The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1912-03-21

weeks. AID perhaps this rGdt, 10 ~
delight. Alan is Il steady. SLOW so.l.
fellow vino lever Dies anything IL
hurry.
There is sirl l., t..:s town who YVES
once engaged to Alan. RET her a
Carrie N',.tson's hast Week. Lee nam.
is Wentworth-Kate Weutwo:t.1--a
from all aplearant es She Lust lie :;
lovely girl. IT amy rate. Kate sa..'S sac
is. 1t must have been enDa.ilSsin;
for Miss Wentworth to meet INC
knowing that was engaged TO IL,
man who was once her lover. bat 81
didn't show it. Fate says size has go
all over that affair long ago. She said
something else didn't H,.e-.h:t Aatc
wouldn't merry Alan now If be- We're
North ten millions.
haven't hcea as.e to sleep nights
since l heard that Kate Wentworth
Wouldn't Low marry Alan If sGt
could. I spoke to Alan about bis Old
l.
to dis usS TIE matter. ! wo..d,r why.
There certainly can't be anything
about il that he's ashamed Ct. Yct
what Carrie SAID about it troubles
me. That girl formerly betrothed
to the man one is to marry vou.dat
MARI him IL he had $io,o0o0o0 is
not Pleasant thing for his present
iaccec to hear. Suppose he has some
weak or had spot in him that she hap
pered to find ont. Pshaw. | resolve
so.emnly that I'll think no more about
It.
went to call on Carrie the ether
day and asked her what she meant
by saying that Kate Wentworth
wouldn't marry Alan now. Kate said
she didn't know. When 1 urged her
to tell me something about it she said
she never mixed herself up in other
peoples Affairs. So l let the matter
drop. Just as was about to leave
her she said that out Of pure friend
ship for NE she would tell re some
thing she thought should know.
Then she told me that Kate had bro
ken off her engagement with Alan be-
cause he had treated her shamefu!ly.
I asked what the shameful treatment
had consisted in. to which she replied
that there We're so many things that
she didn't care to name Them, and
Kate wouldn't care to have her Go So
Ny engagement with Alan Is bro
ken. just couldn't drive out of my
head what Carrie had told me about
his treatment Of Kate Wentworth. At
last l told him about it. Instead Of
hurting back the accusation slike .
man, he didn't even deny it. All be
said was that had nothing to do
with his previous affairs Of the heart
nor he with mine That's all he would
say about 1t. Then l told him that If
such things were not cleared up be-
fore marriage they would be thorn
In our sides after marriage. and so
long as he wouldn't give me any sat,
isfactiOn in the matter we had better
call our engagement of. To this he
agreed. ] gave him back my beauti
full ring. And oh. how l did hate to
part with it! I'm very miserable.
=.
Oh, my goodness gracious! surely
shall have nervous prostration. Some.
thing awful has happened. The en-
between Alan Constable-my
Alan-and Carrie Watson il out. But
this isn't oil. I've been told By Grace
Fuller. Carries most intimate friend
and one Of my own. too. that Carrie
is wearing the engagement ring which
Alan gave me and which returned to
him. To think that Carrie-the ser.
pent-should have told me all those
things about Kate Wentworth and
Alan. breaking my match with him.
then accepting him herself. I do be-
lieve she told them to me purposely to
part us so that she could get him. Oh.
my dear stars! ! think shall 60 mad.
1t is three months since l heard that
Alan was engaged to Carrie Watson.
Today have received note from him
saying that his engagement with Car
rie lasted only u week and he had only
brought it about to show me how silly
was to listen to tales about him. He
denies that he ever was engaged to
Kate Wentworth. He sent with his
note the engagement ring and asked me
TO accept it as friendly gift. saying
that he has no fault to find with me.
was simply caught in trap by an
woman. He closed by
saying that the incident had preju-
liced him against marriage and he had
decided to stick to his club.
l thought long while before decid-
ing to accept the ring as a friendly
Gift" but finally decided to do SO.
alone was at fault. My brother. whom
have told all about the trouble. says
that a man attacked by a woman is
defenseless and when
was told that he had treated q former
dancee badly should not have expect
ed him to accuse her or her friend Of
falsehood. This is mans view of 1t.
can't see 0ny harm i'm ONO who Is