Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-12-27
WHICH +OF THE TWO?

ting your oar In Where 'oui0 no
wanted"
And how do you know that I'm not
wanted? Not wanted by you. admit;
h,lt it seems to me that Miss Morland
herself has some right to be consulted
In this matter. l shall ask her.
"You will do nothing so silly
where's your right my friend -
dictator
II shall not discuss the matter with
YOU. Grant. Everything points to my
being accepted. and l intend asking
Miss Morland before we leave for Eng
land"
"Phew, that's quick work. Do you
bear In mind that we start fcr ONE
the day after tomorrow
Perfectly" and bereupon Lawrence
~baegan to walk somewhat tester than
theS had been doing
The otu,Sr was, howeN er, not to De
denied, andNstrode after him.
Look here pld mar there Is no use
ouarreling oyer\it Suppose we botn
| try our luck. /, tooSs have made up my
| mind to ask Miss MorlaDd TO De III,
| wife. and shall do SO before leave,
| that Is, unless / heaI of your ha'I's
becn accepted. lie. us toss up to de-
| eide who is to be first to ask hel' ~
strikes me we are both somewhat "o
previous"
"Nonsence; I know better"
1t was a clouduess day In the nlgh
Alps In early September. TWO iaules
were seated under the veranda Oh u
hotel that from a height looked down
upon the long, narrow valley III tron',
girdled. as it was, by srow.clad noun
tainsand intersected by a rapid GA
cier-clad stream. The Summer were
daily taking flight, for the evenings
were already frosty and cola, anu
some ominous flakes Of snow a Iah-
en-. On the farther side OF the VaIiey
two pedestrians might be descrled
skirting the lower edge OF the somore
pine-wood from which they had just
emerged. -.
"sThere's Apollo ard Mr.. Grant"
said the younger Of the ladies, a girl
Of some eighteen summers.
ada, | do wish you would give up
that horrid habit Of nlckpaming peo-
pie" .
why. mamma, it Is very appropri'
ate, YOU will admit In this case; he Is
so handsome. Apollo Belvedere we
christened him. He lives at the Bel
vedere hotel, you know" said the girl
ignoring the general rebrke and skill
fully substituting what was only d
specific plea of defence.
"But even If al propriate, 1t Is no
--~II fo. N ann GIRL IN Snpnk nf moo
pie in that way; at any rate, to MAKE
a practice Of it as you do"
There now, what fault finders W
are. But l shall really try to break of
the habit. The two gentlemen, then
let us say, are evide ntly coming thi
way. l suppose it is because the Bel
yedere is like our w hotel, prett.
we'll deserted"
"You seem to take great interest Il
the gentleman"
I'm which one, mamma? Pray teI
me, for they are both interesting, ar
they not? From what / have seen Q
, them l like them both, l am free t
admit"
, Somewhat too ( rec, my dear, If
: were not that you made the admissio
to YOUR mamma alone. l meant Nj
= Lawrence"
= ooh, Ap-, there, I beg pardon,
almost escaped mt again"
I "Now do give up that levity for
moment Ada I want to ask you |
all seriousness which Of them 1t Is
be. Your papa and / have been di'
cussing matters, and we both want
8 know"
; "And I must confess at once"
Q Eyes"
"SNeT, then, neither-for three yea
Q at least. l am not going to be Ike
e certain lady you and I know bette
% than anybody else, who married
3 eighteen and is now taken for my 81
q ter. Poor me, but how very satisfa
tory to her, dear mamma. But as II
gentlemen themselves are approac,
ing, hadn't we better change the su'
jectY'
Presently, my dear; and II tho.
three years were gone-or abbreviate
shall we say?-I suppose it would
Mr., LAWRENCE"
"You may suppose so-of course
almost think that / suppose so too
BY this time the two friends b;
COIle up. lney WeTe, IL we nave see
leaving for England on the next d;
but one, and had arranged for a far
well excursion on the morrow, aero
the glacier whose white mass conld
seen, placid and ,old, over the tops
the pine-trees. For two months til
had been together In SwitzerIan
and they had been bosom friends fro
boyhood-up to within the last 70
weeks. But the advent Of MIR. a.
Of Mrs. Morland with their beautiful a,
re vivaciouc daughter had gradually n
Ill imperceptibly wrought a change
ke their relations. Both had been
lis tracted to Miss Morland; the arts
q Lawrence-by her beauty most Of q
while the other had sought and fou
solace from the distractions Of a Ii
don literary life In her raive charm
manner and intellectual culture. n
LIE Their Up to that morning had ever hi
be ed to the other his aspirations or
oh hopes, but many stir atiors are dev
oped without words, and each came
~ regard the other as his sole riva
ice Grant re%gretfully; Lawrtrce with
The arrogance and secret dislike Of an
M balanced mind.
us 1t true that you are going
Iu leave us so soon ?" asked Mrs. NJ