Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-30

ness. / don't think l need trouble N.Y.
self about the old mans views on the
subject. You see, it's our affair, Ed
mas and miEe, and not his, though it's
hard to make him see it in that light.
Edna has very good sense. and think
she looks at the matter very much as
L dO-only, of course, she can't help
feeling that he is her father; whereas,
thank goodness, he's not mine I'm
very much obliged to you for your good
wishes, l say over again.
1t Will be seen that Ben Whitley was
not lover to sigh like furnace
AS for writing wOeful ballad to his
mistress eyebrow / don't fancy he
could have accomplished such a feat if
his life had depended upon his doing
so. His pulse beat ever steadily and
punctually. The thermometer of his
love stood at temperate" with no
tendency toward n rise. Let Cupid do
all he could, it did not seem that he
was able to accomplish any vital
changes in these respects. Whitley, it
was evident, persisted in contemplate
ing love and marriage from the prosaic
and practical point of N'ew. Notions
OF poetry and sentiment on IL csc, or.
indeed, any ether subjects, were not
possible to him. His constitutional Sc
renity refused to be disturbed at all.
There was nothing about him denotirg
n careless desolatiOn." The marks
OF love-" as they are commonly under
stood. were not d;scernible upon him
Many, perhaps, would have regarded
him simply as man going to he mar
ried, and be inclined to think that lie
was not to be regarded as a lover at
all. He affected no particular raptures
nrnnnGn6 n ho m in 1,ic
To his friends on the board of trade he
said nothing as to the agitated state of
his breast or the excitement Of his
feelings. He did not regard Miss La
trobe as an angel or n goddess. Pas
sion did not perpleX nor discompoSe his
vision. Miss LatrObe seemed simply
TO him what she seemed to every ono
clSe--a nice looking. sensible American
girl. If he were to be considered as a
lover at all, it was as a lover with a
large infusion of n man of business
At the same time it should be noted
that as II man of business. Ben White
ly was strictly hoI orable and thor.
oushgoirg gentleman.
l often asked myself if marriage
would change him? Would his practi-
cality ultimately succumb? Would he
not, rather, like most other men, find
at last an unexpected fire kindling and
cracking in his breast?
l called upon him one evening, and
IN the course of our conversation l
asked him about Miss Latrobe.
The affair is off" he said, gravely,
holding up small sealed packet.
You don't mean to say sO?''
Yes; it's bad job, and am very
sorry about it; but it can't be helped.
It's the old mans doing. hope he's
satisfied now. He's the most unrea-
sonable and disagreeable old fellow
ever had the misfortune to meet"
But what did he doY'
wen, we fell out about the settle.
ments; there was where the hitch
arose. I'm sure 1 did all l could to
please him. l told him to settle what
money he proposed to settle upon his
daughter-it wasn't so very much.
after ADJUST as he pleased. Or he
might settle nothing at all upon her,
just as he pleased 1t was his daugh-
ter wanted, not his money. | thought
OF assigning to my wife my policy of
lnsurance-it is fer larger amount
IMAM most men carry-and as to the
real estate. l put that along with it.
The whole thing being assigned to trust
eeS for my wife'S sole benefit in case of
my death But it did not content him.
lie had no confidence in me. and gave
me no credit for any affection He in
sisted that any money l might in fut-
ure become possessed of should bring
into the settlement 1 fatty refused
this. 1t was most absurd. as had my
business to consider. 1t might be very
desirable ~ and by to invest more
money in it. Why should l be hind
cred from investing my own money in
any way deemed hest? He wouldn't
2lve IN. and wouldn't. l begged her
to marry me without the CID mans
csnsent. Poor girl. She was in Q