The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-01-06
eseesses.seeeesesseeess
Test Of Love.
8 silii55S
a. A LBERTI"

" A LBERT!"
ALBERT, I want to ask you some
thing"
.'WeII?'
Something go Of my hand while
I'm asking you this, because it's rather
serious"
Goodness"
Maybe not so serious, either, but
want you to tell me the truth
Haven't been. telling you the truth
about everything? Didn't own up
that I used 10 be little tough before
I met you?"
Indeed you did, Albert, and it was
perfectly sweet of you, but this issOme-
thing different. Oh. don't know; I
i suppose I'm foolish to think about
it. but something that Grace Elliott
said yesterday
Great ScOtti I wouldn't care what
she said about anything"
IT don't because L know well enough
that she tattles all she konws and
good deal more; but IL was the way she
acted more than anything else"
What was IL all about, anyway"
1T was about you, for one"
Eyes: Grace loves me-nit."
ct was about you and some one
else"
who was the some one else p"
Cant you guesS?"
''NO. Was 1t yOuP
ssNo!"
NO? Well, then. I'm not interested
to hear anything about it."
"Oh, you dear thing! Tt was some
thing about a girl, thOugh-anOther
girl"
Which One2 What's her name? -
a'I should think YOU could guess"
81 don't see why. IdOn't know many
girls
That's too bad about you. Anyway,
you might try"
well. who was it-Rose Whiting?"
Rose Whiting. OH"
Jessie Cameron"
albert Morton. you're not trying
to guess. 1t was Fannie Mcclellan"
"Oh."
'sYes. I should think 1t would be oh
You knew who I meant all the time"
'Who. I? Why should y"
Innocence. Now. Albert, stop
laughing. please I'm in earnest"
$50 am I. then. What Is it?'
well, I want to know something
about her-abOut YOU and her"
"AH right. Anything YOU want to
know"
You think I'm joking. but I'm not
I've told YOU things, Albert. that i
never told even to my dearest girl
friend. and think you might tell me
something about Fannie Mcclellan. be
cause-weII. after Grace left here yes
terday went up to my room and had
a good cry"
Its too bad she cant attend to her
own business"
Il didn't believe what she said, but
Il made me-Oh. she has such an aggra-
waiting way about her. and all the time
she kisses you and fuses around you
and Pretends to be the best girl friend
You ever had in the whole wide world"
she makes me tired"
After she'd gone away 1 couldn't re-
member that she'd said anything in
just 50 many words but she kept hint
ing around and acting as If she knew a
lot more than she cared to tell
~
said2'
well. II was about you and-Fannie
Mcclellan You did 60 with her for
awhile, didn't YOU, Albert2'
Yes. I used to take her 10 places
once IN awhile. You know that Why.
/ was with her the first time I ever met
you-that night at the Carleton club
Yes. and when we were sitting over
IN the corner she looked as If she'd ike
10 bite my head on Was that the last
time you ever went with her?"
Il don't remember I may have gone
with her once or twice after that"
You must have gone with hera good.
many times altogether, counting when
you called and All thnt.
Eyes. = saw her occasionally nov and
then. for year or So before I net yea.
tal--trsn yen U1st have ised
ter fzltzr .sU sou sd sHe cth-- e.r,s