Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-03
PA WAS IN TIME.
lie Prevented His Boy From Being
Captured by the Designing widow.

| Captured by the Designing widow.
! From the Cleveland Leader.
| Hand IN hand they strolled through the
| fields toward the upland pastures, where he
| told her they would be able to see for miles
| and miles along the beautiful shore OF the
| lake with its villas here and there. Its re-
sorts along the beach, and the little white
/ towns dotting the green stretches and help
| ing to form a panorama whose equal was
not TO be found upon the continent
And so you loved me from the very first
nomert that you ever saw me?" she said.
| With a radiant look upon her sweet. freshly
calcimined countenance.
From the very first moment" he fer
vently replied.
He was young and unused to that sort
OF thing.
Young. inexperienced fellows always be-
come fervent when women who know
things look into their eyes and sigh.
"Ah. you trifier,'' she said, with poat:
Darling" he cried. do not say that
You know that / am fearfully In earnest.
All, how terribly In earn
But he had been gazing so intently at
her that he had not seen the ant hill In his
path.
After she had helped to pick the burrs out
of his hair he went on:
DO not say that | trifie! No man was
| ever more IN earnest than / am now. Do
lOl JhtSt me w oAhtls. W &C soNt haoe
HI sband cruel to your
Her gaze rested upon the turf and she
was silent for a moment. Then. with an
EFFORT, she replied:
Yes he was very, very crueli''
All, the wretch" exclaimed the young
| man. Il can not conceive of any one be-
| ing unkind TO you. II seems to me as
though even the birds of the air and the
beasts of the field must worship you. In
what way was he cruel?'
oh, in a hundred ways" she said. with
another sigh: but let US nor talk OF him.
Let us only be happy with each other. and
enjoy the beauties of nature that are
spread cut before us. Do you know that L
think you are the handsomest man l have
ever seem"
No woman had ever before called fim a
man, and thrill Of ecstacy passed through
him. He was ready 20 fall down at her
feet and worship her: but he had already
lost one suspeI,Ger button. and. therefore.
dared not assume the risk. AT last he said:
Darling, let US he married at once. DO
not compel me TO walt until fall
All. you foolish man. she replied;
why are you in such a hurry"
Il can't live without you" he answered.
Say that you will not compel me to
walt
Well she said. with great reluctancs.
IF you insist UPON hurrying. / suppose 1
must humcr you. How would a week from
next Thursday suit?'
He was unable 10 catch his breath for a
minute. bat when he did so. he said:
All. you darling You dear girl! How
goci of you"
Then they stopped and hinged and kissed
each Other. and might be q /; yet but for
the fact that his big. unsentimental father
POPPED OFT OF a fence corner and grabbed
the boy by the nape of The neck and
Nhlsked him almost out of his knicker-
boCkers.
When the dear girl' recovered from her
surprise she vas alone and the next time
she met her 'trifer" he had whiskers and
three children Also pretty well-ground-
ed Idea that he had once come within an
ace OF making blooming fool of him.
self.