Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-21

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She looked at him, saying: "Now,
you see, you are angry again Don't
you think" leaning toward him conf
dentially, ''you ought to do some
thing for your temper? 1t may get
you into trouble some day. Not every
body Is as amiable as | !"
''Still wranGling?" asked Carl Aims
lie, lounging down the steps. "My
dear young friends, it grieves me to
the heart to see such display of un-
christian feeling. Let dogs delight to
bark and bite. "
''Blame Mr.. Stewart, and cot me, )"
said the young girl; "you know, Carl,
that l haven't the energy to quarrel
with any one, especially in this
weather."
"Of course not. Miss Doane only
says the things that make other peo-
| pie want to row."
ga chaming character you have
given me; after that 1 think / will
abandon the field to you. Come,
Carl, with quick change of man
ner, "let's go down to the lake for
row."
Stewart watched them with wrath in
his heart-the girl was talking gayly,
her soft laugh floating back to him.
"Ihere goes living denial of her
theory" ne thought. ''She is kind
ness itself to Ainslie and he is devo-
ted to her. Indifference, indeed I'd
like to see the woman who could at
tract me by that. AS for Miss Doane,
she is heartless little hirt, and don't
intend to fret myself about her." and
he climbed the steps and stalked
gloomily off to the smoking room.
"kate, said young Ainslie, resting
on his oars, "Pm your cousin and
have right to tell you when l think
you are doing wrong; SO l say-do
leave poor old Stewart aloner'
"Leave poor old Stewart alone! T.
Indignantly, 81 think you had better
suggest his leaving me alone"
"Of course, now, you know very
well what L mean. It's all right for
you to trample on Herbert and Reade
and myself, we're used to it-been
broken in too long to protest but
Stewards another sort; he cares aw.
fully about things"
"Oh, indeed, 80 he cares awfully,'
and the rest of you l suppose, are
only amusing yourselves"
GLOW you tease follow! No
what l mean is that he is so terribly
all there, don't you know, that if he
lets himself be hard hit it would knock
him out completely to have you throw
him over"
$50 terribly all there'-what a
graphic expression. Yet undeniably
true in this case but why do you take
it for granted that | will throw MIN
over?"
Mr.. Ainslie's face expressed the ut
most CONSERVATION. "Well, really, J.
don't know, but [ thought, somehow
coucluded-"
"What?"
"Why," brilliant idea striking
him, "that you didn't care for any
body, and wouldn't until you had seen
more OF the world, for you are very
young, Kate, in spite Of your many
experiences.
Carl" said Miss Doane solemnly,
''the bar has lost shining mark in
you, but | am proud to claim you as q
relative"
1t was fortnight later; the house
party would disperse on the morrow,
and Miss Doane, to whom Westwood
was dear, was taking a farewell stroll
through the gardens. She was idling
down path when, catching sight OF
Stewart over the tops of the rose
bushes, she ostentatiously put up her
parasol and turned in the other direc-
| ton.
But he was not to be so easily
thrown Off; with curl of the lip (for
he had recognized the man@uvre) he
hurried toward her.
"Miss Doanel" he cried, "will you
| spare me few minutes?"
She turned her head.
81 am not i'll pleasant frame of
mind. Uncle forwarded me my dress
makers bill this morning, with certain
pungent comments of his own ap-
pended, and my best manuscripts has
just been returned to me as 'unavail-
able, SO the atmosphere is not rosy" "
"Never mind about that. 1 will not
detain you long, and he pulled up a
bench.
For few moments there was
silence, for now that he had gained
the coveted interview Stewart did not
seem to know what to say, and Miss
Doane, with the point of her parasol,
sketched triangles and circles and all
sorts of impossible devices in the
sandy path. While looking the pic
ture OF careless inattention, she was
in reality curious to know how long
her companion intended to continue
staring ahead of him. When he finally
did speak his remark was SO different
from what she expected that she al
most started.
81 suppose you know you are very
beautiful" he said Doubtless your
mirror has told you that already, SO |
need not weary you with repetitions,
but / feel sure that you do not realize
how absolutely charming you are"