The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-08-04
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How q Lover Brought a Dallying
Girl to tho Point.

about came from me. ! believe.
Suggestions Of any sort usually cam
from me rather than Margery. for
have in my veins the adventurous blood
Of stanch New England ancestry. wht
had burned witches and fought Indian.
and later pursued Il relentless traffic IL
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. IL not
a bit pig headed. rs l often told her.
But no n could help loving her. in
spite Of her little tough of Dutch oh.
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
men Margery was the most deliciously
dear, and l loved her 80 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 Il bearded
Turk to pity. For a whole year she had
kept him dangling after her rs abjectly
as a dancing doll at the end Of a string,
and yet, as far az we could see. he had
made no progress whatever in her way.
ward affections.
We had been talking things over,
Jack. Ned and I. in Margery's absence
q 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 1t known. was the daring
youth who had undertaken to guide my
New England enterprise and other vir.
tues (too numerous to mention through
life's pilgrimage.
He and Jack were partners in a law
Office and occupied the fiat on the top
floor. where they INDUCED in certain
mysterious rites they called light house.
keeping, while Margery and taught
music and Delsarte and prhcticed the
modest virtues Of hospitality in the fiat
below.
Nothing. therefore. could have been
more fit, suitable and otherwise to be
desired than to have Margery and Jack
fall in love with each other, even az
Ned and l had done. Jack was willing
enough, poor boy, but Margery baked.
II was too provoking.
Az l said before. we three had been
talking 1t over the day before while
Margery was absent teaching the luck.
children Of a rich soap manufac-
turer to play Wagner on the piano and
had all agreed that the situation looked
hopeless.
Jack had been in the depths Of do.
spair because the tenor Of the choir for
which Margery played the organ had
called three times that week, and,
] didn't believe she cared a pin
For the tenor, ! had never known naugh-
" Margery TO appear more willfully re-
CARELESS Of Jacks feelings.
We had parted, therefore, gloomily
after a fruitless conference,
and had relieved my mind by being
especially cross to Margery all day.
! must own she didn't seem to
mind much,
1t was an awful day, raining cats
md dogs. and In the afternoon ] got
'ired OF being cross all by myself and
proposed that We should shampoo our
lair and dry 1t on the parlor radiator,
he only one In the fiat large enough for
he purpose, OF course Margery object
ID Visitors might come, she said, and
hen who would let them inY | secuted
he idea OF visitors On such a day un-
BIS, ! observed with sarcasm, she was
Expecting the tenor again,
She didn't notice this stab, SO ] pro-
eeded to say that as the radiator was
the corner we could pull our big Jap
Rese screen mp in front Of it and, So
nre IN u hiding place, let onr entire
lsltlng acquaintance, including mes
enger boys and dnns, knock at the
COR till they got tired and then de-
art blissfully unaware of our proxim-
~
Accordingly II wasn't long before We
,ere snHgly ensconaed on a pile of sofa '
flows on the parlor floor, wrapped In 8
nr ~bathrohes and with our wet locks =,
out behind Us across the ra-
iator, over which we had stretched q
Eeamer rng, We were armed with q
oyel apiece, but soon got to talking I
lTl fashion and We're deep In a discus
Of Amos Judd when there cams 4
md knock at the door &
''iireat seottl' exclaimed In q {
age whisper, the rosy advantages Of
~ plan suddenly fading In the cold
ghl NJ reality (
"Thera, told yan SOL cried Mar (
ary HRgeneronsly, sitting w abruptly
that her haiF fell all about her IN 4
Feat shining, enPpery shower
''sh-shut uprf whispered, reach
" ont with m agitated stn1kingad too Y
v the hedr0om slipper ! had aaFelessly
|pkfd NJ 4 moment haf0Fe. 7
Again the knock came, this time
ore imperative .
"What IN heavens Rame, shall VIC ]