The Cairo bulletin., 1908-07-04

with the long eye
lashes Refreshing instead! And
could experiment. with him and yet
be tolerably sure he was not going
10 be 4 bother and make love to me.
We got well acquainted the evening
he told me al about his broken heart
aud blighted life"
What was he doing with those
things if he was unsentimental?' de-
nanded the girl on the floor.
Tn just quoting his estimate of
his own emotions explained the girl
with the long eyelashes In reality,
he wouldn't have known broken
heart from house and lot, but he
seemed to extract mournful JOY
from imagining that he possessed one,
He referred 10 it Aastinsly, but you
could tell ne was as proud of it as il
il had been a gold medal or $1,000 600
he had made himself and wanted to
be admired for having It,
He began" explained the girl with
tAe long cyelashes by saying he had
had such an unhappy experience just
before he came to Chicago. Then he
explained that his best girl had sud
denly married another man.
THAT was too bad sympathized,
lameY
lit was a blow, he admitted. !
was mighty fond of that girl OF
coarse had not been to see her very
frequently of late because | had a
biz contract on hand and couldn't
waste the time besides | didn't think
it was necessary. thought she un.
derstood my feelings and. anyhow,
supposed she'd last for another year
without saying anything.
Well gasped the girl sitting on
the floor We'll! Hadn't he even pro.
posed to her?"
Il couldn't quite make ont what he
called it" said the girl with the long
eyelashes He seemed to think the
fact that he had given her what spare
time he could snatch from the really
important business of life, such al
contracts and golf should have
aroused 1uttering hopes In her heart
sufficient to cause her to hang on pa
tiently in trusting anticipation q
something better
He hadn't really asked her outrigh!
to marry him, but he said in grieyed
sort OF way-can you imagine a man
who weighs 200 looking grie-ed tina;
he had supposed she understood.
"Oh, he really was hopeless So
] nFtfh u fDA
the way some girls trihed with tha
affections of a man and that most OF
them never knew one minute what
they wanted the next, and that lack
Of stability was the great flaw in tho
character Of the modern American
woman"
Wen" gasped the girl on the floor
In helpless rapture. Did you really
Did he tell you that you were like the
rest of theme
The girl with the long eyelashes
smiled Il should say mott" she re-
piled He looked at me admringly
and said | had common sense and he
wished there were more like me- Fhen
he modified it on second thought and
said he was glad there weren't more
like me and that he was sefshly re-
ioiced that / was the only one of my
kind and that he hal found me"
THAT sounds as IL he were a little
bit sentimental argued her friend
Not In that kind of man." said the
girl with the long eyeashes. Ills
JOY on discovering my charming at
tributes was precisely what he would
have bestowed on bargain in a ten
acre lot or on clever deal in wheat.
He went on to say that the more he
considered the tragedy which had
overtaken him the more bright spots
in the dark clouds were to be dis.
covered He said such Eighty dispo-
sition as that girl had shown argued
that she would be the sort to stay late
to afternoon card parties and forget
to be home at dinner time 70 welcome
her husband
4 responded that any true woman
was perfectly content to stay at home
all day dreaming Of her husband when
her attention was not otherwise en-.
gagged in preparing mayonnaise dress
ing or darning his socks-and he at
once asked me to go to the theater.
over the supper later he discovered
that my eyes were as blue as hers
whom he had lost, only more so. He
aaid they had a more intelligent ex.
preston also. In short time I had
to drag him back on the subject of his
sorrow by main force He-he seemed
more anxious to talk Of other things!"
Him" commented the girl seated
on the floor Il know you, Haven't
you any mercy at all? A poor limo
cent, practical. unsentimental man like
that. who can't play up to the game,
You ought to be ashamed e yourself.
The girl with the long eyelashes
laughed. Serves him right" she
said There a-e several things that
man needs to learn. I'm just getting
him ready for his next girl"
We'll. I'm sorry for him." said the
girl on the floor. with emphasis.