The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-02-27
4 LOVE AFFAIR.

She has dark hair, and her eyes are blue,
and she dresses we'll. She has been
graduated from Il seminary Of good re-
pute, and her disposition is amiable to a
, degree which more than a year ago
brought all the young men of the neigh
bOrlOud at her feet. | think she won a
tennis championship in singles some
where last year, but | am not certain
about that. What | can recall among
her most pronounced accomplishments
| will put down here later on. | met
her SO long a tim" ago that | have for
gotten the circumstances of our meet
ing. but | guess they were of the or(i-
nary sort. | live we doors from her
house. and | drop in to see her and Mrs.
Burke at least once a week. Even her
marriage, which hurt me so much at
the time. did n~ot~eparate us for very
long, and | think | have lived to forget
my first rash determination never to
look upon her face again. | called the
might Of the wedding. and | have been
calling regularly ever since. | am be-
{ S4ilhIliS - llhl IL Vas al Stbtl
thing. after all, that she didn't marry
ne.
What | want to toll-and it won't
take l"ng to tell it in my dry fashion,
is the story Of old Provinces cOurtship.
| MAX" my living by Keeping the cash
accounts Of a big Market street whole
sale t' Use, and Browne is the man
who's" desk is Ecxt to mine in the count
ing room. Our salary is about the same,
and although he is two years younger
than | am, | being 81 now, we both
hav" held the same POSITIONS for 20
years. Browne weighs more than 200
pounds, and | weigh ii trife less.
Mrs. Burke, who is Edith's mother,
came to me this summer and had quite
a long talk with me about her personal
affairs. She said that her late husbands
estate WAS pretty much ~entanglcd, and
that to keep her present establishment
on Arch street going she would have t.
rent some of the handsome rooms in the
house TO hOaIders. OF course she didnt
want to Go that, ana Of course [ deprp-
gated the plan, but in the end it turned
Il that We both had to give in.
Old Browne rented the second story
front the day after | told him
about it. He had been living AVA up
town, and be- WAS ola tn oct - jittla
/ nnar,r to the office h.,iIa. oniovinr all
the social prestige which geographical
conditions could give him. He moved
into the rooms with Il dozen trunks and
a wealth Of lrir-a-Iror which :, NV
mind. djl not h,rumn his oun Mrs
Burke WAS clad T., arco,t the r.f .,n,,.
to me which he gave, hrr a>} Filth
smiled 11ln1, Iii, ,vhrr s,n ,,,v,. bi,, bia
MIGHT k,h.
Thought a c,,,1 du;l of r.?ith and
every ni1ht or two W., ujavti card, in
h.r Inuthrr's rnn,,,, 81. n,.l ,l,ro1
partners, against y,uuu Poh ~noitn and
Mrs. Burke, We were u,.+tv evenly
matched. tnn for Rnb Il,v.l , e+iff
nauue uf whist and w.n ~ n,v
remember that WI. o3n IF 1ha p,ntn-
cost clubs Lrize team, last tan Edith
and wen ;un>+ If tln o,,,.u tb,,oh
for Bob WAS too inG,,,r,rjv law .,..r +o
do ANYTHING we'll. And then bp n.vnr
seemed to mind i if La lost
The I~TpSfDrp Of old (rruno r,,r-.nl
me a GREAT deal. and don't mind saw
inc so Ahout - venly ,t+.r ba +n,,- L;s
rooms thnra I fon,,1 him nccrnv;,[m wv
seat at tba whist who, cnilni
He was fnmhIinu tha cards in hi. ,wL-
ward fashion ard Edith was 1on,b;n,
at him. Poh was engoyod IN 9i,;or %
imitationc If mo talin, w,r ot,r, ona
even Mrs. Rurke was a~nnroviny tha r;-\
diculous r~rorepdinos ro,ohod and
that stopnel the rame lnt We. m.
comfortable all the EVENING" Rr+ P,h
had the good sense to ~auoloriza. Inf old
Browne si,nulv.ttterod fnron IN,,r o,,o,
what he seemed to consider = GOOD i,r.a
on me.
After hat all nv afTairs seemed 70
90 wrong. and | lco3n to sario,slv ON.
slider whether | shouldn't rent ,v4rv
room in Mrs. Rurkr's bnrso ,u,.s,If
was actually contemplatinr this nrnno-
sition one NIGHT in mv,w, ,.,,un
smoking nv last howl Of tnhacco tha
while, when the colorcd Girl who woits
on the door said that y man b,I r,l,aa