you didn't fiirt with! You know there
| wasn't"
"sYes, and you should know that there
is safety in numbers, I" he r~etorts, fixing
his dark eyes on mine reproachfully.
"But You, Maud, you firted with Frank
all the time, and no n but Frank-a
very different thing"
And what was I to do when you
deserted me? Sit still and look misera-
BILE? Thanks no. Really, you are un-
reasonable"
"you forget that 7 did not desert
you, as you call it, till after You gave
me to understand that WASN'T wanted.
You told me to go, and I went"
"You did-on the instant"
"And you blame me for that now?
Did You not mean me to take you at
your word?'
"Not like that, +" slowly. lyon went
-oh, yes-as if you were glad to 60. I
dare say you were, but you needn't
have betrayed your feelings quite SO
plainly"
IT haven't the smallest intention of
betraying my feelings for your gratifi-
cation" he says, with some warmth.
"You have treated me shamefully, but
/ see little use in discussing it now. /
don't want to reproach You for jilting
me. You've doneit, and that's enough"
"Jilting you! Oh. Jackp'
"Call it what you please, |" and he
turns away YEARLY. 1--WE won't quar-
rel about that. Celia was right, / see. +"
"Celia?'
Eyes. She said / would only make
matters worse il / saw you. Ididn't be-
lieve her, but
Cecilia tried,to stop your coming?"
IF you like to put it in that way,
yes y with a look Of surprise But
thought / ought to bring those letters
myself, SO / came"
Celia seems to have been unwarrant-
ably busy with my affairs, " / say cold
ly. 81, don't know, of course, what she
may or may not have told you, but this
/ do know-that / have never trusted
her, and that / trust her less than even
now"
"You are ~ungrateful surely. She tried
to spare you this interview"
Had it not been for her it would
never have been necessary. But go X
her, since you'd rather take her wore
than mine - passionately. $50 to hel
and tell her that she has succeeded
thanks to my folly and your
/ break of, unable TO speak for thu
A -s.s~m r11n &hn% nlnIyn VrswY N~kAc~nvRnan
and turn away abruptly to the window
Succeeded? Cellar he repeats more
TO himself than to me. Inland, what Ii
the meaning of all this? Is it possible
that Celia misunderstood"-@-
.'She misunderstood nothing"
speak in a dull, expressionless way ant
without turning round. 'sShe il far to-
clever for that. It is You who misunder
stood and L"
What have / misunderstood? Oh, j
you won't tell me, / must go to Cells
and'-
Eyes, go to her. What are you stay
ing here for2"
Nothing now" And no walks b
the door. In another instant he will b
gone.
Can I let him go like this? No.
thousand times n
"Waitr' And I turn impulsively
"You-you have forgotten something.
! "Have I? And WHAT"
"Your ring. I have no right to !
now, as You say
"I never said so, but'-he check
himself-"give it to me. then"
Come and take it.
"No, dear, / don't want it. IL it !
to come of at all, you must take it.
! lit seems almost a pity, doesn't it;
/ say softly, and my voice ID scarcely q
steady as it might be. He makes no re
! ply, but passes his arm around IN
waist, and his hold on my han
tightens.
i've got used 10 IL, you see, and
should miss it. May I keep II, Jack?',
"On one condition.
"And' that ST.
"That you keep me too.
s'Oh, Jack, how gladlyp'
Ha Ia nav lack onca more. and Il te