Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-18
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she said, "and let the owner of the
paper come here if he wants to see us.
"Do you think of taking 1t againp"
Nell asked, with touch of sadness in
her voice.
"No, 1 think not"
$50 then you are in earnest about
marrying father"
"No, think not"
"You think notP Don't you know"
Eyes, 1 think do"
Polly, you have one of your mysteri-
Gus fits to-day What's the use in keep
ing up this foolishness? Tell him that
you can't marry him. You have let it
run ON so long already that he has
gone to the expense of getting new
suit of clothes"
YES, but he hasn't any more clothes
now than he needs"
Nell sighed and Polly looked dream
lily out inso the garden. "Your coming
and your stay has been romance to
me, Polly, and now it must end" She
sat with her elbow on a table and med
itativcly and deity was touching her
hair The sunlight, streaming through
the high window, fell upon her, illu-
mined her, and the sad glow of wish
dream was in her eyes. Out in tho
road, lodging about, stallSed young
man, Il smitten clown, dying to catch
glimpse of her. "Yes, your coming
was so strange romance, bringing ia
me mind that l could admire, and
now the music must end in dry
craclilc."
Polly went to her, leaned over her,
kissed her. Your romance may not
end" she said. But suppose that
should tell you that your romance had
been brought by a circus woman"
You circus woman? didn't know
that they were so noble and brave"
II did not say that l was n circus
woman, but suppose 1 were one; and
suppose those three men came to per-
suade me to go back into the ring"
"Oh, you are clearing up one mys-
terry. Go on and you may clear up an
other"
but is there any other mystery to
clear up?"
"Oh, not exactly a mystery, but how
are you going to satisfy father that you
should not marry him?'
''Oh, probably he will laugh at the
idea tomorrow"
but why should he when his mind
is now so set upon it? Doyou think that
he will decline to marry you because
you have been circus woman?"
mo, not particularly"
''Oh, you are becoming mysterious
again, Polly. Why don't you be abso-
lutely frank with me?"
Il will be, but not until after twelve
o'clock to-day"
There you go again, leading me out
into deeper and darker water, but l
suppose must accept your terms. Who
is that out there that keeps gazing in
| here?"
"Some fellow desperately gone on
you. Shall go out and knock him
down?"
Goodness, no; he is doing no par
| ticular harm. But l wish he would go
away"
you don't like admirers, do you?"
1.-The right sort of admirers, yes; but
to be admired by ignorance is q cheap
victory"
In Polly's eyes was the light of strong
admiration as she looked at the girl.
'You surprise me nearly every day
she said Il did not expect to find'so
bright a creature in this dingy place
"Oh," Nell laughed, you think am
bright just because the place is dingy.
1t doesn't take much of butterfly to
look pretty when it settles in the mud. y
Polly was silent, meditative; and
when she spoke again there was in her
voice new tone, tremulous sadness
Il am one of the shrewd children of the
world" she said, 'and you are q
clover-scented child of the meadow
but, simple as you are, yours is a wis
dom that I could never reach. There's
that idle fellow leaning on the fence
Shall drive him away?"
II wish you would tell him that he i:
annoying me. No, it might hurt hi:
feelings"
This made Polly laugh so loudly thai
the fellow, thinking that the womeI
We're making fun of him, strobe away
"Onc to contemplate your tenderness,
said the woman OF the world, ''woult
scarcely think that you had ever turned
|
lot of men"
oh did that for you, and if l haC
thought that the fellow out there wa
annoying you, should have driven hin
away long ago"
MY dear, might take that as re
bulSe," Polly replied, but l won't,
she quickly added.
Nell got up, brushing the sunbeam
out of her eyes, and walked about tn
room. II feel so strange to-day" sh
said. Something must surely b
going to happen. wish that edito
would come over here and beg you t
take his paper for another year"
Perhaps he couldn't induce me t
take it."
"Oh, but you are not thinking {
going with the circus again, are you?
''You shall soon see what intend t
do"
but don't do anything to separat
us" Polly had begun to read new
paper. did you hear what 1 SAID
Now what can be in that paper to il