Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-10
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my regiment, " the young nan answ
''What a good time I've had herel"
"You were about" she observed
say something about the Southern Or
''The Southern CROSSE Why SHOULD Al
."Surely, " she said, 'you won't throw
away your opportunities Aren't you
going to gaze on the Southern Cross in a
few weeks and think of me9"
every likely" he answered quietly.
'"That's right" she pursued. "No
young man of feeling, within signing dis
tance of the Southern Cross, should neg
lect 1t. I, on the other hand, shall look
at the Great Bear and think Of you"
"Have you been to any theaters lately"
he asked.
"No," she said, "but you must have
visited some really pathetic melodramas."
IT only meant that it's been a rather
warm July, and are you fond of BICYCLING
It's not a bad floor tonight.
aren't you just a little ungrateful'"
she said. II only wanted
II underestimate nice, cold shower
bathos, " he answered. "You needn't be
afraid I shall bother you. Only I should
like to thank you for having given Inc the
happiest fortnight Of my life and to wish
you good luck"
"You are" she said softly, "rather a
nice boy"
"Some day." he answered, II trust that
I shall be a nasty man. A nice boy Is q
thing that is supposed neither to mind nor
matter"
Jack" she said, putting her hand on
his arm, without prejudice, as the law
yers say, would you mind less If 1t did
NATTER"
SIS 1t quite impossiblep" he asked.
"Well, isn't it?" she answered.
"Of course we should have to watt" he
said. "But couldn't you wait awhile,
Kitty"
"Please don't think me horrid and mer-
cenary," she said. SIT isn't altogether
that. But don't you know what a long
engagement means? It's the longest thing
on earth. It's a marriage on the hire pur-
chase system, where you pay three times
as much as it's worth for a thing that's
worn out before you really get it."
eff I left the SERVICE" he urged, 1--WE
should have enough to live on quietly"
you'd be so content If you did" she
said, "and u castle in Spain would be q
villa in West Kensington. No, Jack, it
wouldn't do. I'm sorry, but it wouldn't
do. Can't you seer"
"Oh, I see clearly enough" he said bit
terly. II hope that some day you'll have
a nice large paper marriage, a la modiste,
with real golden wedding bells and the
full approval of the family solicitor"
"Doh't, Jack, DON'T" she answered.
Cant you see that it takes two to make
a middle like this2 Don't let's spoil tho
little time that's left US. Let us at least
part friends"
"I'm sorry" the young man said. IT
suppose nothing I could say would make
any differenceS"
Nothing, I'm afraid"
every well. May I at least have all the
other dances tonight"
eyes, If you want them now," thu
young woman said sadly.
The young man and young woman en-
joyed themselves immensely for the rest OF
the evening, although they imagined
themselves heartbroken. The young ma
said several things which he considered
really cynical, and the young woman wal
lowed in a sense of martyrdom. They said
goodby in a cold morning light, and she
allowed him to kiss her. The kiss they
regarded as a kind of sacrament.
The angel Of death, with his habitual
disregard of the fitness Of things, disturbed
the even course Of the affair. The young
man had possessed a mercantile cousin,
and the cousin, having gone two or three
days before to a land where mercantile
possessions are rigidly excluded, had left
the whole of his property to the young
man. His reasons for this unexpected act
of generosity were probably that he had
never met the young man, which, in view
of the old gentleman's temper, was an ad.
vantage, and also that the latter cultivated
martial aspirations underneath his mer-
camille soul, even to the extent Of being Of
one time a captain Of volunteers, and re.
garded the young man with favor, as be.
ing the only military specimen Of the fam.
lily.
Therefore when the young man rose
from his brief sleep on the following morn.
ing he found a solicitors letter informing
him Of his good fortune. At first the in.
formation appeared too good to be true,
but the additional information that he
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reasonable amount put the truth beyond
question. The fact that he was rich, por.
tentously rich, at first filed him with an
insane desire to shout. As q silent relief
to his mental tension he took his slippers
off and threw them at the door. Then he
put them o n again and lit q pipe. All biz
life the young man had been in straitened
circumstances. He had never had enough
pocket money at school or q satisfactory
allowance since. Now he felt that he pos.
sessed ma single desire which he could moi
satisfy. Visions Of infinite possibilities
rose before him. He aver looked at hii
pipe with contempt.
"And now" he said to himself trium.
phantly, II shall be able to marry Kitty. y
Oddly enough, the young woman had
not stood In the forefront of the possibili.
ties. He noticed tho fact with something