The Prescott daily news., 1908-12-05
Functional MiSS Trllly.
[Copyright. 1908. by American Press Asso-
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ing but no one in the house kneW neF occupation. She usually went out about 9 o'clock in the morning and re- mained most of the day, but there was nothing regular either about her going or her staying. Sometimes she would remain in the house for several days at time, and sometimes when she went out in the morning would return before noon and not go out again.
 There was good deal about Miss Fully that interested me. She was never for a long period in the same mood. One day she would be merry as a cricket. the next in the depths of despair. Then she would be subject to fits of anger, when no one cared to approach her. Any sensible person may judge from this that Miss Fully was not likely to make a good wife. but I have noticed in young men dis position to neglect the girls who are especially fitted to make homes com forta bic for those who are so consti- tuted as to make husbands life a burden At any rate, 1 became fasci- hated with Miss Tully's moods. At our first meeting there was girliSh gladness about her that was simply delicious. A few days later she met me with an imperious look on her face that well nigh froZe the marrow in my bones The next week my pity was excited by a melancholy that was no less becoming than her sprightliness or her regal dignity.
 It was not long before I was madly in love But, realizing the folly of fldRtaer af sNbbdrfF fFrl AaS Wh9 mystery-I fought against my passion. All to no purpose. l was caught in mesh and unable to extricate myself.
 One evening Miss Fully and l were slttlng in the drawing room-the board CTS, seeing my infatuation, had by this tune come to give up the apartment to us-side by side on a sofa. It was in the spring of the year, and Miss Tully was like the season. light hearted. ex- uberant in spirits and, it seemed to me Willing to listen to loves young dream Llttle by little turned my words upon that dream, which by this time had en- thralled me. Miss Fully saw my drift and seemed to yield to a pleased lan- guor, listening eagerly to what I said. poured into her ear all a lover could say, leading up to proposal, when she stopped me and said ecstatically:
 Say 1t all again"
 confess l was puzzled-indeed. a tri- He put out To repeat my glowing words was not to my mind. Fortunate y my embarrassment was relieved by a maid entering with note for Miss Iully She opened and read it. From that moment she was changed. Her light AearteIDess disappeared and with It her apparent interest in what had been saying to her. Smarting under this sudden indifference I left her.
 4Ae next evening at dinner 1 noticed ihat Miss Tully appeared to have some thing on her mind of an exasperating nature. Her teeth were set, and her eyes were filled with flashes, coming at long intervals, like heat lightning on q summer night. After dinner was go- Ing up to my room when she passed me Tn the hall, gave me a glance 1 did not understand and went into the drawing room. l followed. We were alone there, and, turning on me like a fury. she began to accuse me of some unex- pressed crime, working herself into a very demon. In vain I begged her to tell me what I had done. Without needing me she talked on, or, rather. stormed on, till at last, seeing no pros- pect of an end to what was like a storm sWay1ng to the east, to the west, any where, everywhere In accordance with its unbridled passion, left the room
 The next morning I made an effort to escape from this mad creature. I took an early train. For q week I remained away, then, protesting to myself to feel confident of my ability to resist the fascination, returned to the house and Miss Fully.
 At our first meeting I saw upon her face the most engaging sadness. She gave me reproachful look, which I ook to express pain that I had kept lway from her. l longed to take her n my arms; but, with a muffied moan. he went up to her room
 l saw nothing of her <for a week. hen she was plain Missy llly, neither appy nor miserable @ angry. She ave me a smile. puy her hand to le and, intimating f le had some l