Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05

Hdl you nave u4si0e mlStdhS, you
mean."
"Iy
"Yes. I was perfectly content to
continue to be friends. 1t was you
who began the matter of placing our
relationship on another basis"
viii you kindly explain how 1t
could have got on to another basis ex-
cept through me? / was not aware
that girls offered love and marriage"
/ Il didn't send for you to explain
/ things, but to make an announcement"
Very well. Will you make another
announcement to the world that you
/ have broken our engagement"
Il suppose it will be my part to do
| so.''
| "when?"
/ She thought moment before reply
! ing to this, then answered by a Ques-
| don:
Are you in a hurry?"
! "Not at all. but I don't see how we
are to conduct ourselves before our
! friends and acquaintances in the mean
while. We can't act like an engaged
couple when we're not engaged"
When would you prefer TO have me
announce the break between usT"
81 think it had better be done at
once We are to dine tomorrow even
ing at my aunts, she having kindly
! shown her approval of our engagement
, by the invitation. It will be not only
embarrassing to partake OF her bounty
under the circumstances. but Wen not
. Hn two ffy,o Fof ha
knows that we are disengaged we had
better not dine together with her as
parted lovers"
! At this the lady was much discon-
certed She made no reply. She was
thinking hard.
'T don't see." she said presently.
chow we can be parted lovers when
there has never been any love on your
| side
well. I like that! I thought you
sent for me to tell me that there is none
on your side"
you are very illogical. or. rather.
you descend to sophistry. Haven't you
proved that you are incapable of love
by speaking of 1t contemptuouslyw
at seems to me we are getting or
the subject. 1t IS for us TO determine
what we shall do about the announce
ment of the break between u.s."
"Well?"
"Owing to my aunt's invitation. 1t
seems TO me that she at least should
be told at once"
"You are in a terrible hurry"
"Not at ALL I simply desire to avoid
embarrassment. besides treating my
aunt badly"
"Wen. since you have ceased to love
me-
sNonseuse"'
.fDo you mean that you feel for me
that
Sentimental nonsense vol call love?
OF course / do. Lovers are nothing
but children when the tit is on them.
But 1t doesn't last. Many girl has
lost a good husband and made an old
maid of herself by examining her feel
ings as you have done. Such feelings
are too volatile TO stand such tests.
and they are after all simply prelimi-
nary Everything is a development or
decay Love is sometimes suddenly
born, but ii has It's babyhood its child
hood. its youth If 1t lives through the
diseases common to these 1t passes
on TO the main part OF its life, mar
riagc. which taken altogether Is an en-
tirely different love from that which
in the beginning seems TO be all OF 1t.
The love OF couple who have lived
long together does not appeal to the
imagination as the love of young
lovers"
For heavens sake don't get back
70 what il appeals to. or you will again
show that brutality which so Mortified
me. Indeed, when | think OF It, I've
mind to-
Don't"
He drew her to him and put an arm
around her waist
After ALL" he said. perhaps we'd
better not say anything TO my aunt or
any one else about break-we might
regret it."
There's no need to speak OF 1t II
you're sure OF yourself"
How sure Of myself?'
THAT you love me well enough to
marry me"
why thought you were the one
who doubted yourseIf?"
Not at all. IT was this way:
couldn't understand how so matter Of
fact a man could love anybody.
couldn't love you If you didn't love
me. could ~"
'Why. of course you couldn't"
There was that stiffness which comes
between two lovers when they feel
too deep for utterance. though ii was
broken by certain sounds produced by
contact Of lips.
Are you sure you won't have a re-
lapse as to your feelings:T he asked.
Yes. Are you sure you won't have
more OF them"
81 haven't had one yet"
Neither have IL only thought I
had"
Tell me yon love me-
81 have told you so thousand