Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-19

| would have seen how tight the clasp
was. This, perhaps, would have made
him delay long time in his answer.
"These are difficult questions to de-
eide for another," he said at last jul
dicially looking out at the window.
sMy opinion would be that it would
be wiser to marry the gentleman
who is a gentleman, I take it for grant
ed-than to go out into the struggle
with the world. Personally, I don't
like to see women in business, Tiff |
it can be avoided-and in this instance
it seems that it can" he added, with
swift look at her face.
At his first calm words she had |
shrunk as if from blow, and now she |
arose and turned toward the door, her |
eyes lowered.
"Thanks-you are very kind" she
murmured. He saw her put out her
hand and feel for the knob, as though |
something blinded her, but he was
there before her, looking at the down.
dropped face.
IL omitted to ask one question"
he said. "Do-do you love this man?"
"Does 1t matter? Mol" she replied,
as she went out.
But he had seen her eyes.
He sat down at the table and
looked at the page he had been read
ing last-looked at it until the after
noon had waned and night had set
in. 1t is singular fact that while
the eyes Of the body can go patiently
reading lines and paragraphs and
pages of learned treatises, the eyes
Of the mind can be looking steadily
at gray-eyed girl with her fingers
twined together in her lap. True,
here is this investigation carried OH
successfully to this interesting point;
but-why was it that she went away
so soon?-and her eyes-now why
should there have been tears there?
the rich mamie had advised it.
Well, why should it concern him?
The doctor suddenly arose, leaving
his books scattered on the table, and
went out into the street for air
his office was insufferable. Where
he was going he did not know. He
was not conscious of any resolution
until he found himself i'll the door of
Miss Willoughby's little sitting-room,
! and girl with a very pale face rose
4 ND from the chair before the fire.
l Her eyes were wide with fear-what
\ was he going to say? What had he
discovered?
81 was forced to come" he said
humbly. 81 know you will be angry
! perhaps you will be amused at the
I fact that la poor student, a physi-
, clan who has his thoughts on you,
when you have an opportunity to
make wealthy and distinguished
marriage. I knew at the first that
: there was no hope-yet 1 felt that l
;. must come. 1t only remains for you
: to tell me so, yourself, and then I
will go back to my work and have
done with the dream"
No, it was a mistake about her
u having been pale; for when she
: leaned on the mantel with her face
;, turned to the fire she was as rosy as
the morn.
you are too considerate to tell
me outright" he said; but 1 see
: sane-the idea that you could take
poverty, and the struggle for life
= with me, when wealth and ease are
offered you. 1t would not be posi-.
>, BILE, unless you loved me SO devotedly
that your love would set all other
:, considerations aside"
. He paused and gazed at her miser-
T ably; and without turning she half
;. whispered a faint suggestion.
;s IL might learn" she said.
y He turned white and leaned against
:, the table for support.
"Learn-learn to love me?" he
asked, in daze. ut is impossible -
70 ut will be difficult-but l am will
T. ing to try" said the arch-hypocrite
70 with the gray eyes.
6. When he went back to the office
y. several hours later, with the step al
20 one who walks on air, he found &
number of books scattered in most
% unseemly disorder on his table.
1e Really, John is growing insupport
as able" he said to himself. "All these
q. books lying around-but / remember
* now, | was studying abont-oh, yes
e. diphtheria. Well, there's plenty o.
n time for that
1t Needs Tonic.
~ There are times when your live
o. needs tonic, Don't give purgative
10 that grippe and weaken. DeWitt's Lit
r, tile Early Risers expel all poison fror
-, the system and act as tonic to th
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