The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1901-01-04
AWALK WITH ISHBEL

| mean myself"
How could l imagine you a thingf" !
,sked reproachfully.
sFeu know what l mean," said Ishbel.
9TH severity. "Whp 1 was quits
young" she pursued-she Is 22-'1 used
to fancy that authors put themselves
INTO their stories. Now know they new
or do"
"Well, am not quite young" 1 said
GROSSLY. Go on"
"But you didn't promise me-"
81 promise"
Ishbel adjusted her hatpin. "Once
there was a girl" she began, who at the
age of II was sent to England to visit
her fathers people. That's rather q nice
beginning, isn't it?'' she interrupted her
self. lit sounds as IL it might be print,
Do you think if you saw story with .
beginning like that you would read it'll"
"Canddly?" inquired.
| "Of course"
81 don't think / should"
There was a dangerous glitter In her
eye.
But" FASTENED to add, reading a
story is very different from having you
tell it, you know. l could listen to you
for thousand years."
She was Modified. 81 won't take that
long," she assured me. with q smile.
There is no word for her smile but de-
licious.
do go on" said. Ibid she like the
peoplef"
"Well, some of them" doubtfully
"You see, they were English, and she
was an American"
Yes"
"And-and young, and they bullied her
little. The next time" with ANNA.
ton, II mean when l 60 over, don't
think they'll bully me-"
Il don't fancy they will"
"And so, you see, she didn't have a.
good time as she might exactly. But
she did have a love affair"
"Ohr said |.
Yes" said Ishbel, poking the ground
with her parasol; with a detrimental"
"Oh." said again.
Eyes" said Ishbel; che was a sort Of
distant connection Of hers, a lawyer
what they call over there solicitor, you
know. He-she said-he was very much
in lovc-aud so was She"
"Confound"- began.
81 beg your pardon" said Ishbel.
81 meant" | said sternly, sit is very
wrong of drtrimentals to make love tc
girls"
at is" agreed Ishbel. but he was
very, oh, very honorable. Things had
| gone-well, they had gone rather far, you
| know, but the week before she sailed
when he proposed-at least he didn't ex
actly propose, but he told her he had only
| 300 a year, and that, of course, it was
out Of the question in England to marry
| on that and he couldn't bear the idea OF
hampcring he. with long engagement
and-what did you say?"
| ooh, nothing"
Are you sure? You put me out. Well
he said she mustn't be engaged to him
but he would hold himself engaged I,
her, and some day, when the senior part
ner dropped off do wish" petulantly
you wouldn't mutter like that"
groveled.
Where was II" demanded lehbeI
"Oh, WELL then they said goodby. yo'
know, and she was perfectly miserable
| II you look so horribly cross | shall senC
! you home-oh, dreadfully miserable. Sh,
! felt that she didn't care straw abou
/
there were some very nice men on tn,
steamer coming home too. Balls anC
| parties had no attraction for her, and
! fancy, for ever so long she hardly tool
any interest in her frocks Oh, it wa.
horrid. She only lived for his letters
and somehow they-well. they were not
exactly satisfactory. She supposed Il
was because he was so very honorable
and they were not really engaged, yol
know. But one day she thought 1t al
over and decided that sort of thint
would have to come to an end. She knew
she would never be happy for a momen
till he came out as she knew he woult
some day, to claim her, but she made nj
! her mind to stop thinking about him a
much as possible and to try to seem hap
py, no matter how perfectly miserable
she was in reality. The idea was, yol
see-I think she got it out of a poem-t
lock his image up in her heart"
81 see." said l. "And how did !
work? 2"
at worked very WELL" said Ishbel, re
hectvely. "She knew she was wretched
but she didn't allow herself to thinl
about it."
"And what happenedP asked brisk
ly.
"Well, after three years he came"
"Oh, he didT'
"Of course" said Ishbel sharply. "Di
you imagine he didn't?'
coughed. And she unlocked he
hearth.
YES" said Ishbei.
"And the image
"It's very odd thing" replied Ishbe
slowly, but 1t wasn't there"
coughed again. WAS her heart
did she find the eceptacle-er-empty ?
| asked.
"She didn't tell me that" said Ishbe
We walked on. $50 that" remarke
presently. was the reason why that Ion
legged English fellow
But you promisedr' cried Ishbel-
Boston Post
Gem studded Glove Buttons inc Fad
Beatrix first mentions casually wha
consider the most novel fashion o
the hour, but, oh, SO expensive to carr.
out! She says, "All the best dresse,
women here wear them now" Sh
was talking OF sets of buttons to b.
worn on gloves. They come, it seems
In sets of three and four or more an,
are made of real stones-turquoises
pearls, emeralds. rubles, garnets, etc.
set In gold and may be sewed on an.
pair of gloves one wishes. They hav,
a loop at the back just like an ordinar,
button. The common pearl button 1
taken of and the teweled one put II