Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-04-17


he repeated. what do you mean by
that?"
81 mean just what say. Last night
was not so long ago that you should
forget what took place then"
81 don't understand you. I've never
had a secret from you in all my life.
much less a secret between me an any
woman"
care you 50 sure of thatT"
81 am"
"Then you must have forgotten Mary
Mann"
Sims face flushed instantly, and his
head dropped. He had forgotten Mary
Mann. but now he remembered her. as
we'll as his meeting with her the night
before. 1t was the memory of that
meeting that made him blush, and he
blushed, not for himself, but for her.
"And your meeting with her last
night" Louisa added after pause.
"Who told you about that?" Sim ask
ed inconsiderately. thus admitting the
truth Of the charge.
Then you did meet her?' Louisa
said.
"Yes. but it was not my fault. Who
told you"
ut doesn't matter who told me. AL
though you say you have never bad
secret from me, 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 | 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
mot even your banging over the
fence and making love to Mary Mann"
IL never done it. Loueesy. an any
body that went an told you any sich
thing told you a pint blank lie. ! 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 her"
81 was jest passin along the street,
an she called to me-"
And you stoppedT
"Of course. What else could doT
Nothing but stop and make love to
her."
81 tell you l never done any sich a
thing as make love to her. You ask
her If did"
Mrs. Banks tossed her head disdaln-
fully.
I'll be apt to ask any woman such
thing as that, and that woman in par.
ticular."
WAL. you needn't. then. But 1t was
Jest like ] say. | never dreamed or
maxim love to her."
"But you stopped there with her and
hung over the fence and talked to
herW
"Waal, s'pose did. couldn't help
myself. | couldn't jest walk on an leave
her while she was talkin, could lr'
Certainly not when her talk was so
sweet and interesting. You must have
found 1t real pleasant to have her as
sure you that | didn't love you. but
that she knew some woman who did"
Il didn't find it pleasant, an If | had
wouldn't a done the way did"
Wouldn't have staid to listen to
herT
81 wouldn't have let on that l didn't
understand what she meant an discour-
aged her ever way could"
"By hanging over the fence and talk
Ing back to her?"
IF did hang over the fence an talk
back to her. never said nothin out Of
the way an nothn to be ashamed Of.
nary word.'
Some people haven't very keen
sense of shame"
Sim paused for moment. Then he
said very soherly:
"Loueesy, you don't love me. If you
did. you wouldn't never believe the lies
somebody's gone an told you when |
tell you they are lies. A woman that
loves her man amt never a-goin to be.
lieve some old long tongued tattler as
ag'in him. It's gospel truth. If ever
spoke one In my life, when say ncv.
er made love to Mary Mann. an I'd
swear to it on stack of Bibles hun
dred feet high. You amt got no right
to accuse me of any sich thing"
"But you have a right to accuse me
of something just as bad?'
81 amt never accused you Of nothin
Loueesy. an you know it,"
Not exactly in SO many words. per
haps, but you have intimatcd it pretty
plainly"
''Ie intimated that you made love to
some other man besides me?"
Something like that. You remeni'
ber. | suppose. what you said about
that notc?'
81 never said an | never meant thai
you loved somebody else"
81 know what you think"
.'If thought sich thing as that.
would n told Mary Mann yisteddy
that she was a-lyin when she said what
she did? An last night, when Jim
Thorn hintcd at the same thing, do
you know what done to him? jist
knocked him down plumb fiat on his
back. an if they hadn't q held me Ia
"a stamped the very daylights outen
him."
Louisa locked 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