The Utah County Democrat. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1898-1909, 1908-12-24
HIS LOVERS TWO
By WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE
Copyright, Ford Pub. co..


me and your father | am sure that 1t
will be all right. You will understand
at once what | can not explain very
well in words. I think you owe me
chance to set myself right"
Where do you want me to go?'
The level look OF her steady gray
eyes he met fully 81 want you to go
with me to meet the lady who wrote
that letter to me- | give you my word
there can be no possible humiliation
for you In going"
A hope that she might be misiudg
ing him warmed her heart. Then |
will go. Hal
His heart leaped at her use of his
first name, but outwardly he was i'm
perturbable as ever. Thank you
he said, gravely.
The carriage stopped at neat cot
tage well back from the street. A
small maid came to the door I'm answer
to their ring.
How do you do, Maggie? VIII you
tell Mrs. Arnet that | would like to
bring some friends In to see her If
she feels well enough?"
The maid returned presently to
usher them into light pleasant room
so well Widowed that It caught the
sun at all times of the day.
Mrs. Arnet was tied so helpless
ly TO her invalld's chair that
she could not even rise to greet
her guests. But as the girl looked at
her she thought she had never seen
anybody more intensely alive. Her
eager eyes and her fresh voice went
oddly with the white hair and the pal
lor of III health. But neither pallor
nor age had sufIiced to blot out an In
herent whimsical gayety that bub.
bled in her.
To Miss Farrar II was at once ap.
parent that Harry Hilton was very
dear to her and that he supplied her
with a plquant interest that fortified
her against the bad days of pain that
sometimes came to her.
Prof Farrar showed an interest in
the garden, and the old lady ordered
| Harry out peremptorily to exhibit IL
to him. You need not hurry back, sir.
| want to talk to Miss Farrar," she
commanded.
Her mood changed instantly when
the man had gone. HE is very good
to me, my dear | don't think | could
do without him. He reads me what he
writes and talks over his ideas with
me because he knows what an interest
| II lends me. Sometimes he works
here, and he always visits me two or
three times week, There are not
many young men who would enjoy the
society of a crippled old woman. but
he is one out of hundreds.
Tassie kissed her impulsively. "Oh.
I'm so glad You can't think how
glad. I've been horrid to him to-day,
and have been so unhappy, but you
have made It all right now. That Is,
II he will forgive me. II seems to
me | know him better than ever be-
fore and appreciate him more. And II
is all through you"
Then you must come TO see me oft
en-, my dear. Make Harry bring you.
4 I'm old enough to need new friends,
and not too old, thank heaven, to
make them. We have got to like each
other on account of Harry, though
am sure | will like you for yourself.
too. You're very pretty, my dear, and
think you are quite unspolled. Now
you may run into the garden and tell
Harry to send in your father. don't
often have a professor of zoology In
my rooms and I'm not going to let him
waste his time out there"
Tassie Farrar walked along beside
Hilton and did not heed his somewhat
inconsequental and embarrassed boz
tanical ramble. She was full of con-
triton, and presently she broke into
speech while tearing the petals from
a daffodil
I'm awfully ashamed of myself,
Hal. You'll think me Jealous little
silly. lin not feeling just proud
of myself for the way | did"
Dear girl, you could not have done
anything else under the circumstances.
The letter did not leave you any op.
ton. But | did not want to explain
II TO YOU / wanted you to meet Mrs.
Arnet and understand for yourself.
You do see now, don't you?" asked
Hilton.
The girl began on another daffodil.
Yes, ! see how impossible my sus.
picions were and how fine you are,
dear. 1 love the way you treat her,
and I'm going to love her, too-if
you'll let me in and change II to q
triple alliance" she finished. with a
81 dden humiit~-----
Il guess Wen let you in" The
young man looked at her with glad
shining eyes, You're a trump, Tass
Some girls wouldn't have understood
but | bhew you would. 1t isn't every
man that is privileged to have two
lovers and neither of them jealous"
He laughed in sheer JOY and she
echoed back his laughter.
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