Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-15

ments If loved YOU" I answered, ''but
don't and can't. and somehow never
have been able to believe that you real
ly loved me-"
IF that's the trouble you can make
your mind easy. want you badly"
''Then Ina sorry, for l simply can't
marry you. / should be miserable and
so would you."
"I'll risk that You're too much of
an English rosebud to understand any
thing about love- What you must do
is to trust others who know what you
ought to want better than you do your
self-your mother, for instance You'd
like to please her and your sister ana
brother, wouldn't you? Well, they all
want you to say yes to me-
How do you know" broke out
Il do know. You can ask Kath if ii
isn't true
II don't want to talk to her about It,"
you needn't if you'll only be good
girl and do what everybody expect;
you TO do. Come now, do say yes, and
let's be happy
That did make me furious.
ANY one would think l was a
naughty child and you were some kind
of medicine the whole family was wait.
ing for me to take!' l exclaimed. Its
wonder you don't get out your watch
and give me five minutes to do it in
His eyes began to sparkle with anger
believe he would have liked to boz
my ears, and I know | could have
boxed his.
81 thought English girls were brought
up to be sensible" said he, land anna
BILE"
Il can't help what you thought"
answered rudely, for l was getting
desperate. you've no right to keer
me here like this, and it won't do you
a bit Of good. for if you stand there
till we're both in our second child
hood 1 won't change my mind. YOU
ought to know that now, Mr.. Parker
: Please let me CO.
He didn't move.
'1f you don't I'll scream at the toy
Of my lungs" I said. And he mu'.
have seen that / meant it. los he funs
open the door with slam. and.
swept past him with my nose in The
air, trying to look like mother.
/ didn't see him again till it wa.
| time to go home. Then he drove bacl
| Moorings in the shut up motor cal
and didn't open his mouth once on til,
| way, which was wonderful for hin
and seemed somehow ominous.
l had been too angry and excited
after that scene of ours. to feel unhap
Ply or to worry much about wha
might come next, but that drive, shor
as it was. with Potter freezingly silen
and Mrs. Ess Kay alarmingIy polite
made me feel that the end had come
l was sure she had been told by he
brother what an obstinate, uugratefu
girl / was. and l had guilty sinkin:
of the heart as if | really had beef
| both. There was no Sally to protec
me now, no one to advise me what {,
do. and there was a big lump in m.
throat as l said good night and wen
to my own room.
| i hadn't been there long when Their
came a knock at the door, the sam
determined kind of memorable knocl
which mother gives when I've beel
found out in something which sh
thinks it her duty to make me sorr,
for.
| I'd locked the door and would hav
liked to make some excuse not to opel
it, but it was Mrs. Ess Rays doc
and Mrs. Ess Rays room just as nue.
as it was Mrs. Ess Kay's brother l ha,
refused.
She sailed in all in black. like Al
executioner. though. of course, execu
TONERS don't go down into histor.
wearing chiffon trimmed with jet.
my dear Betty" said she. subsidin
into a large armchair, 81 want to hav
a serious talk with you"
If wOuld have bapn Stupid pretend