The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-05-28

VIII SucH-a IeaCures AS merely
nose, Jimmy, I'll grant it's the noblest
Roman of them all, but it would look
as much out of place on my prince as
as a Falstafiian front would on
Romeo"
| He eyed with honest admiration the
deaths head and crossbones he had
punched in the center Of the leaf.
"Your dainty and aesthetic prince
would be grieved to hear your slight
coarseness of expression, Elizabeth,
my child. You are not supposed to
refer to anatomical subjects"
She shifted her disdain and, turning
her back to him, put her little worn
slippers AGAINST the steam radiator.
"You afe so terribly prim, too, and SO
absolutely expected! l have known
you so long that 1 know you through
! and through. There Is never any room
for speculation. Maybe one could for
get about your nose If you would ever
do anything unexpectedv'
He did-immediately, and she ar
ranged her rumpled hair, her eyes
James Hartley-I-never would have
believed it of you! And to think I've
known you six years."
A little startled at his own reckless.
ness, he picked up paper knife from
her writing desk and commenced op-
erations on the abused rubber plant
with assumed nonchalance.
You wanted me to do something I'M
expected" he suggested mildly.
ANY man might have done that"
with whitening sarcasm.
elizabeth Lent, am more than
shocked at such an admission, for I've
wanted to try it for six years and have
been too cowardly"
She grew more confusedly angry.
MAKE a joke of it If you like she
blaZed. 1T probably serves me right
| for thinking there was one man that
could be trusted"
He turned abruptly and took his hat
from the top Of the piano.
"You needn't say any more" His
face was pale with anger. you've
had me at your beck and call for all
these years, and you never would take
me seriously. AS for jokes my love
for you has been huge joke to you
always. I'm tired of it-and If I'm
never to be taken seriously we'll put
an end to it ALL l apologize most hum
bly, for my recent rudeness," and he
went out, closipa the fiat door with an
unmistakable evidence of temper be-
fore she could realize that there had
actually been a quarrel.
She stood up mechanically and com.
menced rearranging the furniture OF
the little parlor. She broke off the
demolished leaves of the rubber plant
and started to the dining room to put
them in the wastebasket.
Her roommate sat at the dining ia
BILE working on sketch.
Jimmy gone this early?" she asked
in surprise.
mot coming any more" answered
Miss Lent, with studied indifference.
Frances Carson ran the background
of the sketch into the Grecian face she
had finished and let 1t drop on the
table hopeless blur.
What have you done to JimmyY'
he demanded accusingly He's the
best fellow | ever saw"
as he indeed?" Miss Lent dropped
the leaves Into the basket with a ges-
ture of superior scorn. "Glad you
think So"
The other woman commenced wash
ing her paint brushes and threw the
the leaves
you have treated him shamefully
all these years." she said, looking
Squarely into the others wrathful eyes.
You have been dreaming of heroes
and ideals and in the meanwhile have
been taking all and giving nothing to
the best type of man that exists.
only hope that you haven't treated him
so badly it's beyond making up"
Miss Lent started toward the bed
room door defiantly.
Hell get over 1t and come back In
a few days" she said, with calm as
surance.
But Jimmy did nothing of the sort
Weeks passed, and Miss Carson found
that she need cook only one chop for
dinner, for the other was never touch
ed Elizabeth grew thinner and paler
and the doctor finally looked worried
when he asked about her cough
Frances Carson had never been be
lever In the doctrine that it was good
policy to let things drift. She believed
In the judicious application of help
ing hand She watched her friends
listless face one night after dinner al
she sat In the Morris chair, her book
lying forgotten ON her lap.
Elizabeth, l can't bear to see yoI
looking so wretched," she said, rising
energetically. I'm going out and ge
something else for your cough Ant
you simply must make up your minC
to go to Florida for the rest of the
winter, as the doctor advises"
She put on her coat and hat anC
went, not to the druggists, but to thu
nearest telephone booth.
us that you, JimmyT she called
when she had got her number.
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