The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-07-14
A CONTRARY couR1sHIp

7 HATE your she said, clenching her
small white teeth.
Mackenzie, head and shoulders
taller than she, looked down and
smiled at the vehemence.
The laugh irritated her beyond en-
durance.
"Just because other people decide to
make fools of themselves, we are ex-
pected to-" she went on scathingly.
"Of course, the world thinks It an ex-
cellent arrangement that we should
marry each other, divide the money,
and say nothing more about it-where-
"Whereas-?" Ronald Mackenzie
stroked his moustache, and looked In
terrogatively at the speaker.
I'VE shall just do nothing Of the
sort!' she finished in decided tones.
"'The money Of fathers old friend"
Sounds like German grammar
book, doesn't itT' put in the other
coolly.
Phyllis Farrell took no notice Of the
untimely interruption.
1.-THE money Of fathers old friend
can 60 to"
ITO the dogs" Mackenzie was dis
tinctly in q teasing frame Of mind to-
night.
ITO the poor" corrected Phyllis,
with a stamp Of her dainty foot.
"Perhapsw Mackenzie's drawl was
more than ever apparent. perhaps I
shall not ask you to marry me. I
haven't done 30 as vet, you remember.
although you have assured me seventy.
seven times, that nothing will induce
you to marry me! You hate me?
don't remember ever having been gull.
ty Of asking you to love metz
Tableau!
Phyllis drew herself up to her full
height, which wasn't more than five
feet at the most. This was turning
tables on her with a vengeance! Hel
cheeks flooded with an altogether
charming color, her eyes shone sus.
piciously. r..
"I-I@" she began. And then
woman-like, she fed from the room
leaving himself matchmaking him
sell IOK u DTutc anu DOOr.
"And yet" he soliioquized with g
grim laugh, If hadn't said some
thing of the kind, this state of thing.
would have gone on forever. It's NJ
use. II were to propose she would
refuse me; it's just what her contrary
nature would prompt her to do. Be
cause don't appear to want her at all
she may fall in love with me! Blu
she will have a hard fight Of it, poo
little thing. Why couldn't the frient
of my father leave the money to he
Internationally? And yet, I'm glad h
didn't, for l might never have ME
Phylns, but for that will!'
A tender light came into his blu
eyes. Phyllis Farrell represented al
the world to him just now, though, a
he said, it would be simple madness t
tell her SO. In spite of his apparen
GOODNESS, he loved her, from the top O
her curly, bronze-gold head to the sol
of her dainty foot He turned of t
the billiard-room, and sought the CON
pany of his genial host, Miss Farrell
guardian, and an old college friend o
his fathers. Mackenzie himself ha
only come back on long leave from In
iia a month ago, to find that a brid
and fortune were awaiting him
the old country. A mutual friend o
the young peoples fathers had thu
arranged matters ere he shufled o.
this mortal coil, with an idea of benz
hting both, in more ways than one
Neither Of the legatees, however, u
to the present had seemed to regar
It in that light Phyllis openly d,
clared that nothing would induce he
even to see the young man, and wa
only persuaded into tolerating his pre-
ence In her guardians homo by th
consideration that she would thereb
be able to refuse him every day!
And refuse him she did-even befol
the fateful words had passed his lip
1t was all the more odious to her b
cause Ronald turned out to be han,
some and gentlemanly. and under otl
or circumstances sas might have ca
a favorable eye ipon him! He WI
horrdd-pertsctly hAarid and hatsfu