The Prescott daily news., 1911-04-25

Tier voice rang With wrath You &C., cuse me of such a thing? You put that in yourself for you were too big a coward to ask me and thought you had found an easy way. Maybe you have and maybe you have not. You may have the pleasure of reporting to the News that is all a mistake and liable, too, to be so for all time. One thing 1 want you to understand; I will have nothing to do with a man who has not gumption enough to ask me straight out but uses such a sub terfuge and then accuses me of it's origin"
 With eyes fairly scintillating scorn she swept from the room leaving him to digest her denunciatory edict.
 For a few moments he stood con- fronting the closed curtains, and then he stumbled into the hall and out into the street He had made bun- gle of it. Of course Irene never would have done It. Who could have in- serted that paragraph Was it only a prit.
 He was striding along, head down, unmindful of the curious glances of the few he met. He did not hear the hurried, pattering steps till slim hand caught his arm. A sharp girlish voice spoke:
 Well you two have done it now. Walk back moment with me. Please don't look so like a thundercloud; everyone will start so''
 Their course changed Peggy con- tinued:
 T knew you would never pluck up courage to propose to sister, so I thought I would help you out. It was who had that announcement put in the paper. You two certainly messed it up. Rene was so angry she was just shaking. said you accused her of doing 1t; and you-you certainly looked squelched." A girlish giggls escaped her
 They walked on in silence, Peggy retaining a tight hold on his arm.
 'I told Irene l did 1t, and she be- gan to shed tears. Said I'd ruined iSi iilS, buC Siil SnluCd. III 6OAu6 to take you back and you can try 1t over again"
 She led him in the gate and up to the porch where, when he showed signs of hesitating she said:
 Brace up. Your Rubicon lies be- fore you"
 And then she coached
 Don't be too stiff Be penitent. Acknowledge it's all your fault. Tell her of the firmaments of devotion that are throttled up within you be- cause of your stammering tongue-on your knees would be best, more i'm pressive I think"
 She opened the front door softly, motioning him to keep silence though he had not spoken except in inarticulate protestations since she had caught up with him. They en- tered the hall quietly and she mutely bade him to remain there. Stealthily she slipped back to the library DOT tieres and reconnoitered. Satisfied. she beckoned the man to approach. In a whisper she said
 You two are not coming out until you settle this matter"
 Drawing back the curtain she pushed him into the room. At the table. head buried in her arms, sat Irene, a picture of desolation. The girl carefully closed the curtains be- hind the man, and walked audibly down the hall only to return silently moment later. AS she applied her eye to the opening between the cur tains she excused her actions to her self
 '11l see 1t through this time"
 Judging by the first dissatisfied ex- pression that fitted over her face 1t was not proceeding happily. Then, after time, her big ribbon bows slowly nodded in approval A mo- ment later she was fleeing on tiptoe down the hall. her finger tips on her lips. In her room she allowed her mirth it's freedom.
 He did it but he did 1t so dread fully To miss and kiss her on the nose!" She relapsed into laughter. Rene said she would never stand for that, but she did. I'd never have done it though" She addressed the slim figure in the glass. But then I think l could get a man to propose without SO much bother-if ever found one worth while," she added.