The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-01-14
: COWard'S
: ReCOnpense.


You know the old adage, Lawrence,
AIRS fair in love and war l shall do
nothing unfair but l decline to admit
that you have any monopoly in that
quarter, as yet at least"
"Thats just like you, Grant, putting
your oar In where you're not wanted
And how do you know that I'm not
wanted? Not wanted by you, admit;
but it seems to me that Miss Morland
herself has some right to be consulted
in this matter. I shall ask her."
You will do nothing so silly"
Where's your right, my friend, to
dictate?"
II shall not discuss the matter with
YOU Grant. Everything points to my
being accepted and l intend asking
Miss Morland before we leave for Eng
land"
"Phew. that's quick work. DO you
hear in mind that We start for home
the day after tomorrow"
Perfectly" and thereupon Lawrence
began to walk somewhat faster than
they had been doing.
The other was. however, not to be
denied and strode after him.
Look here, old man. there is no use
quarreling about it. Suppose we both
NlN Jul luth' 1, lOO, iluNt up my
mind to ask Miss Morland to be my
wife, and shall do so before l leave,
that Is, unless / hear of your having
been accepted. Let us toss up to de-
eide who is to be the first to ask her.
1t strikes me we are both somewhat
too previous"
Nonsense, / know better"
1t was cloudless day in the high
Alps in early September. Two ladies
were seated under the veranda of a
hotel that from height looked down
upon the long, narrow valley in front,
girdled as IL was by snow clad noun
tains and intersected by a rapid gla-
cier-fed stream. The summer visitors
We're daily taking flight for the even
ings were already frosty and cold and
some ominous flakes of snow had fall
len. On the further side Of the valley
two pedestrians might be described
skirting the lower edge of the sombre
pine-wOod from which they had Just
emerged.
There's Apollo and Mr.. Grant" said
the younger of the ladies, girl of
some eighteen summers.
Ada, do wish you would give up
that horrid habit you have of nick
naming people"
Why, mama, it is very appropri-
ate. you will admit, in this case: he is
so handsome. Apollo Bevedere we
christened him. He lives at the Bel
Nedere hotel, you know" said the girl,
ignoring the general rebuke and skill
fully substituting what was only
"crilic plea in defense
"Gut even II appropriate, it is not
v'il for a young lady to speak of peo-
:' ~ that way; at any rate, to make
g '2ct!c" of it as you do"
''I"cHc now, what ault-flnders we
"". But | shall really try to break
II" habit. The two gentlemen,
go. let ~ say are evidently COM
p l"is way. ! suppose it is because
''- Belv"d"rc is like our own hotel,
r't'tv wen deserted"
You seem to take great interest in
;ac E2ntleman?"
In which one. mamma? PRAY. tell
mH, for they are both Interesting. are
tNey not? From what l have seen of
them ! like them both, am free to
admit"
Somewhat too free, my dear if il
were not that you make the admission
to your mamma alone. | mean Mr..
Lawrence
"Oh, Ap-, there, beg pardon, it al
most escaped me again"
Now do give up that levity for a
moment, Ada. l want to ask you in
all seriousness which one of them is
to be. Your pap and l have been dis
cussing matters, and we both want to
KNOW"
"And I must confess at once?"
"Yes."
We'll, then, neither-for three years
At least. l am not going to be like
a certain lady you and know better
than anybody else, who married at
eighteen and is now taken for my Sis
ter. Poor me, but how satisfactory to
her, dear mamma. But, as the gentle
men themselves are approaching,
hadn't we better change the subject?"
Presently, my dear, and If those
three years were gone-or abbreviated,
shall we say?-I suppose it would be
Mr.. Lawrence?"
You may suppose so--of course-I
almost think that l suppose So too"