Middletown transcript., 1898-10-15

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called from her chair.
"It's delightful punishment"
"Tharks; / believe that's a compli
ment."
"Tluth's a compliment, eh?" he said
smiling.
"The best compliments, suppose
are those that pretend to be trrths, bu
are lies."
81 am afraid this is getting rather tor
fast for me-" he said. swat until ]
think about it,
ITO carry out what you have begun
you should say to me, 4 can't think
about it, for [ have to think about
you.'"
"Ir is needful to say that2' be said
looking down at the girl. "How beau
tiful you are !"
By the rules Of conventional conver.
sation it was an utterly inane remark,
and the girls laughter rolled out, full
and delightful, but her voice was low.
81 am glad you think So"
A deeper red tinged his bronzed
cheeks as he realized his temerity.
"You know I do" he said.
"Oh, do youP This is the fifth day OF
our acquaintance. To. day we shall be
at Sandy HOOK"
He drew long breath, and his voice
was earnest. New York, and work,
and to see her no more.
Two elderly persons wrapped to their
ears we're watching the two.
"What remarkable girl Nell VOL
verton isl" one was saying.
Shes Ger ainly carrying on remark
able filtration with that young man.
Who is hep" said the other with the
severity Of position gained by effort.
s'Some sort Of engineer in the e,G ploy
If the Winfield company. Mary Winfield
introduced him TO Nell"
"That girl would fiirt with anybody !.
She seems to fnd all men infinitely
amusing. Isn't she handsome2 Now
you would suppose she was somebody
or other. But th Wolvertons-O, you
knowi quoth the ott or lady.
''Her mother was one of the most
pushing women / evs r knew, !" assented
her companion.
"Of the dead nihil nisi bonum," :" said
the imposing one. "She was an extra
ordinary ambitious woman. With
pluck and ten millions, and daughter
like that, an ambitious clever women
can do anything in New York. Th Q
Wolyerton money is said to be indef-
mite millions instead. And now they
belong in Far Westchester. o, dear,
how many men have been after that
grill There was the Marquis di Rodiri
and the little duke Of Sussex, and Fred
dy Van Brule, and-she firts and
laughs 'em all, just as she Goes with
that young man,
Mary Winfield was watching the two
with much the same thoughts. This
poor young man didn't understand
sophisticated young women; it was
abominable of Nell Wolverton; she
was sorry she had introduced them;
she might have known that Nell would
play with any man as she would with
q cat or dog. 0, dear, this Melville
was SO out of ii; SO busy and capable,
and such an emic ent servant of the
Winfield company. But Nell was Nell,
and Mary ought to have known better,
Ii Nell we. Nell she was proving it
with vengeance. She was making
Melville tell her Of himself, and she
was giving him nothing of herself in
return. They were seated now, look
ing out at the frothing white and green
10 the ships wake. She was glancing
at him again and again with mild
interesting eyes. He was forgetting
himself, and was telling how his father
had left him only money enough for
school and college, which he had in
creased by some tutoring; OF how be
had worked and won position in ma
chine shop of the Winfield company;
OF how be had progressed farther, and
now was near the head of his depart.
ment, and had been sent to London on
ar important mission, and
A young man came lightly across the
deck, and exchange some remarks with
Miss Wolverton, and nodded at Mel
vile with "who-in-the- -devil.are-youD
air, and passed on after a moment.
Melville's confidence suddenly chilled.
This youngestsr represented what he
never had known. The girl by bis side
understood. sDon't mind Berthe; he's
just BERTHE" 20. yon know, = Melville
began, "I,m so out Of that set.n
'.It's the Far Westchester set you
mean, y she said graciously, as IL she
would imply politely at there we're
many others which ne doubtless fre.
sq0enfed.. HThe men are very s;npid In
it. It's very stupid. It's just sport
and gossip. For my part, give me
men that do things"
81 think, /" said the young-man-mak. X.
ing-his-way. ''that ] prefer other men
to do things, and leave'em TO me al
ready done. Now my fatber-n
Hepaused wondering whether he had
botter tell her, and then il seemed to
him, now that be remembered II, that
this put him on sort Of equality with
Miss Wolyerton, ii though the inequal-