The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-10-03

WHY DOtF pauslng. GU don Z
wa1t them, and I'm sure don't"
IL do. Please give them back to
mo-.
"what for?'
ITO keepl To remind mo-
"Of my folly?"
"Of my own r.
"Your folly IS over and dono with.
Our engagement is broken of, - he says
modify Better forget it ever exist
ed"
II cannot do that, with an irrepress-
ible little sob. II arr waiting for those
letters.
Take them. then" Ard he throws
them down on the table. keep thom
to compare with EUrne's il you like l
don't care. "
"How can you insult mo so? What
right have you to think me so mean. so
heartless?' | cry Indignantly. And
you cared for me once, or pretended TO. "
II did care, / care now. though 1
know I'm only fool for my pains"
bitterly "Heartless, do you say1 How
can help thinking you heartloss after
your conduct last night?"
my conduct? And what Of yours?
If l danced with Frank, and, yes, firt-
ed with him little, you were flirting
all the time with Celia and Mollie, and,
Oh. there wasn't girl in the room that
you didn't flirt with You know there
wasn't "
"Yes, aud you SHOULD know that there
is safety in numbers, he retorts, fixing
his dark eyes on mine reprolchfully.
"But you, Maud, you fiirted with Frank
all the time, and 70 one but Frank
veTy different thing.
and what was j to do when you
deserted me? Sit still and look misera-
BILE? Thanks, no. Really, you are un-
reasonable"
you forget that l did not desert
/ you, as you call it, till after you gave
me to understand that WASH I wanted.
/ You told me TO go, and went"
"Tou did-on the instant.
"And you blame me for that now?
/ Did you not mean me to take you at
/ your word:"
mot like that" slowly. "You went
oh, yeas if you were glad to 60
dare say you were, but you neodrt
have betrayed your feelings qaite so
plainly"
~ haven't the smallest intention of
betraying my feelings for your grati:i-
cation" he says, with some warmth.
"Nou have treated ne shanfctully, L,t
SEQ little use in d.s sing it now.
! don't want to rep4.lnl rou for jiltiEy
me. You vc GOneit, Iui lu.t enough.
"Jilting you! Oh -
"Call it what you please, and Ee
turns away YEARLY. "Wo won't quar-
rel about that. Celia was right, see. F."
"Cciia?"
''Yes. She said / would only make
/ matters worse if saw you didn't be-
hevo her, but
Cecilia tried to stop your coming?"
'If you like to put it in that way,
yes, with look Of surprise. "But
thought | ought to bring thcso letters
myself, so ! came
Cecilia soems to have been unwarrant-
ably busy with my affairs. 4" say cold
ly. 81 don't know, Of conrse, what she
rlay or may not have tod you, but this
| do know-that | have never trusted
hor and that trust her less than ever
now"
"You arc ungrateful surely. She tried
n spare You this interview"
"Ead it not been for her il would
never have bccn Necessary. But 30 o
her, since you'd rather take her word
than mine, passionately. go to pr
and tell her that she has succeeded.
thanks TO my folly and your
j break of, unable to spenk for the
rising sobs that choke my utterances.
and turn away abruptly 10 tho window.
Succeeded? Cellar" he repeats mo.o
to himself than TO me. Maud, what is
the moaning of all this? Is it possible
that Celia misunderstood
''she misunderstood nothing I
speak in dull, exprossionlcss way and
without turning round. ''Shc is far too
clever for that 1t is you who nisundor-
stood and l. "
"What have misunderstood? Oh, if
you won't tell me, must 50 to Celia
and"-
"Yos, go to her. What arc you stay
ing here for?'
Nothing now" And he walks to
the door In another instant he will be-
gone.
Can let him so like this9 No, q
thousand times no.
wait" And | turn impulsively.
"You-you have forgotten something"
Have II And what?''
Your ring. have no right to it
now. as you say.
81 never said so, but"--ho checks
himself-''give it to me. then"
Come aud take it. A"
'No, dear, | don't want it, II it is
to como off at all, you must take it. A"
1t seems almost pity, doesn't itY'
l say softly, and my voice is scarcely as
steady as it might be. He makes no re-
ply, but passes his arm around nv
waist, and his hold on my hand
tightcns.
"I'ye got used to it, you see, and I
should miss it. May keep it, Jackr"