Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-17
WHOLE NUMBER, 1,243.

titude Don't finish it, pray l know
you will say that you love another, and
that utterly precludes your taking les
sons under my instructions OF course, "
1 went on, brutally enough, I'm sure,
''it would have been utterly impossible
for you to have prevented me from max
ing the fool Of myself have, and I ab-
solve you from any connivance in the
matter. May ask as an epilogue to this
comedy that you will tell me who the
happy man is that l may congratulate
him?"
Her eyes blazed, and her cheeks red
dcned, and how pretty she was as she
looked at me as an angry queen might
look upon an offending subject
''Mr. Bryting,' she said scornfully,
Il had hoped to spare you pain and had
thought to say goodby to you after this
pleasant holiday by the sea as friends
say goodby, with sorrow in every note,
but now shall say goodby with un-
feigned pleasure, and in parting will
feel peculiar delight i'll telling you that
the happy man is your friend Mr.. Fos-
ter, and that he asked me only yesterday
to be his wife, and took this walk with
you to tell you so and did not do so be-
cause, as you are well aware, you took
up all the time at my disposal with the
absurdly important question you had to
ask me. y
What further remarks she might have
made l have no means of knowing, but
they would no doubt have gone much
further, for in an angry woman's game
with language she plays without limit,
but fortunately for my self esteem we
We're startled at that moment by the
shouts of n party coming over sand
hill to our left, and by the time we had
made rapid change in our outward
show of temper the crowd was upon us.
They had come out i'll search of us to
join n party for a sail, and among the
searchers were Mr.. Foster and Miss Nor
ton. Under the circumstances it was not
Il difficult matter for Miss Allen and my
self to effect an interchange of escorts,
and accompanied Miss Morton back to
the hotel, leaving Miss Allen to the ten
der mercies of her tiance.
As Miss Morton and followed in the
wake of the returning procession | made
myself particularly gay, and she seemed
to appreciate me more than she had ever
done.
What IL color you have today, Mr..
Bryting!" she exclaimed as she looked
at me with admiring eyes.
81 wasn't aware of it, really" re-
piled, with culpable lack of truth in my
words, for 1 knew must be flushed aft
CT what l had just gone through not
withstaulding the fact that I could feel
my face burning as if had been stand
ing i'll the hot sun bareheaded
"Woll, you have," she continued,
land it makes you handsomor than l
ever saw you before"
Possibly" 1 said, speaking slowly
and with evident feeling, "it is because
the full sunshine of your kindliness has
never shone on me before and given me
its radiance -
ooh, she exclaimed, this is perfect
ly delicious! You talk just like char
acter in novel;
"Is it novel for Il man to love beau
tiful woman?" 1 asked, looking squarely
into her eyes, and thinking how much
prettier than Miss Allen she was
"Are you in love?" she asked, with
charming naivete.
At this moment we were hundred
yards or more behind the party, and it
was five minutes after 1 o'clock a. IN.
"Oh, MYRTLE" said, with fervor
l did not think Twas capable of, "don't
you know that am in love, and don't
you know with whom? Haven't you seen
every day for weeks that you held my
heart in thrall, and that you We're its
queen? Don't you know, Myrtle, that l
have been waiting for and wishing and
hoping for the propitious time when I
could tell you this? Now, I am soon to
go back to my work, to the dark and
dismal town, and before go won't you
give me your heart to take the place Of
mine you have taken away, that its light
may make sunshine along all the paths
of the future my footsteps may fall
upon? Tell me. Myrtle, tell me?" And
in my wild ardor 1 caught her hand in
mine and kissed it.
"Oh, she exclaimed, snatching it
away, "don't do that! They'll see
us.
"What do 1 care?" replied IAN
honest love fears no criticism.
II know, know" she stammered.
'but you mustn't talk love to me. l
can't listen to you now. Jack Foster
and are engaged. He asked me yester-
day and we are to be married in Decem-
Der.
And 1t was Is minutes after / O'Clock
a. m.-Exchange
1t Was Not Natural Hump.