The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-14

did I expect 1t. though gossips reported
the contrary.
Robert was impatient to be married
| but 1 was not. He accused me of being
cold, and of not reciprOcatng his pas
sion. Possibly all men in love are apt 10
act childishly. I found Roberts atten-
| tionS wearisOme. 1t might be said that
| he would be cured Of them by marriage.
| but this is a painful experience TO look
forward TO.
One evening we had a quarrel He ac-
cused me Of secret admiration for Mr.
| Waters-that I held him off hoping Gus
would come forward al a suitor and add
ed, as final rebuke, that he and Hattie
| Trude had been married the day before
He showed me paper with the marriage
notice printed ir It,
l was so angry at the accusation chat
at hrst I told him the engagement he
| tween Us Was broken. Then ne began TO
plead for himself. expressing such sorrow
at his hasty words that gradually I re,
Tented. After all, had l treated him
rightly? At last 1 agreed to marry hirn
at once. 1t was becoming the fashion To
| plan half elOrement ami save the ex-
pehses and publicity Of a regular we'd
| ding at home. l consented to marry him
! the next day.
After Robert departed I looked for ths
! newspaper containing the notice hut
/ AAtANN
his hand, but the special copy he had
taken with him. do not know what
prompted me TO write a note Of congratt-
! lation to Gus and dispatch It by my
brother Ned, a lad Of twelve I men
toned having seen the notice i'm the
paper and said l was sorry he had not
/ confded IN me.
1t was after 10 o'clock. and [ retired to
| my room. Half an hour later / heard
Ned coming up stairs. He stopped at my
door.
did you see Gus?" asked from with
in.
Yes. He's down stairs. He came back
with me-"
What does he want"
He wants to see you. I guess"
What fOr?"
He didn't say. Probably wants to bor-
row your overshoes. Better go down and
ask him"
L went down. He didn't want to borrow
anything. On the contrary. he wanted
me to give him something to keep-my
hanI, my heart He said the notice of
his being married was a conrounded
fraId-that Robert must have had IL i'm.
serted in a few copies Of the paper by
special agreement-it could be done ir
one was willing to pay for IT, He was
IN quite an excited frame of mind. and
1 hardly knew my usual placid Gus
~ ~pul7t, Niltu you We're engaged D
| Robert, it was not for me to make any
attempt to win you. 7 thought You
knew your own mind. and had DECIDED
that l was not the sort of fellow vcu
cared to marry. But this trick gives me
a right TO speak Am I too later
| Naturally 1 told him he was That If
/ he had cared for me in that way he ought
| to have come forward long before Now
| that my word was plighted to Robert
and / could not think OF breaking it,,
! though he had acted in a most despicabls
| manner, in a manner to make me
ashamed to think he was my plightct
| iever-and so on.
| To which Gus replied:
''All right little girl. If you think so,
! had better go and give him the worst
| licking he ever had IN his life. evct
| though they do send me to Jail for f.
! But you won't care"
! 81 shall care"
Then we'd better get married al once,
| early tomorrow morning. How early can
| you be ready?"
! l ought to have resisted longer but I
| didn't 1 consented to be ready at ans
! hour that he should name-and 1 was
and we were married.
And that is all there Is to the story.