El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-08
A SLIP OF THE
IMAGINATION.

The girl with the brown eyes and the
| happy face looked up slowly \ lot Of
the girls had been lunching together in
the big storcroom at the top 81 the war;
house, and they had been RECALLING them
selves aud each other by telling love stO-
ries. real and Imaginary. Ii had been
particularly stipulated 10y the brown eyed
maiden that all proposals mentioned
should he wholly imaginary and such
a. could never possibly have come &"
pass. And now that il was her turn t.
tell "A story she began in 81 way which
promised "a close adherence to- this siipu-
lation.
Once upon a time" she commenced.
$50 long ago that all the men We're 81
gallant and all the women ~ lovely and
charming that girls never had to stand
up in street ears and were always paid
just a. much money for doing the same
work men were. there lived Young
man. He WAS - brave and so knisliily
that cvcrybody admired and loved him
because they couldn't help it-ani |
don't suppose hc was called 10y his formal
title NOR. than once ia u year or two
Sir Gniahad' seemed to- suit him much
better than plain Phil
She stopped hurriedly. her checks red
and the other girls exchanged amused
giances. But they were kind and conSid-
to- do until after she had turned her
happy eyes from their impressive faces
up to the dingy old roof again, and she
went ON innoccntly:
''Now. ia the village where This chival-
rous knight had been born and where lac
went back on visit once in awhile.
there lived 4 young woman who loved
him dearly aud whom lie loved just rs
much. although they neither OF them
Inc fs f..r- Lone A
and ugly ogre. the ogre OF dire necessity.
had forced him away from the village To-
the great seething city when he was
little more than boy long. long before
he had proved his right to his kniehily
plume and spurs. The first time lie went
back on "a viSit-thc ugly ogre wouldn't
allow him To- de- this for ever 80 long. and
he only let him stay just Il week and ~
day when lie did get back-the young
woman found out that She loved him. al
though she wouldn't admit this even Ia
herself for nearly seven years afterward-
not until she was getting To Ice Il scdHtc.
middle aged woman of 80 and the clivai-
rous. lovely knight was nearly 80.
But size couldn't help owning up t.
herself that she wished she might Sc,
more OF the handsome knight-you see
the knight had gone TO school with her
in her childhood and had been her own
tector in those days-and by and 10y III,
ugly ogre. without in the least meaning
IL. served her good turn. He turned
her out of the village and sent her hurry
ing on To the great city alone and lonely
AMI with her own bread and butter tu
earn or 20 hungry. IL was some time h,.
fore the chivalrous Lnisht found her. but
after that the great city. which had seem.
ed 50 dreary aud gloomy and lonesome e.
hs.F hall l,1I d
a friend. and such u friend as the cbival-
rous knight. in it,"
The other girls exchanged gianccS
stcalihily at this point, but the happy
faced girl with the brown eyes never NO
ticsi it, With her eyes still fixed upon ia,
dusty roof. she was intent upon her story.
Aud the little smile which crept from
these eyes to the happy mouth and back
again Was sO sweet with happiness that
il made her beautiful One or two of the
more Imaginative girls were bcginnin. t.
wonder IL The chiValrous knights fair
maiden had lO"kr'l like that. The brown
eyed girl sighed Il little. as happy children
sigh ia their play and their sleep. before
she went Ou.
=" the y"un: woman was happy in Ill,
friendship. and she never thought Of any
thing else" she said. the soft voice Il lit |
tie trcInul"us now. And then all sud
denly the chiyalrous knight sought hci
ont one evening and asked her To lie hi. |
wife"
FL have lnD=cd to say this to you fpI |
months AMI months. darling. lac said |
but hay" not dared and for two rc:i |
sons. I:Iii now that | have been proiroi |
ell AMI am I" have money enough To max, |
hDIn" for y"u IL You will only say yes
have piucEcri uI' coura=" to ask-nuy. i'm |
plurc-y"u to say it
And So Iui the brown eyed girls
face was =" full of bli>~fui joy and glory
now that the OJl:rr girl. could be silent nc
longer.
And =" they wrr'. married and lived
happily ever after they cried in chorus.
rnsiin: UI'"n and covering. her with cat
rcssc>. And we're al crcr so glad FOR
you both
Wby-wly." exclaimed the girl with
brown eyes ainaz"lly. WHAT'S the matter
with you all: Oh'-and she broke on til
blush =" diVinriy that if T'h:lip. the chiv-
alrous knight. had only been present ho
would surely have Insisted upon her mar
rying him then and there instead of wait
ing three weeks longrr-'I'vc given my
self away. haven't /? And after all
said about not telling things that had ac-
tually happened, Well" laughing ~
only happy creatures can laugh no spc-
cial harm has been done, i suppose. after
all. I'm going to leave the firm OH Sat
urday, SO i should have told Sau all this
week anyway. And as I didn't quite
know how to do it gracefully I'm not go
Ing TO say anything cross about my little
snip of the ina NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 60 Trib-
une.