The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-08-31
put OF thus lightly.

do they cali it?' Ha-ha-ha!" @%zzz "
"Played quits. have you?" ~
sNever played beginning. ha, hal"
"Why do you laugh so, then?"
me laugh SO! l always do" sober
ing up. The laugh gave the snap"
away to Josie. She could see through
milestone as far as anybody. Forced
laughter had a meaning. 800 :.
Don't you want to tell me, Floss"
Tell YOU what. J0sie?" s>1
about Mel"
Have / any secrets from you 2, $.,..,
"Yes"-the greatest of your. life:
They walked on in silence for half
| a square. ..s~.. ~ ~
"Well, then, we've played out" said
Floss, confessing to the truth with
some hesitation.
Il saw it when we passed. How
about it,"
"*Uncongenial. I told you SO at
first" ..,.
That's a thing all in your mind.
don't believe In It, Too much inagin-
ation-expect too much from the other
side and yield too little on this.
Something is required of ones self as
we'll as from the other one. I don't
mean by this anything against you,
but there are too sides to every story.
Floss, and Mel is good fellow. Did
he ever tell you?"
Yes, we were engaged and were to
be married when he got a home.
There's where we were going to live;'
and she pointed to a. new cottage
house they were passing at the mo-
ment.
How did you come to fall out?
u don't know. Little things. He's
too. sensitive, and the meanest man
that ever lived. hate him."
| mo, Floss, no. You're mistaken.
! He's not mean. could see pain in
his fine face when we passed. It
hurts him awfully."
u want it to hurt him. think he
meant nothing all the time-played
| with me- That's what's so mean about
him. like man, but despise a
sneak"
"F1oss, Floss. you're too hard on
| him. You're out of sorts. You don't
Judge fair. What do you suppose he
| thinks?"
Il don't know, and I don't care. I
| only hope it will bust his measley
| heart. He deserves it. He's so in
fernal mean the grass dies under his
feet. If he looks at anything it with
! ers.''
Tell me all about it,
Then Floss proceeded to tell some
! thing Of the story. 1t was colored and
not exactly the facts; but that Isl the
way she looked at it. You can i'm
| agine about what she related to Josie.
| After she had listened to the end of
the story, which was plentifully in
| terlarded with bitter words, Josie
! archly turned her eyes upon Floss and
said:
you're In love with him STILL
| F1oss'
Love him! Don't tell me! I hate
him, and the breath in the word
hate" spoke her feelings more than
the word itself.
"You don't know yourself that's all,
Floss ct"
| ,>'If~.I DON'T nobody does. Who
should know better than / do?- You
mistake, JOSIE
Think SOP" slyly.
Il know so," firmly.
MARK my words. This lovers
quarrel may never blow over, but
you'll find out some day, before long
! too. that I'm right. People never hate
| what they don't care for"
I'm not mistaken; It's you that are
mistaken. He's treated me too shah
| billy ever to feel more than the mean
est hate for him."
| "You two don't understand each
other"
Don't understand! wish I never
had understood him. know him too
well-to my sorrow. I,wish I'd never
seen him.
| Never nind," putting a. sort of
mysterious allusicn into the simple
words,
Il don't intend to mind-I do intend
to mind. I never want to speak to
MIN again. and what is more never
SHALL I've got independence enough
about me to live without him."
Maybe"
| NO maybe about it,
| That's all right. Floss"
what do you mean?"
You know
| Yes, / guess know. And I know
myself too. I know him, and you
DON'T"
Don't you fool wourself."
| Continued next week.
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