The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-23
THE EVENING STORY
Anne's Great Discovery.

You're very foolish and very head
strong, Maisie, and you're going to be
sorry some day. Anne said severely.
She was sitting before the glass put
ting cold cream on her face and Mai
sic was watching her from the bed.
1t was to pretty Maisie a very funny
performance-Anne's nightly comfort
ing of her complexion with cold
cream. She wondered If she would
do the same when she was thirty-six
and unmarried But she would not
be unmarried at thirty-six. OF course
not. There was Dick. and she was de-
termined to marry Dick. no matter
what Anne or Aunt Hannah said. 1t
was about Dick that Anne was talk
ing now.
you know as well as I do Anne
went on, that you are too young even
to think of marrying. and anyway Dick
Launt isn't person you should con.
slider for one moment. Anne closed
the cold cream box with sigh. when
you do marry want you to have some
| one who is worthy of you.''
| us that the reason you've never
married. Maisie asked innocently.
| Anne flushed under the cold cream.
.'That was the reason she returned,
steadily.
Haven't you ever been sorry?"
Maisie persisted. She wished Anne had
had not hidden her face by turning out
the gas. The voice-Anne,s voice toio
III don't know that have been:
Goodnight, DEAR" and Maisie had
nothing to do but answer obediently;
| Goodnight, Anne"
! But long after Maisie was asleep
Anne lay awake thinking.
| Sixteen years. What long time that
was. She was twenty that summer,
just out of school. and she had a pink INK
when she had been wearing that dress
she had met Dwight Marshall. He was
a good deal like Dick Launt-blg,
! clear-eyed, ready to laugh. Like DICK,
too. he was plain worklngman, Wn9
had come from a long way off to find
/ work in Hassell- 1t did not take
| Dwight long to fall in love with the
| pink dress and her. and it did not take
her long to see it. He was her llrst
beau, and straightway the Worlo was
| made over for her.
| But her mother was watch ana
ward She had had to make many
| sacrifices in order to educate Anne
and she was worthy of the best. MIS-
Hall did not by any means consider
Dwight Marshall the best, and she
| was determined that he should not
have Anne. She appealed to Anne's
pride and reason, and after Tune
had the satisfaction of seeing her ar
guments prevail. Anne gave up her
lover. He was hurt, disappointed, Bit
terly angry.
sThis is your mothers doings." he
said.
mo" Anne lied. proudly, cts mine.
You aren't good enough for me-"
you'll be sorry for this some day, "
he returned. And that was his last
word to her. She had never seen or
heard from him since She probably
never would again. And now here was
Maisie in. the same boat in which she
herself had been. But Maisie's heart
would not be broken. Hers had not
been. There had been times, indeed,
when she was glad that she had not
married Dwight. Maisie would come to
feel the same way about Dick.
Anne scarcely slept all night.
"That cold cream makes you pale, =
Maisie said next morning. What
makes you use it, Anne? Are you
afraid of wrfnk1es?'' Anne WINGED and
Maisie went on wickedly. Mrs. Warne
says it doesn't make any difference
ried or doesn't intend to be-" .k..s
Mrs Warne was the young matron
who lived across the street. Because
she and Maisie were very friendly and
with Maisie's love affair. Anne and
; her mother had not called upon her
though she had lived in the town al
most a year. Now of a sudden Anne felt
almost hatred for the gay little Wo-
man who seemed SO happy in her
married life and obviously had no
need of cold cream or any other prep
aration for her charming face.
Anne was out of sorts all day. HeI
painting class did badly, her head
ached and she tore her walking skirt
: by stepping upon it in her hurry to
: take a car. Tired and utterly forlorn
she was sitting in her room trying to
repair the skirt when Maisfe came run
, ming upstairs and entered, painting
: with her haste.
, "Oh, Anne" she gasped, there's 9
man in the parlor waiting to see you.
told him you'd be right down.
A man in the parlor to see Anne
was almost an unheard-of thing. Yet
[ she took three stitches deliberately.
: Aren't you going to fix your hail
: or-or anything?" Maisie demanded.
' 'Why should I ?" Anne said IT
: is only some one to see about lessons
i probably
The parlor door was open and she
went in softly. The man was waiting
j with his expectant face turned toward
her: She gave him one glance anc
turned as white as her linen collar.
"Dwight-Dwight Marshall" she
said Then she seemed to remember
nothing more until she found herself
| on the sofa with him close beside her
"You never expected to see M
e again. did you?" he demanded. and
didn't expect you would. but ever since
e nv little cousin. Maud Warne. has Nv
| ed here she and Dave have been teas
: ing me to come and make them
] visit So made up my mind I'd come
And here am. You don't know Maud
, do you?''
: mo" Anne said feebly, wishing sh'
did.
MAUD told me you hadn't acted yer,
Y neishborIy. You should know Maud
: She's one of the best little womel
that ever lived"
: He had been talking rapidly. Nov
r he stopped and drew long breath.
"Do you remember the last time W.
t saw each other? I was right mad tina
y day. 1t had never occurred to me tina
n I wasn't the equal of the best girl liv
line-and you were that, too-unti
T YOU said what you did. So I swore II
q make you sorry. But now that Iv
). seen you. 1 only want to make yo'
glad Anne. You see, I like you JUS
: as we'll as I ever did, though I didn'
+ expect to. And if you like me-"
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