Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-29

ty, and wei work up together. / can
see you I'm n yellow satin dress stin
enough to stand aloner
cit must he white satin, IL you
please. not yellow! After having used
n hundred and ten yards OF shop worn
yellow calico on myself within two
years / never want to wear that color
againi II only l could come to you
better provided" she sighed, with the
suggestion OF tears I'm her voice. IF
| I'd been n common servant i could
have saved something from my wages
/ to he married on. l haven't even got
anything to be married i'm
III get you anything you want In
| Portland tomorrow"
| Certainly not; I'd rather be married
| in rags than have you spend your
money upon me beforehandr'
Remember to have box OF your
! belongings packed and slipped under
| the shed somewhere. You can't be GER
| tain what your father will say or do
when the time comes for telling him,
and l want you TO be ready to leave
on a moments notice"
II will: I'll do everything you say,
Mark. But are you sure that we have
thought OF every other way? / do so
hate being undetermined. Everything
/ depends on my keeping 1t secret from
Waitstill. but she doesn't suspect any
thing vet. She thinks OF me as moth
ing but n child still. Do you suppose
Ellen would go with us just to give me
a little comfort? 1 shouldn't miss Wait
still go much II l had Ellen. and how
happy I shall be IL she approves of
me for n sister and thinks your mother
and father will like me in time"
There never was n creature born
into the world that wouldn't love you,
Patty"
Il don't know; look at Aunt Abby
Cole" said Patty pensively. We'll, IL
does not seem as If n marriage that
isn't good in Riverboro was really de-
cent. How tiresOme OF Maine to want
all those days of public notice; people
must so often want to get married in
a minute. If / think about anything
too long l always get out of the no
ton"
Il know you do. That's what I'm
afraid Of" And Marks voice showed
decided nervousness. You won't get
out Of the notion OF marrying me. will
you. Patty dear:"
Marrying you IS more than no
tion.' Mark" said Patty soberly. I'm
only n little past seventeen. but I'm
far older because of the difficulties
I've had. don't wonder you speak OF
my notions. l was as light as a
feather in all my dealings with you at
first"
so was with you. hadn't grown
up. Patty"
Then 1 came to know you better
and see how you sympathized with
Waitstill's troubles and mine.
couldn't love anybody; couldn't mar
~ anybody who didn't feel that things
Mt our house can't go on as they are.
Father has had good long trial. |
Three wives and two daughters have |
done their best To live with him and /
failed. I am not willing To die for /.
him. as my mother did. nor have Wait !
still killed If | can help It Some !
times he is like Il man who has lost his /
senses, and sometimes he * only grim 1
and quiet and cruel. II he takes our /
marriage without n terrible scene. /
Mark. perhaps ii will encourage Wait 4
still to break her chains as l have
mine"
There's sure 10 be an awful row."
Mark said rs one who had forecasted
all the probabilities. 1t wouldn't
make any difference if you married
the Prince of Wales; nothing would
suit your father but selecting the man
and making all the arrangements. and
then he would never choose any one
who wouldn't tend the store and work
on the farm for him without wages"
''Waitstill will never run away. She
isn't like me. She will sit and sit !
there, shaving and suffering, till dooms-
day, for the one that loves her isn't
free like you"
You mean Ivory Boynton? I be
lieve he worships the ground she walks
on. I like him better than I used. and
/ understand him better. Oh, but I'm
a lucky young dog TO have kind, lib
eral father and n bit OF money put by
10 do with as / choose. II ] hadn't
I'd be eating my heart out like Ivory"
mo, you wouldn't eat your heart out.
You'd always get what you wanted
and you wouldn't wait for II
either. and I'm just the same. I'm not
built for giving up and enduring and
sacrificing. I'm naturally just n tuft
~ thistledOwn, Mark, but, living be-
side Waitstill all these years. I've !
grown ashamed 10 be so light. blowing |
ibout hither and thither. Oh. II only
ihe will forgive us. Mark. won't mind
what father says or does"
''She will forgive us. Patty, darling.
Don't fret and cry and make your pref
v eyes all red. I'll do nothing in all
his to make either of you girls asham-
d OF me"
Does the town clerk or does the
ustice OF the peace give wedding
ing just like the Minister" Patty ask
d. II shouldn't feel married without
ring"
THE ring Is all ready and has NJ.
v. to =. B. engraved in it. with the
lace for the date waiting. and here is
he engagement ring II you'll wear it
,hen you're alone. Patty. Ny mother