The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-01-26
While She .
Was Away

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why, haven't seen you for go
aEe!" cried the girl with the fall hat
cd she rushed ait the other girl with
the golden hair and innocent blue
eyes, who was buying handkerchiefs
assiduously. How well you look!
Your summer in the country"
ooh, I didn't go to the country"
said the girl with blue eyes. Il stay
ed at home this year,"
What" gasped the girl with the
fall hat, i'm shocked tone. My dear,
you don't mean To say you've passed
the whole dreadful summer cooped
in the city, without a bit Of change
or"
The girl with blue eyes regarded
her calmly. Z managed to have a
very good time" she said.
81 know" commiserated the other.
"But 1 do feel sorry for you'll When
every one you know Is away it must
be hard to be patient and amuse your
self. think ii IL wonderful that
you have stood il Do we'll should
have been bored to death. I feel sure.
You know that 4 simply must have
lots Of people around me and things
going on
II had perfectly glorious time at
the lake." proceeded the girl with the
fall hat There were several men
there who simply kept me busy and,
OF course, while didn't want to make
the other girls unhappy, # couldn't
help it if they got left out "a good
many times But 1t II perfectly
dreadful when three OF four men
happen to fall in love with one the
same summer"
II should think So" said the girl
with blue eyes. Which one did you
take?"
The girl with the fall hat looked
annoyed. ooh, I'm In no hurry about
that" she said. I'm not 80 crazy to
get married as most girls. They all
will probably BE- on here soon to see
me- was I'D rushed that Ar am afraid
I rather neglected my old friends. All
did write Harold asking him to come
up, but something tiresome kept him
in town. or course, then I wrote and
told him to come any time that suited
him and not to think Of hurrying
back, but, some way or other, the
poor boy got delayed each time.
"The head OF the firm came on from
the east once and his mother was
sick another time, and goodness
knows what else interfered- I felt 10
sorry for him, for knew how disap-
pointed Harold was-well, ne was"
"Yes? Queried the girl with the
blue eyes, with some interest.
The girl in the fall hat managed to
blush family "Wel1, between you and
me, Harold was getting so terribly
fond of me, that I couldn't help see
ing what was coming. He can't help
showing his feelings In his eyes-did
you ever notice? But, Of course, you
were never in exactly the same situa-
ton ~ n was with him, 30 you would
mt notice. If there - anything hate
TO do it is break mans heart and
i wanted to be kind to Harold. That
was why I asked him up to the lake. !"
That's an odd way to proceed when
you are refusing a man." commented
the girl with the blue eyes.
II didn't say I was going to refuse
him, did IL" demanded with some as
perity the girl with the fall hat. "Har-
old ia very nice and devotion such a.
his appeals to girl with sensibilities
such a. # haveI It Just spoiled my
birthday picnic for me because he
couldn't be there I kept thinking OF
him working away alone in town,
wanting to join me and imagining the
good time I was having with other
people! I wrote him a long letter to
cheer him up that nigh"
HE must have appreciated il" said
the girl with the blue eyes.
"Of course he did" agreed her
friend Harold has the finest nature!
1p- %~l 49, ATT
enough to realize it, However, III
think I'm about the only one to whom
he shows his real self. He must be
out Of town now, because I've called
ND his ONCE every day since I got
back and the telephone boy always
says he's not In. I expect he's ter
ribly anxious to get back now that he
knows I'm here"
Harold isn't out Of town." said the
girl with the blue eyes.
HE isn't How dc you happen to
know that he Is not?"
Because he was at my home last
evening" explained the girl with the
blue eyes.
The girl with the fall hat stared
at her Indignantly. 1.-THE ideal" she
said HE can't know that I'm back!
I'LL telephone him right away, and
Telephone him, OF course, if you
want to-" said the girl with the blue
eyes good humoredly but ought
to tell you first that Harold and 4
got engaged during the summer that
we passed cooped up in this dreadful
town! Still, the news will scarcely
interest you, since you have all those
men you met at the lake coming to
the city to see you this winter"