The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-24
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 Yet Jim Broughton was not a con- ceited man-in fact. the very reverse but he had, like many men, been al- ways trained up in the belief that ev- cry girl, more especially every girl be- longing to a large family. was bent on getting husband: as to what the hus- band might be like. was, he believed, a matter of secondary importance to the girl. Hence the mistake he made and his consequent discomiture. He found himself one Sunday after noon inquiring for her at her subur- ban home.
 There were four other Miss Brier1eys all fadylike. all fun-loving, all nice looking. all fond of Broughton in a sisterly. or perhaps cousinIy way; and this species of affection Broughton heartily returned. But for the second daughter, for the gray-eyed Maude, he began to feel that this feeling was not of that tepid type. Some people can~ in later. and Broughton found himself sitting in rather a far-off corner of the big drawinR-room with Maude. He thought that she looked very perfect little lady. from the coils of her pretty hair (the one beauty the girls few enemies allowed her) to the point of her tiny shoe; and, more than that. the thought came to him that she was a good woman, and every man. believe. however bad he may Dc. deep down in his heart. hopes that the woman he loves may be that. d
 And what did Maude think7
 She thought as the frelight played over him that he was what her young brother called "a real good sort" yes, nicer, perhaps, than most men. and she wished her mother would ask him to stay to dinner. That was about the extent of her feelings at that critical moment.
 Presently Broughton bent towards her, and in a low voice addressed her as ''Mnude:" he had never called her so before. and she thought 1t little forward of him. Then she understood that Jim Broughton. as he was called by everybody--was asking her to mar ry himi A
 But she had never dreamed of mar riage with aimi Thought chased thought through her brain. Had she encouraged the. poor fellow? How nice 1t was of him! Would it hurt him much to be retused3
 In the pleasant twilight Broughton got his answer.
 Broughton7" He heard in her voice a new note, a note of pity or of pain. T do love you in e sisterly way, but l cannot do what you ask me. I am
 
 sorry.v
 Never mind" said poor Jim BrOugh- ton.
 He met her once. fortnight after ward at e cotillion. The Brierleys, of course. were asked. It was a crowded affair Broughton hardly saw Maude at all; but from the little he did see of her it seemed to him that she was not talking as much as she usually did.
 An afternoon soon after Maude was waiting for her mother In shop; looking rather dreamily out on the street, she saw Broughton pass along the pavement; he seemed to her to he thinner than when she last saw him and he had a rather worn and worried look A little child of s or years was lettering along as well. with her head turned the opposite way from which she was going, in the annoying way that children will walk in the street she bumped into bustling commercial traveller, with the result that she sat down rather hurriedly on the peve- ment and began to cry bitterly; the commercial traveller took no notice of her whatever, but Broughton stopped ! over her. put her on her feet and gave her a coin.
 Mrs. Briefly just then rose from her chair in thA shop. She wss woman with a sharp manner.
 whats the mattsr Maude? You have got tears in your eyes!"
 Have I, mother? I didn't know tt'' And the worst of 1t was, wherever she went she heard his praises sung
 One night she. with her father and | mother, dined at the Musdochs. It was a large party. As they stood and sat about previous to dinner being an. nounced. Mrs. Brierley glanced with very justihable pride at Maude; She. in pearl-gray looked. in the subdued light of the standard lamps, charm