New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-12-09
II Emotional
Miss TtluY.

Copyright, 1908, by American Press Assoc
citation.
/ met Miss Tully in boarding house.
She was supposed to earn her own liv-
ing, but no one in the house knew her
occupation. She usually went out
about o'clock in the morning and re-
manned 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 a 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
Tully that interested me. She was
never for a long period in the same
mood One day she would be merry as
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 Tully
| was not likely to make good wife,
but have noticed in young men a dis
| position to neglect the girls who are
especially fitted to make homes COM
| Portable for those who are so consti-
| tuted as to make a husbands life a
burden. At any rate, / became fasci-
mated with Miss Tully's moods. At
| our first meeting there was a girlish
| ole a h SI1t ~ Gin
delicious. y 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 VIZ
excited by melancholy that was
| less becoming than her sprightliness,
| or her regal dignity.
! 1t was no. long before l was madly
| in love. But, realizing the folly of
/ making life partner of girl who
| was not only changeable as the wind.
but whom l knew nothing about-in-
deed, whose mode of support was a
4 mystery-I fought against my passion.
All to no purpose. l was caught in a
mesh and unable to extricate myself.
/ One evening Miss Tully and were
sitting in the drawing room-the board
ers, seeing my infatuation, had by this
time come to give up the apartment to
us-side by side on a sofa. 1t 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.
Little by little l turned my words upon
that dream, which by this time had en-
thralled me. Miss Tully saw my drift
and seemed to yield to a pleased Ian
guOr, listening eagerly to what | said.
[ poured into her ear all a lover could
say, leading up to proposal, when she
stopped me and said ecstatically:
''Say it all again"
1 confess l was puzzled-indeed, tri-
fie put out. To repeat my glowing
words was not to my mind. Fortunate
~ my embarrassment was relieved by
maid entering with note for Miss
Tully. She opened and read it. From
that moment she was changed. Her
light heartedness disappeared and with
it her apparent interest in what l had
been saying to her. Smarting under
this sudden Indifference. l left her.
The next evening at dinner l noticed
that Miss Tully appeared to have some
thing on her mind of an eXasperatins
nature. Her teeth were set, and hel
eyes were filed with flashes, coming al
long intervals, like heat lightning on
summer night. After dinner l was go
ing up to my room when she passed me
in the hall, gave me glance did no
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 {
: very demon. In vain 1 begged her t.
! tell me what I had done. Withou
needing me she talked on, or, rather
| stormed on, till at last seeing no pros
pect of an end to what was like storm
t swaying to the east. to the west, any
| where, everywhere In accordance witt
it's unbridled passion, left the room.
The next morning l made an effor
to escape from this mad creature.
took an early train. For week
remained away, then, protesting t
myself to feel confident Of my abilit,
to resist the fascination. returned t.
the house and Miss Tully.
At our first meeting l saw upon he
face the most engaging sadness. Sh
gave me reproachful look, which
took to express pain that had KEEP
away from her. l longed to take he
in my arms; but, with mufied moaI
: she went up to her room.
: saw nothing of her for Weei