Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-08-08
Two FLlIS IND
| IN accidental.
How a Lover Brought Dallying
Girl to the Point.

The suggestion that brought it all
about came from me. believe.
Suggestions of any sort usually came
from me rather than Margery, for
have in my veins the adventurous blood
Of stanch New England ancestry. who
had burned witches and fought Indians
and later pursued relentless traffic in
wooden nutmegs with the same high
courage and fine disregard of conse
quences, while Margery is of Dutch de-
scent and inclined to be cautious. if not
a bit pig headed, as l often told her
But no one could help loving her. in
spite of her little touch of Dutch OBJ
stinacy, least of all myself, for of all
the provoking little women that were
ever created for the express purpose of
charming and tormenting their fellow
mon Margery was the most deliciously
dear, and | loved her so well | could
forgive her anything-that is, anything
but the way she treated Jack Beasley,
The dance she led that poor fellow
was something to move even bearded
Turk to pity For whole year she had
kept him dangling after her as abjectly
as dancing doll at the end of string,
and yet, as far as we could see, he had
made no progress whatever in her way
ward affections
We had been talking things over,
Jack, Ned and |, in Margery's absence
Il never dared mention Jack to Mar
gerry for fear of still further exciting
that famous obstinacy of hers), and
even Ned, the most hopeful Of mortals,
had had to admit Jacks chances looked
blue. Ned, be it known, was the daring
youth who had undertaken to guide my
New England enterprise and other vir
cues (too numerous to mention) through
life's pilgrimage
He and Jack were partners in law
Office and occupied the flat on the top
doOr where they INDUCED in certain
mysterious rites they called light house
keeping, while Margery and l taueht
music and Delsarte and practiced the
modest virtues of hospitality in the fiat
below
Nothing, therefore, could have been
more fit, suitable and otherwise to be
desired thDn to have Margery and Jack
fall in love with each other, even as
N led and he'd done. Jack was willing
enough, poor boy. but Margery baked
1t was too provoking.
As said efore, we three had been
talking it over the day before while
Margery was absent teaching the luck
less children Of rich soap manufsc
tnrer to play Wagner on the piano and
had all agreed that the situation locked
hopeless
Jack had been in the depths of de-
spair because the tenor Of the choir for
which M"reeiy played the organ had
called three times that week, and.
though | didn' t believe she cared a pin
for the tenor | had never known naUgh-
ty Margery to appear more willfully re-
CARELESS Of Jack $ feelings.
We had parted, therefore, gloomily
enough, after a fruitless conference,
and had relieved my mind by being
especially Cross to Margery ell day,
though | musr own she didn't seem to
ilN mum
1t wss an awful day. raining cats
and dogs, ar in the afternoon got
tired of beil. cross all by my self and
proposed that we should shampoo cur
hair and dry it on the parlor radiator,
the only one in the flat large enough for
the purpose Of course Margory object
ed Visitors might come, she said, and
l,o 4 1,f in | Tod
the idea Of visitors on such day I'M
less, | observed With sarcasm, she was
expecting the tenor again
She dGnt notice this stab, SO pro
ceeded to say that as the radiator was
in the corner we could pull our big Jap
anese screen up in front Of it and, Sc
cure in our hiding place let our entire
visiting acquaintance, including mes
sengcr boys and duns, knock at the
door till they got tired and then de-
part. blissfully unaware of our proXlm-
ity
Accordingly it wasn't long before we
were snugly ensconced on d pile of sofa
pillows on the parlor floor. wrapped in
our bathrohes and with our wet locks
streaming out behind US across the ra-
diator, over which we had stretched
steamer rug We were armed with a
novel apiece, but soon got to talking
girl fashion and were deep in a discus
zion OF Amos Judd when there came
loud knock at the door
"Great Scott" | exclaimed in
stage whisper, the rosy advantages of
my plan suddenly fading in the cold
light of reality
"There | told you so'' cried Mar
gerry ungeuerously sitting up abruptly
SO that her hair fell all about her in
great shining, coppery shower
"Sh--shut mp | whispered reach.
ing out with an agtated stockinged toe
for the bedroom slipper had carelessly
kicked off a moment before
Again the knock came this time
more imperative
"What in heaven & name. shall we
do9 gasped Marsery
"Keep still said soto vCce
Then the duul handle turned, and we
heard Ned voice saying "rhere's no
body home. Let's come in and wait for
them.
"All right, was the reply in Jacks
bass tones. "Maybe it's not the proper
thing, but we might as well risk it"
And we heard the door close as our Wis.,
itors entered and took possession Of our
apartment
1t was too ridiculous. I'd have had
to laugh if our lives had been at stake,
and in spite of the imminent danger Of