Bisbee daily review., 1906-02-22

] Come. Robert" said I, cheerfully, 'i really is time to go if you stay any longer i l shall be afraid to come down and lock thu door after you" At this my visitor rose he measured six feet three, and stood look ! ing responsibility down upon me. '.Yor are in a great hurry to get rid of me- ht replied.
 Now didn't agree with him, for he had made his usual call of two hours and half He was a fine, manly-looking fellow, this Robert Harrison, old for his age which was the rather boyish period of twenty-two and every way worthy of being loved. But l I, Martha Lincoln. did not love him. was seven years his senior; and when, in- stead of letting the worm of concealment prey on his damAsk cheek, he ventured to tell his love for my mature self, remorse- ly seized an English prayer book and point, ed sternly to the clause, "A man may not marry his grandmother" This was three years ago; and I added, encouragingly, Besides, John, you are a child, and don't really know your own mind.'' "will you marry me" asked Robert. some what threateningy. Not just at present, ? 1 replied. ''The great, handsome fellow, 5 I thought. as he paced the floor restlessly,
 
 girl of sixteen, instead of setting his affec. tions on an old maid like me? don't want the boy on my hands, and I won't have him "'
 "As to your being twenty nine" pursued Robert, in answer to my thoughts, "you say it's down in the family Bible, and I suppose it must be so but no one would believe 1t; and I don't care if you're forty. fsz1k yfrT sfr the only woman I shall ever love"
 Oh, Robert, Robert at least five millions of men have said that same thing before in every known language. Nevertheless. when you break down and cry, ! relent-for I am very soft-hearted--and so I weakly promised him then and there that would keep my own name or take that of Harri- son. remember that Robert looked radiant at this concession of mine. It was appar- ently great comfort to him to realize that if he could not gather the flower himself, no one else would.
 sort of family sh!pwreck had waited Robert to my household Our own household was sadly broken up. and found myself comparatively young in years. with 8 half invalid father. a large house and very little money. What more natural. then, than to
 
 Mir. Harrison and his son and sister, who had just been wrecked themselves by the death of the wife and mother in a foreign land.
 The cider Mir. Harrison WIS one of my admirers from the first. Tall. pale with dark hair and eyes, he reminded me of Dante. only he was handsomer. He was greatly wrapped up in his son Robert, and intimated that he desired bim to marry happily and only after an extended court ship. Well, they stayed with us three years. and during that time I wes fairly perse. cuted about Robert. The elder Mir iiarri- sons sister. Mrs. Eammersiey. wrote the a letter on the subject. ia which she informed me that the whole family were ready to receive me with open arIls-a prospect that did not find at all alIuTins. Her letter was followed by a special Interview bc- tween me and fhe elder Mr. Harrison.
 ''I hope" said he, that you will not refuse the hand Of my boy, Miss Lincoln. He has set his heart so fully upon yoI. and you are everything that I could desire in . daughter. feel sadly lonely at t'Tr& and I am sare that you would just hll Ire vacant niche I have purchased a large mansion in the suburbs of the c.ty, aud we