The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-10-30


said her companion. with some stiff
ness; y was never IN better spirits In
my life"
Hope smiled at him.
They seem like good spirits" she
observed; "the mirth and hllarity ex-
hiblted by the plumes on a hcarse. I'll
tell you what believe the trouble with
you ls, Jack. You have been proposing
to Madeline Arnold and she has refused
you!"
IL kendalPs ancestors who fought In
the Revolution (thus kindly emitting
their descendants to belong to the Or
der OF "sons') had been less numerous
by one, he would have been unable to
stand this sudden audacious fire with
out ilinqhing But blood will tell, when
1t is really blood and not simply the
eoiofiess sap of hypothetic pedigree
trees, and the young man did not turn
renegade at the first danger signal.
what makes you think so?" he In
CURED with passable show of indir.
ference.
Why" explained Hope, nothing
daunted, cts one OF those things that
are automatic. can't tell you ana
reason; simply know that nothing
short OF being rejected sutton could
possibly bring you to the dismall pass
see you in to-day. And when we get
that far, the rest Is plain sailing; for
every one has known for q year and
more that your heavenly consultations
have risen and set In n certain house
two blocks from the park, and that to
all other luminarles you were totally
blind. She's lovely girl. Jack. She's
my best friend and / am on your side.
Now, what made her refuse your"
why, of course" said Kendall, yield
Ing before the superior tactics Of the
enemy, with something like relief for,
after all, there was melancholy COM
fort in talking with sympathetic aad
comprehendlng soul like this. why, OF
course I'm not half good enough for
her and"
well, you knew that before, didn't
you?" interrupted Miss Hope, sharply;
land yet you went ahead and asked
her just the same. You thought she
would give you different answer. You
know you did"
II hoped" began Kendall, correct.
ingly,
Precisely You hoped she was not
uNtlHt W SbuI anu tNHAg bllt tlht
thought so. ! thought so. The course OF
true love progresses with ideal smooth
ness up TO the point to-day, and then
everything suddenly goes to pieces
without warning. There must be some
reason for this, and can think OF only
one that is supposable; you must have
done 1t wrong"
Done It wrong?" repeated Kendall,
stupidity. Done what wrong?"
THE asking, OF course. You must
have gone at 1t In some senseless way
that spoiled everything. haven't
doubt OF Il, myself" and Hope smiled
blandly at some one she knew In cart
that was passing, and looked as II she
were saying she had made a bowling
score OF two hundred and fifty.
But" protested the young man.
reused by various considerations, and
differences to indignant combativeness,
granting what you seem so sure o.
that have made fool Of myself, You
don't mean to tell me that moment's
stupidity, a casual blunder would up
Iset a girls entire opinion Of mann
That Is a little too much, Miss Hope,
even from you'll"
ut does seem queer" Hope admitted
candldly but You know we women
aren't always swayed by reason, but
often by that indeAnable thing which
In called by all sorts OF names. from In
tuition to Impulse. II Is an awfully 80.
rious matter to say the words that mean
one is going to marry a man, you know;
and the moment before she says them
n girl secs all the cons great deal more
plainly than she ever did before In her
life And II, Just at this juncture,
man doesn't act and speak In exactly
the way that appeals to that particular
girls nature, why, It's all up with him
and with her. too before they know 1t.
/ haven't doubt that you did It quite
as you shouldn't have done II for Made
line. For instance, you probably intl-
mated to her, more than once, that you
were utterly unworthy even to opon her
coupe door for her, didn't your"
"Wcll, naturally, since II IL true"
"And that she Ia tho only girl on
earth you have ever looked at, or ever
win look at, or that you can imagine
any one else as wishing TO look at, for
all timer"
"Why shouldn't have said Bo7
She probably knew II anyway"
"And that the reason for this Ii self
evident, because che Ia 40 superior, so
thoughtful, no deep, 20 literary. 40
trnnsoendentty different, in short, from
all tho rest OF human klndH
"sho Ia all that and great deal more,
and I'm glad told her my opinion"
AND doubtlona you added that with.
| out her your future would be empty and
cotoricga. your iifH n complete wreck,
eternity Itself A matter Of Indifference
| to your
"Now look horc' said young Kendall
| growing unplcns0ntly warm oven In the
| sharp air Of mldWlntnr, u don't Know
| how yoH can RHeF8 an this unless ynu
hnyn had II tried on yourself, ana I'm
not Huylng 10 ~ what happened nt oll
| Iul whatever took place ~ over and
| p1gl, ana all there N now for mo IL 10
brace up and tct used to II. There IL
nothing Ia be- gained by talking about
! 10 any further Shall we walk on2"
| "Oh, yes, thoro In use" Aald hla COM
r1nion HWootly "lt ISN'T cvory man
| TINT In fortunate enough when he has
! u11n mistake, 10 have glrl to help
! Nm pui pfiL mean 10 hoip you. Jnola
| j wnut you to 30 around ana do II
no II ngnln2' no guRpod, feeling MI
bl1 poytfa OF orntory reduced 10 n weak
ropotltIon Of her words, no II again,
"Yoa. In their right why. Nov, lot mo
| lall sou your mistake You were too
| pubgofylcnt. You made hero everything