Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-06-01
By Neptune's Services.

rather peculiar lldnuNtllluS, 10 MlSS
Daisy Edliflson.
What should she do with it?
Deliver it, and so let her cousin
win and wed the man whom she her
self loved? No, Maud Hildrup was
neither generous nor honest enough
to do that.
Destroy it? No, she did not quite
dare to pursue that course, though
it would have well suited her plans
for she knew that Thorpe was toe
modest, and perhaps a little toe
proud also, to WOO very long with,
out apparent encouragement.
She could not impale herself on
either horn of the dilemma, she
thought, but would compromise
So she slipped the letter into one OF
those old, never touched, books on
the upper shelf of her uncle's book
case.
''No one knows that | received the
morning mail from our letter-carri-
er, she said to herself, so there will
be no inquiries as to what has be-
come of this horrid letter. If it is dis
covered at any future day-which is
not likely-I, of course, will be igno-
rant of how it came there
Dishonesty does seem to prosper
for long, long time, and there We're
no inconvenient questions as to where
the morning letters were.
Meantime, as Maude presumed to
be the case, Thorpe was on his way
to San Francisco. where he hoped TO
receive an ncouraging reply to the
fervent words of love which he had
penned to Daisy the night before he
started on his trip.
Cunning, fair-seeming Maude had
taken care to be present at each OF the
interviews he had had with her cousin
between the time when he announced
that he had accepted the offer OF a
fine position in a banking house in
San Francisco, and the hour of his
departure: therefore he had been re-
duced 10 the necessity of committing
his burning thoughts to unsympa-
athletic pen and paper, and Maude
had guessed correctly as to the con-
tents of the hidden letter.
Daisy, dear" asked Maude, care
lessly, shortly after Thorpe's depart
ure, don't you think its very queer
that Mr. Creighton went away with
out pr oposing to you? He was so
devoted to youl And |, for one. did
not dream that he was only flirting;
did YOU"
We girls are very apt to mis-con-
strue the meaningless attentions
with which idle young men fatter
us, answered Daisy, with studied
Indifference.
Il wonder if it is true that he has a
lady-love out there, and that is why
he was so ready to gor'
What? I've neverheard any such
story"
You never have? Why, how odd,
Where We're your ears?'' said Maude.
who had herself heard no such rumor
until this very moment, when she
had originated it.
Pride and maidenly reticence kept
Daisy from exhibiting any grief at her
quondam lovers detection. If, she
thought, he mad been merely friendly
IN his visits, she would give no one
the chance to see her wear the willow
for another girls property: so she
smiled, and danced, and-well, yes.
fiirted the least bit. And blind OBJ
servers said to one another:
who would have imagined that
Thorpe Creighton and Daisy Edliffson
were only friends, after all''
A few weeks passed by. and then
Maude received an invitation to visit
an old schoolmate who resided in
San Francisco: no one but herselfand
her future hostess knew how skillfulIv
she had angled for this invitation!
But no matter; she got it, and ac-
cepted it, and then cOntrived to cross
Thorpe Creighton's path again, when
90 SIlC IIiOuSllI1 llle tlSt Ol HIS rove
for her cousin would have been dulled
by her seeming indifference-or re-
lection, if that letter had indeed been
a bona tide offer of marriage.
Her letters home were full of the
good times she was having, and she
cOntrived to bring in Creighton's
name very often. To Thorpe himself
she related long accounts ofthemanv
conquests Daisy was continually
making.
Il would not have believed two
years ago that my demure cousin
could have developed into such lit
tie firt as she is now' said
Maud to him one evening, anx-
ious to ascertain his present senti-
ments.
mo one who looked into her clear
brown eyes would have given hersuch !
an appellation," he said, signing.
"Ob, she don't mean to firtl But |
why that sigh? Surely, you were not
one other victims?" asked Maud. art
lessly.
"Ahl hut was! Did she not tell |
YOU"
"No, indeed. She knew that new
er approved of her trifing and