The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-05
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He had been making bi-weekly trips to
Anderson for months and as yet he could
not see that he had made any progress with
the girl. The first visit had been a duty
CALL" as favor to a friend, and he made it
with long face-until he met the girl The
second visit planned because he had
such good time on the first visit. Then he
began to think. Other fellows were calling
on the girl and he felt that he would like TO
know her little bit better than any of
them, he called again Finally he called
regularly every week for a month and every
time, as he came back on the last inter-
urban, he knew that he had never enjoyed
himself so much in his life. After that he
couldn't keep the angelic face from his
week. When she said that he could he was
so intoxicated with happiness he tried to kiss
Der and received orders TO return to Indian
apclis on the next car He apologized pro-
fusely and said he was fool, beast and
was going to call himself whole lot of
other names when she said she thought so
too, and then he stopped, because he knew
that she meant it and he didn't. OF course
they got it fixed up and he stayed longer
than usual, although he didn't say all the
since his last visit He decided that he
would have to let her know him better be-
fore he could say what he said to himself
most of the time. So he spent another month
trying to show her more of his good quail
ties. But she could not seem TO see them, or
if she did, she did not let him know. She
never gave him any encouragement TO say
what he wanted to most of all and never
let the conversation take that turn. He, re-
Numbering his first experience, was scared
to plunge right in and unload his heart of all
the poetry that was filling il. She talked a
great deal about their good friendship and
he startled her and himself too, by saying,
before he thought, that good friendships
between young and young ladies were
all bosh.
So his "affaire de coeur' went on for
months, neither growing warmer nor cooler.
AT last, one night, she told him that she
was going abroad, was going to sail the
next week, and he could only come to see
her once more before she left. The "trip had
been planned hurriedly and she had so much
TO do to get ready. IT happened that he had
a date to go TO dance with her that Sat-
urday night and that was 10 be the last time
he was to see her for a year Going home
at least get some promise. Before Saturday
came he thought of more TO say than he
could have said In two nights. He brought
his dress suit down town and had Ii pressed
and called for it early in the afternoon.
Placing 1T neatly in his dress suit case with
his other articles, he left IL at well-known
dc-
quainted, while he went around to see a
friend before the car for Anderson left.
Talking to his friend longer than he ex-
pected. he had 20 hurry to get his suit case
and catch his car He lost no time I'm rush
ing into the haberdasher's and seizing the
first suit case the clerk found for him and
then climbing on the car just as 1t was pull
ing out
The car was late and he did not arrive
until after Z o'clock. He hurried to a hotel
and got a room to don his full dress He laid
the suit case on the bed and unstrapped IL
with hasty hands When he opened the lid,
he seized the bedpost TO keep from falling. A
varied assortment of ladies' hose in every
color imaginable greeted his eyes. He had
carried off the suit case of the haberdash-
ers travelling man. He found a great many
other things besides hosiery in the case, but
none of them were suitable for men. Then he
spent fifteen minutes thinking, but the more
he thought the more excited he got and
those outlandish colored garments were driv-
ing him mad. Finally he gave IL up. II was
of the difficulty, so he walked down TO the
telegraph Office and telegraphed his best
friend as follows ED, telegraph Miss
BLANK am seriously araS ILL., can't attend dance
He went back and packed the suit case
with dainty fingers and scornful face and
then slipped down dark street and caught
a car back to indianapolis. When he en-
tered his own home about II o'clock his
mother met him. He dreaded to tell her of
his experience, but she seemed TO know all
ABOUT IL. 100 Ddt, freu, she said, when
she had let him i'm. you had your trip for
nothing. You hadn't been gone half an hour
when Miss Blank telephoned that she
wasn't feeling well enough to go to the
| dance tonight
| For the second time that evening he
rasped something TO keep from falling.
For heavens sake, mother" he whis-
pered hoarsely, you didn't tell her had al
| ready left for Anderson"
Yes, 1 did, replied the good soul, for
| you had.
| He held tight to the banisters and made
| his way upstairs without a word
why, Fred, you're not sick, are your
| called his mother, anxiously.
mo" he snapped. Just tired and sleepy
and all tagged out"
The next day the girl left for New York
| and sailed the following "Wednesday.