Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-26

by him on rock with a green. moss
velvet cushion.
This is what I've been longing for
all day." said he.
hadn't, and l was thinking about
the cadets. But l agreed that it was
beautiful.
Yes, 1t is" he answered. looking at
me. 81 never saw anything so pretty.
Say, Lady Betty, you're an awful
fiirt.''
1 did open my eyes at that. "a
fiirt,' l exclaimed Il never had a
chance to try being it,
81 guess you are born knowing. I've
been miserable all the afternoon.
Couldn't you see my agony?'
Il didn't notice" said |.
"Ah. that's the trouble. You weren't
thinking of me. OF course. l oughtn't
TO have cared for those little boys"
(some of them were inches taller than
he). ''but l couldn't help it. | kept
saying inside, This is foretaste of
what I've got to suffer when she's
staying with Katherine at the Moor
ings' | don't know when I've been so
unpopular with myself / don't see
how I'm going to get along unless
you'll be nice to me. right now"
II am nice to YOU l said. LAS nice
as | know how TO be-"
II could teach you to be lot nicer
Say, Lady Betty. let me, won't your?
His eyes, though they are such
pale blue. had that silly. melting look
in them that my cousin Loveland's
have when he talks to me- Let you
do WHAT" | asked almost snappishly
for Il person sitting in such a lovely
place.
Teach you to like me. | fell all
over myself in love with you the first
minute ! saw YOU
DAY before yesterday" l exclaimed.
What nonsense. You're poking fun
Mt me. don't believe in love at first
right-at least l don't think do. Any
how. nobody could fall in love with me
in that way
Couldn't they, though? That's all
you know aboat it, then. All Amer
leans will fall in love with you like
that. ard it's Just what | want to
guard against. l want you to be en-
gagged 70 me before you go 70 New
port. Then shall feel kind Of safe"
Dear me, are you really proposing.
and it isn't in iole?" asked II do
wish you wouldn't"
I Would propose TO Lady Betty
BullleIey in joke" he reproached me.
1.-The idea of proposing to any girl
| when you've only seen her three
imesr
What Cid l tell you about my friend
in San Francisco? was working
slowly up to this, even them
| Slowly
| Yes, very slowly. l think I've
shown great deal of patience. Amer
lean girls-the beauties. | meGu-are
| quite hurt if fellow doesn't propose
somewhere along in the first day or
| two. They think he can't appreciate
| their real worth and that he deserves
| what be gets if some other chap walks
away with them. Now, I'm not going
10 sit still on my perch and see any
thing else walking off with you"
couldn't help laughing. I'll call
for help it l think there's no danger
said /, but l can't promise more than
that | didn't come over to America
to pick up a husband"
He looked at me rather qTecrly when
said that, almost as if he thought
had come for that express purpose
land was trying to conceal 1t. But OF
course he couldn't be so horrid as tC
suppose such thing really, and l must
have imagined the strange expression
If he only knew / came away SO thai
another girl might be sure to get 4
husband. aud I'm not allowed to &C
back until lie has been got!
They're just growing around OF
blackberry bushes and in strawberry
patches for you to pick and choose
said Potter, land that's what worries
me. I'm wildly jealous fellow. I've
got two months leave so as to lie with
you at Newport, and | tell you I shall
] see bright. beautiful crimson if toe
many dudes come fooling around the
shanty Say. won't You just play we're
engaged anyhow and see how you likt
it?"
wouldn't hear word more of sucI
nonsense. so jumped up. and he had
to scramble UP too.
IF you've really proposed-which
doubt" said l, you must please un
lGerstand that you've been formally re
fused But / forgive you because
believe you must have been chatting
land because it's my first proposal, so a
Z all events can't die without havin:
: had at least one. Now. do be sensible
and take me back or / shall have t
fiEd my way alone or else ask .
strange cadet to pilot me-
That threat found a vulnerable spot
and he was not half bad on the wa.
home perhaps no worse than thu
name of the walk allowed.
} was good deal excited about th
ball, as it was my very first Sall.
| Woodburn had looked at my thing
: and told me what to bring. Not tina
r it was hard choice. for l have onl
| four frocks with me in which coul
! go to a dance. The one Sally wante
/ ne to wear at West Point is a littl
4 white thing of embroidered India mu.
lin Thomson made 1t after one c