The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-01-05

her better than q did some girls, and
then there were other girls that 7 liked
about as well as did her. =
But you went to zee her oftener than
you did any other girl. now, didn't you?
Tell me, Albert, please. It's all past now
and it doesn't make . particle Of diff
ference what happened, or whether you
went to see her every night, cnly"
"Only what? If it doesn't make any
difference, what's all this excitement
| about p
''Now, don't get mad, Albert"
"I'msnot mad" ~,
"Really?" .z'.. -.
"No! Pshaw!" ...
"Why, can't you see that If we are GO
ing to be together all of our lives, AL.
bert, I ought to know about these
things, so that if anyone like Grace
Elliott comes around dropping her
hints and saying these things cam
| snow, just one moment, Lii. Let's
understand this whole business. What
was it Grace Elliott said?" +, (. -
"As I tell you, she didn't say it in so
many words, but you could see what
she meant"
'"All right, then. What did she
mean?"
"Albert, you won't scold?'
ono; go ahead"
"Oh, I'm sorry ever spoke of it at
ALL"
II wish I knew what it, was"
swell, I want you to know, Albert,
that + realize perfectly we'll that any
one can go and see girl once in awhile,
and even take her to parties. without
being engaged or anything like that,
and wouldn't have brought this up at
all only that Grace"
"Oh, darn Grace!"
"Albert!"
"She won't be bridesmaid, do You
understand? She won't be anything."
'Albert! Honestly, Grace didn't ac-
tually say anything right out, but I
simply felt that she meant something.
Now-ah-Albert, you've told me that
you never were engaged before, and
know that, but-well, you weren't were
your"
II were not"
ooh, Albert, I'm in earnest"
$50 am t.
"And you never asked anyone?"
"Certainly not!'
II might have known that. She'd
have grabbed you quick enough. If I
don't give Grace Elliott piece of my
mind when she comes around here
again.
II wouldn't pay any attention to any
thing she says"
II don't, but she has such Gravity,
tantalizing way of saying things about
people she knows you like. Albert, do
you ever see Fannie Mcclellan any
lnore?"
II just see her once in. awhile and
that's ALL
"You are-are friends at least?"
II suppose So"
"You've never had a quarrel or any
thing like that?"
@+Oh, no.
~Then don't see why you shouldn' t
be friends. She's sweet, lovely girl,
and know she was very fond of you
and may be yet, for all know, and
think it would be awfully mean of you
not to treat her just as beautifully as
you could. I'm going to invite her to
the wedding. Do you think she'll
Gomez"
II don't know, I'm sure"
There's no reason why she shouldn't
Gomez"
"None that I know Of"
, 'Well, I'm going to invite her, and
them want you to promise me some
thing, Albert
II promise. What is it7'
"Well-after we're married I want
, you to promise to Let me invite Fannie
to come and call on US. want to show
her that you and I-both of us-like
her just the same as if-wel, as if moth
ing had ever happened"
maybe she wouldn't enjoy coming
"Why not? You don't mean that she
might be jealous? Why, you Connected
> thing!"
"It isn't that. You don't know he1
very well, do you?''
"But you do, and want all of your
friends to be my friends, and you
know you've promised to like all of my
friends"
"All right, then. Well have Fannie
to dinner as soon as we're settled"
"Do you mean it?'
"Of course"
1T will please her so much"
"Yes?"
(Snuggling.) "And you're the kind
est, best-hearted thing that ever lived. y
Chicago Record.
Nature Protects the Doe.
Zone of the strangest as well az The
wisest provisions of nature says the
well-known guide, Dan Haywood, in the
Minneapolis Tribune, sis that which
protects doe deer, as we'll as some
other female animals, from enemies OF