Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-10

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DENIED IN LONDON. IA the
news fNdan July 11.-Oficials of tbelief
was artificial.
He found the young woman sitting in
the sunshine on the lawn. She was look
Ing, too, preposterously healthy and hap
by, considering the circumstances He
was able to explain quite intelligibly what
had happened, and the young woman lis
tened and watched him quietly. In some
ways he was a very transparent young
man, and she was a young woman of per-
ception.
$50 now" he concluded, "of course we
can be married just as soon as ever we
like"
married. You want to marry me?"
she said dreamily, as though he had sug-
gested a new idea, which as a matter Of
fact was the case.
you gladP" he asked.
"I'm very glad that you'll be rich" she
answered, with a smile. "What are you
going to dor"
"Oh, have a good time generally" he
answered.
"A good time generally-generally,"
she repeated slowly.
"What is the matter, Kitty" he in
quired in a puzzled way. II don't under
stand"
"I'm not sure that l do yet" she said.
"Surely after last night he burst out.
"Last night" she said, II refused you
because you were poor, and last night
was years ago to you"
"You surely don't think I'm such a cad
as to let that make any difference. OF
course I know you were right last night"
"No, I know you're not q cad, Jack.
You happen to be a gentleman. That's
what complexities things So" she said.
II don't understand at all" he said.
"You're very, very young, Jack" she
answered. He did look very young that
morning in his new aspect of a possible
husband.
"I'm no younger than Twas last night, I"
he urged.
"If I said yes she went on quietly.
"If you said vest Don't you care for me
still3" he asked.
"Wait a moment" she answered. "If I
said yes, we should be married soon. Then
we should settle down to a quiet, hum
drum, unexciting life. Do you realize
that2 Next year you wouldn't want to
dance with me all the evening""
"Then do you mean you don't care for
mep" he asked.
"No, I don't care for you" she said de-
liberately. She had watched his eyes for
"the light that never was on sea and
land" but it had died away since the
night before. "A1ld I'll tell you why.
Last night I was a great deal to you. l
should have been tho prettiest thing in a
life that wasn't very pretty. Now I'm
only a very, very small part Of your life.
That wouldn't satisfy me-"
"Surely you don't mean what you say'"
he pleaded.
"Oh, yes, I dc" she said, with q little
laugh. II shouldn't be adequate, and you
wouldn't be adequate. 1t wouldn't do.
Believe me, Jack, it wouldn't. We like
each other, but we don't love each other.
Don't let's be foolish any more. Let the
dead past bury its dead. You've a lot Of
arrears Of enjoyment to draw, and you'd
better 60 away and play now without
making too much Of this"
II never thought he burst out.
"No, Jack, I don't think you ever did, "
she said, ''or you'd agree with me. I know
you want me just for the moment, because
I've said no, but that's the only reason.
Run away and play. Goodby, Jack. I'd
rather you'd go now"
"Kittyl'' he exclaimed.
"Goodby, jack" the young woman
said, with a smile, holding out her hand.
The young man took it and strobe away
sngrily. For several days he said evil
things to himself about the young woman
and decided that she was not worth caring
for. Soon afterward he decided that he
never had cared for her. After another
brief interval he came to the conclusion
that she wal an unusually nice girl and
that some day perhaps, If he met her, he
might try his luck again. When the young
woman married another man, he felt sorry
for her and the other man, being under
the impression that he held a permanent
first mortgage on her affections, which
was q mistake, because the only marh
which he left on the young woman's mind
was a capacity for ~appfeciating the Other
man.
But the whole thing was q pity. II
might have been such an excellent little
pieoe of romance In two peoples lives,
and 1t degeneYated into the exposure Of Q
airtation.-Today.