The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-12-23
Miss Tucker S
Revenge
BY ESTHER VANDEVEER


er persons toes. He would not hurt |
any ones feelings Intentionally. but IN
Intentionally was always laundering.
1t is a question which kind of person is
the least Objectionable, the selfish per-
son or the unselfish person who has not
the sensibility to see that he is wound
ing some one.
Worthington was getting to an age
when he wished for a home, and every
one knows that man can't make a
home without a woman, else 1t would
be like body without a soul. One
evening a married lady friend of his
said to him:
Jim. l know a girl who would suit
you exactly"
Does she wish to get married?"
What a question:"
"Why do you say that?"
Every girl wishes to marry; at least
that is her natural part in life. and she
prefers to fulfill it."
OH
Would you like me TO Introduce
your"
II should be greatly obliged If you
would"
Now, such matters should be man
aged with consummate tact. This one
was managed with no tact at all. The
iptroducer told the girl. Miss Helen
Tucker. that she had husband picked
out for her. The consequence was that
when the pair were introduced each
fha Of hn t,fr
The girl treated Jim as cordially as she
could under the circumstances, which
were not conducive to cordlality. Jim
looked the girl over and made up his
mind that he did not want her. After a
brief and embarrassing visit he depart
ed with no effort whatever to divest
Miss Tucker of the opinion she had
formed that she had been turned down.
1t did not occur to him that she would
feel sighted
Five years passed. Jim was still I'M
married. He had never seen Miss
Tucker since the single call he had
made on her. and the incident had en-
tirely slipped out of his mind Not so
the lady he had turned down. She
was nursing a wound in her bosom
that panied her perpetually. One
night she met Worthlngton at a ball.
She was eighteen when she met him
before; now she was twenty three.
Worthington was thirty-four One
glance at him told her that he did not
remember her. Her heart beat wildly.
but she turned away from him in time
to prevent his seeing it. A burning
desire was in her bosom; that desire
was for revenge.
Turning again to Worthington, she
threw Il look of admiration into heI
eyes that he had not seen in the eyes
! of any other woman. Blind before to
his attractions, he suddenly discover
ed them in the wOrshipful look of this
woman. He talked TO her and made
another discovery-that he was very
interesting man. When the two part
ed the lady half repressed a sigh, as
though she could not bear the separa
ton. He asked permission to call, anC
it was granted with happy smile.
Miss Tucker feared that her fsI
would learn who she was before she
could land him. Fortunately hel
dwelling had been changed. Her name
remained the same. But there was NJ
fear of the latter giving her away
Worthington remembered only on,
Tucker. his tailor. In a week Worth
ington had been hooked: in n mont
he was passionately In love. III,
sought an opportunity to propose, bu
Miss Tucker foiled him. She believed
she had nine-tenths of his heart, ant
she wished the other tenth. When sh
had got this, too, she wanted to squeez
every drop of blood out of 1t.
At last when she found that sh
couldn't frown at him without bringing
signs of collapse, she let him tell be
how he loved her. While he was get
ting 1t out-he labored like donke
engine pulling a coal train-she cas-
her eyes demurely on the floor. The
suddenly she raised them to him col
as January sky and asked him wha
In the world she had done to caus
him to mistake an ordinary friendshi
for love.
When Worthington left the house n
staggered down the steps, and 1t seen
ed to him that the sidewalk was a
abyss with no bottom. He went to hi
, desolate room and sat all night starin
, at vacancy. During the next day Will
, he was pacing the floor with a vii
look In his eye the postman came an
l brought him a note from his refuse
She expressed regret at his mistake
q wondering If after all he had failed
q recognize In her the Miss Tucker h
( had met five years before, they havin
2 been introduced with matrimonial Il
: tent She had been ready then to sa
g yes. Since then her taste had changes
2 She was, oh, so sorry!
q This was doubling a load already u
bearable Worthington looked upc
e the world before him as a prisoner c
the way to Siberia views the trackle
:. SHOWS before him, remembering Il
i Kara mines at the other end Of 4
|. Journey.
n Remembering the friend who had 1