The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-01-06
TWO AND A
GUIOEBOOK,
Tine Combination Worked Won
derS In Two Days.
BY M. MAGICIAN HELLIWELL.

|
How it did rain, Barbara pressed
her wCebegone face against the win
dowpane and strained her eyes in a
vain endeavOr TO catch a glimpse of
the cleaning white of the distant mon
| ument. She had been III the beautiful
capital of her country nearly twenty
hours, and she had seen nothing abso-
lutely nothing-of it. Nearly twenty
hours of few precious days of her
visit gone in impotent heartbreaking
waiting for Jupiter Pluvius to exhaust
himself and retire in favor of old Sol
As a fresh gust of wind drove vol
ley of raindrops in Il yet fiercer on
slaught against the glass and dashed
! them in sCurrying streams down the
dripping asphalt the girls head droop-
ed despairingly, and she sighed.
| The young man who for some time
! had been watching her sympathCtical-
/ ly over his book now threw it aside
and stepped to the other window.
What day" he said as the ivy.
clingin% desperately to the wall, was
tossed hither and thither by the bois-
ferrous wind.
! The girls face frightened. and she
turned to him impetuously.
| oh thank goodness you have
spoken at last! l was going to start
the conversational ball myself. sim
! ply couldn't stand the silence any
longer DO you know have not utter
| ed one wore this morning since ! or
! dered my breakfast. It's an unprece-
dented record but the strain has been
! awful" She dimpled roguishly. and a
| faint flush rose in her cheek. He
might think her very bold this hand
| some young stranger. but she really
! could not help it. The limit of her
silent endurance had been reached.
| She must speak or-perish.
| But the idea Of holiness never enter
ed the Young mans head. He was
thinking how very pretty she was
how soft and curly her hair. how pi-
quaint her dimpled smile and how be
| coming the little tinge of pink I'm her
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! 1t the very dickens Of a day: Who
| could 90 sightseeing in this?' as a
/ fresh fury ratified the windows.
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to ho ln,horod and I cnnld neror nor.
s,,odo hin, f., t,ir,, ma I,oforo H.
nol,od hfs hand into NV room, before
u,os nm t,,is norn;ng +o GOV tbot no
wo,Id rrobobIv not 500 mo AGAIN to.
dov ~ mo had oceans of husiness 70
do and an official dinner tonight and
he euioined me most emphatically not
70 think of going ont rs long as il
raiued have written letters TO every
one | can think of. and if it doesn't
clear after luncheon III 90 TO bed"
The Young man laughed and looked
at his watch.
why. it's a quarter to ." he said
Suppose we have luncheon now, if
you will honor me, and perhaps the
outlook will be brighter by the time
we. have finished"
The girl rose with alacrity.
I'm ravenouS," she declared, but
| simply could not face that great din
ing room again all by myself. | posi-
lively cannot swallow unless | have
some one to talk to while I'm eating.
Ny vreakfast this morning was mar
tyrdom."
That luncheon was the jolliest meal
Barbara had ever eaten and, she main
tains, the most delicious. When it was
n ~ no. al inr1rnnR