The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-06-05
HER CAREER.
by CLARA NJ WHITE

swell Kathryn, here you are at
last Do you know that it is just a
year ago today that we graduated?
Dear old Wellesley When shall
see the beautiful place again ? Little
did think that it would be a whole
year before you and should have an
other talk"
''And little did think, Mariory,
that in year I should be SUNNI oned
to help you prepare for your wedding.
Do you remember that last night
when We spent the midnight hour to-
gether talking over our past and fut-
ureP And do you remember how you
declared you should not marry Jack,
even though he had asked you before
you came away to college E? And then,
you know you announced your inten-
ton Of following a literary career?
You had not quite decided whether
you preferred editing a newspaper or
writing popular novels have
laughed over it many a time since you
wrote me of your coming marriage ? "
"Well, you needn't laugh, Kathryn
Ball, it's a very serious matter-the
engagement, mean; and as for my
career
'Don't look so superior, now I
suppose you will go on teaching, and
climbing up and up, till you are a col
lege president, but don't believe you
viii be bit happier than I.
GAN right, Mari, I am not going
to dispute the point, because am
dying to know how it all came about,
this amazing change in your views OF
life.
Honestly, I Just cannot help laugh
ing, whenever think of it."
And she burst into a peal of merri-
ment, in which Mariory, though she
tried hard to stand on her dignity was
at last forced to join.
"You don't deserve to be told n
word about it, but I'll be good and
tell you anyway, for must vindicate
myself, if possible"
GLOW charming Well, begin
right away" And Kathryn settled
back lazily among the cushions in her
hammock, while Mariory, in low
rocker at her side, proceeded to relate
what she called her conversion"
"Of course Jack called bright and
early the very evening 1 returned. 1t
was gorgeous night and after I had
sung for him, we took a little walk in
the garden. No sooner had we
reached the end of the walk, than he
grabbed both my hands and said,
'Marjory, those miserable four years
are over at last. Now when shall it
be?'
when shall what be?' said /, pre-
tending not to know what he meant,
and trying to pull my hands away.
cat that he actually kissed me
Why, Twas SO angry, I don't know what
I did or said. 1t seems the silly boy
had taken it for granted that I wa,
going to marry him as soon as go
out of school. told him that I had
never given him to understand any
euch thing, and that had quite mad,
up my mind not to marry for mum
Der OF years, if / did at all.
"'Let's sit down here and talk i
over bit, he said. He seemed quit,
as serious as I, and asked me if
minded telling him what / intended
doing with my life. He'was so SPIN
pathetic and nice, that just told hin
how my great desire was to become
newspaper woman. said that
thought either OF going to some small
place and editing paper myself, o
Of editing some special department 0
a city paper. On the whole though
I preferred the latter, as then coul
stay at home and get little &C
quainted with my family, after havin
1,een avvav from them for 40 lone.