Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-06-06

4e4p ,.1o pvv1. / haven't lea Dan on.
/ have tried to show him just what
you are making me go through now"
If she acted well and danced well,
it was hard for her to talk She was
evidently under strong emotion and it
needed her control not to burst into
tears and lose her chance.
"Of course, know the things you
have heard. OF course, know what
Is said about me"-and she stopped
Ruggles didn't press her any fur
Their; he didn't ask her if the things
were true Looking at her as he did,
watching her as he did, there was in
him a feeling so new, so troubling
that he found himself more anxious to
protect her than to bring her to JUS
tice.
There are worse, far worse women
than l am, Mr.. Ruggles. l will never
do Dan any harm"
Here her visitor leaned forward and
put one of his big hands lightly over
one of hers, petted it a moment, and
said:
Il want you to do a great deal bet
ter than that
She had picked up photograph off
the table, a pretty picture of herself
in "Mandalay," and turned it nerv-
ously between her fingers as she said
with irritation:
II haven't been in the theatrical
world not to guess at this Worried
Father act, Mr.. Ruggles. | told you
I knew just what you were going to
say"
"Wrong!" he repeated "The bust
ness is old enough perhaps. lots of
good jobs are old, but this is a little
different"
He took the turning picture and
laid it on the table, and quietly pos
| sessed himself of the small cold
| hands. Blair's solitaire shone up to
him. Ruggles looked into Lefty Lanes
! eyes. "He is only twenty-two; it amt
| fair, it amt fair He could count the
times he has been on lark, guess.
| He hasn't avr '7oo~ to an eastern col
| Iege. He is no fool, but he's darned
| simple"
: She smiled family. The mans face,
near her own, was very simple indeed.
''You have seen so much" he urged,
| so many fellows You have been
such queen, dare say you could get
any man you wanted" He repeated.
Most any man."
Il have never seen a. one like
Dan"
Just so: he amt your kind. That
is what | am trying to tell you"
| She withdrew her hand from his vio-
lently.
There you are wrong. He is my
kind. He is what | like, and he is
what I want to be like"
A wave of red dyed her face, and,
in a tone more passionate than she
to Ruggles:
81 love him love him!" Her
words sent something like a sword
through the older mans heart. He
said gently: Don't say it. He don't
know what love means yet"
He wanted to tell her that the girl
Dan married should be the kind Of
woman his mother was. but Ruggles
couldn't bring himself to say the
words. Now, as he sat near her, he
was growing so complex that his
brain was turning round. He heard
| her murmur:
Il told you I knew your act, Mr..
| P10o1oc TT onu
| This brought him back to his posi-
ton and once more he leaned toward
her and, in a different tone from the
one he had intended to use, MUIR
INJURED:
"You don't know. You haven't any
idea. l do ask you to let Dan go,
that's a fact. l have got something
else to propose in its place. 1t amt
quite the same, but it is clear-marry
mel"
She gave a little exclamation. A
slight smile rippled over her face like
the sunset across pale pool at dawn.
Laugh" he said humbly; "dcn't
keep in. l know am old-fashioned as
the deuce, and me and Dan is quite
contrast, but l mean just what l
! say, my dear"
! She controlled her amusement, if it
was that. 1t almost made her cry
with mirth, and she couldn't help it.
Between laughing breaths she said to
him:
ooh, is it all for Dams sake, Mr.
Ruggles? Is it?" And then, biting
her lips and looking at him out of
her beautiful eyes, she said 81 know
lit isl know it isl beg your par
DON"
Il asked a girl once when l was
poor-too poor. Now this is the sec
ond time in my life. mean just what
[ say. I'll make you kind husband
| [ am fifty-five, hale as nut | dare
say you have had many better Of
fers"
ooh, DEAR" she breathed; ooh, dear,
please-please stop!"