The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-03-31
Money and Marriage
By MAUDE PARSONS


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4 William" interrupted Miss Anne
please sit down again. ] want your
advice-for a friend You're not 60
ing 70 leave US right awayw
"Oh. no: ! can stay for--for a>littls
time
Three months-four months?" The
girl leaned forward eagerly.
Well. hardly think so. want
to get established before the summer
is too far advanced"
oh" A pause. so you're going
into businessf"
"Ye-es: that 10, I think So
rs that SO personal that you didn't
want to tell me-" There was an &C
cusing emphasis on the me
Douglass did not attempt to answer
"One of my girl friends doesn't
know just what TO do. William. You
see. she's-shes--in love"
OH"
That oh was dreadfully noncom-
initial. William Aren't you inter
ested,"
Why. yes, certainly. Miss Anne"
Well. she doesn't know whether
the young man isis In love with
her or not
Cant she tell?"
She isn't sure. She thinks he likes
her. but"
"Yes?"
"Oh. there are complications. VIII
liam. She is rich. and the young man
is poor. She feels he's TO proud to
speak"
oh"
Well. what is she going to do7
She's-she's cried herself to sleep,
I'm afraid. good many times; and
yet there doesn't seem to be any way
to make him speak"
William looked up. The dark eyes
| gazed innocently and perplexedly into
his own.
There isn't any way. I'm afraid"
he said, with an unconscious sigh.
IF the man has self-respect, he can't
be fortune hunter He must make
his own way before he can ask the
| girl 10 be his wife"
She's thought OF that. too. But II
seems so foolish, They may have 10
wait years. and grow old and with
cred while he makes lot of money
/ they don't need Isn't marriage an
| equal partnership? Why hasn't the
wife the right to bring money 10 the
union as her husband"
From an impersonal standpoint.
she has," replied William, but If 7
were that young man I would feel
as he feels. He cannot in honor
speak while his motives could be
misconstrued Her friends would
say"
Bother her friends." Miss Anne
looked confused when she realized
the emphasis she had put on the
three-words. but only for a moment
Then she added: That's the way
she feels. She says she has a right
TO her own happiness, no matter
what people think or say. She is
satisfied he is not a fortune hunter;
thar he lis upright and honorable.
and the man nature intended as her
mate. Why can't he be sensible and
| speak,"
She leaned forward I'm her chair.
her lips dropping in childlike per
| plexfty. Douglass got up hastily and
backed away. He did not want TO lose
his carefully acquired grip and make
fool of himself. That's wis he was
! leaving Thornybrook-to keep from
making a fool of himself he fun bled
his hat and turned TO the door
He can't. that's ALL" declared
Douglass. when his hand had. closed
on the knob ITS an impossibility.
Miss Anne II you were in his place
you'd realize" He stopped. he
was confusing the other mans case
with his own.
Don't you want TO know who the
girl is?" asked Miss Thornton, un-
steadily. She had risen and her nn-
gers were intertwined.
why, yes" Douglass somehow
felt the name OF that girl TO be the
most important thing In the world
The robins had ceased their billing
and cooling to listen. But he feared
Miss Annes words would be drowned
by the humping OF his heart
Visits" Her voice died away.
And then il began again, broke and
went on to a triumphant conclusion:
"Oh. Billy, you stupid. stupid boy,
lists Anne Thornton"
Douglass stared unbeIievingly. saw
in her face what he had never dared
TO hope to see and dropped his hat
He rushed back.
The next moment she was I'm his
arms, half-laughing and half-crying
How I've longed TO call you Bill
ly,'" she said.
And how I've longed TO call you
-darling." said he.