The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-11-19
"oh. by no means. You greatly mis-.

"Oh, by no means. You greatly mis-.
Judge her" Mrs. Dimes contended.
"She is calm, / grant you, but a Dish
ops wife should be calm. No, really,
since your brother wouldn't have me.
I don't know where he could have
done better. Besides, she's prodigious-
ly rich, you know. What! You didn't
know? oh, yes, immensely so. My
poor little dot looks small beside hers.
She doesn't talk about 1t, but"
docs she talk about anything?" ]
inquired.
Mrs. Dimes shot me an amused
glance over her friends head.
SILENCE is an excellent qualification
for a bishops wife, I'm sure, Mr.. Twin.
ing; then she isn't always getting her
self and the diocese into trouble.
Now, see here, Henrietta. considering
her looks and her reserve and her
money, surely you might forgive her
for letting your brother run of with
her"
TITS very good Of you to try to
cheer me up" Miss Winstanley re-
%sponded, vaguely.
And it's downright foolish of you
to hold out against SO beautiful an ar
rangement. To my mind this is as
admirable a match all round as l have
known of in a very long time. So do
cheer up and be glad. Don't you
agree with me, Mr.. Twining?"
Most heartily, as Miss Winstanley
knows said l..
That little lady was not, however,
ready to yield herself at once to the
sudden situation.
ITO run away!" she moaned; "at
Charles age!"
but don't you see that it's a great
compliment to me?" smiled Mrs.
Dimes. Let me get that much out of
1t, won't you? 1t shows how much
confidence he has in my getting what
, I-want. You see, he didn't know
what brought me to America, and, fol-
} lowing or the heels of my proposal to
him, it really seemed, you know, that
l was coming to marry him, whether
, or n o You can see for yourself how
the poor lear man must have felt.
, Did he imagine, l wonder, that If
everything else failed / should kidnap
: him? Well, l forgive him ever that.
And I want you to forgive him, Hen
rietta. You must. That's a good,
sensible sister. And now it's quite
time we came back to our mutton.
, Tell the man to drive us TO the Hem
T. ingrays', will you, Mr.. Twining? II
!" you don't feel up to going in, Hen
= rietta, I'll go alone, but one OF US
must certainly see Barbara at once"
Then you may let me down at the
Fifteenth street corner of the
Square" said L. "Tll get along back
to the Office"
AS the carriage stopped, Miss Win
stanley bent forward, looking eagerly
after a fast-disappearing figure.
Isn't that DAM" she cried. Can
you overtake him? He is the one to
take her the word"
/ sprang out and caught up with
him within the block, although he was
brisk gait.
"On your way to the house, are
you?" he asked when he saw me-. 1T
must be pretty nearly time for the
wedding. / was afraid 1 couldn't
make 1t In time. but / caught a flyer
within the hour after I had Barbara's
message"
4 miss Winstanley wants you," ]
1 said, nodding to the carriage, that had
4 turned and was bringing up to the
| curb.
He was surprised to see Mrs. Dimes
and greeted her with a boyish affec
ton that must have warmed her heart
All on the way to the wedding?'
u he - - III 1--~
Il hands.
There is to be no wedding, Dan.'
Miss Winstanley said, gently.
e He had paled before she could ex
plain.
T. "Nothing's wrong with Barbara
T. he asked. quickly.
mo, no; everything is just coming
n right for her. Get in'--with a glance
toward the coachman. I'VE are driv
ing to the house now, and Mrs. Dine:
N will explain to you Then O mus
tell Barbara what is to be told. Wei
y wait outside, and If she wants us wei
~ come right in. If not you must tel
n us, and We'll go away again. DON
you-wiI YOU"
D. II must tell you good-by," I said.
III AS l started on across the Square
Miss Winstanley called after me tina
! she would send for me later in th,
day.
g. But I was too impatient to await he
IL summons, and four o'clock found m,
at her door. AS / turned in at tn,
In steps, the door opened and Dan cam,
out, hurrying down and stopping a
It sight of me to wiring my hand. H,
If was beaming. I had not seen him S,
In much like his old self in months, an,
p 1t did my heart good. Somehow i
also seemed to presage well for me
All his %buoyancy had returned, an,
he was once more the charming, il
!" resistible fellow we all loved.
(TO BE CONCLUDED.)