Holbrook argus., 1911-04-18
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 @ By JOANNA SINGLE "a
By JOANNA SINGLE

! ties of a vacation house party. Jack and Angie met in June, loved in July, confessed in September, and by Christ mas had coaxed her parents to con- sent to a February wedding The Al lens were reluctant, for Angie was | ridiculously young.- but they had no objection to Jack
 The course of true love ran. for time, most smoothly. Holland, ST. gave his son an adorable little cot tage; the Aliens produced check to cover furnishings. There was much shopping, much trousseau making merry parties. and VOWS and kisses hardly as surreptitious as they should have been. There was peace-a treacherous peace
 Jack had made one blunder-he had not told her all" The experience of his elders seems never to make young man see that when he puts his heart for life into girls soft hand he is thereafter in tight place. She will be supreme; she wants to be not merely first. but all She is jealous of his mother and sisters, his friends, his bull dog, his pipe, anything what ever that before her time loved him or gave him aid or comfort No oc- casion had so far arisen for jealousy and Jack forgot the weak place in his armor. He was off guard.
 Angie had come upon his conscious ness like oblivion of all that had gone before. Like all lovers, he said he had never loved any one else-and thought he spoke the truth. It was a secret, unconscious disappointment to the girl that Jack had no "past" whatever. She would have liked to forgive him, to have consoled him for sorrows-deep wounds of crue. fate from which her love would hence forth protect him. She would have liked details of past unhappiness of fered up to her like incense.
 Tell her before somebody else does," is the first commandment to an engaged man. Jack disobeyed- and suffered. At first, to do him justice. he had really forgotten to tell Angie about Tessie Burton. He had been engaged to Tessie at college. The af fair was brief, ending in trouble ss the sparks fly upward. Tessie broE1 it because she saw another man. Her methods were prompt, at least. He had told Tessie he would always be true to her, and wait for her until he died, and other familiar quotations.
 When he did remember this, he know that If he told Angie now, she would ask why he had not told her before? It would have seemed se- rious, worth having hidden until he was more sure of her. No; 1t was too late. Jack trusted to luck, and to the fact that Tessie was in the East and lived in another town. He thought himself safe
 Early in January that fatuous young man took his bride-to-be on one of their many shopping tours, which always ended with tea or chocolate and lovers 'tete-a-tete before going back to the family circle where every thing was a hustle, despite the fact that the wedding was to be strictly a family-and-intimate-friends affair. The gift season, just past, had broken into preparations. and dressmakers pos sessed the house. Now Jack and An gle were choosing the last of the fur niture-a sewing chair and table for Angie, who was hesitating between mahogany, Circassian walnut or per fectly cunning arrangement in a wicker.
 Enamored of the wicker, Angie stood with dainty gloved finger to her lip and considered. Jack was loving every look of her, the brown hair and eyes, the demure, bird-like plumage of brown cloth and fur. Alb ject adoration shone from his eyes Then light laugh beside him made him jump-it was laugh he knew.
 A cold wave scurried down his spine, as he turned and knew that his sin had found him out He lifted his hat and took Tessie's offered hand with what grace he might, while she ! swept Angie from head to foot with a glance of her wide blue eyes. She took in the situation, but waited for her cue-to do her justice she gave Jack his chance.
 Jack fumbled shamefully. Had he immediately and delightedly present ed Angie to his 'old college friend Miss Burton, of whom he had so often spoken" it would have been all right Instead, he presented Miss Burton to Angie as he might have any mere acquaintance. Angles perfectly court eous but indifferent manner showed that she had never heard Tessie Bur tons name before.
 Tessie, hardly believing her own senses, took characteristically prompt revenge-she never waited. Chatting lightly, she said she had come for a week with Cora Chandler, and was out shopping. Her manner to Jack was artlessly familiar. She called him by his first name, and several times by a college nickname, as if uncor sciously Also she let her hand rest g moment on his sleeve.