Bridgeton pioneer., 1908-01-02

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eyes.
"Why, 1 thought you liked it." she
gasped.
Mary Strengthened up at that
ooh. when get into it." she said,
trying to speak lightly, cts not so bad,
| but | have felt the strain this winter
| awfully."
| Between rushes that night Roger
| caught Felicia for moment alone in
| The library. MARY is dreadfully blue"
he told her. "She broke her engage
| ment with Bob Carruth in the sum-
mer, and she hasn't seen bim since,
| and she misses him."
"What did she break it for?" Felicia
asked.
"He wanted her to so south with
| him and settle in a little town where
| he could practice medicine. and she
Nouldnt give up society, and now l
think she regrets it."
"Oh," said little Felicia, "if l loved
man l would so to the end of the
world with himr'
"Would you?" Roger asked.
'Yes."
"Well, l am leaving for Japan next
week." ingratiatingly.
Felicia gazed at him with intense in
dignation for a moment; then she turn
ed her back on him. "Silly!' she said.
When Felicia went to bed that night
she was so tired that she could not
| sleep. The next morning she was as
pale as Mary For week the two
! girls dragged their engagements, fin
| ishing up on Saturday night with an
| other cotillon.
"Felicia wore her white dress. It
was mussed, and she knew that she
was not looking her best, but she was
| so tired that she did not care. Roger
| had sent her bunch of violets, and
her dance card was filled with names,
but the fact gave her no satisfaction.
The fourth dance was Rogers.
Enjoying it?" he asked briefly as
he swung her out into the floor
"Oh, I am so tired I shall drop" she
said. "Can't go home, Roger?'
| She looked so like little weary child
that Roger laughed.
| "Baby," he teased and then tenderly,
"I'll hunt Mary up, and we will cut
| the rest of it,
In the carriage Mary collapsed. 81
didn't dream 1 was so tired" she Sob
| bed, with her head on Felicia's shoul-
der, and Roger, surveying the pair
with twinkling eyes, said, LET me pre-
| scribe"
"Well?" came back in muffled agree
ment.
'You pack your trunk, Mary" he
| planned, "and go home with Felicia.
It's lovely in the country now, and I'll
come up and bring Bob Carruth with
me-"
Mary sat up, with her face ablaze.
| "Bob Carruth?'
eyes. l had letter from him yes
terday. He's coming up for visit"
Faint pink tinged Mary's cheeks.
"Do you think he will want to see
me, Roger?' she asked wistfully, and
Roger said gently, 81 know he will,
Mary"
So Felicia packed her little trunk,
and Mary packed a larger one, and
away they went to the country, where
the trees were crimson and gold and
brown and where the air was like
wine. And there Bob Carruth and
Roger followed them.
| $50 she is really going to marry him
and live in country town." Roger
commented, and he and Felicia fol
lowed Mary and her lover along a
| path that seemed to end in a golden
sunset.
| Eyes" Felicia said.
| "And you are going to marry me and
come and live in the city," Roger ven
| tured
81 haven't promised yet" said little
Felicia. II am afraid that some day l
should be saying, Give me again my
hollow tree, my crust of bread and lib
| erty'"
"You aren't afraid of anything of the
kind" Roger told her. "You know we
would live happy ever after"
"Oh, well. if you are so sure" said
| Felicia as she tucked a confiding hand
| through his arm and looked up at him
with happy eyes, Il guess l shall have
to say yes, Roger"