Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-02-26
4 ki+tlk GAME or 11Aats,


O"e tehst hxsocteus
Mercy, how tired aud sleepy yor
look" said the girl in the sailor Int.
II am tired" said the girl In the bi
oycle suit, "but I'm In such n rage tha.
1 couldn't go to sieep II my complexion
was ut stake"
Fell of your wheel. pcrhups?" sui,l
tho girl in the as,lor hat; "weil. nctet
mind your bruises 10 they don't shois.
OF course nobody would ever choose tho
time to have the measles or q fall. but
think my luck 10 worse than any boly's
when II comes to-"
"Dont talk OF luck" groaned the girl
Ia the bicycle suit. .You know Mnrle
and Clarence had quarrel about a
week ago, and he has been coming to zee
INC twice tlny ever sihce."
Seems to me that IL Maric's ill-luck
" its anybody's," said the girl in the
sailor hat. "Sbe's been paying YOU ~
many compliments that know she la
furlousiy Jealous"
III hope 80. Well. nc asked nic ycstcr-
dny IL I wouldn't go for hh carly ride
this morning. ! hesitatcd at first, Cor |
doubted II we'd meet hnybody whb
would tell Niarie." -" -.
"Sho Isn't 10 ,frlendlcss IA Ill, thdt,"
said the Bii'l In the snilor hat.
Perhaps not. Well, l knew that I
could let her know somehow, and It
would he worth an hour or two OF sleep
to know how furious she would be, no
finally agreed to go with him.
"And did she find IL out?"
"Shc wouldn't have, but told or my.
self when she came In TO ask about a
freclslc lotion-Snid I'd be sure TO know
of one II anybody did"
And what did she say about tho
rlde?''
Said she was glnd TO hear It. It
would be good for my complexion. Then
ahc begged me come and stay all night
with her; said she wanted d hiee long
tnlk with me-"
"She must have bcch nwfuIiy Jealous
II she took dll that troubie 10 conceal
~ said I'd go. but that hated to wake
her up no early. She insisted TINT she
didn't mind that bit. SO went. for I
wanted to have hct version of the quar-
REL"
"And did youY"
NO. I didn't. and she wnx so ,,crvoua
nnd absent-mindcd thnt IL was only hnli
inh, TO tell her the hlsA things Ciarehc,
hnd been snying to me OF late"
"Oh, you told her, did you?',
II felt II was my duty, wns sor.
ry afterwards, for she sccmed uaanxious
for clear morning ny " she yus going
somewhere herself. She pntl shr never
could wake enrly. nnd was so anxious
lest ovcrslecp myself that wns awake
nearly nil night. Clarence md were to
stnrt from the house Mt half-pnst aeven,
40 I had 10 get up at ak. Marie got
Mp and made me some co ofYee- id she'd
told her mother she was going 80 do II.
Then shc hctunlly hurried me of. lest
keep Clarence waiting"
II should have suspected reason
for such nmiabliity myself" said the
G'rl In the sailor hnt
d. "Shdhld y5u? Well, I didn't. Not
only was. Clarence nowhere In sight
when I reached home, but snt on the
front steps for On hour without bis put
ting In nm Appearance. Finally nt hnlf.
past eight messenger boy came along
with q note for tne."
From Ciarehtc, Of cotrse, he was
late ard---
"It was not from tllrchcc. u WINS
from Marie. Ttwns written III n very
shoky haad aud 10 said: Dear knte:
Thank You 80 much for walslnE inc this
morning. Clarence and made tip yea
terday Just before saw you md de-
sided to,take nh carly train for Milwpu-
kee. I don't believe, I'D have been ready
In time but for you. and I'm. sire I
couldn't have gotten oi1t without thhm-
ma knowing It II I hadn't lind you us nn
excuse. Yours, lovingly. Marie
my grncious." cried the girl In the
sailor Init, "and to think you cnfi never
get even with that girl as long ah You
livel"-Chicago Tribune.