Eastern Utah advocate. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1895-1915, 1912-10-10
Faint
Heart
Never Won Fair
Lady
By EVERETT MAcBURNEY

excellent friends. but Il never occurred
to me TO look upon her as anything
more than friend She was a great
firt aud pructlced her wilos on most
any man who came along. but not on
me. One day she surprised me by
saying:
John. why have you never made
love 20 meT"
you mean wig have never Joined
the innumerable caravan OF those who
bow down TO you and whom you send
on their way. sadder. but wiserr
"Nonsenser
ION the contrary. It's the truth. You
don't consider that II made love to
you and you sent me on like the others
our companionship would be spoiled"
why should that be necessary
Il don't know. It's the invarlable re-
suit In such cases"
How do you know would send you
onr'
Il don't, but ia bet ten to one you
would"
She made no reply 60 this. We were
sitting on a rustic bench In the gar.
den. She wns toying with a rose. one
OF the last Of the summer. tumbling Il
against her lips directly under her
nose. ! knew very well she was doing
u because here was something IN II
suggestive OF n kiss. the lips and the
rose being very much alike.
Don't try 20 fool me. Alice. We've
been mighty good friends. and I've felt
complimented that you've thought 30
much Of me you don't care 20 inter.
fcrc with our friendly Relationship. I'm
going away tomorrow. aud I don't
know whether III como back or not. n
do I want TO nnd my old ehum here
Just rs she's always been"
Suppose you fnd mo marricdr
"In that case you'li still be my friend
Alice. and ! your friend Tom. And
doubticss your husband and I viii
come TO be good friends too"
! said this In half hearted way.
knew very well that marriage makes
a lot OF difference In friendships. Sew.
ernl OF my men chums had married.
and had come 90 consider such friend.
, ships as destroyed by wcdlock. AZ any
rate none Of them were ever the same
aftcrward. Alice didn't any she hoped
so too. she kept tumbling the rose
against her llps In tantaliHing fashion
and didn't say anything. Il was plain
she had broken through the hedge that
divides the realms OF friendship from
those Of love aud was looking about
her IN the new domain
II II snld that love begcts love. A,
any rate there was that IN her action
20 inoculate me And yet ! knew heT
30 well that didn't dare trust her,
had seen men hang about her for few
months. sometimes only for fcw
wech-. then suddenly drop OF and .ney
er again be seen IN her company. Dur
ing the buxzing OF the bee about the
flower I had called the bee n fool
Should now make n fool OF myself
, what IA the pleasure you take IN
. leading n man 10 make love 10 you. en-
. eouraging him TO propose to you aud
, then sending him on about his bust
nessi"
II deny that have ever done such q
thing"
Thls was n pretty definite statement.
wondered n after all there wasn't
some truth In Il Did these fellows
eonjure up encouragement when II
was not intended Was there some
thing In Allce's treatment OF them that
looked like hlrtlng. but was not dirt
ing. Or was she nlrting and yet uneon'
scIous OF doing soi Far be Il from
me, a man. 20 analyEe woman's mo
tives In such matters | have some
times believed they don't always know
themselves.
Alice had never acted In this way
toward me before. and was at loss
10 attribute 10 her n motive for her
doing so. I could not believe that she
had suddenly made up her mind that
she wanted me or that she was willing
20 destroy our friendship 20 satisfy a
within II there was a middle course
,, between these two had not the pew
or 10 discern Il, My surmises ended
. inst as all OF mans surmises with re-
J gard 20 woman's Intentions must ever
\ end-ln uncertainty And yet should
analyze myself In the matter would
come out any betteri am now IN
cllned 10 think that ! had always felt
J for Alice a desire for her possession
\ that I had not realized. Al least this
IL the only explanation I can give Tor
( nv action on this occasion. Possibly
there may have been a BIZ OF curiosity
a modienm OF the hunters Instinct
\ both Reinforced by a feeling that a
lifetime passed with her would be an
agreeable one.
"Well," I said at last, 81 VIII give
Won an opportunity TO show whether
You are IN earnest or whether this IS
iust such case as you have been
J through often before. love you
WIN you be my wifeT
Looking back at this proposal ! won
der how / could have supposed tha'
any girl who was Interested In a hiau
J purely for love could have been salts
aed with II. There was no more
warmth IN the tone with which spoke
= the words than In the words them
= selves. might az well have spoken
II declaration into photograph ana tneu