Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1912-08-08
DEFENSELESS
MAN
BY JANE PINCKNEY BENNETT
Copyright by American Press Asso-
citation. 1911.

The happiest day in my life was
when Alan Constable proposed to me
1 had been expecting declaration fol
weeks, and perhaps this added to my
delight. Alan is Il steady. slow going
fellow, who never does anything in O
hurry.
$3.50
There is a girl In this town who was
once engaged to Alan. l met her at
Carrie Watson's last week. Her name
IS Wentworth-Kate NEWFOUNDLAND
from all appearances she must be a
lovely girl. At any rate, Kate says she
is. 1t must have been embarrassing
! for Miss Wentworth to meet me,
knowing that l was engaged to the
man who was once her lover, but she
didn't show It, Kate says she has got
| all over that affair long ago. She said
something else l didn't lille-that Kate
wouldn't marry Alan now if lie were
worth ten millions.
| haven't been able to sleep nights
wouldn't now marry Alan If she
could. | spoke to Alan about his old
fame, and he said that he didn't care
to discuss the matter. ! wqndep why.
There certainly can't be anything
about IL that he's ashamed of. Yet
what Carrie said about 1t troubles
me- That a girl formerly betrothed
to the man one is to marry wouldn't
marry him If he had $10,000,000 Is
not a pleasant thing for his present
fiapcee to hear. Suppose he has some
weak or bad spot in him that she hap
pened to find out. Pshaw, ! resolve
solemnly that I'll think no more about
II.
went to call on Carrie the other
day and asked her what she meant
by saying that Kate Wentworth
wouldn't plarry Alan now. Kate said
she didn't know. When l urged her
to tell me something about IL she said
she never mixed herself up IN other
peoples affairs. So ! let the matter
drop. Just as | was about TO Leave |
her She said that out Of pure friend |
ship for me she would tell me some,
thing she thought ! shGHid Know !
Then she told me that Kate had bFs |
ken off her engagement with Allan be-
cause he had treated her shamefully
[ asked what sic shameful treatment
had consisted in, t. Which she replied
that there were 50 many things ff4s
ahe didn't care to name them, and
Kate wouldn' tscare to have her do 80
! .
Ny engagemeni 9Th Alan is bro
Ken. 1 just couldn't drive wi sf my
head what Carrie had told me VaboIt
MS treatment Of Kate Wentworth. At
asst told hits about it. Instead Of
lurling back the aCcusatiar like a
nan, he didn't even deny 1t. ALI lie
aid was that had nothing to do
With his previous affairs ri the heart
Tor ne with mine. That's all he would
ay about it. Tkos | told him that if
UGH things were not cicasGd up be- {
ore mdrriage they would be Il thorn c
Il our sides afiSr marriage, and so
1Bg as he wouldn't give H4s Any sat,
sfactieh IN the matter we had better ;
all our engagement off. 70 this he :
greed l gave him back Ray bsanti-
VI ring. And oh, how l did hate to
art with til I'm very miserable. t
5
oh, my goodness gracious! sursly
nall have nervous prostration. Some il
ling awful has happened. The en- a
lgement between Alan Constable-my T
Carrie Watson is out But u
lis isn't all I've been told by Grace ;,
ulleP Carries most intimate friend
I'd one OF my OVID, too, that Carrie
wearing the engagement ring which II
Ian rove me and which I returned IN tn
M To think that Carrie-the ser. m
have told me all those of
ings about Kate Wentworth and ct
an. breaking my match. with him
en- accepting him herself. do be- vi
We she told them to aae plrp9sely to 8,
TT us so that she could get him, Oh,
= dear stars! think l shall go mad. -,
t Is three months since heard that
an was engaged to Carrie Watson. ~
day have received q note from him
wing that his engagement with Car
lasted only a week and he had only
ought II about to show me how silly M
vas TO listen TO tales about him. He loi
lies that he ever was engaged to is
tie Wentworth. He sent with his frs
e the engagement ring and asked me an
accept 1t as Il friendly gift, saying no
It he has no fault TO find with me ~,
vas simply caught in trap by an 'n'
woman. lie closed by
ing that the incident had preju. vel
I'd him against marriage and he had did
idrd TO stick to his club. COT
thought long while before decid. ces
TO aHcert the ring as friendly the
:" but finally decided to do so. ow
he was ut fault. My brother, whom rea
ave told az about the trouble, says MI
t man attacked by woman is
rtically deferseless and when -
told that he had treated a former pro