The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-05-31
ION this train or all places!
"Oh, Harry, Harry


I saw you last"
so long"
ut was at that last hop at West
Point, remember?-why, 1t seems only
Yesterday, and how well you are look
ing. You are well, aren't your"
mot very" He was hopping his
brow in anguish, and yet the room
seemed strangely cold.
20; course you look much better In
your uniform You aren't wearing
your uniform, are your"
mo, this is not my uniform
"You haven't left the army, have
your"
81 don't know yet"
Don't ever do that. You are just
beautiful in brass buttons"
Thanks"
Harry"
whats the matter now?"
"This tie, this green tie, isn't this
the one knitted your"
II am sure don't know, / Dor
rowed 1t from the conductor"
Don't you remember? l did knit
you one" 't ftr
did you? I believe you did! 1
thinkI wore it OUT, i'
"Oh, you tickle boy. But see what
l have. What's this?"
He stared through the CLASSY eyes
of complete helplessness. 1T looks
like bracelet"
Don't tell me you don't remember
this!-the little bangle bracelet you
gave me-"
"D-did give you baygled brang-
let?"
"Of course you did. And the in
scriptlon. Don't you remember it?'
She held her wrist in front OF his
aching eyes and he perused as if it
were his own epitaph, what she read
aloud for him. From Harry to Kitty,
the Only Girl Ever Loved"
Good night" he sighed to himself,
and began to mop his brow with
Snoozleums.
"You put it on my ARM" said Kath-
leen, with moonlight sigh, land I've
always worn it,"
"Always?"
Always! no matter whom ! was
engaged to-"
The desperate wretch, who had not
dared even to glance in MarJorie's d.
rection, somehow thought he saw a
straw of self-defense. "You were en-
gagged to three or four others when l
was at West Point
II may have been engaged to the
Others" said Kathleen, moon-eyeing
him, "but l always liked you best,
Clifford-er, Tommy mean Harry"
"You got me at last"
Kathleen fenced back at this:
We'll, I've no doubt you have, had a
dozen affairs since"
"Oh. no! My heart has only known
one real love-" He threw this over
her head at Marjorie, but Kathleen
seized 1t, to his greater confusion:
"Oh, Harry, how sweet of you to say
1t. 1t makes me feel positively faint"
and she swooned his way, but he
showed a chair forward and let her
collapse into that. Thinking and hop
ing that she was unconscious, he
made ready to escape, but she caught
him by the coat, and moaned: where
am II" and he growled back:
In the Observation Cart"
Kathleen's life and enthusiasm re-
turned without delay: Fancy meet
ing you again! l could Just scream"
$50 could l."
you must come up in our car and
see mamma"
rs Ma-mamma with your" NAL
lory stammered, on the verge of I'M
becility.
"Oh, yes. indeed, we're going
around the world"
Don't let me detain you
Papa is going round the world
also"
rs papa on this train. toof-
At last something seemed to en-
barrass her a trifie: mo, papa went
on ahead. Mamma hopes to overtake
him. But papa is very good trav-
eler."
Then she changed the subject. do
come and meet mamma. II would
cheer her up SO. She is so fond OF
you. Only this morning she was say
ing, OF all the boys you were ever
engaged to, Kathleen, the one 1 like
most of all was Edgar mean Clar-
Mallory"
"Awfully kind of her."
you must come and see her-she's
some stouter now!"
"Oh. is she? Well, that's good"
Mallory was too angry to be sane,
and too helpless to take advantage OF
his anger. He wondered how he could
ever have cared for this moIasses
and mucilage girl. He remembered
now that she had always had these
same cloying ways. She had always
paved him and, like everybody but |
he pawers, he hated paving.
1t would have been bad enough at |
any time to have Kathleen hanging
IN his coat, Strengthening his tie,
Gaming close, smiling up In his eyes,
osing him his balance, recapturing
him every time he edged away. But
With Marjorie as the grim witness 1t
vas E,addening.
He loathed and abominated Kath-
cen Llewellyn, and II she had only
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