The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-02

= me most maddening. tantaIix-
x.~~rue and ciarminx-T might as
1917 ~ you'd soon have found II
- woman Of my acquaintance.
~, Il love with her for five years.
-. = wonder my hair isn't white:
1890 think II Is turning gray: but
s + .r.ose To Dolly about IL she said
- Is bother: ! Was old enough 10 be
- anyway. All that's where Dolly
.Sd she knows IL: for ! am fifteen
- raa~r than she Is. and when that
~. .runr woman wishes TO be partic-
| Sc vssei she treats me with respect
49, that among my friends am con-
rs - have fairly good sense. I can
.~,1osSally on most subjects. and I
- ~-1I enough In my profession. at
- ucebtinx me 10 keep my head above
- Hut when I'm with Dolly, or In
~ ~r.nence. I'm an ass. drfveiing, fool
xs~ A Iunafic from an asylum would
= hrflIIanf conversationaiist compared
And. alas Dolly knows that too.
- -, furments me and makes life an
Z.eer<bie burden TO me. start to make
1870 remark. when suddenly 7 meet
$S->s eve: then I stumble and say the
--s. thing. and she will remark. do
80 c-e1Iv think that" with such wick
x<fseh IN her beautiful blue eyes. while
- mink al all but have just said II.
~ x n goes on until I wonder some
- 4 am quite right. When we go TO
1891 say We for I'm always there IL
s.cw ahe Is going-tbings are little
S, nan usual for Dolly dances past
~ IN cads Of men. and | stand about
- u6If watching her. She never Will
- fwo dances to me, so have moth
8 a IN the meantime but watch her
~ nirhf was desperate. had sent
, 9161efs as usual--she il particularly
- n fharn. and most of my money goes
~ uay Sometimes she wears them. and
sS~ carries them. but this night they
-. nowhere to be seen. and In her hand
80 - large red rose. I went up 10 her.
1900 to be sorry to see me was the
uer1er form of torture which COM
s-rn161 Itself TO her on this especial night
SEmkeeers she said. lifting her eyebrows
Z 1nixhment and without smile; all
- Il 81 course. because ! am always
| eShe H.
S1sfmid. wittily.
tnxhed immoderateiy.
so = funny" she remarked.
| said I. severely, II suppose I am
- very funny But where are my
Siax had yot-any--vIoiets? said she
u III know-how should know She
~ seriously. but there was a look I'm
hw9ss that was used to; I'd have liked
p fooke her
I>ely. sou know exactly what mean;
C1GFe are my violefs2'
n y0u mean the violets you sent me-"
= replied. with dignity. II understood
"a sfter they left You they belonged to
=. "a you want them back This freez-
% Dolly said reduced once more TO
q wual condition Of asininity. II didn't
- 4. dear: don't want the D. beg
r. pGrdon. of course I don't want them:
TN wanted you TO wear them or carry
nsypu know. darling
Irshe saw that she had the best of me.
1Atried things with high hand.
y rose was sent me BY a friend"-she
.ated-.and ! suppose ] have right
= ttsr what ! please. But sit down:
n stand so tong: you'Ii be tlred.' This
an ailusion to my age and IL mad
~ ne.
f1m are exceedingly ruder' I said.
1Hx away and leaving her.
MAS the most severe speech ! had
~ nade 10 Dolly. and I suffered at the
(nAl OF IL. For four days | didn't go
~ Mr. or send her vioiets once. II was
q sNlul four days: neither slept nor
~ III Just reyiled myself as fool for
hcorlrr estrsnged from the only woman
n IL ND. In my despair l even went
= ~ = % take Jane Hunt TO a dance
NkeN blg was sure 10 see US. and she
* ~ when ! passed her she hooked
- ~ bead with her small nose In the
0DAed Miss Hunt was in-weli, some
~ tise. that 7 might rush over to
~ Mfow myself Mt her feet-and kiss
~ les I acknowledge that 1 have
j ulohed that
na1y wrote her. fully conscious that
~ very silly letter. wherein 7 told
was nearly angry at myself for not
Wing she cared for red roses. and I
u three dozen. The answer | received
0rharaeteristic:
Ioa are silly old goose. and IL you
enly waited until l finished what |
saying you would have discovered
you sent the rose yourself with the
- don't care at all for red roses
(which token | learned not that Dolly
repentant, but that her vioiets had
- and she wanted more. So I sent
- hundreds OF them. hoping that will
nd fascinating young woman would
eepp<ased
TIE greatest of my mlsfortunes has
ut been set down. There was an
ypunr man. an acquaintance and adj
~ poliy's. with exactly the same
as myself Richard Morton I. OF
seFse had taken huge dislike to him:
net ! hated him tfor Dolly once re-
eed that he was a nice felIew). and
mink he had an extraordinary affec-
- Tor me. We were not related: | was
~ that A few days after I had been
IA caa 10 Dolly j called upon her. and.
.seh fasering me. found her alone.
r.<fff II m.
&f@y~~~
nat she said: that incident Is
There are so many nicer things
.sk about. June Hunt. for instance"
.snsserrti: WAS about 10 be punished.
G ne nicery'' said I.
nat do You really think Of her." said
eee With rather an anxious look.
rshss but OF course was mistaken.
49, sas1s . very good girl. very good"
49, desperate desire 10 make Dolly
snM could. which couldn't.
me- Dolly tossed her head. well,
q MaFton. dc you want to know what
- she looks like 90 The Mr. Norton
7mihous; shfvered again
= sah imagine" said I lightly. think
- wy very pretty Dolly was with that
- SPOT m each cheek.
! 'hink she looks like "A cook!e she de-
49,. 49, triumpAantly. while /. inwarslly
sSsng protested.
g Dolly. ecos,..
-. :. she went on spiiefully. "and not
m hka good cook
seiy' Not Ike n had cook
a.ss. she went on. like a very poor
49, unascd 10 laugh: I couldn't help II.
s. ..ssaad wife she'd maker said /. not
e'ns e rouse Dolly.
- .s4oaeniy she turned and said the
- . ssEFinse thing "a me that she'd ever
ssnce I'd Known her.
~ ns,,y. marry hers ia's
hegan. ban she wa~ vanN ana
A. vas nothing Ser me q, d. bot ~ pick
av~.s, aat ana 80. which I did calling