Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-10-31
1T win be your fault from this tim.

I'm going to have on Wednesday night.
| You will promise to come, won't YOU
81 won't promise"
"But YOU willard he did.
But as to keeping his promise, that
was another thing. He was not par
| ticularly bashful, but he had an idea
that the sort of society that Miss Pey-
ton moved in was not his sort OF So
Getty, and he was little uncertain
about his dress suit, which was GER
tainly not shabby from continuous
wear: therefore Miss Peyton looked
for him in vain and in consequence
snubbed several Of her admirers so
that hey longed for death. or said
they did.
Miss Peyton scolded Teddy with an
air of proprietorship that the young
man found 10 be very embarrassing
when she saw him the next time, and
then she suddenly became embar-
raised and treated him with ley re-
serve for nearly an hour. Soon after
this she brought G. w. b., her father.
up to the studio, and the old man was
quite cordial and seemed to approve
Of Teddy's shirtsleeves. He invited
the young artist to drop in and see
him at the house some evening when
he had nothing better to do.
That's what | have been trying TO
get him TO do" murmured Miss Pey-
ton. with a side glance at Teddy from
under her dropping eyelashes, but he
won't come"
First time you haven't got your
own way" ehuekled the old man. Il
guess II will do you good, missy. But
If he won't come for you he won't for
me-" Whereupon Teddy could do no
less than say that he would most GER
tainly call, II he still might, and he did
call this time. and papa came down first
and made him smoke and talked to
him about his prospects in an easy
sort Of way and recommended him 10
cut the arts and go into business,
which Teddy thought might not be
such bad advice after all.
After little Miss peyton came
down in a most bewil ering little frock
and the smile that Teddy got ought
TO have been sufficient reward for COM
ing G. W. B. trotted of before long
and Miss Peyton played and sang in
sweet, thin little voice songs that
made Teddy rest his chin in his hands
and lose himself in the flicker Of the
fire. Then the girl left Off singing
and came and sat down by him and be-
fore he knew IL he was talking about
himself, which is a BAD sign, and he
was conscious that the delicate per-
fume Of her hair had somehow got
into his brain. For a time, il is TO be
feared that he forgot all about Miss
Gleason. At last he pulled himself to-
gether and rose TO 90, and she was OBJ
yiouslys unwilling that be should 30
Just then, so he stayed, and II was
quite late when she waved her hand in
farewell from the doorstep.
There would, no doubt, have been
a different ending to this story had il
not been for Teddy's idiotic habit 81
talking to himself. He was a boy who
took In show. as a general thing. at
least twice a week. so he might have
remembered the almost invariably fa-
tai consequences of solil0quizing 70
villains and the occasional inconven-
fences to heroes from the same foolish |
practice. nevertheless he talked 10 |
himself. and, as IL happened, talked 1
himself into a good thing.
1t was after he had talked for near
~ ten minutes to Miss Gleason, whom
he had called "Delia" for the first |
time. He was not only unreproved. but |
she noticed that his necktie had drift |
ed to one side and had Strengthened |
II for him.
When he went back TO the shop he 1
threw himself into a chair in front Of |
the easel. whereon Miss Peyton's near |
" completed portrait was placed. and, |
thrusting his hands deeply into his 4
trousers pockets and gazing At the pic
ture blanklv and unseeingly, began TO
free his mind.
He was very much agitated. other |
wise he would have noticed that the |
original Of the portrait had arrived and |
paused at the half opened door Miss
Gleason saw her. and shortly after old /
Bach saw his stenographer suddenly |
rise from her work and walk unsteadi- /
" 10 the window as the door on the
other side Of the passage closed with
a slam.
Miss Peyton paused at the door be-
cause she observed the young man sit
ting and gazing intently at her por-
trait. not working at it. but just look
ing, and with rapt expression that /
she had never seen on his face before, |
although she had tried to imagine IL.
Then Teddy spoke.
ats all foolishness." he said; "I'm i
a chump to think that she cares for
me Just because she has looked kindly 1
at me a few times. She can't help be-
ing sweet and kind. bless her. And /
haven't got any business TO ask her /
how about II; I'm too internally poor.
II wouldn't be the square thing"