Smyrna times., 1896-04-22
BOTH RIGHT NOW.

BOTH RIGHT NOW.
''No youthful romance warmed over
for middle age, 1 thank you," said
Mrs. Nellie Hunt, with decision, to
her niece, Edith Baly.
They were gathering chrysanthe
NUNS at Mapleton, Mrs. Hunts pleas
ant homestead, where niece from the
West was visiting her
"Why, auntie, 1 thought youthful
romances were the best kind, said the
young girl, shyly. (She had one on
hand herself.)
Yes, dearie, so they are at your
age" laying a bright blossom against
the girls flushed face. You remem-
Der l said warmed over"
''Well, auntie, don't see any OBJ
lection to having it warmed over if it
were all it should have been at first
Edith urged. I'm sure mamma
thinks as I do-that Major Townley is
fine man, and would make you a
splendid husband"
Yes, dear, that is undOubted- she
told me so herself. think it is a con.
spiracy among my friends" said the
elder lady, playfully.
81 don't want to be inquistive, aun-
tie, but, oh, would so like to know
what separated you SO long ago." said
she, suddenly.
Mrs. Hunt started little. then
smiled
''I'm afraid it would only spoil the
romance for you,' she replied, ''the
circumstances were so prosaic. Yet it
is the little things of life that go to make
up the important whole But 1 will
tell you what you wish to know.
''Maior TOwnley and were school
mates when we were young, and can
not remember the time when we were
not attached to each other. We gradu-
ated at the same time at the town acad-
emy, where we got little tincture of
Latin.
cit is said that little learning is Il
dangerous thing. Certainly it was in
our studies together. One evening we
got into discussion about certain
line of Virgil. We could not agree
about the translation, and were unwise
enough to argue the matter too long
and too warmly. Neither would admit
of being in the wrong.
"The result was that unkind words
spoken, and our engagement was
broken off. You must remember that
we were both young-I only 1S and he
not yet 81"
(Which was in the wright?" asked
Edith.
} 81 don't know, dear. / never even
looked the matter up. 1 think we
were sorry, but we would not acknOw-
ledge it, so we took separate roads,
and now we are both middle-aged and
/ prosaic, and l, at least, am little
gray. AS for the Major, 1 have not
, seen him for years.
Mrs. Hunt had been widow for
some years, and the gentleman in ques-
J tion had lost his wife couple of years
before; so that mutual friends, knowing
, of their former romance, had been,
} perhaps, a little too oficious1in then
efforts at reconciliation.
} Three months later, one dreary De-
. cember day, there was storm very
| nearly akin to blizzard raging. TIL,
[ air was laden with sleet that seemed
I armed with needles, and carried by tn,
f. gale with a force and rapidity thaf
Q threatened to impede locomotion
Y Travel was suspended and the tele
graph wires were down.
" On snow-bound train in Lndians
= we find Mrs. Hunt, who had been sum
o Inoned by telegram to tho bedside o
5 her sick sister, and had run right int,
g the approaching storm.
r Six hours ago the huge iron hors,
/ had halted in sheer announcement
Q and the snowbanks mighe have beer
e walls of adamant separating the be
II lated travellers from their home. Ap
8 rrehension was followed by anxiety
o es night settled down ON the weird
's white scene.
10 A squad Of laborers, brought int,
i strong relief against the white back
ground by the headlight OF the engine
worked vigorously in the biting blast
's The blockade had occurred near
/ village, and through the storm
" the glimering Of the friendly light
q told Of rural peace and plenty, cheer
u ful II unattainable
). But as the hours wore away evei
/ those disappeared and left tho nigh
y prey TO snow and cold ard sleet an,
9 bowling winds. Within tile car ther,
o was a growing ailnae Of cold, physically
n and forboding thought mentally.
70 Tho night wore away, as nights will
1f however uncomfortable, and as old Sc
" tiondeacended TO favor tAe traveller
with his smile, answering smile
" seemed less difficult. Soon ther
Vi loomed into view an OK team with
70 iInoy pIow, in various directions spade
e-4Fvef Ilied with yisor, and anon ther
law, gf se,f fon the train an aiomil Of he
vie lee, very tempting 70 benighted b,
asa many milan from the homA dfnin