The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-27
THE WILES OF WOOER

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 bed behind the door in a wild paroxysm of weeping. The boy was beside her in a moment. apologizing, explaining. com forting. Deftly and tenderly he removed her hat and cape, murmuring the while;
 Don't you feel bad. auntie, Don't you cry. I guess maybe I don't know what is stylish hats for mans. I guess 1t was an awful tony hat. on'y I ain't never seen 1t. Don't you have sad feelings over your fellow. He's a awful nice fellow"
 Gradually Esthers sobs ceased and she allowed herself to be soothed and quieted by Morris endearments and caresses, and when the elder Mogilewskys returned from scenes of revelry they found aunt and nephew asleep and peaceful.
 Mir. Goldstone was not an impetuous wooer. He had waited for his store and was content to wait for Ether He was patient, but assured. For what girl, he asked himself-and Esther-could re- fuse the inducements he had to offer. Some day." he would remark, you can come in the store und buy all you want at half price-that is, when you prom ise you marry init me Some day you come in the store und take all you want free-that Is, when you marry init me" :"
 Weeks went by, they grow to months and no word came from Isaac He had evidently deserted esther, whose sorrow gradually changed to resentment. Why, she asked herself, did he not write to her Why make no sign of love or of re- membrance? Slowly she came to believe that his farewell had been final, and slowly the vision of him, which in the first weeks of her bereavement had haupted the whole store, faded and died. .-tter a time, too. home influence was henfHNhf fn Tor ryhn for romance was always keen, had in- formed his mother that MT. Goldstone held his assistant in admiring and senti- mental regard
 Sooner he looks on her, sooner he has glad looks" Morris reported. ''und sooner she looKs on him, sooner he has proud looks. I guess, maybe, he coul dto have kind feelings over her Say, what you think? He gives me a necktie init funny smel1 und spot on 1t the whiles she's aunties init me"
 i'Und how does your auntie make? Has se.e feelings?" T couldn't to ten.'' an- gwered Morris. T don't know even"
 Neither did Mir. Goldstone: Neither sometimes. did Esther. She did not in- tend to spend her life in mourning forl faithlees lover and yet-and yet. But Mrs. Mogilewsky did not approve of pro- crastination in an affair so important and Ho duNailAdseouS. Sne NbSlteQ the Grand street store; she invited the proprietor to spend an evening at her apartment And Mir. Goldstone, divested of his derby and overcoat-a gulse in which Esther had never seen him-proved so afYable and was so devoted that Esther felt that it might be pleasant to put away all thoughts save those of duty and to be- stow this very powerful and desirable brother-in-law upon her house. Her dreams that night were all of pomp and pride, She saw herself released from daily toll and reiGning In the four room ed flat over the Grand street store. MT. Gioldstone had promised to engage it for her as soon as another engagement should be agreed upon. And there. with all her wants supplied and all her wishes granted. she should live in peace and plenty Should she do it, she wondered, should she do it?. s ", .7.
 on the next morning Morris, on an ear " visit to the baker, met the long lost isaac and came tearing back to his auntie with letter. He sees me on, the block he panteds Hes awful stylish noT' und he says like, 'Ainst you auntie