The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-01-19

head from the drawer at her side with
the air Of q person In deep thought
Then, with q scornful smile playing
about her lips, she dropped the paper
into the machine, gave the roller q
quick cOntemptuous turn and muir
INJURED to herself:
"a perfect cad!"
Fight the conviction as he would,
Oglesby became more and more con-
WINGED rs the days went by that q
dire thing had happened to him.
Why, otherwise, was he forever fur
lively watching her clear. pure outlines
with satisfied delight?
Yet his very soul WINGED at the
thought Of an Oglesby In love with a
typewriter girl-and one, moreover,
who scarcely noticed him! With that
thought the queer, unreasonable ex-
ultatlon that he had experienced before
at being snubbed darted through him.
He was proud Of her-proud Of her
az II she had been himself.
For two generations the Oglesbys had
married bellies Of their day. Indeed. to
be born an Oglesby-and a man-waa
much the same thing az being born q
prince Of the blood.
And now the head Of the Oglesby
family was absolutely dependent upon
q girl Of the people-a young woman
who earned her living by means Of the
skill by which her long. white fingers
licked or the letters that pertained to
the vast Oglesby interests.
Admitting that the impossible could
happen. he reflected, wouldn't it be
sweet7 Glaring headlines In the daily
newspapers: "Oglesby Webs His Pref
ty StenograDher!' Romance In a Wall
Street Officer The thought was too
much. And he turned to the papers
that lay on his desk with his lips shut
In q cruel smile. She must go!
'She Is q queen. all right" he was
thinking 40 he held a portentous docu-
ment before his eyes In the delusion
that be was reading It. "Sho's a
queen. but we Oglesbys cannot marry
queens who have got lost from their
Queendoms!"
At that moment there was tap at
the door, and In response to his num-
bied Come inr' the lady Of his
thoughts entered. In less time than It
takes to write It the Oglesby pride
skunk out Of sight. After all abe need
not go! The mere thought Of some
round checked girl with q belligerent
pompadour filling her place made him
feel murdeYous.
He rose to place chair for her, dim
~ aware through the confusion OF his
thoughts that she had expressed wish
to speak to him upon personal mat
ter. Then a shiver OF intuition caused
him to look at her keenly.
And should like to get away a.
soon a. can, MI. Oglesby. without In
conveniencing the nrm In any way"
were the drst words that Oglesby
heard clearly % he recovered from his
dased surprise.
For moment he did not speak. For
the hrst time in all his elegant, AFRO
CANT life Hubert Oglesby felt forlorn.
bereft! In that moment the Oglesby
pride was forgotten.
May ask why you have decided to
leave usr' he asked at last, very hum
bly, and with q fear clutchlng at his
heart as very probable reason for her
action suggested itself to his imagina-
ton.
''Of course" he went on soberly, not
| waiting for her to speak. Il do not
need to tell you how much I-how
much we have appreciated your pres
enee here. We
She interrupted him by q little gss-
ture at once imperious and girlish.
| Now that she was about to leave, the
cold reserve Of her manner had dis
appeared. !.
you've all been % very kind to me
here that
Something In the intense gaze that
he bent upon her caused her to leave
her sentence unfinished. Then slowly
the color burned in her checks like
the fire in IN opal. and Mr. Oglesby
was speaking, rapidly. eagerly and 40
a man rather than an Oglesby.
''Don't tell me that It 10 too late"
he pleaded, ''and that there Is some
one else. I think l have loved you
from the first. but
He stopped in embarrassment. Miss
Wentworth looked up at him with a
quizxical smile.
'Ehe Oglesby pride1' she querisd.
with gentle raillery.
1t was a trying moment. Oglesby
turned hot and red with shame. The
Oglesby pride suddenly seemed to him
a contemplate thing. Then he looked
up and nodded with dull hopelessness.
She would never forgive such an nd
mission as that, he felt sure.
Miss Wentworth laughed delightful
y-unaccountably.
1.-THE Wentworths of Boston," she OBJ
served demurely, ''are unused to being
scornedr'
but how In the world came you to
be earning your hvingT
Family and fortune" she smiled
back at him. sometimes part COM
pany."
| And in that smile Oglesby read that
there really might be a chance for him
some time!
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