The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1905-04-19

was determined to stand where could
see her come out, even if lost sight
OF the ceremony itself. But it would
have been tedious enough waiting in
that close hall if the ladies behind me
mad not kept up a conversation, which
l, of course, pretended not to hear. l
remember it, every word, for it was
my sole amusement for half an hour.
What was it? Oh, it was about that
same bouquet, which, by the way, l
had the privilege of staring at all the
time they chatted. For the boy who
brought it had not been admitted into
Miss Moore's room, and, not knowing
/ what else to do with it, was lingering
| before her door, with the great stream
1 ers falling from his hands, and the
lilies making the whole place heavy
with sickening perfume. From what
heard the ladies say, he had been
standing there an hour, and the timid
knock he gave from time to time pro-
duced in me an odd feeling which
those ladies behind me seemed to share.
Its shame! heard one of them
cry. Veronica Moore has no excuse
for such thoughtlessness. 1t is an.
| hour now that she has been shut up
in her room alone. She won't have
even her mP'd in. She prefers to dress
alone, she says. Peculiar in bride,
isn't it? But one thing is certain
she cannot put on her veil without
help. She will have to call some one
| in for that AT which the other volun-
teered that the Moores We're all queer,
and that she didn't envy Francis JEFF
frey. What! not with fifty thousand
year to tighten her oddities? return
ed her companion with shrug which
were we packed together. I have a
son who could bear with them under
such circumstances Indeed she has.
and all Washington knows it, but the
remark passed without comment, for
they had not yet exhausted the main
event, and the person they now attack
ed was Miss Tuttle. Why doesn't she
come and see that that bouquet is
taken in? declare it's not decent.
Mr.. jeffrey would not feel compli-
mented If he knew the fate of those
magnificent lilies and roses. l pre-
sumo he furnished the bouquet
"'Miss Tuttle has looked out of her
room once heard the other reply.
She is in splendid beauty today, but
pale. But she never could control We
ronica.' Hush! You speak louder than
you think This amused me. and do
believe that in another moment
oh hou
other boy had not appeared in the hall
before us, who, showing aside the first,
raped on the door with spirit which
called for answer. But he was no more
successful than the other boy had been
So, being brisk fellow, with no time
for nonsense, he called out: Your bou.
Quet, miss, and message which I am
to give you before you go downstairs
The gentleman is quite particular abou,
1t! These words were literally shout
ed at the door, but in the hubbub OF
voices about us don't believe any one
heard them but ourselves and the
bride. I know that she heard them
for she opened the door very. little
way-such a very little way that the
boy had to put his lips to the crack
when he spoke and then turn and place
his ear where his lips had been in or
der to catch her reply. This. for some
and the fellow grew SO impatient tina,
he amused himself by snatching the
bouquet from the other boy and thrust
Ing it in through the crack, to the very
great detriment of its roses and lilies
When she took 1t he bawled for his
answer, and when he got it he stared
and muttered doubtfully to himself az
he worked his way out again through
the crowd, which by this time was be
ginning to choke up all the halls ant
stairways.
"But why have l told you all thi.
nonsense?" she asked quite suddenly
, ut isn't of the least consequence tina
! Veronica Moore kept boy waiting a
her door while she dressed herself 70
her wedding, but it shows that she wa
!, queer even then, and for one believ,
IN the theory OF suicide, and in tina
alone, and i'll the excuse she gave TO
1t, too; for If she had really loved Fran
els Jeffrey she would not have beef
so slow to take in the magnificent bou
Quet he had provided for her."
But comment even from those VIII,
had known these people well was no
: what I wanted at this moment, bu
facts; SO, without much attention t
these words, said:
You will excuse me if suggest tina
. you are going on too fast. The doc
. of the brides room has just been shu
= upon the boy who brought her a mes
sage. When was it opened again?"
Not for d good half hour; not till
> every one had grown nervous and Miss
futile and one or two of her most init
mate friends had gone more than once
to her door; not, in fact till the hour
for the ceremony had come and gone
and Mr.. Jeffrey had crossed the hall
twice under the impression that she
7 was ready for him. Then, when
WEAKNESS was general and people We're
E asking what kept the bride and how