Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1906-10-20
Love
Is sGnougb
BY o. R. PHELPS
Copyright, 1905, by G. H. SutcliGe

H'' '' H'''N' -NlNN II ''illlIIlll'ltN. II
begins aS stories ought always to be
gin. once upon time -
Dear me, | know | Shln't like it.
Those once upon time things have
grown TO he such Il bore" Lolita muir
INJURED plaintiNcly, but without in the
least checking the story teller
He ran ON. his eyes fixed high above
her head. "A foolish fellow, foolisher
than the common. set himself to hate
wisdom, whose other name is wom-
an
He got his come-uppancc. of course.
They always do in stories, never out
Df them" Lolita INTERCEPTED ClSpassion-
atcly
This time AIwyn laughed Whose
other name is woman woman" he
repeated with all the emphasis of CAPT
tails. But you're dead wrong He got
no come uppance 1t was rather his i'll
luck to come down very hard-so hard
he grovelcd i'll the dust when one par
ticular woman looked him over with
out seeing him. That has happened,
let me see, about three times a day for
full six weeks. Result
"Onr hundred and twenty six grov-
els. if your figures can be trusted. |
doubt it. | doubt. indeed, if there is
anything trustworthy about YOU" Lo-
lita flashed at him, with Il smile so
cOyly engaging it took all the sting
from her speech. suppose you stop
being tireSomr,' she went on. Il don't
ask YOU to be sensible. I'm SO far from
sensible myself. But lets get away
from the eternal me. There must be
such lots of things better worth while"
"What will you have? Shall dis
course on ships and shoes and sealing
wax and cabba@cS and kings|" Al
wyn asked, hlS voice Submissiv"
enough, but dancing rebellion in his
eyes.
Lolita smiled dcmurcly. Il think"
she said, with an air of grave rctlcc
tion, IF YOU don't mind | had rather
hear things about Gordon Fleming"
"Thrrc'S nothing | can tell you-hc'S
so openly. SO extensively, 50 disgust
Ingly rich and so patiently in love with
YOU" .Nwyn burst out
Lolita gave him IA SidcwiSe look. Are
,nu suro.., ,ho ,,,urmrrol .D,u,t ,,o,,
500 If ,vnuId ho c,.,,I to ovnnrimnnt
with my crrdulty?'
".\S cruel rs your experiments with
my affcctiout" Mwym flung back ut
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i'l''i''SN WI" H"i ''l''''''> III li'hu
ana 'le l'o''"'''l''H vi oIi''i i'lIlll'"S
III lhclI mere alproN"! ''ol""l leHl-
iiiS, 'h' SOIL WIS wen III III" lHiuule
age; ne hau married very "aflN-aS lau
ms iather beiof" hlhl-but II hau
turned out very badly. In year there
had been separation. later the threat
OF divorce, but rate stepped III to save
the family pride, In" wife sailed away
on ship that went down at sea. She
had not been heard of in the fifteen
years since so it was safely assumed
that she was anon" the lost. None OF
the few survivors had any knowledge
of her; she was, moreover, SO slight
and frail she could hardly have lived
through the terror
Morally and IrpaIIy hcr husband was