Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-02


thing like that as bull charges a
gate? You let me alone for that, now.
'TwouId be indecent in either of them
to be thinkin' of courtin' Immediately
on top of tragedy like the one they're
both just through with, and | know
there's nothing farther from their
moinds But We know as we'll as | do
that he'd doy"-Belle was very en-
phatic and therefore rather more than
usually Irish-"he'd doy to save her
from the merest little harm. Ye know
he worships the very shoe she wears
mo" said Billery, las a matter OF
fact, my dear, don't know. He hasn't
taken me into his confidence"
well, if We don't know, she knows,
and | dew. And she's let the cat out
of the bag tonight, Hamilton, if never
she did before. She thinks the world
of him.
"And well she may, by George"
said Billery. There amt nobler
fellow on the planet"
That's just her way CT thinkin',"
cried Belle. But there's difference
between thinking highly of a man an
bein in love with him. Now, Lillian
Lees lust as much in love with Alloy
sius Brangwyn as ever Aloysius Brang-
wyn was with Lillian Lee, and for him
she's the one woman on the earth,
and has been years out o cOuntin',
though she's barely twO-and-tWenty.
They just adore each other, and
there's the long and short of it. But
they're in a position Of great delicacy,
and they're just the people to exagger-
ate it. He's asked her twice already,
and he'll go about thinkin' that shes
wasted her heart on that unutterabln
villain and can never think an feel
again like a e-blooded woman. An
he'll be maxim a nun an blessed
angel of her in his own melancholy
Don QuiXOte way, aud she'll have TO be
quiet and miserable--fOT it's not every
woman in the world that will take her
courage in both hands as I did with
you, my dear And If they're not tn
go on always in that way, breakin'
both their hearts for the want Of lit
tie understanding, they'll want a pes
son Of tact about them"
Upon my word, little woman" said
Biliery, you're breaking out in a new
place with vengeance, And you're
going to be the person of tact2
81 am, then" said Belle, in vivid az
firmation. And Pm goin' to be the
person of determination in the bar
gain. Therell be no shillp-shally
where I am. an that yell live to see
Mr.. Billery."
THAT I shall live to see,' he III
swered, Il know I shall throughout my
wretched and henpecked existence
Il dare We to repeat the word, she
cried.
Henpecked' was the word I used "
said Billery. 'Henpecked!"
'Tn henpeck vel" said Belle. She
kept her word by kissing the bald
spot. Hamilton, it's wonderful to
think how little a time we've been
married, for ye're just as easy to wear
as an old shoe already. But amnt
right in what I've been saying? And
haven't your subloime approval?"
1--WE not the slightest doubt you're
right, my dear And I think you're
Just the identical person for the busi-
ness, and l wish you we'll with it with
all my heart. Only-one word. Haste,
as the poet observes, my dear, is half
sister to delay
ooh, I'll take time" said Belle. But
what'l you bet that I don't have Their:
safely married before our own first an
niversary comes rOund?"
"You act with so much promptituda
in these little matters" her husband
answered, rising and shaking her in q
waggish way, that I shall be prepared
for anything"
So Mistress Billery laid herself ont
formally to besiege Lillian with pre-.
cisely such an eager determination not
to be defeated as she had displayed
on an earlier occasion. She talked
eternal Aloysius. 1t was her plan in
some slight way to provoke Lillian to
defend him AS, for instance, that II
was absurd to go on hiding himself as
he did now that all the world was wait
ing ard eager to receive him and to
make amends. Or that he had duty
to the world which he could not fulfil
by moping by himself forever That
he had great talents, which he was
burying in a napkin. Thus urged, Lii
ian many a time shot far beyond her
own intent, and her heaving bosom
and tender, glowing eyes were mora
eloquent than the words in which she
sang his praise.
Lillian said Belle, after one of her
warmest outbursts, don't We think we
women are mighty quare creatures.
| even to ourselves? Now, it's as plain
| to me as the nose ON Hamilton's face
and that's plain mans. Dlainest
| feature-that ye're as much in love
| with Mr.. Brangwyn as ever woman
| was in love or could be-" Lillian
! blushed like fire and hung her head,
| but she offered no disclaimer. "Rut
! that's of course, and I'd be fool not
| to see it, But the curious part of it is
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