The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-04-01
A CONTRARY COURTSHIP
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES


THATE 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 scathingly.
"Of course, the world thinks it an ex-
celIeut arrangement that we should
marry each other, divide the money,
and say nothing more about it-where-
AS"
"WhPreas-?" Ronald Mackenzie
stroked his mOusta che, and looked in
terrUsativeiy 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
cooIy.
Phyllis Farrell took no notice of the
untimely interruption.
THE money of fathers old friend
can go to"
ITO the dogs" Mackenzie was dis
tnctly in a 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 I
shall not ask you to marry me. I
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? I
don't remember ever having been gull
y Of asking you to love mel"
Tabeau!
Phyllis drew herself up to her full
height, which wasn't more than five
Eeet at the most. This was turning
nbles on her with vengeance! Her
cheeks flooded with an altogether
charming color, her eyes shone sus-
piciously.
l-l-" she began. And then,
woman-like, she fed from the room,
leaving himself anathematizing him
Belf for brute and boor
And yet" he soliloqulzed with
grim laugh, IF 1 hadn't said some
Uuhg OF the kind, this state of things
would have gone on forever. It's no
use. II l were to propose she would
EeIuse me; It's just what her contrary
WOl1lH hov
cause don't appear to want her at all,
sne may fall in love with me! But
she Will have hard fight of it. poor
Aotle thing. Why couldn't the friend
Vi my father leave the money to her
Internationally? And yet, I'm glad he
didn't, for l might never have met
Fhyllls but for that wiIl.'
A tender light came into his blue
eyes. Phyllis Farrell represented all
the world to him just now, though, as
NE SAID, 1t would be simple madness to
tell her so. In spite of his apparent
eolohess, he loved her. from the top of
neF curly, brOnZe-gold head to the sole
OF her dainty foot. He turned off to
'ne DllIiard-roOm, and sought the COM
p"ny Oh his genial host, Miss Farrells
guardian, and an old college friend Of
ais fathers. Mackenzie himself had
oillV come back on long leave from In
ula month ago, to find that a bride
anu fortune were awaiting him in
tne Old country. A mutual friend Of
TIE young peoples fathers had thus
arranged matters ere he shuffied of
tnlS mortal coil, with an idea of bene-
Ntlng both. in more ways than one!
Neither of the legatees, however, up
W the present had seemed to regard
A. IN that light! Phyllis openly de-
Siared that nothing would induce. her
wen 10 see the young man, and was
on'y persuaded into tolerating his pres
ence IN her guardians home by the
consideration that she would thereby
NC aDie to refuse him every day!
ana refuse him she did-even before
- Tue hateful words had passed his lips.
was all the more odious to her be-
cause Ronald turned out to be hand
Soine and gentlemanly, and under 9TH
81 circumstances she might have cast
favorable eye upon himI He was
""f'1o-p perfectly horrid and hateful!