Bisbee daily review., 1903-02-17
THE LOVELIEST
 GIRL IMAGINABLE
IOTiginall ''SO you're going to be marriedP' Indeed, l am, to the lOveliest girl i'm


 1 girls imaginable. Who is sheY' Kate Ward"
 Kate Ward!' Then, after a pause. Are you her first lover
 'Well, no, not exactly. There was 1 fellow she met several years agO-a measly sort of chap, l faDcy-whO was ! so desperately in love with her that she | took pity on him and engaged herself | to him. It was broken of, however"
 Did you get all this information I from her?'
 ''By no means. She simply told me I that she had been engaged. My iDfor- nation came from her cousin, Anita 1 Griffith" Anita Griffitbp' You seem surprised. Do you know berY' "Yes-DO. Did she give you the cause | of your fiaDcee's break wjth-the other 1 fellowY' "Wen, yes. Anita was indirectly mixed up in the matter Young Steve Griffith was led into gambling by the other fellow as you call him, and 1 fieeeed." Indeed
 'I judge from the way you take the 1 information that you know something about the affair yourself" "I know that Steve Griffith is little villain, always gambling, always Dor 1 rowing. In other words, he Is dead beat" "Of course III this is nothing to me. | Kate was in duty bound to tell me she had been engaged. The cause of the break was another matter"
 ''S6rely you are not concerned in that"
 Besides, I was myself engaged be fore
 ''ro whom?' Anita Griffith" "Phew! And that Is how you goJ this story Was she, too, the lOvelies; 1 girl imaginableT Well to tell the truth, l was much 1 pleased with Anita, but l knew ail the while she cared nothing for me, and l that cOols fellow off after awhile" "Oh, yes; it coOls him off, decidedly. or sets him on fire. But how did this 1 change from one girl 10 the other come aboutF' Tt was this way: Anita introduced me to Kate, and when she found ! | fancied her she nobly left Kate the 1 field. When l asked Kate 10 marry me and she told me that she had been l engaged, l was troubled, for l feared that she loved the fellow and was go- | lxv ! r 1 good match financially. l cOntided in Anita, who put me in possession of the ! facts" l "She was very kind to you"
 Yes. Not many a girl would have ! acted so disinterestedsy with man to | whom she had been engaged"
 Did it ever occur to you that she l might have had motive?'
 What motive could she have pOssi- bly bad?"
 ''Tbe other fellow" 1 You mean that she wanted to gel him for beFselfY' That's what has occurred to me"
 If you knew her, you would uOt have so bad an opinion of her" 'I do know her" What? You know heT-intimatelyT
 Very intimately. am her afianced husband"
 "What-you? You the man she was 1 in love with all the wbilef My deaT fellow, congratulate you on being el- gagged to The Loveliest wOInan imag ! inabfe'"
 Thank you" And the speaker arUs' and left the room. That evening, by special appointment, Miss Katherinc Ward received him iD the small parlor. l having given orders that she was ei home to no one else, not even Der fiance.
 Pardon this intrusion" he said: ''but, as l wrote in my Dote requesting an interview, I have discovered ger tain reasons for youF action m break ing with me."
 Not through me. l was pledged to secrecy and kept my promise"
 -'The story that drew young Steve Griffith into gambling and feeced him is false
 'I had the word of the giFi 10 whom you are now engaged"
 T will not accuse her. presume her brother lied to her to account for money be made away with" pallor slowly spread over the girl : face.
 ''To prove what I say, here is a letter written by Steve Griffith an hour ago denying the whole story"
 T don't want to see 1t. It is too late. We are both engaged"
 'I am not. My engagement was broken this afternoon"
 "On what ground"
 "WeIl, since I must tell all or noth- ing, the man who has supplanted me with you innoceDtly told me story proving coDclusively that the womaI' to whom was engaged had caused the breach between you and me. As soon as I knew the facts I broke my engagement. You are the woman love and would marry. If not you, will die unwedded"