The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-07-04
THE BREAKER OF HEARTS.

the busy whirl of society said she was
a coquette. Those who had boasted
of her friendship for many years and
who knew her kind heart and spirit
of good will said she was not appre-
ciated. They said that she liked So
ciety for the amusement it afforded
and that if hearts were broken and
hopes were shattered by those big
brown eyes it was not intentional.
And so the two sides argued and
ragged over the matter. For Margaret
Lowry was as much admired as she
was disliked. The young women of
the circle in which she moved took
great pains to impress on their men
friends the fact that Margaret was a
heartbreaker-of the ruthless kind
that leads you up to the very thres-
hold of love and just as you are about
to make the leap slams the door of
her heart before you and shuts you
out. Yet Margaret had the largest
following of admirers of any young
woman in town. The society leaders
knew this, and so did the society edi-
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Miss Lowry who poured, ;" and the
newspapers seemed to take particu-
lar pride in printing pictures of Mar
garet in her finest gowns.
As for Margaret she enjoy
ed the distinction of society's favor
and she revelled truly in the hearts
which were flung about her. 1t was
her delight to think of the lovers she
could count.
But it changed. When Henry
Thorpe came on the scene society
noticed change in Margaret Lowry.
The heartbreaker seemed to pause in
her mad career of breaking hearts.
Everybody liked Henry Thorpe. Not
only because when his father died
and left him to support his mother
and two sisters he had gone out into
the world and had carved a place for
himself in the rock of fortune, but be-
cause he was manly and true.
Don't you suppose you will ever
fall in 1ove?" asked Margaret of
Thorpe one night as they were sitting
out dance apart from the swinging,
swaying crowd in the ballroom.
eyes, fully expect to fall in love, !"
was the candid answer. 'tBut not
until 1 find my hearts equal"
"What do you call your hearts
equal"
"A woman who is constant in her
affections whose love must be pure
and holy; who will come to me be-
cause she loves me from the heart
and not from the social side of her
character"
And then Margaret Lowry had an
ambition.
Society wondered at the change in
her. Margaret herself found it was
a hard struggle. 1t was the battle of
the true emotions against the super
fetal feelings which society builds
up. Henry Thorpe worked his way
through the social field for two years.
The lionizing of society amused him,
but did not change him. Then
Thorpe and Margaret Lowry sat
again apart from the gay music of the
dance.
II have had an ambition and l
have worked two years trying to rea-
lie it," she said.
"Have you succeeded :" he asked.
II don't know" she replied, and
the red glow on her cheeks bespoke
more to the young man than worlds
of words.
Margaret, will you be my wife ?"
he asked abruptly. Everybody knew
that Henry Thorpe was business-ike
in everything he did, but no one
thought he would carry it into his
love affairs.
care you sure you have found your
hearts equal?" she asked.
"The heart true and constant beats
within your breast, and the love pure
and holy is that which feel is with
in you," was the reply, and then it
was the old story of two souls with
but one thought.
Margaret's ambition had succeeded.
"IT's NO use," exclaimed the fran
tic journalist, as he leaped into the
back harbor; ~ can't do it-I can't
do it |"
Cant do what p yelled the ex-
cited policeman as the unfortunate
came up the second time.
81 can't do it - shrieked the dy-
ing man. "My Office wants me to
figure up the exact longevity of Czol-
gosz !"
And with a gentle gurgle he went
hence.