Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-05-25

Iou lrtU pcuEr EIOIp from me-"
Yes, but it was not my fault. Who
told your"
'"It doesn't matter who told me. Al
though you say you have never had a
secret from me, 1 am certain you
would never have been the one to tell
me that"
You're mistaken thar, Loueesy. Thar
amt no reason on earth why 1 should
not "a told you, an I'd "a done it. Moth
in happened at that meetin, so far as
I'm concerned, that I'd be ashamed to
tell to the whole world"
Not even your hanging over the
fence and making love to Mary Mann?"
81 never done II, Loueesy, an any
body that went an told you any SIGH a
thing told you pint blank lie. l new
er made love to nobody in all my life
but you"
THAT will do for you to tell, but you
can't fool me. If you were not making
love to Mary Mann last night, why
were you with herr"
81 was jest passin along the street,
an she called to me-"
And you stoppedY'
"Of course. What else could I do2"
Nothing but stop and make love to
her."
Il tell you 1 never done any SIGH
thing as make love to her. You ask
her il did"
Mrs. Banks tossed her head disdain-
fully.
"I'll be apt to ask any woman such a
thing as that, and that woman in par
ticular."
"Waal, you needn't, then. But 1t was
jest like say. 1 never dreamed OF
maxim love to her"
But you stopped there with her and
hung over the fence and talked to
her?'
"Waal, s'pose l did. couldn't help
myself. couldn't jest walk on an leave
her while she was talkin, could II"
Certainly not when her talk was so
sweet and interesting. You must have
found it real pleasant TO have her as
sure you that l didn't love you, but
! that she knew some woman who did"
81 didn't find it pleasant. an If had
/ wouldn't "a done the way 1 did"
Wouldn't have staid to listen to
herr"
at wouldn't have let on that didn't
understand what she meant an discour-
nged her ever way 1 could"
by hanging over the fence and talk
ing back to herr"
eff did hang over the fence an talk
back to her, never said nothin out of
the way an nothin to be ashamed Of,
nary word"
Some people haven't a very keen
sense of shame"
Sim paused for a moment. Then he
said very soperly:
"Loueesy, you don't love me. If you
did, you wouldn't never believe the lies
somebody's gone an told you when l
tell you they are lies. \ woman that
loves her man amt never a-goin to be-
lieve some old long tongued tattler as
! az In him. It's gospel truth, If ever /
spoke one in my life, when / say new
er made love to Mary Mann, an I'd
! swear to it on stack of Bibles a hun
dred feet high. You amt got no right
to accuse me of any sich a thing"
"But you have a right to accuse me
OF something just as bad?"
Il amt never accused you of nothin,
Loueesy, an you know it."
''NOt exactly in so many words, per-
haps, but you have minated it pretty
plainly"
Me intimated that you made love to
some other man besides me?"
something like that. You remem-
Der, l suppose, what you said about
| that noteY'
Il never said an never meant that
you loved somebody else"
II know what you think"
"If L thought SIGH thing as that,
would "a told Mary Mann yisteddy
that she was allyn when she said what
she did? An last night, when Jim
Thorn limited at the same thing, do
: you know what 1 done to him? list
J Knocked him down plumb fiat on his
/ back, an il they hadn't "a held me I'd
"a stamped the very daylights outen
him."
Louisa looked up, surprised and
panied expression on her face.
did Jim Thorn dare to say such a
thing as that of me?" she cried.
He did" Sim replied, and, feeling
sure Of her gratitude at least, he added
''But he amt never goin to say it nc
more, l bet. 1 done settled him fol
that"
"Yes," she said; ''but you've gone and
set everybody else to talking 1 wish
: you had let Jim Thorn alone"
Sim was amazed, and the look on his
face showed 1t.
| why, my land, Loueesy," he ex
claimed, you amt amin to say done
wrong In Oekin Jim Thorn down
are your m
"You had better not have done it,
she replied, and wish you hadn't"