Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-08-29
BY MISADVENTURE
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reflection, saved her.
Are you greatly in debt Lynn" she
asked after little consideration.
"Oh, not great DEAL" he replied care
lessly: "a few hundreds"
And how do you propose to pay your
debtsT she asked.
THAT will be all right. The fellows
won't press for payment. They know
their only chance is to wait till l get
bit straight"
How do you mean to get straight, rs
you call it?' she asked. smiling.
Hang 1t all, Gertie ~ he exclaimed pet
ulantly, lets drop this subject. l came
to make love to you, not to talk about
money"
yes; but the two subjects seem to
have become so involved that we can
hardly mention one without talking about
the other. The best way is to detach the
pleasant from the unpleasant subject, and
that would be most readily done by set
Ting the money question at once, don't
you think SOP
"Oh, well, if we must talk about that
sort IF thing, should ask you to let me
| have a little money to square my ac-
| counts, while l look about for something
\ IidI WOuiu tuhDit me- III Time. 10 pay you
back-though don't think there ought to
be any debt and credit account between
man and wife"
"Nor l." replied she gravely. 'If I
marry you, all that have will be yours,
and should be very unhappy if thought
it necessary to question how you disposed
of it."
THAT'S all right OF course. whatever
l do with the money will be for our com
mon good. SO that settles the thing, -
he said, rising from his chair. Eight,
ten months will be soon enough to settle
my creditors little bills. I'll manage
them ~
But in ten months l may be as far
as ever from being able to let you have
the sum you need; in the meantime. you
must be mourning fresh debts unless you
have some definite means of earning
money"
But Audrey told me that he intended
settling the whole OF the interest on the
money left by Flexmore on you for TAX
ing the care of the child off his hands
and quite right that he should"
IT know nothing at all about that. Mr.
Keene proposed a salary that l thought
reasonable; if he had proposed more,
think l should have declined to accept
it"
"I must have an explanation with Aw
drey at once. There seems to be little
shutting here. l must know the fact:
Of the case.
"Mr. Keene is in the next room" sug
gested Miss Dalrymple.
Lynn replied with an expression in re
gard to me which II is unnecessary Of
repeat, for I think l have shown enough
to prove that he was a blackguard, anC
quilted the room to Ego and have II ou
with Audrey" in a manner so devoid o.
feeling, or even comomn courtesy, that 4
must at once have destroyed any faith II
his sincerity that poor Gertrude cherished
Poor Gertrude il was some time aftei
the door closed upon Mr.. Lynn Yeame
before she came from the room where h,
left her. and then, despite the Cheerful
air she assumed, | perceived that she ha,
been crying.
Here, again, | have wondered wha
she cried for. Had she not every reason
to be pleased that she had found out tn
mans real character before marriage rath
er than after It? Was not scorn Of sucl
base fellow enough to dry in its sourc
the regretful tears that would hay
sprung in losing lover? l should hav
thought so. But nothing puts on so man.
unlocked for aspects as human nature
One cannot reason upon the movement o
human hearts as if they were made o
wheels. automatically arranged, to pro
J duce from a given impulse certain an
} undertaking result. So I say again, poo
Gertrude for she was weak as we'll a
strong.
Had she really loved Lynn? or wa
she only interested in him from a belle
that her influence had ennobied him?
cannot say; all l know is that she wep
in realizing that he was neither nobl
nor lovable.