The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-03

have stayed with me! Ali we'll, don't
mind me, dad, I'm happy enough with
YOU"
"You certainly don't often pull long
face, dearie. II there's anything troub-
Ing you. out with It, and let's see II I
can't help?"
Its rather big little secret dad
a dy. Maybe 1 oughtnt have kept it so
long. but 1 was ashamed to tell, I
reckon. You see nothing like this ever
happened to me before"
The old mans faded eyes lsindled with
sudden fird. He halted her suddenly,
facing seward, and together they lean
cd over the taff-rail.
"Posey, it hasn't got anything to do
with John Glynn, has it?" he asked
with tremulous eagerness of Joy.
Yes, daddy"
He spoke to you before we sailed?"
Just before. That last evening, at
the hotel, when you went off to smoke
with the nice old gentleman you fought
beside at Seven Pines, and, left us sit
ting in the corridor looking at the peo-
pie. He said everything that was nice
about you. first: how you had been his
fathers dearest friend, and had helped
him through college,. and started him
in New York, and he loved you dearly,
and never could repay the debt. Then
he recalled how he and 1 had known
each other as boy and girl, though he
always thought of me as nothing but
"a little kid. until he saw mo last year
at home and Just now in New York.
Z He. told me how hard he was working.
with scarcely minute to call his own.
and what tough struggle 1t would
( be to get up top. but that he meant
to do it. IL he lived"
"And he will-he Will" interrupted
Mr.. Winstanley, In accents OF strong
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z thatihe never took up my offer to stake
him with funds for his expenses in New
York, till he got square upon his feet.
and that he never drew q blessed cent
OF it?"
"Hc said you'd been more than good,
but he wouldn't impose on you. You
see. daddy, John knows tSat all these
years you've had as much as you could
do to keep us going, and have me
educated. suppose he was as sur
prised as I, when he found you were
taking me abroad In style-you cx-
travagant old thing, your
"Of course. OF course murmured
Mr.. Winstanley, acquiescently. 1T does
seem extravagant, doesn't it? But we'll
manage to make two ends meet. / reck-
on, If we pinch. afterwards. to- MAKE
UP for it. Go on, Posey. go on. Tell me
the rest about you and John. 1t is
music to my ears.
- Thought 50, uauGy, the girl -Safu
with a tender sigh. And though l
wasn't quite ready to do what he asked
me, j couldn't say no. So when he
said you and his father had always
wanted us two to be married. some day,
and would | consider myself Engaged
to him, until he was ready to give. me
home in New York. Just asked him
to wait till the next day, and Iswould
telephone my answer before the stea-
mer sailed. And ! did. That's what I
was doing when you called to me that
-
to the pier / was shut up in the telc-
phone booth at the hotel saying yes
to john
"And you never gave the poor lad
chance to see you face to face again?"k
exclaimed her father, every wrinkle of
his face luminous with satisfaction at the
news,
"Ye-es." said Posey,, q saw him for
a minute over the raj of the steamer.
He just rushed down from his Office
the minute he. could get off. I'd told
him I'd write him all the usual things
by the pilot-boat. and from Queens
have to be satisfied with that You
mustn't expect John and me to be silly.
father. for we aren't bit, either of
us. l ought to tell you that he's been
in love with another girl and it didn't
turn out we'll, and he put her out of
his thoughts forever"
80 that was what allied the, lad last
Spring when | went North on that busi-
ness of the mine? might have guess
ed it. poor boy, he was blue as indigo.
Well, It was handsome of him to tell
your marriage will be just as happy
as II he hadn't taken that other little
away ike the steamer. smoke yonder.
and he'll wonder at himself for ever
thinking lie could have put up with
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