The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-12-06
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ID Anhh 81 An UuL please stay II
you knew how good it is to be here
after that hurly-burly down town. Be
sides, If We go in we shall have lights,
and my eyes are tired. Please. want
TO talk over some of the recent psy-
Geological discoveries. You are inter
ested In thought waves, aren't your"
4 have done some reading on the
subject recently" she admitted, and re-
sumed her seat.
Tell me about II" he said comfor-
tably
why, I thought you wished to do
the talking"
"Oh, mol" cheerfully. 1--WE been
talking all day. It has been bargain
day at my counter"
you poor thing! Shall bring you
q fan or an ice?"
"Oh, you can taught" ne responded
gOod-naturedly.
"A Pegasus in a plOW!"
please don't. I'm tired"
us bargain day so very bad them"
she asked with a touch of sympathy.
Very bad" he assured her, smiling.
Let me bring you something rest
Fui."
Nothing on earth could rest me
more than the delicious repose of your
presence:
aye had better than all Che ballads
That ever were sung or said.
For ye are the living poems.
And all the rest are dead
Wait-don't move! 1 will shut up.
Please tell me where you learned the
secret of keeping silent How many
owls did you sacrifice to Minerva be-
fore she endowed you with her full
heritage of wisdom?"
owls to Minerya!"
Didn't the Greeks use to sacrifice
owls to her? They sacrificed doves to
Aphrodite."
ITO begin with, Minerva was
Latin goddess"
was she? Well. what did the an
clients sacrifice to herr"
"Pretty much what moderns offer up
at her altars-midnigh oil and medi-
tation."
Whatever it was, wish you would
let women generally into the secret,
for can assure you that few of them
possess it, | saw a poor fellow at the
opera with a girl few nights ago.
I've seen something of him on the
street: he's been travelling a rutty
road, and | imagine he had taken the
girl to the opera thinking she would
keep quiet and give his frazled nerves
a chance to knit up their travelled ends.
But you can bet your life she didn't.
She talked a blue streak from the
time she took her seat until she left it,
curtain up or down. And ne had to
listen and answer best way he could.
You know | caught myself wishing
The poor victim could sit down by you
and rest He looked an age older when
he went out and felt ten years young
er. You can't imagine what boon il
is to tired man to feel that he can
sit down by the woman-he-well, en-
Joys being with-and needn't talk UNI
less he wants to-"
q thought" she commented dryly
shat we were going to discuss psy
chological-what do you call it? Phe
nOmena?"
"If you wish. Yes, we were. Thai
is. you were to talk and I was to sit
here and listen and forget that it haC
been bargain day at my counter"
well, let me get my thoughts in or
der"
She leaned her head against the ban
lister and looked away to where tn,
early stars were struggling agains
the stronger moonbeans. The finger
ing after-glow touched her hair tt
warmer tints and fell with exquisite
s0ftness upon her upturned face. Bel
looked at her wistfully and his pulse
guickened. IL only he dared to hop
that his good news would be goo
news to her She had forbidden eve
the suggestion Of sentiment betwee
Them, yet they had never met within
the last year that he had failed to re
mind her she was to him queen of al
women He suspected that the siz
of his salary was what stood betwee
them.
Once he had asked her abruptly
she would marry poor man and sh
1ad promptly replied:
mo; it would be doing him too gres
an injustice.
Since then he had fancied, until r
Gently that he held the key TO the 81