Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-02-21

| don't see why you should assume
that I'm in the least anxious to marry
you"
Il don't" explained the young man.
Il wouldn't be so rude and conceited.
| merely assumed that you would
marry me If asked you-and I've ask
ed you, and you say you won't.
81 must admit" went on the young
man, that l am both surprised and
panied. l feel that you have been
leading me on all this time just to
amuse yourself, and l must say that
| didn't think you were that kind.
/"
Il don't think you are very nice"
declared the young woman, ito come
here and call me names and act as
though l were to blame about some
thing! I'm not in the habit of be-
lieving that every man who calls on
me wants to marry me, and"
Now, Madeline!" interrupted the
young man decisively, that sounds
very pretty and ladylike and no doubt
you think it is so, but it isn't. In the
bottom of your heart you know that
when a man calls three times on q
girl she begins sizing him up as a
possible husband, and If she thinks he
won't do, she gets rid of him. She
has a headache when he calls, or she
has another engagement when be asks
her out, or she forgets appointments
with him. You've not done a solitary
one of these tricks! You've let me
come and acted glad to see me-and
you've ducked engagements with 9th
ers to go places with me, and you've
cooked indigestible things in the
chatting dish at weird hours and urged
them upon me, and otherwise given
me to understand that you didn't ex.
actly hate me- Naturally, from all this
| deducted"
q don't understand you at ALL"
f1ared the young woman. 81 think you
are acting perfectly horrid, and you
ought to apologize!"
"Oh, of course" said the young
man. Il know if l had wanted to be
dishonest with myself and you l could
have wrung tears out of my eyes and
murmured things about not being
worthy and not daring to reach so
far above me and called you an angel
but really, you know, it's six OF
one and half dozen of the other, and
we'd make good married couple.
| NynI oI limit oil
that you get an edge on your temper
occasionally-just as you have now,
| for instance. Still, l can handle that
You could do far worse than marry
me. Do you love any one else?"
mo-" said the young woman. but
that doesn't mean that l care two
straws about such conceited individ.
uni as YOURSELF"
you should" he persisted. "You
can't deny that you've been fond of me
up to this moment What's wrong all
of a sudden?"
You are!" she told him. Totally"
Strange" murmured the young
man. Say, l bet what you're mad
about is the way l did it-isn't it?"
Il never heard of such proposal"
she informed him. You might have
been offering to sell me a book or ask.
ing for a contribution to something!
Any girl would say mol"
Well said the young man with a
sigh, getting up, cts too bad, and
I'm awfully disappointed. won't both,
er you any longer"
There's no need to hurry" said
the young woman.
whats the use OF staying?" he ask
ed, bitterly. I've got broken heart,
and you don't love me, and"
Il never said that" murmured
the young woman She looked away.
IT'S just as | said" the young man
told her two hours later when affairs
were permanently settled. Girls in.