Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-01-17
WHICH OF THE TWO?

renee, AIS fair in love and war L
shall do nothing unfair, but decline
TO admit that you have any monopoly
in that quarter, as yet at least"
That's just like you, Grant, put
ting your oar in where you're not
wanted"
and how do you know that I'm not
wanted? Not wanted by you, l admit;
but 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 to
dictate?"
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 fer home
the day after tomorrow"
Perfectly" and bereupon Lawrence
began to walk somewhat tester than
they had been doing
The other was, however, not to be
denied, and strobe after him.
Look here, old maj, there is no use
quarreling over it. Suppose we both
try our luck l, too, have made up my
mind to ask Miss Morlard to be my
wife, and shall do SO before / leave.
that is, unless | hear of Year having
been accepted. Let us tc5s up to de-
N eide who is to be first to ask her. 1t
.vstrikes me we are both somewhat too
previous"
"Nonsence; know better
1t was clouduess day in the high
Alps in early September. Two ladies
We're seated under the veranda of
hotel that from height looked down
upon the long, narrow valley in front,
girdled, as it was, by srow-c clad noun
tainsand intersected by rapid gla-
cier-clad stream. The Summer were
daily taking flight, for the evenings
We're already frosty and cold, and
some ominOus flakes of snow had fall
en-. On the farther side of the valley
two pedestrians might be deserted
skirting the lower edge of the sombre
pine-wOod from which they had just
emerged.
'''There's Apollo ard Mr.. Graut,"
said the younger of the ladies, girl
or some elgnteen summers.
Ada, / do wish you would give up
that horrid habit of nickEaming peo-
pie"
why, mamma. it is very appropri-
ave, you will admit, in this case; he is
so handsome. Apollo Belvedere we
christened him. He lives ut the Bel
vedere hotel, you know" said the girl,
ignoring the general rebCke and skill
fully substituting what was only Il
specific plea of defence.
But even if al propriate, it is not
well for a young girl to speak of peo-
pie in that way; at any rate, to make
Il practice of it as you do"
There now, what fault finders we
are. But shall really try to break off
the habit. The two gentlemen, then,
let us say, are evide ntly coming this
way. l suppose it is because the Bel
rSvedere is like our own hotel, pretty
Stwell deserted"
'.You seem to take great interest in
the gentleman"
I'm which one. mamma? Pray tell
me, for they are both interesting, are
they not? From what l have seen of
them l like them both, l am free to
admit
Somewhat too rec, my dear. if it
were not that you made the admission
to your mamma alone. l meant Mr..
Lawrence"
''Oh, Ap--, there. 1 beg pardon, it
almost escaped me again"
'Now do give up that levity for q
moment, Ada. / want to ask you in
all seriousness which of them it is to
be. Your papa and have been dis
cussing matters, and we both want to
know"
''And I must confess at once"'
YES"
well, then. neither-for three years
at least. | am not going to be like a
certain lady you and l know better
than anybody else, who married at
eighteen and is now taken for my sis
ter. Poor me, but how very satisfac-
tory to her. dear mamma. But as the
gentlemen themselves are approach
ing, hadn't we better change the sub
jectY'
presently, my dear; and if those
three years were gone-or abbreviated.
shall we say?-I suppose it would be
Mr.. Lawrence?"
n You may suppose so-of cOurse-I
llmost think that l suppose so too"
lllIS llllle tie TWO 1FleuuS
come up. They were. as we have seen.
leaving for England on the next day
but one, and had arranged for 4 fare
well excursion on the morrow, across
the glacier whose white mass ccald be
seen, placid and cold, over the tops of
the pine-trees. For two months they
had been together in Switzerland.
and they had been bosom friends from
boyhood-up to within the last four
weeks. But the advent of Mr.. and
Mrs. Morland with their beautiful and
viyaciOuc daughter had gradually and
fmperceptibly wrought a change in
their relations. Both had been at
tracted to Miss Morland; the artist
Lawrence-by her beauty most of all;
while the other had sought and found
solace from the distractions of Lon
don literary life in her raive charm of
manner and intellectual culture. Nei-
Their UP TO that morning had ever hint
ed to the other his aspirations or his
hopes. but many sitr atiors are devel-
oped without words, and each came to
regard the other as his sole rival