The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-21
What He Said and She Said.
He took her hand.

He took her hand.
"Darling!" he murmured
Her face became sufused with rich
and rudy radiance.
"Darling." she whispered back, and
little did he think that by that simple
word she had changed the course of
all his future days.
Il love you!" said he simply.
You don't ne1ther!" she murmured
coquettishly.
Il do, tool he replied in sprightly
rejoinder.
Don't neitheri"
do, tool
called all heaven and earth to witness
! his undying devotion to that timid
flower of naidenhood.
Don't, neither!"
do. tool"
Don't, neitherl'
do, tOoi'
Well might Time then gnaw his nails
while Venus twinkled Intellectually.
Well might the water ripple in the
moonlit distance while the nightingale
poured out his golden liquid notes,
Does 90 weakly love me
q Ess. I does.
Don't, neither!''
do, tool"
Don't, neitherH'
DO, tool"
lneighborinf tree with the heavy
lnaournfulness of a. lost one who refuses
to be comforted. A dog barked ana
1 a rooster croWed-
How much do you love He2| she
begged. ., -, .+,,.
ct wouldn't, neither!"
''It would, tool
1T wouldn't neither!
| cit would. tOOl
/ a delicious softness-
/ est wouldn't neitherE
J ''It would, tool he hoarSely insist
| ed weakly wetting his lips
! She looked uD at him with look
| of trustfuI admiration and then,
| blushing in sweet CONFUSION She drop
! ped her gaze.
+ 1T wouldn't, neither!"
1T would. tool"
TT wouldn't. neither;
s'It would. too"
she sighed ana a shadow passed
over her girlish features. An ominous
cloud scurried across the face of the
moon and the tall DODlars bent their
/ heads in croonfuI subsection to the
sway of the eerie wind. The dog
! barked again and likewise the rooster
crowed again-quite frettully
| There VIII never be such a night
as this" he remarked with a catch in
why not?" she asked. innocently
enough. af7
Don't neitheri"
do. too"
Then tell MEL
i He told her in impassioned Ian
guage, even dropping her little hands
so that he might gesture the better.
i The nightingale's song was ripping
Il sheen of purest melody.
land even the moon" he conclud-
ed, land even the moon has stopped
cot has not"
'''T has So he continued. hurried
/ Ayd
US with a tender, loving eyer
4 90! They are noti" she reproved
Are, tool"
Aren't, neither"
aren't, neither
= don't believe you!" she family
| murmured.
with a certain air of contented expect
Hear the nightingale" she sudden
" remarked.
IT'S whistIing!'' she whispered.
rs it?" he asked. with a distant I'M
yes, and can whistle. too she
Can your he asked. doubtfully.
Eyes, looki
She Whistled.
yes" he admitted slowly, you can
whistle.
She whistIed all the harder
He looked down upon her rosebud
mouth so ravishingly puclkared 70
whistle and all Nature became hushe1.
The love-light glistened in her eyes and
the gloating moon bathed her upturn-
ed face with an inspiring loneliness. A
cricket chirped at their feet, encourag g
ingly and with a wanton suggestion.
He drew a full breath and took her lit
tie hand again.
..DarIingiS he cried. Il love your
You don't. neither!" she replied almost
despairingly-
Il do, foor' he responded. 1T would
take a lifetime to tell itl''
1T wouldn't, neithert" she sighed.
1T would, tooi'' he exclaimed; and you