Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-18

Il didn't know i'll wasn't GER
t&in-'
But you guessed it? Tell me.
Louise"
She looked up at him with wide
open, ingenious eyes.
What shall | tell you?" she asked.
Whether you love me-"
She patted her foot on the floor and
looked w~istfully at the mountains far
beyond the Miniski. The doctor felt
as if he could not catch his breath,
SO great was his anxiety.
What are the other reasons that
you say you do not need to tell me?'
she asked.
The question was q poser for DIR.
Williams. He Felt that he was man
fully prepared for a direct rejection.
and it passed his comprehension that
there could be any doubt on such a
subject in a girls mind. If there was
no doubt. why shouldn't she say one
thing or the otlUer at once? He had no
donbt as to his own feelings: how
could she possibly have any doubt as
to herself? Especially when. as SHE
partially Admitted, the fact that he
was in love had been perceived by her?
These vain questions. natural enough
tG a young man who was outspoken to
a fault, Fitted confusingly through his
mind while lie tried to frame an an
swer.
Il suppose You will understand at
once" he replied ut last land would
spare me the necessity of stating them
a man cannot help wanting 10 know
where he stands, Miss Drummond.
when he sees the possibility that an
other may take the place he would
like to occupy"
Louise smiled slightly.
You mean Mr.. Philbrick ~ she
asked. ?
Who else could I mean?'
her checks slowly suffused with red
as II looked at her folded hands and
louSht. n was reviewing the
events of the morning subsequent 10
the entrance of Mr.. Philbrick to Fair.
view via the Miniski. So the doctor
had felt that she had made an i'm
preston upon the agreeable stranger
she mad not thought that she could be
mistaken. He vas undoubtedly well
Versed III making his way with wo-
men; quite likely he was an incorripi.
Die nirt; such men usually are: hut no
was bright and interesting. and il had
really seemed as if he found ber co
100. What If ii should really be the
case that Mr.. Philbrick he'd been seri.
Dusty smitten? Such a thing would
not be impossible. She wondered who
lie was. 49,
Aan so, while the doctor waited m.
tiently, but with growing ANXIETY. for
MS answer, Louise was thinkjno in
tent'y OF the other man. All at once
II looked up with something Xix
ROBUSTNESS In her eyes. and said.
face yet" ~ Jour
IN tell you, Miss Drummond.o TO.
sponded the doctor, taking a sudden
resolution 10 confess everything nj
once ana stand Dr. fall hy the truth II
quafreled with Philbrick -"
ABOUT me, DIR. Williamsy' she inter.
rnpted, with dlgnified reproacb.
NO. MOI b YOU, directly, ana vet
you were concerned in il. II il baIp,t
peen Tor you : should probably NOS
nave oflcnse ut his spcers 7 sew
u in explanation, not Justification. Of
NY conduct VI
III was very wrplp, of Won IN norr,,,
a quarrel to occur about rae. even ;nd;.
rcctly. You had no right to-,
Louise pouted. and looked. indeed or
nnheu, nut tie doctor who blushed
nnt M stared uneasily at the floor, did
no, see the sparkle in her eyes that she
oo p not repress. She was thinklnc
asail OF Mr.. %Philbrick, and of the doc.
h h, .oo, put she was trying to remem.
oer now they compared in size and che
the quarrel. "eu ~
Know W. responded the doctor
nSsn,,y' sand that isn't the worst OF It