The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-16

complexion is never-What are you
smiling at like that?"
laugh.
viii you be good enough to tell me.
please, Dick?'
when you give me my nat
I hate a man who's mean"
There was a pause. We had reached
now h road in which the house was.
and we turned down it. The carriage
containing the bride and bridegroom
was just behind us.
Walk closer to me-" cried Flo. In a
hasty whisper.
I ranged up. A sudden thought
struck me.
Il say. Flo" I observed. st wonder If
they're sorry by now"
Flo glanced at me out of the corner
of her eye.
81 expect he" she began. but I
laid a finger on her arm.
Il should think She I began. Flo
drew a little away from me. The car
riage dashed by. Flo and 1 stood look
ing at n another,
I'VE can't go on like this I said,
decisively. I'VE must settle it. The
first question is-did he look at your
bonnet? Now, I will look at your
bonnet, and then you will be able to
decide whether he did the same
20, do you think that will be-satis-
factory" asked Flo, with a hesitating
smile.
"~Eminently," 7 answered.
I began to look. Presently Flo said:
But you're not looking at the bon
net at all"
You must really let me do the
thing in my own way" I pleaded.
20, but, Dick, here's somebody COM
ing"
I'VE are doing nothing wrong" said
1, sturdily. Did he do it, Flo?"
"N-no, NOT like that" she admitted,
reluctantly.
Exactly" said I, triumphantly. Il
knew he didn't. 7 knew he couldn't.
on the hat, for Uncle John you
know"
But wait a minute" said Flo, eager
". There is something else"
Il fecollect nothing else" said I. I
was still looking At Flo's bonnet.
"She had to blush" murmured Flo.
'1t was a double event, you know
"Of course it was" I conceded, recol-
lecting. But there's not the least
plainly"
Several of u fe-Ilow-guests hap
pened at this momen to turn the
corner of the road.
Dick" said Flo, watch me when
these people pass, and her you'll be
able to tell whether it's the same
thing"
In a moment I saw that I was done.
l a not hitherto found it necessary
10 lay any stress on Flo's complexion,
and it is sufficient TO remark that it is
as to enable her to blush in a
perfectly unique n l continued
look at her bonnet, and, as the peo-
pie went by, she blushed. Then she
raised her eyes to mine in inquiry. I
always speak the truth at any cost.
There was not" said 1. candidly.
but sadly, "a vestige of anything of
the sort on Philippa's face"
I'll have them long and GRUMPY"
Flo. triumphantly. clasping her
hands.
They're out of fashion now" I re-
marked, hoping that it was true.
ones are very expensive.)
Are they? But you once said you
them, Dick"
I gazed at Flo in some establishment.
And if you liked them, Dick, 1
shouldn't mind how questionable
I do not pretend to be more hard
Than most men. 1 was very
much touched; and, as we began to
walk again towards the house, l whis-
pered to Flo:
1T was two dozen, wasn't it?"
80, Dick, will you really?"
eyes, rather"
"on your honor? You won't draw
Dack?"
mo. on my honor-two dozen. all
srumply."
OF course, I ought to have known.
The very moment Flo obtained this
from me she ceased to blush,
she settled her bonnet, h assumed a
;taid and distant air. she quickened
ler. pace and she observed:
Really, I think we have been silly
for n morning, don't you,
Oick?''
Quite" said I, savagely, thinking Of
two dozen. IT'S rather expen-
Flo was just entering the gate. She
1aused for a moment, turned around
o me, lifted her eyebrows, smiled
yes, blushed again, and remarked:
It's nothing at all to what it will
BE some day"