The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-08-21
MAMIE GIVES ADVICE

unseeingly through his dinner as ia
/ as the salad before he saw her. Whei
! a man is engrossed with a broker
heart caused by one young womel
he cannot be expected instantly Il
recognize. the charms Of another.
Up to the moment that he gazed a
her seeingIy Mamie was merely til,
human automaton in the exclusive iii
tie cafe who set food before younl
Darnley. Then suddenly he realizet
the pretty jollity of her face. th,
freshness of her color, the extrem,
shiny neatness of her hair. The I'm
gers Of the hand resting on one hi
were tapering and white.
It was a surprise to him that these
facts penetrated the paralysis Of his
brain. For after a year Of hoping tt
be engaged to Jessie and half a year
Of thinking he was engaged to her II
left him In a daze to face the fact
that he wasn't engaged to her at all
and that the ring was nesting in his
vest pocket in its box, most uncom,
Portable lump.
Young Darnley was brokers' clerk,
with prospects, and he had been to
college and he was lonesome and
homesick since the end Of the Jessie
episode. There was something about
NAMES cheerful smile and whole
some presence that comforted him.
He told Mamie that the pie was
good.
"Glad you like It." said she. "You
haven't been eating much Of late, I've
Unsentimental persons will not be
able to understand how in ten min
utes young Darnley had told all his
sorrows to Mamie There was moth
ing OF the flirt about Mamie. She sim
ply took young Darnley under her
wing in a motherly way in spite Of the
fact that she was not 20. He began
to cheer up insensibly in that atmos-
phere. as is the way of the masculine
world.
VIII you go to the moving picture
show up the street with me this eve
ling?" young Darnley asked Mamie
while at dinner. He felt
hat some return was due her for her
blindness and she was a girl whom no
nan need be ashamed to- be seen with.
Sure" said Mamie with no fiutter
It ALL
Young Darnley had a very good
ime that evening. When Mamie met
him she wore q trim tailor suit and
! saucy hat and she laughed lot and
made him laugh. Going home he
poke bitterly of the false Jessie.
'Mebbe she really did think she
vas right" Mamie insisted "Mebbe
he didn't pick the quarrel just to get
i'd of you like you think"
Mamie was a comforting person to
ak to. She was always interested
nd she gave him advice about Jessie
which he instantly repudiated He
pent great deal Of time trying to ex-
lain OF her that that part Of his life
Tas all over and finished.
Sure" Mamie would say. "Just
on cheer up and forget it,"
Then the next time he talked about |
she would repeat her advice that |
g go back to Jessie and say he was
Orry.
do you think / want to go back?"
Q would ask with immense scorn.
For several months young Darnley
Sok Mamie out. One evening when
. felt especially blue he made up his
lind that he knew what was the trou.
le, All he needed was perpetual
and cheerfulness like Ma
lies to make lie worth living. He
ordered that he had been so dull as
ot to see It before. What were So
al distinctions and class lines when
Ut up against genuine worth? So,
king Nantes haRd In his as they
alked along, he asked her to marry
In.
kid" said Mamie rather tremulous-
I, you're q nice chap. You've been
lightly good to me. I'm glad you like
Q. But you're all wrong in the way
BUS doped this out Honest, you
tent in love with me at all! Why,
m not your sort! What's making
1u miserable all his time and what
0u honestly want to do and won't and
lould Is to trot along to Jessie and
vallow your pride and then be happy
I the rest Of your life! She'll make
, with you If you 60"
DO you really think so?" young
arnley asked.
Sure she will" she said sturdily
wing him a little push. Go along
is minute-it isn't late! And for
It what you said to mel"
Young Darnley looked down at Ma
lie. She was smiling up at him
lightly as usual There was nothing
.thetic about the rosy face. Yet
ere was a sudden lump in his throat
young Darniey bent over and kiss.
her.
''You-you're a brick, Mamie!" he
Id, huskily. "T'll never forget what
iu've done for me! And like you
vfully we'll"
Mamie watched him as he fastened
Iwn the street She dabbed at her
ea az gha turned in nt her door