The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-25
THE WOOIyG OF ANNABEL.

IHE NUOlAG Oh AA1ABEl.
AnnabeI Crane had spent just one
week al the home of her recently mar
riad sister when she announced herselI
thoroughly disillusioned and rid forever
OF romantic girlish dreams
Never" she announced emphatlcaliy,
"Win I permit myself 70 ran IN love, no
matter how knightly the man WHO
pleads for my hand. / can see just W nay
It all comes TO- Why, Flora you al--
Ralph are just ike any ordinary mar
ried couple,
well why shouldn't we beg How did
you expect 20 find us9
Happier than any other two people III
Che world You were before you mar
ried never saw such an ecstatlc palI'
.Weu. aren't we stIl happy
The girl sighed SIN despair IL tr7t $
what YOU call real t7l-clIy you are we
come to it. For my part. we cone Win
dreams. Somehow / counted on you and
Ralph to prove The beautlIut exception
and thereby save my rosy lQeAis from
complete destruction bul see nave
houed in vain HencefOrth for me man
Kind ID hlorted from ufe's list OF attrac-
lions"
ment to see face OF sueh blossom
Hitchery So overcast Foolish age or
oirafa+rf. She cried aow much it de-
ulands how soon it despaIrs.
Then she sighed a little. People soon
learn 10 give up their youthful notions
OF love and life. she unused aloud
eThis aEe IS too practical TO permit OK
romancine. somehow we women learn
20 be c0nteuted-
-But your not contented. was the
hi-rer retort II can see it. For my part
I prefer single blessedness TO welded
humdrumness
me sister laughed again. you'll
change your mind. dear Girls always
do
Not J. ~ declared Annabel
Time proved that she meant IT,
Ralph's particular friend, Craig Holman.
was calling often at the house, but the
girl remained stubbornlyf Indifferent 10
his attentions.
craig was as thoroughly attractive
young man as any woman would wish
TO meet
Just the type for Annabel," the
sister said 'It's problem to me that
she cannot like him."
Both she and her husband were heart
fly sorry for the young fellow. who
was making a brave fight for the af-
facuons of AnnabeL If ne was dis
heartened he did not show it, but re-
peated the attack in spite Of unmerci-
full re5uffs-
There remained only two more days
before the girls visit would end.
aren't you ashamed reproached
her sister He wants to see you alone
and you still refuse Anna0el- what
evn spirit has taken possession Of
Have you forgotten our talk.
But you surely couldn't have meant
IT. You are too sensible girl for
that
That's just it, I'm sensible and
propose TO remain sensible.
That very afternoon as she sat
crocheting by the French window In
the sittingroom her sister called sud
denly
Here he comes. AnnabeI Now do
please see him, just this once
Tell him" commanded the girl as
the door beH rang that am not at
home.
But her sister had other plans She
did not usher young Holman into the
Gone this way she said syveetIy
"AnuabaI is ait her cr1chetins again.
but you WON'T object to that am
sure" Then pushing aside the pcr-
there's: Mr. Holman has called to see
you. Aunahel. and
she paused III consternation No An
mabel sat by the window Instead the
very air -eemed to CULVER with the
suggestion of precipitate flight
Something else QulFerel- to0-tne
rocker where she had been sitting And
then oh. telltale evidence There lay
her bail of rose-CCilrad fVarstad- vrls-
Cling and rolling on TIE floor, appar-
emily unWinding itself 1y peculiar
automatic process of its own
Holmans crastfailen countenancs
sh0ua with swift amusement as h=
caught sight of the restless pink bali
and the tremulous rosy thread that ex
tended from it through the window
His glance met that Of Annabeis sta
ter He read challenge ia it.
This viii guide me. he said with a
flashing smile as stopping he picked us
the aSitaced bah of yarn He held It
securely. conscious that some one was
pulling AZ the other end SIN smiliu2.
ha stepped from the window out upol-
the verauda and thence across the lawn
Auuab5l glanced UP Indignantly as he
entered the grape arb0r
How dared you follow mee she de
rnau1e1 Her face was roster than the
fluffy pink thing she was cr1cheting.
Holman held the worsted out toward
Eer- = couldn't help it, he said you
were drawing me-