The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-25
Lar1lsonPride:
By CLARISSA MACKIE.
Copyrighted. 1908, by Associated
Literary Press.


tient fingers
"If you would listen to reason" be-
gan Pauline argumentatively, but her
fiance interrupted her.
''Reason" he snorted contemptuous-
ly. There " no such word as reason
In a woman's vocabulary"
Miss Lamson arose from her seat
and surveyed him with cool hauteur.
"You forget yourself, Mr.. Seymour.
Remember, please, that you have not
now and never will have the right to
address me in that manner. beg you
will excuse me. sir. Good night" She
swept from the room while Seymour
stared miserably after her
| Five, ten, fifteen minutes passed, and
Pauline did not return. Then Seymour
got upon his feet and taking his hat
and stick, left the house with a sense
of deep injury, somewhat tempered by
the knowledge that he was entirely in
the wrong. If Polly wanted the dining
room on the south side of the new
house they were building, what mat
ter?
His own wishes were for cool,
shady dining room On the. n soi ID sue 81
mousse, while the library occupied
the sunny southern exposure. where
Pauline could have blooming plants in
the windows AND where he gould see
her bright head bending over her sew
ing when he looked up from his work.
What evil spirit had tempted him to
argue the question with her and to act
like an unmannerly brute? Now there
would be no home at all. He turned
In at the club and spent the evening In
solitary wretchedness.
Miss Lamson made dignified haste to
her own room, where she locked the
door and confided to her pillow that
Bob Seymour was sour, cross, crab
bed old thing and that she was glad
they would never be married. Upon
this reflection she sobbed more bitterly.
Finally, when the fury of her brief
mental storm had subsidized, she heard
the closing of the front door and the
echo of familiar footsteps on the pave
ment dying into silence.
She sat up theoretically.
pauline Lamson, you are little
foolv' she soliloquized. 'If Bob wants
the library on the south side of the
house, what difference does 1t make to
: you? He has to work In there most OF
the day, while the dining room is only
used at mealtimes, and it doesn't mat.
= ter where 1t Is. Now there won't be
p any library, north or south, nor any
dining room nor anything for cannot
go back on my word. A Lamson never
I does that!'
% She sobbed herself into most un
pleasant slumber, which was broker
a by frequent lapses into wakefulness
V and at last a gray morning dawned
&c And all the mornings and afternoons
- were gray after that, for Bob Seymour
y did not come to sue for pardon. ant
9 neither did Pauline send the little not,
" which would have brought him repent
IS ant to her feet.
lie 1t was Seymour pride against Lam
10 son pride, and so Love drew his ros!
- mantle about him and spread his wing
to be about other and more profitabl
IL business.
ID 81 came by the new house today
1t Pauline, and 1t is a dearv Emil
10 Raymond helped herself to anothe
:, bonbon from the dish on Pauline's tie
table and nibbled it approximately.
10 "YesP Pauline's voice was fain
lie and there was a pink flush in eithe
Id cheek
d. "Yesw mimicked Miss Raymond PEI
If. ulantly. "Your indifference is well al
o. sumed, Polly, dear, but
ho Emile" said Pauline. with sudde
-, decision, 81 must tell you'll haven
ne told another soul-that Bob Seymou
us and are not going to be marriedr
nd Miss Raymond uttered surprise
for Shrek
Polly hanson, what do you mean
Al. + Why. was talking with Bob not fiv
An minutes ago-he was standing on tn
steps of the new house-and frol
oe what he said She paused with en-
Sht barrassment and busied herself wit
ave the bonbon dish.
to what did he say% Pauline's tol
len was icily cold.
vo- "Why-now. dear, of course l dor
49, understand anything about the matte
INC but he said when limited that wou
os' like to go over the house, Mrs. Sc
an mour will have that pleasure In Il
} is spring. and he smiled so natural
has that l supposed She looked e
we'd pressively at her friend.
q at is probably some one else-sor
other girl smiled Pauline stif1y
"It might be-" was the disconcertil
reply. 81 did see him talking TO Lin
Burton the other day, and just as
passed them Linda was saying,
}. much prefer the library IN green to
or l didn't think anything about 1t at t
nc time, but-Linda is certainly attrs
tive"
ons LINDA is a dear" gushed PauliI
ible noprinp herself another cun NJ FOO