Evening times-Republican., 1903-11-19

the books; on the contrary, the tired
head was down on her hands, and she
did not know that Frank had come in
Il When the muttered exclamation on hi.
part called her to herself, she sprana
up with a white face, and drew back
from him.
I'm dreadfully sorry, Miss Rendle.'
he said; yet there was twinkle In hi.
eyes. That old idiot had no right to
talk like that
"Oh it isn't fair to call him Names
said Deborah. gently. Let us-let III
forget all about it,; or at least remem-
Der 1t only-only as a joke"
Well. you see, that's the difficulty:
I'm afraid we can't forget all about it."
Mr. Dorton!'
/ I'm dreadfuly sorry, Miss Rendle;
but it's just a question of whether wa
shall be brutal-and sellsh-and all
that kind OF thing-or whether we shall
study the feelings of other people,"
Please explain" said the girl, in
faint voice.
THANK you; will. You see, poor
old Pitkin is one of the incest fellows
breathing, although I'm afraid he does
have bad time of 1t. Now, 1t happens
that-it just shows what funny mis-
takes people make, doesn't it?-having it
seen us together once or twice. old Pit
we always call him Pit for short, be-
cause there isn't much of him, you Sec
old Pit has set his heart on-well-on
getting us married"
But, Mr.. Dorton, how perfectly alb
surd.'
! Mad, l call it. But people do get
| such bees in their bonnets. However.
1t seems that poor old Pit has actually
been scraping money together in order
] to-to give US a start, as he calls It."
The girl made a movement toward
him, then stopped
But don't you see, Mr. Dorton, what
a terrible position you place me-I
mean, he places us-tn?"
| Perfectly horrible" said Frank,
earnestly; and tried to keep his lips
still.
Because, of course, such thing
such an idea-never entered our minds.'
How could it? But then, you see.
that's not the difficulty. Poor old Pit
doesn't have much pleasure in his life;
Mrs. Pitkin-my esteemed aunt. you
know-isn't too kind too him, I'm
afraid"
l T.,
Dornton?' asked Deborah.
Everything. The poor old chap has
been saving up for it-looking forwa1d
to 1t; and now in a moment, we clrt the
ground from under his feet, and show
him that It's all a blunder. More than
that he's afraid he's offended u.s."
4 don't quite see what We can do,
Mr.. Dornton. You can only disabuse
his mind in regard to the mistake"
Frank shook his head Il must Dc.
cline. Miss Rsndle. to break the heart
Of any conading man in that calious
fashion. feel that 1t would be impos-
sible for me to go to poor old Pit in the
you old blunderer. its all wrong, and
you've been scraping up your old $50
for nothing No Miss Rendls, can't
do IT.
But, Mr.. Dornton, you must: there's
no other way"
'Well-there is another way. said
Frank slowly. without looking at hsr.
I'VE can adopt sort Of q pious fraud;
pretend what we think is true Don't
shake your head: It's only for ave min
utes. and you send poor old Pit aXae-
happy-of course"--he smiled whimsic-
ally-You can jilt me or I can jilt you;
or you can And something out about my
past that you don't like; or you may
object in daylight, to the color OF my
hair Oh, It'll be quite easy assure
you"
And you mean to do all this to please
Mr.. Pitkin ?" asked the girl.
Absolutely to please poor old Pit"
replied Frank, steadily.
"Of course, Mr.. Pitkin has been .
good friend to me-about the. best
friend ever had" said the sirl softly.
And IL you really think
Frank Dornton waited for nothing
more. He hurried out Of the room and
i presently returned with Mr.. Pitlkin.
having subjected that gentleman to
some rough usage in the shape Of sum
dry thumps and digginHs in the RIBS
on his way thru the hall. Very demure-
lily and quietly he informed the delight-
ed little man that they had been under
| a misrepresentation in regard to what he
had meant: that they would be glad OF
his assistauce-quite In temporary
manner, but that they wished the mat.
ter kept secret for the present
"You see, Deborah (what wonderful
thins 1t was to b. able 20 say that name
aloud for the nrst timely Deborah ana
Ii have really been in love with each
other-Oh, practically since We nrss
met-haven't we Deborah
Frank was standing very close be-
side her and quite in casual fashion,
and probably because he thought she
needed support, he put his arm around
her waist. She started. as though TO
spring away from him. caught sight OF
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