The Prescott daily news., 1908-02-24
Her Love
 Affairs

plumes on it that nobody ever had time to count them ate a frosted cake with a tragic air.
 At first there didn't seem to be anything I could do," she said, until I had an inspiration. 1 could have the grippe. So l had it!"
 "H'm!" commented the young wom. an in the purple suit. Wasn't that an awful lot of trouble?"
 At first thought it did seem so" said the girl with the feathered hat. T didn't have any invitations on hand for anything l wanted to go to and besides 1 needed the rest. Anyhow, 1 simply had to do something to avoid seeing Samuel.
 You see, had written him-and it was a perfectly beautiful letter if I do say it-that all was over and it had been a mistake and l couldn't marry him. I should think at least it would have given him enough to do just admiring the letter. but no! What does he do but come right to Chicago by the next train to make me change my mind.
 Luckily, when he first called 1 was out at tea. That looked kind of bad, too, as I had said in my letter that l had thought the matter over until had no heart for anything.
 q just sat down and nearly cried when l got home and found his card. You see. know Samuel l never knew man with such a violent will, and 1 realized that l had to do something and do it quick.
 "I didn't want to marry him in the least explained the girl with the plumes in her hat, but he talks SO loud and so fast and makes so much noise that you simply get to the point where you agree with him just to ease up the pain in your head. When first knew him | called it force of charac- ter and admired it. Of course now know better. But I didn't want to give him a chance to talk to me"
 My. aren't you sure?" Queried the girl in purple, amazed. You should be, the way you are letting Harry waste all his time on you"
 "I haven't got to Harry yet" said the girl with the plumes, with dignity I'm still talking about Samuel. Ger tainly l was sure-but Samuel wasn't, which was more to the point. So rushed upstairs and got my reception gown and teephoned the doctor My | head did ache and l was feverish from worry when he got there, so 1t was easy to persuade him that 1 had the grippe.
 When Samuel called that evening mother told him was i'll and couldn't see him. He stayed an hour, telling her how mistaken I was, and from up stairs his voice sounded like the roar ing of Niagara. 1 don't wonder they made him county attorney down there. If he asked them they just had to, be cause I'm sure he wouldn't stop talk ing till they did, Mother had a book she wanted to read, and altogether she was very cross when she finally es- caped from Samuel and came up stairs. l told her that she would bet. ter have grippe, too, and that seemed to make her madder.
 Next day Samuel called again and left a lot of roses. He telephoned five times and called again in the even ing to see how l was. l sent down a note thanking him and asking him please to go away, as my decision was final
 ''fI'hn Jot- b.a ,-lC this time Harry had phoned asking me to go to the theater and I was dying to go. So l went"
 "Goodness," said the girl in purple. Wasn't that a riek?"
 But I had got tired of having the grippe, so what else could l do? I really could not be expected to know that after Samuel had made his evening call at my house he would choose to attend the very same theater. If he was so wrought up about not be- ing able to see me l don't think it was in very good taste for him to want to go to any theater at all. do you? Some how it didn't fit with his role.
 Well, we met face to face in the lobby going home, and 1 thought Sam uel would have apoplexy. Of course Harry didn't know who the strange man was who had gasped, stared, cried 'Ethel!' in a deep bass voice and then looked as if he was going to dis claim one of Cicero's orations at us. l never did have much presence of mind. 1 said the first thing I thought of, which was that had felt so much better I had gone to the theater.