Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-12-16

on your side. Now, wnat made her
refuse your
why, of course" said Kendall.
yielding before the superior tactics of
the enemy with something ike relief;
for, after all, there was a melancholy
comfort in talking With a sympathetic
and comprehending soul like this,
Why, of course I'm not half good
enough for her, and"
We'll, you knew that before. didn't
YOU" interrupted Miss Hope sharply,
and yet you went ahead and asked
her Just the same. You thought she
would give you different answer,
You know You did.
Il hoped" began Kendall cor
reetingly.
Precisely. You hoped she was not
averse to you, and every one else
thought so. thought so. The course
OF true love progresses with ideal
smoothness up to the point today, and
then everything suddenly goes to
pieces without warning. There must
think of only one that is supposable:
you must have done it wrong"
Done it wrong?" repeated Kendall
stupidity. Done what wrong?"
The asking, OF course. You must
nave gone at it in some senseless way
that spoiled everything. l haven't q
doubt of it myself, and Hope smiled
blandly ut some one she knew in a
cart that was passing, and looked as il
she were saying she had made bowl
ing 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 of,
that | have made fool of myself, you
don't mean to tell me that moments
stupidity, n casual blunder, would up
set girls entire opinion OF q man?
That is a little too much, Miss Hope,
even from you'll"
1T does seem queer" Hope admit
ted candidly; but you know We girls
aren't always swayed by reason, but
often by that indetinable thing which
is called by all sorts of names, from
intuition to impulse. 1t Is an awfully
serious matter to say the words that
mean one is going to marry a man,
you know; and the moment before she
says them girl sees all the cons
great deal more plainly than she ever
did before in her life. And, IL just at
that 1uncture, a 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. l haven't Il
coubt that you did 1t quite as you
shouldn't have done it for Madeline
For instance, you probably intimated
TO ner, more than once, that you
were utterly unworthy even to open
her coupedoor for her: didn't you?"
We'll, naturally. since it is true"
And that she is the only girl on
earth you have ever looked at, or ever
will look at, or that you can imagine
any one else as wishing to look at,
for all timer"
why shouldn't l have said so? She
probably knew it anyway"
And that the reason for this is
self-evident, because she is so superior.
SO thoughtful, so deep, SO literary, so
transcendently different. in short,
from all the rest Of human kind?"
"She is all that and a great deal
mere, and I'm glad l told her my
opinion"
And doubtless you added that with
out her your future would be empty
and colorless, your life complete
wreck, eternity itself matter of in
difference to your"
Now look here" said young Ken
dali, growing unpleasantly warm even
in the sharp air of midwinter; Il
don't know how you can guess all
this unless you have had it tried on
yourself; and I'm not saying it is
what happened at all. But whatever
took place is over and past, and all
there is now for me is to brcae up and
set used to it. ThereiiS nothing to be
gained by talking about it any further.
Shall we walk on?"
"Oh, yes, there is USE" said his COM
panion sweetly. 1T ISN'T every man
that is fortunate enough, when he has
made a mistake, to have girl to help
him out Of It, / mean to help you,
Jack. | want you to go around and
do it again"
DO it AGAIN." ne gasped, feeling
all his powers of oratory reduced to a
VI eak repetition Of her words. do 1t
again, Hope?"
Yes; in the right way Now let me
tell you your mistake. You were too
subservient. You made her everything
and yourself nothing You deifled her
until she couldn't help thinking there
must be something in 1t, and wonder
ing II, perhaps, she might not be this
creature Of fire and soul you depicted
You made her lose her perspective, and
then, instead OF erecting your own
image in corresponding statuesque