The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-11-20

With us this afternoon. and then judge
IN vonrself whether you have been
forgotten"
The girl had not grown stiff and shy.
she Wis immensely delighted TO see ner
friend again, and she told him So de
ioked her about her baby overtures 70
ward him: he reminded her OF how she
would drag footstool across the room,
ans: by its aid climb to his knee, anu
busv her small hands with his balr' on
the pretext Of making him nice ana
tidy"
IT have grown gray since those days.
he said. with half sigh. Whereupon
Miss Rose declared that she liked gray
hair best.
Each seemed to please the other; tney
so;zed in a moment on each others
meaning, they appeared to divine each
others thoughts. ,..,
~ shall come again." said Col. Clithe-
80 when the visitors hour was over,
and study must begin. y see tnaI you
ana 7 shall be excellent friends, as we
were II years ago." -
However he made no second vlsit 70
.ha .nensionnat" at Neuilly-sur-Seine.
HIS old uncle's illness recalled hlm SUI
denly to England, and Rose Dysart was
finished young lady and about TO De
;n+rodnced into society before she nao
The pleasure of meeting her coionel
again. ;.+,v ham
This girls face was not strictly oeau-
+;ful hut it was charming face; sne
was immensely admired, both py men
and women. And there must De solhe-
tb;no Ioyable as well as lovely ID
young lady of II. when those OF ner omn :,
sex express sincere admiration anu ot'n
nraise her whole-heartedly. :.
"she will certainly marry young
said elderly people; but it never %.
Cured to any of them to suppose th ma,
this sunny-faced Rose Dysart "ouiu
refuse three eligible men, simply pe'
canse she loved middle-aged colonel
Like many other parents, Mr.. ana mrs
D1sart seemed to regard their daugn.
Ter as little more than child. iney
scarcely realized that others vie"eu Ae-
i differently. - pos,
"Of course. like other girls, Kose
mnst 90 into society,"" they said' 'nu'
we hope it may 5e years and years pc
fore we have to part with her.
And they were quite delighted ina
she should refuse her first three onei
of marriage.
II was in the spring, and just be1or'
her eighteenth birthday, that the ny
sarts left their pretty Sussex home To-
q furnished house in Eaton place, whlcl
| flew had hired for the season at SOME
what exorbitant rent.
To the great JOY of Rose, Col Ciitnero
p,s one of the first callers. He also wa
in town for two OF three months, nav
inp. during the previous year. purle'
his old uncle and inherited the prop
erty. 49,.
my dear fellow said Mr.. Dysars
him. with the familiarity OF friend 9
long standing, "you really ought nc
" remain unmarried. Try and remen
Der that you are depriving some woma
of an excellent house, and a sun NOR
excellent husband! A man in the prlm
of life-well off, good looking, retire
from the army-where lies the hine
rance?"
..simply in this" replied the colone
81 have never been in love. | should {
afraid to marry now that ! am past tn
are for the tender passion. You Sc
there is no three years system in ma
rimony. 1t has to be till death us
, Part"
Mr.. Dysart laughed.
"You must not be allowed to remal
S f. bachelor, my dear Clitheroe. sha
e look round for some nice woman
about five-and-thirty, and try my pre-
tice hand at match making"
NO; don't you get married, colonel
: exclaimed Rose, who was in the ROOF
y 81 like you best as you are. Indeed