The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-03-17
A CONTRARY coURTSHIp

T HATE you" 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 scathingIy.
"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-
AS"
"Whereas-?' Ronald Mackenzie
strolled his mousta che, 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 a German grammar
book. doesn't it?' put in the other
coolly.
Phyllis Farrell took no notice Of the
untimely interruption.
1.-THE money of fathers old friend
can go to-"
ITO the dogs" Mackenzie was dis
tinctly in teasing frame Of mind to-
night.
ITO the poor" corrected Phyllis,
with stamp Of her dainty foot.
Perhaps" Mackenzie's drawl was
more than ever apparent. Perhaps 1
shall not ask you to marry me.
haven't done SO as yet, 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 me!''
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 vengeance! Her
cheeks flooded with an altogether
charming color, her eyes shone sus-
piciously.
"l-I-" she began. And then,
woman-like, she fled from the room,
leaving himself matchmaking him.
self for brute and boor.
And yet" he soliioquized with a
grim laugh, 'if l hadn't said some
thing of the kind, this state Of things
would have gone on forever. It's no
use. If l We're 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! But
she will have a hard fight of it, poor
little thing. Why couldn't the friend
of my father leave the money to hel
Internationally? And yet, I'm glad he
didn't. for | might never have mel
; Phyllis, but for that will
A tender light came into his blue
eyes. Phyllis Farrell represented al
the world to him just now, though. as
he said, it would be simple madness tC
tell her SO. In spite of his apparent
GOODNESS, he loved her, from the top OF
her curly, bronze gold head to the sole
of her dainty foot. He turned off t.
the billiard-rOom, and sought the com
pany of his genial host, Miss FarrelPi
guardian, and an old college friend o.
his fathers. Mackenzie himself hat
only come back on long leave from In
dia a month ago, to find that brid,
and a fortune were awaiting him ii
the old country. A mutual friend o
the young peoples fathers had thu
arranged matters ere he shuffied of
this mortal coil, with an idea of bene
fitting both, In more ways than one
Neither Of the legatees.' however, VI
to the present had seemed to regar'
it in that light! Phyllis openly de
clared that nothing would induce he
even to see the young man, and wa
only persuaded into tolerating his pres
ence in her guardians home by tn
consideration that she would thereb.
be able to refuse him every day!
And refuse him she did-even befor
the fateful words had passed his lips
It was all the more odious to her be
cause Ronald turned out to be hand
some and gentlemanly, and under 9th
er circumstances she might have cas-
a favorable eye upon him! He wa
lhorrid-perfectly horrid and hateful