The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-04-23
More Ways
Than One.
HXNTHEN I was young"
wy "When were YOU not?" /

Wy "When were you not?" he in
t~errupted, in a voice of exaggerated
surprise.
"When I was younger, then" she
laughed, IF that is any better"
81 think it is-much."
swell, then, when 1 was younger
Before I knew you?"
"Long before. In fact, when I was
quite a child"
"a very nice small child, I'm sure"
he murmured, with a sigh.
THAT shows it was before you
knew me-" she laughed again. Il was
the very worst small child you could
possibly imagine"
Il can't possibly imagine that"
eff I had been a little angel"
81 should never have met YOU"
"Oh. you might"
"Thank you. But Pm afraid not.
Little angels don't stop on earth"
Their glances met; her eyes caught
a twinkle from his, and they laughed
together.
what were we saying?"
II was saying" he reminded her,
shat we arranged last week that I
should come and escort you and your
mother to the Royal academy this
afternoon, and now when I call
and, as I pointed out, it isn't every
day that can leave my military du-
ties at the war office to look after
hey, Ea1pac--x,N,,r r,otha,, Sc 1x-;-.
down with an attack of neuralgia,
and has asked you to postpone going
till tomorrow"
ooh, yes! And then you said she
was p%erverse, provoking, capricious,
and all sorts of things, and 1 said I
believed she was, and I took after
her"
"And I said you were mistaken in
that
$50 I was going to tell you an an
ecdote Of myself to prove that I was
not mistaken, only you kept inter-
rupting me-"
please let me have the rest of the
anecdote, and I'll try not to inter-
rupt again-Ill try hard"
He was young; what was more, he
was decidedly good-looking; what
was more still, his manners were en-
gaging and persuasive, and his dry,
gently ironical tricks of speech gave
his airy ~nothings a pleasant piquan-
cy, all of which must have prepos-
sessed her in his favor even had no
subtler sentiment inclined her toward
him.
"Well, when I was a small child"
she yielded to his entreaty, 81 was
dreadfully willful, and had the most
shocking temper"
"You must have lost it before I
met you"
And I remember one day I was
out with my nurse, and, being in one
OF my wickedest moods, I insisted on
doing everything she told me not to
do. For instance, I would keep run
ming races with Charley-dear old
Charley"
ooh, why wasn't 1 Charley?"
HE was only a dog"
"Ah, but you didn't treat him like
one"
"You promised not to"
Il apologize. Not another word!'
81 kept running races with Charley,
and nurse kept telling me not to;
she said 1 was o~verheating myself
and should catch cold, and that, rae
ing in the middle of the road, I should
be run over and killed; but I took nc
notice. The more she warned me
n ordered me to walk quietly with
her, the more d~isobedient I was, and
at last, all of a sudden, she managed
to catch hold Of me and slapped me
angrily-"
"No-no!'
slapped me SO hard that 1 cried.'
"This is heartrending!"
He leaned back in his chair and re
garded her with pensive sympathy.
Il won't tell you any more" sh,
said. smiling, IF you are going to b,
silly about it,"
sTell me the rest" he implored
1aud l will be wise"
ut happened that our dear oil
tisar was coming up the road"
.Dear. old chap" he murmured at
HsItiy. slFhy wasn't I the vicarl"