The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-10-26

I'd have done anything. What would
you have done, honey bird?"
II wish you would keep still and
let me say what l want to say" said
Penelope. Il want you to tell me
what you would have done if you
hadn't met me. You would have fall
en- in love with some other girl,
wouldn't your"
"Well," Percival admitted, II sup
pose I might have. And you would
probably have become engaged to
some other fellow"
II would not"
what are you taking your hand
away for?'
I'm tired Of keeping it in that po-
sition. Whom would you nave cho-
SEM"
81 don't know" answered Percival.
Whom do you think you'd have
~picked?"
PeneIope's eyes flashed. II wouldn't
have picked anybody" she asserted
with Indignation. 81 told you I
wouldn't. / suppose you would have
fallen in love with Charlotte Smet.
ter"
"Not in a thousand years." said
Percival, emphatically.
II don't see why not. You were
calling there right along"
Not right along. I used to go
over once in a while when / didn't
have anything else in particular to
do. l told you all about that, you
know"
But you liked her"
ooh, yes, ] liked her well enough
Shes all right in her way. Good
hearted girl. too" Percival spoke
with q fine assumption of indiffer
ence.
"You liked her very much-you
know you did"
"Now, what's the use of going into
all that again." demonstrated Perez
val. "You know there wasn't any
thing to it. I've told you so owe ant
over"
please don't" said Penelope, for
biddingly. 81 wish you wouldn't d.
that. Charlotte Smetter may lik,
that sort of thing, but l don't"
"Penelope!" exclaimed Percival.
"It's a pity that you didn't get en-
gagged to her." said Penelope. ="
think that you would have suited
each other very nicely. Perhaps i
isn't too late now"
"Why Penelope!" said Percival
"Listen-"
II think you've made yourself per
fectly clear" said Penelope, coldly
81 am a sort of an accident. If
hadn't happened to strike your fame!
somebody else would have and you't
have been Just as well satisfied. 1
you hadn't known me, you'd hav,
probably married Charlotte Smettel
and been perfectly happy. You sa!
yourself that you might have. Yo,
may, if you like. I'll release 70,
gladly"
Now, you just listen to me-" sait
P~ercival. when l said l might hav,
fallen in love with some other girl
I was speaking alphabetically for tn,
sake Of argument, not according tx
my convictions.
"If you want to know what l woul;
have done, I can tell you. I'd have
rome about all my life with an unsat
isied yearning for the ideal woman
that l had failed to find. To the out
side world l might have shown
smiling face, but there would Away!
have been that canker within, tina
aching void, the want Of Penelope.
II would never have married.
would have remained solitary to the
end if I had never met you. How de
| lnow? Because l never loved be
fore, but the moment l saw you
knew that l had met the one anG
only girl for me. And you reproact
me; you repel me and say cruel
wounding things to mel"
well, why didn't you say all thai
when I first asked you?" said Pencil
ope. Are you quite sure, though
that you didn't like Charlotte Smettel
very, very much?"-PittsbuYg Leader