Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-09
"well. you know that-picturc. OF me you
never liked. You said it looked so saucy

WE'LL you KNOW tudLhplCtuIC'OA uto you
never liked You said it looked SO saucy
you wanted to shake it,
ITO be accurate. dear, I said 1t looked
like you do when you are saucy like"
ooh, well. anyway. ] don't believe you
look at it once in ten months
ITO be accurate, looked at 1t just
nine months ago. Yes, accurately, just
nine months and two days"
You're mighty accurate all OF sud-
den,' retorted Elizabeth with some as
perity; but at all events / want it.
Jack raised his eyebrows ana looked
wonderingly at Elizabeth.
What fore'
"To put in the paper replied she.
Somehow she didn't want to tell Jack;
she hadn't realized how much she cared
for him before.
That's not SO. know you too we'll for
that
Well, if 1 tell you the truth, will you
give 1t to me?''
II won't promise, but tell me-" Some
thing about his tone forced the truth to
her lips.
81 want 1t for man who thinks a lot
about me, and I think he ought to have
1t because" Here Elizabeth blushed
in her defiance, just why she couldn't say
''Do you mean to say that you dare
come here and ask me for a picture for
some MANI
Elizabeth nodded.
"Of all the nervy, coldblooAed roposi-
tionsn'
"Can have it?''
Nor
but I want it," she pouted.
81 don't care I'll be hanged If you'll
ever get it,
But 1 want it," Elizabeth forgot how
much she really wanted the picture or she
would have pursued different tactics. But
it was such fun to exasperate Jack.
you'll never get it.'
ooh, Jack, I'll give you a quarter to
help pay your rent"
Jack dashed his hat down and sprang
to his feet furiously.
You're a coldblooded heartless little
girl to ask me for one of your pictures for
another man
Something in his vioce made Elizabeth
glance up from the hat which she was
brushing carefully with exaggerated zeal
Then she stopped and laid the hat down
Jack" she faltered, peniten.iy, IL
pr omised to marry him."
Elizabeth" he gasped, his face white
with surprise and grief. You cant mean
itr'
She nodded; somehow she didn't want
to marry that other man if Jack was 60
irg to look that way
Elizabeth" he repeated. Then drawing
III ~ li,H,
eff you have promised Elizabeth, you
must love him, but oh, my dear"
Elizabeths lids dropped. There We're
tears behind them and tears in her voice.
She had played with life and affection all
her life so daintily that none had ever
been courageous enough to show her the
misery that lay behind it all She was an
inconscquent child until that stern line
around Jacks lips, and his manful self
repression touched the secret spring that
held her woman's nature hidden. A great
wave of pity swept over her; pity for the
other man she had promised to marry,
when she should face him with this new
knowledge of her heart And he must be
told.
well, are you going?" he said harshly.
Elizabeth shook her head and the tears
brimmed over
Don't cry for me, dear" he murmur-
ed, his anger forgotten at sight of her
distress.
It's not for you. Jack" she whispered.
I'm so sorry for him, so glad for
"Wen' he asked eagerly.
so glad" Elizabeth didn't finish
her sentence then. but a few moments
later she whispered: Jack, l think he
ought to have that picture"
And so the other man got the picture,
and somehow so deeply had he loved her,
he kept il hidden in his desk Years after
another consoled him for her loss.-Ex-
change.