The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-13

T dozen times before corrected Phillip for
/ that southernism.
Good afternoon" he amended with
much dignity.
Oh, said Betty, must you go so
lsoon2 Then you are not going to tell
me after ALP she added regretfully.
Phillip struggled for moment with
curiosity. Then he yielded.
g Tell you what?'
:. what you were going to tell me
yesterday. I believe you've forgotten!'
" No but but
Then you'll tell me?' she asked
eagerly. Phillip glanced behind him.
The chair was still there. He sat down.
g If you want to know he muttered.
g of course I do. I want to know
why you have not been in to see US for
SO long
"'Is@has IT seemed long,? he asked
hopefully
Betty nodded earnestly.
s. Weekst'
- It's been two months, he protested.
Really How time flies, doesn't
ito said Betty wonderingly. Phillip
wished he had resisted temptation; the
storm looked SO much kinder than
.. It hasn't Uptown for me- he
muttered.
:. But then you've had examinations
said Betty sympathetically- I'm sure
they must be dreadfully slow things.
Yes. There followed silence.
% Well prompted Betty I'm wait
/ ing. you know
/ his anger stirred once more and he
faced her aecusingly. You don't want
/ to know he charged. .You-you're
just making fun of mel You're laugh
ing at me all the timel Youre-you're
cruel!
Phit'
His anger died instantly. His face
s..T beg va11r nardon. Rettv. but-but
Il don't know what to think
. Think of what you are going to
tell me- advised Betty I don't believe
you have any excuse, after all: you're
simply trying to gain time to invent
one.
I'm not. Betty! Only-somehow. it
doesn't seem a very good excuse when
it comes to explaining faltered Phillip
And I dare say you'll be frightfully
/ bored. Betty shook her head. You
4 wcn't2 Well
so he told her the whole story. and
she listened very attentively and look
freight on her face; and PhllHp warm
ed to his narrative and did it full JUS
/ tice Yet when he had finished Betty s
face became terribly severe
And pray what right, she demanded,
had you to think we wouldn't make you
Just as welcome even if you were poor
A fine opinion you must have formed
of US! When. I should like to know, has
any of us given you the right Toto
| think such things about u.s.
50 Never he replied earnestly. I was
all wrong Betty; I see that now. But.
/ don't you see, Betty. at first d1dn
know It was so sudden and unexpect-
ed I'd never been poor before It was
so kind of strange; and some people do
care you know
O They're not nice people. then" an
swered Betty stoutly. Anyhow, you
might have known that r. And after
sent YOU that photograph. Phlt'
I'm mighty sorry, Betty he said
contritely I won't do it again-ever.'
:. I should hope notH After a silence
she said. m sorry you didn't like it
the photograph, I mean
:. Like it. I did like it, Betty II
worshipped it,
% II carried it in my pocket for days
! Then I don't see why-you want te
bring it back
I don.tr he finally calculated.
:. OH said Betty again.
Is You told me to-! he cried. Betty
/ looked scornful.
=. What if I did2 didn't suppose yOU
were going to do it.
q 1t only shows that you don't wanr
/ to keen it,
And you said that there are toe
} many in circulation
. .Well-and there are. tool
:. They're nott'
There are he repeatedly doggedly
- .Only-oney
sOnel You said-you said Betty
nodded unembarrassedly.
. Yes; but that was just-just be
cause you'd been mean to me-
Then they're not. Betty2 Yol
, didn't send them all round everywhere
} at Christmas2'
; 81 sent only one answered Betty
and that one to IA person who doesn'
care for It. And I had it taken special
". and went to whole heaps of bother
and there were seven negatives. and
sat three times and-and it was al
; wasted. Betty's voice was vibrant witt
grief. Please. viii you hand it to me
She asked with a supreme effort to b
brave. She looked over the table: tn
: package was gone. Philips fingers wer
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