The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-08-29

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that 10 OF no consequence. Such words
apply to the new love as to the old. A
fellow may call girl Sweetheart" as
the result Of habit OF speech ac-
Quired before he knew her, and she
cannot detect the crime, but If he per-
sists In calling her dearest Fanny"
when her name Is Helen she Will In
dict him for perjury.
1t is painful to speak evil Of
woman. but candor compels the state
ment that Fanny was dressmakers
dummy animated by soul that would
have been considered mercenary In a
pRwnbroker. Donald could not per-
ceive 1t. Everybody else knew that
her deserdon Of him and her marriage
with a man old enough to be her
grandfather ought to have been pub
lished by the press under the head Of
"Financial TRANSACTIONS" But Donald,
who WAS a highly imaginative person
and had always surrounded Fanny
with a mist Of illusions, believed that
the occurrence was one Of those subtle
mysteries Of love which, In the words
OF Lord Dundreary, no fellow can find
out.
A man OF simpler mind would have
ing for great deliverance. but 1t
pleased this dreamer to imagine that
he had suffered loss.
Fanny was young lady with con-
siderable social pretensions, and. after
ehe turned her back upon Donald, he
turned his upon society. He wander
ed into artistic Bohemia, and there he
met Helen. who was regarded in that
Gegion as an infant phenomenon. AS
matter Of fact. she was % years old
and had worked hard under he very
best teachers since the earliest day
when such instruction could profltably
begin. but she looked like a girl of 18
HVho had never done anything more
eerious than chase butterflies In the
Shelds. Hence Bohemia, which judges
by. appearances even when the facts
tn the case are perfectly we'll known,
persisted In holding her to be an in
spired child.
!: Donald was more shocked than
pleased when this ideel of maidenly
Innocence invited him to come to see
her any time, adding the information
that she was living in big building
full OF bachelors Of both sexes, in a
little suit that was all her own. Her
quick eye caught the expression that
hitted across his countenance, and she
was amused, perhaps little piqued
also.
II am chaperoned by large bull
dog" said she. "and when you see
bis teeth you will admit that the
strictest social code could require no
more"
At an early day Donald made the ac-
qualntance Of this noy city In chaper-
ons, and he was forced to confess that
the animal was competent to preserve
the decorum Of any company accord
Ing to such ideas as he might have
on the subject. Yet the young man
was still Of the opinion that the me-
mage left much to be desired. He was
so much older than Helen, having just
turned 80, that direful milestone at the
end Of youth, that he ventured to give
her advice.
you're going to be famous some
day" said he, land In my opinion 1t
Will be pretty soon. Then you'll want
to get into society, and this sort OF
thing will be against you. If you only
mad an aunt or something like. that
why in the world should want to
get into societyT asked the girl.
Everybody wants to get into 30
cisty," said Donald. THAT'S where
the money is. and, Of course, your
ultimate object in painting pictures is
20 sell them for the best possible
Oraces. Moreover, though you are too
young to think Of it yet, there is the
question Of matrimony."
II meet a man or two, now and
fhen," said Helen. poor. but honest
most Of them. and yeti
"My young friend" rejoinad Donald.
never marry except for love. but re-
member, as an artist, that you can
View great deal more scenery from o
6team yacht than you can from the
Jersey City ferryboat"
"Cerberus," said Helen to the daa.
do you hear what the young man 10
talking aboutT'
Cerberus growled.
! you do not practice what you
preach" continued the girl. "Tf you
did. you would not be here"
"Oh, It's all over with me-" he re-
Joined. 'Tt makes no difference what
u do now. or course, you're not to
fake offense at that. I come hero be-
cause wish most earnestly to be your
Sriend; because you teach me many
Ghings; because I am happier here than
Elsewhere. When say it is all over
with me. mean that I have had a
bitter disappointment which has
changed the course Of all my ambl-
ltions."
@Of course, Helen could not conceal
her wish to know what that "iisap-
jDotntment had beel, and she was 80
sWeetly sympathetic that Donald told
her all about 1t. He had said little to
any one upon the subject since that
most unfortunate calamity had over
taken him, and 1t was a great relief to
unburden his mind. 1t seemed to him
40 IL this innocent child had been sent
by plying Providence to be the re-
oipient Of his confidence.
Though ne spoke with the utmost re-
spect Of Fanny, and did not hint, nor
indeed think, that she had acted from
an unworthy motive, his story made
tho facts absurdly plain to Helen, and
ehe was filed with wrath. For the
poor little girl was already In love with
Donald, had already set his image on
q lofty pinnacle, and she ragged at the
thought that her idol should have lost
his heart to the con ,onest Of money
hunters.