The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-10

asked; AS If we were living hfty years
ago!'
"And of course it ii be quite easy
for you TO get me an invitation He
knew very we'll that his presence was
not desired. but Gladys found herself
confronted with the necessity of tell
ing him 3d.
ooh, I don't think you d care for
it, she began,
''But if it's to be so frightfully
good7 Everybody says that the Bow
manBells do you thoroughly well.'
But-Oh, you won't understand
Well, they re not your sort of people at
all -
''But if they re your sort they must
be mine, sure]yS'
They're not my sort either. You
"All the more reason I should go,
"Whatever for ." throwing grammer
to the winds in her astonishment.
To take care of you
''You take care of mef Why, I
could take care Of you better. Oh, 1
didn It mean to say that ] mean-Cora
Judging from what l have seen OF
her, she II have her hands full with
her own affairs"
"Well and what then7 Cant 1 take
care of myself7 / do believe,' with
terrific scoTn, that you re jealous-of
'.Oughtn you to feel fattered if 1
am7n
~ don t. a bit. IT, mean and hor-
rid to be jealous. -
''Then you ought to know that I
couldn't be Jealous if L tried"
Gladys scathed him with a glance.
81 despise man who gets cross if a
81 l,,4 L 41f
So do |, [ assure you. At least, L
should if | knew one. Do you know
any man like that7'
"You know you would be perfectly
atroclously enTaged If L danced with
BERTHE all evening
"And you would rather ] didn t mind
whether you did OF not? Well. there IS
TO show that l don Il grudge you the lit
tie pleasures that come in your wav,
let's make bargain. You get me an
invitation, and while you devote your
self to the fascinating Bertie, I'll hang
about that fetching sister of his all the
evening.
kind! I wonder you're not ashamed
to suggest such a thing, There ism t a
girl know who's such bad form as
that Mignon Bowman-Bell. She
caught his smile-perhaps not quite an
Involuntary one, and her tone changed.
'EI believe you think I'm iealous!''
"Never mind. 1 didn' It say that
jealousy was mean and horrid, - he said
soothingly.
~ suppose you would like to feel
that l was jealous about youq But if
you think, with a rSpid change of
front. "that it's playing the game to
accept the hospitality of people you
call bounders, ] don Y, -
Nor do l. Nothing but a sense of
duty would make me do it,
You might have the grace to say
that it would be a pleasure to go with
me, at any rate.
But it wouldn't. If you are going
to dance with young Bertie all the even:
ing, well, you might enjoy IT. and Of
course he would, but | really don I see
how YOU could expect it to be q pleas
ure TO me. And ] don { care. as you
say, to accept the hospitality Of peo-
pie I should prefer to cut, y
are married you II insist on my drop
ping them?'
eff I said that was my fixed inten.
tion. what would happen9'
81 should say our engagement was
off,
"Then YOU may be quite sure that I
shan 4 do anything so foolish. -
Gladys turned and glared at him. and
he met her angry eyes with cheerful
and innocent smile. She tramped oil
again.
day!" she declared frankly. 'You
take mothers g side and talk against my
friends. and YOU have said every single
nasty thing you could think of since we
started-trying to have the last word
and make me feel small
11i T. l.
ly. 81 beg your pardon; oughtn 't ] to
have said that2' with very fair imi
tation of Gladys s own manner when
she imagined that his feelings must be
hurt.
81 knew YOU hated my being tall! y
she cried. "And it IS wretched of you
when m always trying to make you
forget IT,,
! it, | should be perfectly happy
Glow can I forget it7 Seeing YOU
and talking to- you makes me remem
Der it continually.
''If only you didn't feel obliged tc
remind me of il them!
why. 7 told YOU just this minute
that ] was always. trying to make yol
want to forget 1t. YOU were proud of it
never knew such contradictory cres
ture in all my life.
"I IN sorry," he said sadly. Moth
ing that ! say seems to please YOU this
afternoon, somehow. Shall we tall
about something else7'
F'What would be the good. when w'
should both be thinking all the tim,
that You don Z want me to go where
meap to go'' was the unansw rabl'
reply,
'fBut if don u say what want, anc
YOU don I do it, my wishes won t trou
BILE you at all, surely7H
81 suppose you think you have SAID j
often enough already?'
"Now that you mention it, / don ,
think | have said it at all.
FWhy. you have talked of nothIn,
else since we came out!' she cried, i,
iustlfable anger.
81 beg your pardon; You said yo,
could see my wishes in my face, Afte
that it hardly seems necessary to pu
them into words, whatever they ma!
be
Gladys reviewed the conversation
swiftly, accepted the temporary checl
and changed her ground with lightning