The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-08-09

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Jarvis returned.
Miss Avice won't be down, sir, and
I'm to fetch her up a pot of coffee,
sir"
"Take it at once, and tell her l shall
be up to see her presently" Jarvis
vanished.
II think I see way to put pressure
on her, that is if the morning hasn
already brought her back to her
Senses"
At four o'clock that afternoon, Avice
Milbrey's ring brought Mrs. van
Geist's butler to the door.
"Sandon, is Aunt Cornelia at homer"
Eyes, Miss Milbrey, she's confined to
| her room h'account h'of cold, miss"
| "Thank heaven!"
Eyes, miss-certainly! will you go
h'up to herr"
And Mutterchen, dear, it was a reg
| ular bombshell," she concluded after
she had futtered some of the Novem-
| Der freshness into Mrs. Van Geist's
room, and breathlessly related the
facts.
you demented creature! should
say it must have BEEN"
Nov, don't lecture!"
But Shepler is one of the richest
men in New York.
dad already suspects as much"
"And he's kind, he's a big-hearted
chap. man of the world, generous
a."
ga woman fancier,' Fidelia Old
alzer calls him.
my dear, if he fancies you-'
There, you old conservative, I've
heard all his good points, and my duty
has been written before me in letters
of fire. Dad devoted three hours to
writing it this morning, so don't,
please, say over any of the moral
maxims I'm likely to have heard"
"But why are you unwilling?'
"Because-because I'm wild, I fancy
just because don't like the idea of
marrying that man. He's such a big,
funny, round head, and positively no
| neck-his head just rolls around on
his big, pillowy shoulders then
he gets little right at once, tapers right
off to point with those tiny feet
1T isn't easy to have everything"
1T wouldn't be easy to have him,
either"
Mrs. Van Geist fixed her niece with
sudden look of suspicion.
"Has-has that man anything to do
with your refusal?"
"No-not thing-I give you my
word, auntie. If he had been what l
once dreamed he was, no one would
be asking me to marry him now, but
do you know what I've decided?
Why, that he is a joke-that's all
just joke. You needn't think of him,
Mutterchen-I don't, except to think it
was funny that he should have i'm
pressed me so-hes simply a JOKE
II could have told you as much long
ago."
Tell me something now. Suppose
Fred marries that Wybert woman
1T will be sorry day for Fred''
"Of course! Now see how I'm
pinned. Dad and the mater both say
the same now-they're more severe
| than I was. Only we were never in
such straits for money. 1t must be
had. SO this is the gist of it: I ought
to marry 'Rulon Shepler in order to
save Fred from marriage that might
get us into all sorts of scandal"
"Well?"
well, l would do a lot for Fred.
He has faults, but he's always been
| good to me-"
And sop
And so it's a question whether he
marries very certain kind of woman
or whether I marry a very different
kind Of man"
| ''How do you feel?'
| For one thing, Fred sha'n't get into
that kind of muss if I can save him
from it,
Then you'll marry Shepler?"
I'm still uncertain about Mr.. Shep-
ler."
But you say"
| Yes, I know, but I've reasons for
celng uncertain. If I told you you'd
say they're like the most of woman's
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l won't tell you."
well, dear, work it out by your
lonely If you must. I believe you'll do
what's best for everybody in the end.
And I am glad that your father and
Margaret take your view of that wom-
an"
Il was sure she wasn't right-and !
knew Mr.. Bines was too much of a
man to speak of her as he did without
positive knowledge. Now please give
me some tea and funny little cakes:
I'm famished"
speaking of Mr. Bines," said Mrs.
van Geist, when the tea had been
brought by Sandon, II read in the
paper this morning that he'd taken a
party to North Carolina for the Quail
shooting, Eddie Arledge and his wife
and that Mr.. and Mrs. GARNER, and
of course Florence Akemit. Should
you have thought she'd marry SO soon
| after her divorce? They saw R;ebor