The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1902-02-19
Whai Rob Sad.
pY MRs- NOSES P. HANDY.


Ply MRS. MOSES p. HANDY.
tCopyright. 1871. hy Daily story Pub. Coz
Indeed. Berthe. just think I'm one
Of the luckiest girls in the world
and Ethel Trent leaned back on the
lounge and folded her pretty hands
complacently. 50 that her diamond and
sapphire ring showed 70 the best ad-
vantage Mr. Wilson simply adores
me. and I shall have everything that
money can buy. Think Of spending q
whole year abroad. have always
longed 10 travel and to be able TO
buy no end Of beautiful things for our
new house On the boulevard. Aud then
AR. Wilson is q man any girl might
be proud Of. He doesn't look day
over 40, and is really distinguished
looking. ] tell you I'm in luck
"But what viii Rob say? asked her
sister. Tar less impressed by the glow
ing picture than Ethel had expected
her to be.
The girl shrugged her shoulders Inn
patiently. Congratulate me. suppose.
He has no right to say anything else,
and IL would make no difference if he
did"
~oh. Ethel"
Bertha, you make me tired" ex-
claimed Ethel. sitting erect in her
vehemence Of speech. Il never could
see why you always insisted that Rob
Hills and / were sweethearts. / am
not engaged to him. He never asked me
70 marry him. and supposing he was In
I love with me what would it matterg
can't marry all the men who admire
me. so / choose to please myself. Rob
! Is as poor as a church mouse. and yoa
know it,"
But. Ethel. don't you know his
uncle has made him his assistant. and
he win surely ask you now that he
can AFFORD TO marry.
Ethel interrupted her oi-dainfuliy.
"0n 81 200 a year. excuse me il you
please. Ny dear child. done YOU know
that Mr. Wilson has twice as many
thousandsg Really. Bertha ycu ought
TO have more sense But then you
have spent your life here IN the cbun-
try, and you don't know what Qfe is. l
have no more reason to think that that
boy is in love with me than with YOU
he is Joe's chum. that is all. But IL
he does mind, what then? He has no
right to complain and he viii get over
It, never fear. Anybody would really
think you thought more about him
than me Novel reading has turned
your brain. I don't believe ia romaE-
tic passion myself and am quite will
ing that most Of the love shall be on
the mans side So long as.I have
high respect for my hasband and he
has plenty OF money. never was in
love in nv life ana I never expect
to be. but shalt do my best 20 satisfy
Mr.. Wilson. aAd / have no fears for
the future. Besides. I am older than
you are. and you have no business 70
lecture me"
The summer previous Mrs. Irent's
only sister. weil-to-dO. childiess, living
in a fashionable apartment house in
a large city. and quite in the swim
! had been ordered absolute rest aud
quiet from her social duties Cd her
, Charities Seeking such repcse she had
come to visit he's sister ia the cor1tr-
township Of Kaowoc. and found the
experiment q success When she re-
turned to town she had taken her cid
est niece with her. Ethel was beauty
T and Mrs. Merton had announced 70 her
e husband Der intention TO give the girl
! chance. Mr. Morton never denied
{ his wife anything; moreover, he, too,
had taken fancy 10 the girl and the
7 chance vas given with no riggard
hand.
Il would be hard 70 tell whether
Mr. or Mrs Morton vas most pleased
+ at the sensation which Ethel made
: most delighted when the head of t1s
firm OF Wilson & Co.. q which Mr
D Morton was a junior member. asked
: Ethel to marry him. Neither q then
4 imagined the possibility q a refusal
although the suitor vas twice her age
The old chronicle tells IS that whe-
Alcides. having gone through all tbs
fatiEues Of life. took q BRIDE il
q Olympus. he ought to have selecte.