The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-11-03
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Isl We. have all ST suppose, In our lives
made plumbers tile IL blunders, big
plumbers. and so forth, till one reaches
the pitch of etrievable blunder 7and
i have just escaped from the conse-
quences of one that for the moment
was likely to prove irretrievable.
- was--I had foolishly allowed my
self to be fascinated by Miss Stranger
sfloo1rd-yes, fascinated is, I think, just
the word ITO meet the case. ID: u ss$*5
Phyllis IS a dear, quite a dear, and
for time I submit, that I was va totter-
ing on the brink. I believe, as a mat mat
ter#of fact, that / did propose once OF
twice, but OF course I knew she'd say
mo. She's. so sensible. But, for one
\ awful, terrible moment at the time
I'm going to tell you about i thought
she was going to forget herself and
say i' 5$# ts5s .g 4 5s. re 55S .
II You see. the truth is, one is. little
bit ], afraid Of Miss strangerford. Every
thing will seem to be going swimming
~, and you think you're getting on
1 quite we'll and being rather clever and
all that, and then you look UP and
you see a something in her eyes which
sobers you down again. It's in her
eyes. Somewhere right at the back Of
them there's a kind Of glistening twin
kle that makes you feel, that you're
a fool. gs 5F M 2.z <S5 81
Now, Laura is not like. that. She is
clever and knows all about books,
music and Ibsen. and she, hardly ever
smiles. But Miss Strangerford just
sits curled up in her, chair and chat
tiers about nothing in particular, and
says funny things which make you
laugh Il and dresses very smartly, and
even sometimes smokes cigarettes, and
| yet directly one begins to talk about
deeper subjects she stays quite quiet
and keeps that funny look in her eyes,
for all the world as if she was laugh
ing; at you to herself. 4. " I.4. II Il {.
y Last summer. down on the river,
we got on aWfully we'll at. first. 1T
was later on that came to the con-
clusion that it would be a mistake to
carry matters further, and as she had
just--weH, not exactly refused, but put
me off for the second time, I thought
it better to let the matter drop. L u Z
h Then met Laura. Laura adores
music halls She. says that she thinks
the color scheme Of the ballet most
instructive and has come Ito the con-
clusion that 1t is unconsciously based
on the primitive principles Of color
music. I am sure she's. right. i like
them myself " 5E5 ssS &@ !; NJ. s %5sA
3sSs'. I saw a good deal of her after that
dinner, and last week we practically
became engaged. Naturally i wanted Is
give her some souvenir to commemo-
rate the day not the ordinary, vulgar
ring, but something with latent IN can can
Ing it 1t. Laura is great on latent
meanings, 50 I knew she would .appre-
ciate It. a#5$ 5#F. 555i
On the morning after the: engage
ment ! went to Somerton, the jewelers.,
and explained what Il wanted. Dick
son, their head man, spotted the idea
at once. HI q I. 5gs
You want something with pretty
sentiment in it W sonnet thing original 3
couldn't think Of any thing myself,
but he showed me Ia design which he
declared would be just the thing. 1T
was a sort of brooch, Will two hearts
Ione a ruby and one a diamond, The
ruby was supp posed to be I mine. be-
cause Dickson xplained that it sig,1ni-
fed passion and devotio on The two two,
big stones were bound together with 4
true-l lovers kno in damon as a copy t,
of an old pattern. y he assured me, and
very pretty it looked. gave him nv y
card to slip into the box when It was was
Isent home. 5sl3
That inscrip ion, sir e, he asked as
i was leaving the shop.
OF course, directly he asked me that
IhIsWas stack. Sol Just told him to put pit
On the usual sort Of thing and to send
lit to; The ~ oung lad at once, together
with my card
\ Ssss5s Wos days later among my mornings
letters received q 4 note from Miss
Strange rford asking me ITO 30 sto tea.
had Intended going To see Laura, but
on getting q elegram To put me Of,
decided to 90 and see ply Ilis. I.
was shown into her boudolr and
found her. as usual curl up in an
armchair. smoking q cigarette. 1T
struck me that she: was loo king ex-l
ltremely pretty and for one fleeting
second almost Wished that Laura:
Esnoked.
taS Also. Laura has 4 fault hich.
mind you, am not prepared 70 admit
still, she has 4 ffa,ll &c III that she
has quaint Ideas o. the subject of3 hair-I