The Mena weekly star., 1913-08-28
No Woman Ever Really Loved
 Man Because He Was Good.

Man Because He Was Good. Of irony, q asked if you are going to marry me or not"
 No she answered, unrufded. "I am not. That's the answer Same as when you asked me before And the lime before that And so on back to the beginning. And then some-until you can learn to take No for an an swer."
 T cant take it." he returned glumly, and l won't take it. Maybe you think I get lot of fun being thrown down like this. It means more to me than you've got patience to hear I'm going all to smash. Oh, you needn't laugh. It isn't so funny to me-
 I'm sorry she said. T didn't | know it meant so much to you
 Do you suppose 1 enjoy perching up on this rail like google-eyed Poll parrot and squeaking Wanda, will you marry me-? and getting a lemon each time instead of a cracker"
 To turn the talk away from its old trend, she broke in, almost at random You don't realize the power of phone girls job No outsider does. | People from a thousand different points call up people at a thousand other points. Every pair of peopla | thinks they are talking unheard by the world at large and that just they two can hear each other. Each of those thousands thinks that. But the tele- phone girl hears them all. I read in an old book once about a demon named Asmodeus who used to fit about by night and lift the roofs off of houses to see what people were doing. 1 If he were living now he could save lot of time and work and bother by getting a job at central. We"
 BuZzz!
 "H'lo!" droned Wanda. No. Mr Blake hasn't come in yet Any mes sage? A'ri'."
 "Yes," she went on in her own voice; what the telephone girl doesn't hear isn't worth the hearing"
 The whole world under your two little, little hands,' he said softly reaching for one of them as he spoke.
 But the buzzer rushed to the rescue cf it's high priestess with a sudden noisy purr.
 Mrs. Robertson?" droned Wanda to the transmitter. Nom. Mrs. Rob ertson is not at the Keswick. Did yo wish to be connected with Governor Robertson's suite? Nom. don't know whether shes expected in Washington soon or not. Ali"
 Friend of your sisters" she ex. plained, turning from the transmitter. She said Mrs. Robertson wrote her she was coming down from New York some day this week"
 Grace spends more time on the trains during the session than she does at home" laughed the youth She wanted to close the New York house and come down here to stay all winter But Mark won't let her. But, Wanda. you've simply got to listen to ne" he went on with return of his ooyish impulsiveness. "l love you. And -
 "Nr. Blake!" she protested, halt laughing, half distressed, r."
 MT Blake," he echoed ruefuly How long since I've been MT. Blake, .a you? Haven't begged you to call ne Tom? I always call you Wanda Why cant you call me-"
 "I am a telephone operator" she raid with mischievous demureness, and you are MT. Thomas Blake, promi- rent on the district attorneys staff, only son of the great Jim Blake, and brother to a woman the Sunday papers call a society queen.
 'Lord!" he growled, are you trying Co ring social standing in on meat this stage of the game?'
 "!f you care to put it that way she | ..I. t.ud more seriously "l OsttalnN .u"
 3 hat rot!"
 "Yes? Yet I notice you didn't come cross 10 speak to me until Governor 1 .obertson had gone away, And yob | never have thought to introduce him 1 0 me when you and he have passed | ere together. He has been governor t New York He may some day be president. Would it make any sort of l nit with him to have his brother-inlaw marry a telephone girl that half his | Ipalitical friends have always been try | ing to jolly? Would he care to say to Mir. Neligan. for instance: Remember that little hello girl you wanted to kiss and who slapped yoIr face for it? Well, she's my wifes sister-inlaw. /"
 Don't" exclaimed Tom Blake. Ut | isn't true And"
 And" pursued Wanda, would your sister call on me at my boarding houseo Would she ask me to come and see hero
 Would she?" cried Tom, clustering '~own a twinge of treasonaDie Co.st. You bet she would! You don't know Grace She's all right. As white as ,hey make them. If she knew ] loved any girl at all-no matter Who she'd be the very first to put her arms around her and-and-' ! Then" said Wanda gently, don't tel her. and keep your ideal