The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-10

TEARS BACK.
You're an heiress and I haven't cent.
/ couldn't answer word" And Ar
thur broke down and cried like a little
boy, he was so disappointed and so mad.
IF he hadn't been your uncle" he
blubbered.
knew very well that IL Uncle Amos
had been anybody else he would have
got the full benefit of Arthur's college
football practice right then and there;
brt il uncle had been anyone else he
couldn't have been so provoking. Still.
I was ashamed of Arthur; il was too
fat of him 10 give right up just because
Uncle Amos called him names. SO 1
told him not to be a baby and went to
uncle myself.
"Uncle Amos" I said, "what makes
You act SOP"
Then he began 10 abuse Arthur.
"You mustn't talk like that" said,
"for I'm going to marry him."
"Not IL can help IT," said he.
"But you can't help It," said I.
'Tncle Amos, you can only make things
worse. You'd much better behave your
self"
Then he got little more reasonable.
"How about the Hungarian Count?"
he retorted.
That was msan. "TIe waltzed beauti-
fully" ] said. "and you pretty nearly
drove me into marrying him out OF
spite. And that would have been mis-
take--an awful mistake"
sand now you are bent on another"
"But with Arthur-it's different"
doesn't waltz so well. suppose"
HE doesn't waltz very well, Uncle;
that's true. But he's clever in other
ways. Prof. Enrpson says he has in him
the making of great chemist"
"Alchemist, rnnher. he hasn't sane
Idea to his name. Old Faust was clever
INTERNALLY clever-but he went TO the
devil: and Arthur is going 10 the devil"
Uncle Amos. you mustn't talk so
not 10 me. I've promised to be his
wife, and I'm eeti4g te keep my prom
Use, and I'm not gong--there. What
makes you SO dreadfully prejudiced
against Arthur. Uncle?"
Because. he's n worthless, empty
beaded visionary. Josephine. and will
make YOU unhappy all your days. What
has he ever done"
Don't yuu remember the paper on
Progressive Heating and the Caloric
Rainbow which he read before the
Society for the Exploitation of Alleged
Impossibilities? Professor Fmpsen
said that il showed combination of
scientific insight and dcons;ructiveimag-
nation which was simply marvellous.
Only he knew of no existing substance
enduring enough TO sustain the ex-
pertinent"
Then uncle almost chokcd. "A lot
OF tommyrot about an experiment that
can't be performed with substance
that doesn't exist Oh. yes! Arthur's
clever. He'll discover the philosophers
rtone before long, and perpetual mo-
tion. and the fourth dimension, and
end up In the poor-house IL he doesn't
get into the mad-house first. You
marry him-a silly schoolgirl the
wife of an infant prodigy just gradu-
ated from Bedlsm-and live on papers
before the Society for the Exploitation
OF Impossibilities. and pay your bills
with substance that doesn't exist
for that's all ysu'Il get. Not dollar
from me-not dollarl"
But the substance does exist.
Arthur thinks IL docs. and Professor
Empsen says 10 may-and I'm sure OF
it. And suppose Arthur finds it?'
when he's finally pronounced In
sane you can come back 10 your home
sicne. That's ALL"
You sec uncle is something terrible
when he gets excited. had To keep
my temper, though, because IL was ell
% important.
"I,ut suPPoss he really does find it9"
J said.
-.Brt he won't ~ can't II be doss