The Penn's Grove record., 1894-03-23

TN ENf aIfN Il w OLE WDEel
M<T4 w, quickly on hi
NJ EAHfEl skates and digs hi
heels into the ice
and stops direct,
a-~- before her.
GsNIF4aE ''See here, Mis-
fnsxN% Gracic-" he be
flf16 \ gins.
Mn "Itold YOU neve,
w to call me that,
she breaks in, 81 hate it'll"
'slt's very Drettg," he says. eyes
he goes on, .slt is a very pretty name
like its owner
"'That," remarks the girl, SIS in de
ciiedly bad taste; and if you Lave moth.
ing more to say will 60 on"
81 have n great deal more to saw. Ir
the first place, I do not think you have
treaEed me very well"
The girl puuts.
'Oh, tnat's alt, is itl' Sc sa-s with
indifference. "N'ha; have | doue3'
"|Nnat have You douel2 lie repeats.
"You have done Il great deal, and !
Should like TO know very much wha,
YOU mean By it, end if | really must I'M
derstand you wish to keep me away
from you always and at a distance"
"1cs,' puts IN the girl, moving bark,
ward with a slow, graceful motion. 1t
follows, keeping very near her.
"You mean 1t, then!'
"No; go on and add TO the ava
charges"
"Now, Miss Oracle"
''if you are going TO call me that ]
shall have nothing whatever 10 say tic
you"
The truth Of the whole matter is that
Dc Wolfe is young and very much in
love, and has been snubbed. And being a
youth who takes a great deal for granted,
and who knows very little of girls, he
finds himself at his wits end, and makes
up his mind to stop that sort of thing if
he can.
The air is cold and crisp, and it is an
ideal day for skating. There is a thin
mantle of snow on the ground which
srarkles in the sunlight, aud the pond is
covered, and the ring Of skates on the
Ice and the cries of the people mineie il
the air and come to De Wsiife IN II con.
fused murmur as he stands somewha.
part with the girl.
There ere a great many people out
this astcrnoon-smaIl boys. youths in
their teens, men who remember the sport
of their younger days and are eager to
renew it; girls who have the night be-
fore danced until one o'clock, and who
have exchanged the heat of the ball
room for the winter air which gives
them so delightful a crimson glow. As
it grows late, however, the crowds thins,
aud it is not long before the POND is
practically deserted, leaving very few
people, with the exception of Alice
Dently's skating-?arty.
Alice GentIy is a very clever girl, yet,
like most clever people, she sometimes
makes mistakes. And this skating party |
is much of a mistake, for Alice B.n,iy
sees a great deal more of a new man
from England than she does of her
younger sister Grace, and this young
wonan improves her time by making !
young DE VOTES life miserable, and
refusing, very polntedly, to skate vita |
him.
Young De Wolfe moves away to the
other shore, and it is not until it grows
darker aud Grace Beatty begins TO z Z |
rag up and down the pond, gradually |
drawing nearer to him, that he deigns
to speak to her. Its then that he comes
up to her and tells her that she has not
been at all nice.
s'1his sort Of thing has gone far
enough" ne declares.
'.Whas do YOU meanfp and she
LAUGHS,
.sI mean i.,t this, ~ he Saw, Iookir-
dogcedly at tie i,c aad di-ginr t5g
point OF his skate inso the su,,ece Isrv.
eusly. "If vow want ma to o osz.va14
,tay AWAY. wbv don't ron ,aT al II va,
aoa't want a fellow arouad. AID Az
want 10 skate with him or dae.e ",
him. saw so: and fra5,T-. nv dam
rou ,hinS you lave ses7 "a ~ mi, IN
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''n,, n,II' H., I|nsa,1 80, ~
oua,v, IF a man, or a woman f., ia,
matter. lad told me n wear ago that /
was 10 be in love before another year had
nassod. 7 won,d nave LAUGHED and
slammed my ipaers and said i was non.
sense. But I find | am yery much in