Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-08-04
"I knew you immediately.


but some way it rankled
hat she should accept him so much as
matter of course. He would have
preferred her to look upon him more
Is @ man to be studied rather than q
problem already solved.
What fool he had been to call her
his little sister. He didn't want to
think of her as n sister; he didn't want
her ever again to speak to Tom in that
familiar way, as though everything
was settled
Then he deliberately drew her close
to him and kissed her fairly on her
white forehead. She strug-
gled away with little Cry, while her
face grew deadly pale. Then she said,
with nervous, hurt little laugh which
sounded pitifully like sob:
"Of course, since you are TOMS
brother.
When he came down to breakfast he
found the family at the table, but Tom
rose with strange new pride to pre-
sent his lady love to his fine big
brother. Then the physician said, in
q grave, calm tone: "I met Eloise in
the hall this morning. 1 kissed her. J"
II CONSERVATION had been in her
midst before, it now rose TO a terrible
pitch. Toms fingers clutched the
edge of the table, and he drew his
breath sharply, when little Eloise, with
that tact which heaven sometimes
sends women in their times of peril,
answered.;
eyes, and he called me his little
sister, He isn't mulch used to kissing
a girl, though, T know, for he did it SO
queerly, and-he kissed me on the
It was an awfully bold thing to do,
but then it is the lightning flash which
clears the sky. The lover wayered,
tried to speak once Or twice, and
finally ended by bending over and
saluting the little girl squarely on the
lips.
"There, sweetheart, we'll show him
how it is done" And the amazed Miss
Elizabeth calculated, 'Mercy me!'
so loudly that the whole party went
off into nervous but steadying laugh,
DR.. Charles took up his medicine
case and hurried down the street the
instant that the meal was over. He
stayed away for three days and nights
but when Sunday came lie appeared
among them rs usual, apparently n:
grave, ms preoccupied as before the
tiny Eloise came to Blissfeld.
he did not accompany them tc
church, butas he watched her by Toms
side, dainty in the snowy muslir
gowns she wore SO much, he turned
away with a mighty purpose in hil
eyes. From that instant it was fatei
that Eloise should be the wife of tht
man who didn't know how to kiss her
instead Of the gay-hcarted boy whose
privilege it now was to claim her a
his own.
One morning, when Eloise had beer
laughing with the family on the shaded
lawn, a telegram was brought her an
nouncing the sudden death of he
father, and so Elizabeth and Ton
started suddenly away from Blissfelt
with their terror stricken little charge
Tom decided to return to college
but he stoutly refused to 60 back t,
his former school, which was nea
Eloise's home, but chose instead
seat of learning farther east.
Finally one February morning ther
arrived a short, unhappy note, il
which poor Eloise begged to come t.
visit the Dayton family. Mamma i
Mt sisters, whose baby has the scarle
fever, so they won't let me stay wit
them, and it is so lonesome here i
this big house with no one but tn
servants. Besides I want to talk
you about Mr.. Thomas Dayton"
DR.. Charles's heart leaped for 10,
This formal "NIr. Thomas Dayton
spoke volumes.
And so the little girl came to Bliss
field the second time, and reached th
Dayton home on another stormy night
this time to be welcomed by the beari
ed doctor standing by the glowing fiji
and holding out both his hands. Sin
pie Elizabeth the next day told him q
! Eloise's confessions of Toms neplec
and added:
"She puzzles me, DR.. Charles. Sh
doesn't seem to be half SO broker
hearted as I expected. T really thin
that her pride is hurt worse than he
affections. And I thought she love
him so"
The climax came when whole wee
passed without q letter from Tom, an
Elcise, setting her white lips On
blinking back her tears of mortifcl
ton, wrote to offer to release him fro1
his engagement. The speed and eagel
ness with which he accepted almo.
took her breath away.
Dr. Charles was standing in the ha
in the twilight, before the CRATE
where he had welcomed her the storm
night few weeks ago.
AS his eyes fell on Eloise, ha
broken, half radiant, there sprang int
them suclI n light as made her dro
her own. She realized that Elizabet
had told him the whole pitiful, shame
full little story, even to sending IL
ring back in its tiny white satin be-
and yet, somehow, she never was
happy before.
"You are free again, Eloise?"
He had taken the little left han
and turned it till the freight shove
the bare third finger. And po,
Eloise could only say a little hal
sobbing Eyes"
''rhen, said DR.. Charles, solemnl
Il may ask you to give up that fre
l'om again and to teach me to kiss "
as Tom did. Chicago Tribune.
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