Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-12-08
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The judicious Hews permitted full
day to intervene before following up
the news with a call in Macdougal
street Now, il ever, he thought, the
girl might be ready to listen to rea-
son; he counted not little upon
Eunice's womanly pique and pride,
which might tempt her to show the
recalcitrant Wilfrid that two could
play the same game, and that she was
not the one to wear the willow for an
other woman's flance. Women-and
men likewise-have been known to
marry for spite and repent at leisure.
1t was Rogers cue, as usual, to pre-
tend to be wholly ignorant of the lit
tie tragedy going on behind the
scenes. Eunice was totally unaware
of the fact that he was in the employ
of her old lover, and she thought she
had sufficiently masked her own feel
ings
When Hews came in that evening
Eunice was alone, and intuitively felt
that q crisis was impending. For
millennial ages women have been pit
ting subtle wit against brute strength,
tects Immediately and indubitably the
benign or the malign designs of the
opposite sex.
But Roger was too clever to un-
mask his batteries at once. He had
SO carefully nursed his intimacy with
this girl all these months, had been
outwardly so chivalrously friendly and
considerate, that he was usually
welcome caller. He was a good
talker; he took care to be wise in the
news of the day; and knowing more
about Eunice than she knew of her
self he was astutely able to interest
her in many rather unexpected ways.
But for the bugbear of his hopeless at
tachment lurking in the background
the girl would have been at all times
carefree in his society-that is, as
long as he kept the one forbidden sub
ject bottled up under his waistcoat.
Tonight, however, she detected
tenseness of latent purpose in Roger
Hews which doubtless he 1attered
himself was wholly hidden, and which
certainly his first words did not re-
veal, for his talk was all about the
great railroad strike then raging.
AS the evening wore on, and John
Trevecca failed to make his usual
nine o'clock appearance, Hews in
quired:
Where is your father tonight?"
81 think he has gone upstairs" said
Eunice, who had been hoping this
question would not be asked. In
fact" she went on hurriedly, Il am
quite worried about him; he has taken
heavy cold, and his asthma is al
ways worse at such times"
Il do not wish to alarm you," said
Hews with a well-simulated note of
sympathy in his voice; "but l have
noticed that he is aging rapidly; he
is not the man he was year ago"
"Oh, do you really think that?" ex-
claimed Eunice regretfully, and quick
to take alarm. HE is perhaps not as
vigorous as he used to be, but 1 hope
he will be spared to me for many,
many years! He is my only relative
in the world; if should lose him
and the ready tears came into her
eyes for the sole parent she had ever
known.
1T is nothing serious, guess" said
Roger with off-hand, soothing convic-
ton; "but your father ought to be en-
joying leisurely old age; at his time
of life he should not have to work"
Eunice nodded her head in quick
assent
so / have told him, Mr.. Hews,
again and again. But he persists in
saying that he must toll on at the
shops in order that he may keep add
, ing to the little pile of savings which
is to save me from want when he is
dead and gone"
! That is noble object" said Hews
, with real sincerity, but you have il
in your power to render all that labor
unnecessary, and to make your father
comfortable for the rest of his life"
Il don't sec" began Eunice, when
with wave of color flooding face anG
forehead she suddenly did see. How
silly and blind to give him such &
good opening, she thought.
d Roger Hews was quick to seize his
9 chance-in fact, he had cleverly lel
= up to this very point.
1 "At the risk of offending you, Mis-!
= Eunice," he struck in, 81 must recul
5 to the proposal l made you once be
fore. Marry me, and your father neet
not worry about his future or you
a own. They will both be my car'
then
n you promised" said the girl re
proachfully, but he took the words on
:. of her mouth in his surcharge of feel
4 ing.
q Il promised-I know it-never tt
!. recur to the theme so near to m.
h heart without your permission. / hav,
broken the promise because / cal
n keep silence no longer. Eunice, low
q you, dearly, madly, devotedly, with al
- the strength of man who has neve
# loved before. l cannot live withou
!. you, and 1 will not Be my wife
~ Eunice, be my wifer
q His agitation was almost pitiable Il
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