The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-11-19
THE CUT ROPE.

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least. ["
THAT'S just like you, Grant--put.
ting your oar In where you're not
wanted"
"And how do / know that I'm not
wantedP Not wanted by you, ad-
init, but it seems to me that Miss
Morland herself has some right to
be consulted in this matter. / shall
ask her"
"You will do nothing so silly"
where's your right, my friend,
to diotateP"
IT shall not discuss the matter
with you, Grant. Everything points
to my being accepted, and I intend
asking Miss Morland before we leave
for England.
"Phewl That's quick work. Do
you bear in mind that we start for
home the day after tomorrow"
Perfectly" and thereupon Law
renee began to walk somewhat fast
or than they had been doing.
The other was, however, not to be
denied and strobe after him.
"Look here, old man, there Is no
use quarreling about it. Suppose we
both try our luck. I, too, have
made up my mind to ask Miss Nor
land to be my wife and shall do so
before I leave-that is, unless / hear
of your having been accepted. Let
us toss up to decide who is to be the
first to ask her. 1t strikes me we
are both somewhat too previous.
Nonsense. 1 know better"
It was a cloudless day in the high
Alps in early September Two ladies
were seated under the veranda of a
hotel that from a height looked
down upon the long, narrow valley in
front girdled as it was by snow clad
mountains and intersected by a rap
id glacier fed stream. The summer
visitors were daily taking flight, for
the evenings were already frosty
and cold, and some ominous flakes
of snow had fallen. On the farther
side of the valley two pedestrians
might be deserted skirting the low
or edge Of the somber pine wood
from which they had just emerged.
There's Apollo and Mr.. Grant,
said the younger one of the ladies,
a girl of some is years.
Ada, l do wish you would give
up that horrid habit you have of
nicknaming people,"
why, mamma, it is very appro-
pirate, you will admit, in this case.
He is SO handsomel Apollo Belve-
dere we christened him. He lives
at the BelVedere hotel, you know"
said the girl, ignoring the general
rebuke and skillfully substituting
what was only a specific plea in de-
Tense.
but even if appropriate it is not
we'll for a young lady to speak of
people in that way; at any rate, to
make practice of it, as you do"
p "There, now, what fault finders
we are. But l shall really try to
break off the habit, The two gen.
tlemen, then, let us say, are evident
ly coming this way. I suppose it is
because the Belvedere is like our
own hotel-pretty we'll deserted.
IN 70 10 s,1k
in the gentleman.
'In which one, mamma? Pray,
tell me, for they are both interest
ing, are they not? From what I
have seen of them I like them both,
/ am free to admit.
Somewhat too free, my dear, if |
it were not that you make the ad-
mission to your mamma alone. |
meant Mr.. Lawrence"
"Oh, APP There, beg pardon;
it almost escaped me again. "
Nov, do give up that levity for
a moment, Ada. want to ask you
in all seriousness which of them it |
is to be. Your papa and have been
discussing matters, and we both
want to know"
And must confess at once?"
YES"
well, then, neither-.for three
years at least. I am not going to be
like certain lady you and I know
better than anybody else who mar
ried at 10 and is now taken for my
sister. Poor me, but how very sat
isfactory to her, dear mamma. But
as the gentlemen themselves are
approaching hadn't we better change
the subjeot?"
Presently, my dear. And if
those three years were gone-o~ alb
breviated, shall we say?-I suppose
it would be Mr.. Lawrenoe?" ia.
lyon may suppose So of course. /
almost think that suppose so too"
BY this time the two friends had
rome up They were, as we have
en-, leaving for home on the next