The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-01-05
A Test Of Love.
A LIBERTY"
~ "Umh 2"

81 4 ra @gms ?.
albert, I want to ask you some
thing"
"Well?"
"Something-let go of my, hand while
I'm asking you this, because it's rather
serious"
"Goodness!'
maybe not so serious, either, but I
want you to tell me the truth"
''Haven't been telling you the truth
about everything? Didn't own up
that I used to be little tough before
met you?''
Indeed you did, Albert, and it was
perfectly sweet of you, but this issome-
thing different. Oh, don't know; I
Il suppose I'm foolish to think about
it, but something that Grace Elliott
said yesterday-'
"Great Scott! wouldn't care what
she said about anything."
II don't because know we'll enough
that she tattles all she konws and a
good deal more; but it was the way she
acted more than anything else.'
what was it all about, anyway"
ut was about you, for one"
Eyes; Grace loves me-nit.''
1T was about you and some one
else.'
"Who was the some one else?'"
"Can't you guess?"
mo. Was it your"
"No!''
mo? Well, then, I'm not interested
to hear anything about it,"
"Oh, you dear thing! 1t was some
thing about girl, though-another
girl"
(which one? What's her name?'
II should think you could guess.''
II don't see why. I don't know many
girls.''
'That's' too bad about you. Anyway,
you might try
swell, who was it-Rose Whiting p
"Rose Whiting! Obi"
"Jessie Cameron?"
"Albert Morton, you're not trying
to guess. It was Fannie Mcclellan
"Oh!"
Eyes, should think it would be oh.
You knew who meant all the time"
"Who, I? Why should I?''
Innocence! Now, Albert, stop
laughing, please. I'm in earnest''
$50 am I, then. What is it?''
SWELL, I want to know something
about her-about you and her"
''All right. Anything you want to
know"
"You think I'm joking, but I'm not.
I've told you things, Albert, that I
never told even to my dearest girl
friend, and think you might tell me
something about Fannie Mcclellan be-
cause-well, after Grace left here yes
terday I went up to my room and had
good cry"
Its too bad she can't attend to her
own business"
~ didn't believe what she said, but
it made me-oh, she has such an aggra-
waiting way about her, and all the time
she kisses you and,,fusses around you
and pretends to be the best girl friend
you ever had in the whole wide world. :"
"She makes me tired"
after she'd gone away I couldn't re-
member that she'd said anything in
just so many words, but she kept hint
ing around and acting as if she knew a
lot more than she cared to tell.''
':Don't you remember anything she
said?"
SWELL, it was about you and-Fannie
Mcclellan. You did 60 with her for
awhile, didn't you, Alberto"
Eyes. I used to take her to places
once in awhile. You know that. Why,
was with her the first time I ever met
you-that night at the Carleton club"
Eyes, and when we were sitting over
in the corner she looked as if she'd like
TO bite my head off. Was that the last
time you ever went with her?'
II don't remember. Itmay have gone
with her once or twice after that
"You must have gone with her good.
many times altogether, counting when
you called and all that"
Yes, I saw her occasionally, now and
then, for q year or so before I met YOU
IF that-then you must have liked
her better than you did the other girls
'.It's only natural that I should like