The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-09-12

You Will promise TO come, won you Z!
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
ciety, and he was a 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 they longed for death, or said
they did.
Miss Peyton scolded Teddy with an
air Of proprietorship that the young
man found TO be very embarrassing
when she saw him the next time, and
then she suddenly became embar-
raised and treated him with icy 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. lie invited
the young artist to drop in and see
him at the house some evening when
| ne had nothing better to do.
That's what / have been trying to
get him to do" murmured Miss Pey-
ton, with side glance at Teddy from
under her dropping eyelashes, but he
won't come"
First time you haven't got your
own way" chuckled the old man. II
guess il will DO you good, missy. But
# he won't come for you he won't for
me-" Whcreupon Teddy could do no
less than say that he would most GER
tainly call, if 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 to
ut the arts and go into business,
which Teddy thought might not be
such bad advice after all.
After little Miss Peyton came
Town in a most bewildering little frock
ana the smi' that Teddy got ought
20 have been SDf.cient reward for com
ng. G. w. b. trotted off before long
nd Miss Peyton played and sang in
sweet, thin little voice songs that
made Teddy rest his chin in his hands
md lose himself in the flicker Of the
ire. Then the girl left off singing
and came and sat down by him and be-
core he knew it he was talking about
himself, which is BAD sign, and he
vas conscious that the delicate per-
iume of her hair had somrhow got
nto his brain. For a time, it is TO be
feared that he forgot all about Miss
ileason, At last he pulled himself to-
rether and rose TO 90, and She was OBJ
siously unwilling that he should go
'ust then. so he stayed, and it was
Iuite late when she waved her hand in
arewell from the doorstep.
There would, no doubt, have been
/ different ending to this story. had 1t
not been for Teddy's idiotic habit Of
talking to himself. He was a boy who
took in show, as a general thing, at
east twice a week, so he might have
remembered the almost invariably IA
tai consequences Of soliloquizing TO
fences TO heroes from the same foolish
practice, nevertheless he talked to
himself, and, as it happened, talked
himself into good thing.
II was after he had talked for near
Y ten minutes to Miss Gleason, whom
ne had called Della" for the first
time. He was not only unreproyed, but
She noticed that his neclitie had drift
ed TO one side and had Strengthened
il for him.
When he went back TO the shop he
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
trousers pockets and gazing at the pic
| ture hIankly and unseeingly, began 70
| 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 cid
Ralch saw his stenographer suddenly
| rise from her work and walk unSteadi-
| " TO the window as the door on the
other side of the passage closed with
! slam.
Miss Peyton paused at the door be-
cause she observed the young man sit
/ ting and gazing intentIy at her por-
trait. not working at il. but Just look
| ing. and with a rapt expression that
She had never seen on his face before,
| although she had tried TO imagine It,.
! Then Teddy spoke.
"It's all foolishncss,' he said; I'm
a chump to think that she cares for
me lust because she has looked kindly
at me a few times. She can't help be-
inc sweet and kind. bless her! And |
haven't got any business to ask her
how about IL: I'm too internally poor.
II wouldn't be the square thing"
Miss Peyton did not wait for fur
Their particulars. She tiptced in. and,
being an impulsiyc young person, put
her arms around Teddy's neck, lad
her cheeks against his and said; you
won't have TO ask her. dear.
So. after all. it was not altogether
len, I 1