Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-15
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Woman and Home
The Morning S tory
APRII.'s LADY.
~ Martha McCuiloch-NNiilia

ss5Asy-chatr. She had been staring in
the IRE. elbows on knees
Z Jean. her comrade- cousin. laughed
y softly. what is so uresome--endur.
Ing Ned. or doing without Blly?"
Is Both-neither" Leeta cried. spring
ing up and darting to the piano. -
believe 1t is mostly-men in general
Say. rather. the fact that YOU cam
De quite happy with or without them
lean retorted. Tell the truth. Lee
YOU know Irritation is-thc salt OF lif.
s to YOU
YOU'RE no beuer-oniy slyer.'
5Iceeta famed out
az Jean laughed heartily. please ex-
plain she said. after n minute. MAY
4 ne ain sly: il so. deceive myself
the same az anybody else"
z5 You don't!" Leeta cried whirling 10
/; face her cousin. You know-you can't
deny-you've played your cards beau
What Davy?" Jean queried with
just the fnintcst flush.
Leeta stamped hard. Tho only one
: really worth wilhelm all this ruok
that has come calling on U.S. che said
Jean stared. "Why--you called him
"a frozen fright At nrst-and begged
me to save you from him." she said
defensively
Leetn nodded. u was a fool-now
.
didn't mean to tell YOU ever. but it
hurts so TO sec YOU playing with him
when ="
playing with him" Jean echoed
You speak in riddles. You can't mean
playing. at love making, Just because
i made him a leap-year proposal, You
know how that happened. All of you
dared me TO do il. chose Davy be-
causo-"
Because you liked him-best OF ALL"
Leeta exploded. And you wanted TO
sec him get hot and red-with all the
others laughing AT YOU two
Funny way to show affection--mak-
ing the one beloved mighty uncomfort-
able" Jean interrupted
Leeta Eripped her shoulders hard
saving In thin edged voice: You
do love him. Deny tiff YOU can"
II can do the denying and never
turn a hair--but ] question your right
to catechize." Jean said, flushing
on more calmly: "Leeta. l think you
don't know what you are saying-not
quite. We've been so close all our
lives II seems Impossible YOU are going
10 let manor the ghost of one
rather--come between us"
David isn't any 9host--a real man
the best man." l.ceta almost walled
Jean freed herself. looked nj tho
other half compa ssionatcly half
/ scornfully. walked TO the door and said
very crisply:
IF it will ease your mind. here and
now make YOU a present OF MI right
title, claim or interest | have, had or
may have IN David Andrews, ESQUIRE -
Then she rushed upstairs, all un-
knowing David had hoard her He
had been Just within the entrance
She had chosen the back way for her
exit 4 big fellow. ugly but after :,
frank. engaging fashion, ne was much
puzzled as to what was best. II he
could have got away unseen he would
have done it, but Aunt Margaret
hostess OF the two girls, had met him
At the ward gate and hidden him go
inside. lie must make the best of il.
stay brief while, then excuse him -
self, on plea that he had come only 10
say good-by There was wedding
stronG's. He could so and stay there
month. until the pair OF sirens mad
departed
Men propose sometimes when they
arc disposed otherwise. Davy was
destined TO prove the fact. Finding
leeta in stormy tears. he would have
rushed out. but that she all but fung
herself In his arms. Ana she was very,
very pretty, very. very clinging; more
over, her voice was hue-so her round
Z arms velvet to the touch ny the time
ne had Gained her a little, and aot
in the way OF comforting her. all in
cllnation for flight had vanished. And
by the time Aunt Margaret came in
nestled within his arm as became his
bctrothed.
AUNT Marsaret. Vas iirec,-discon
certingly so sometimes. Why, |
thought you were after other game
lean, my little brown partridge" she
said. staring open eyed as David man
fully explained
David got suddenly whl,c-thcn very.
very red lean knew-ali along" he
lied gallantly--not daring even 10 hone
nc spoke half-truih She must nav
known he cared for her--udd how his
fancy had turned. NJ The touch. the
cooinss o' TINS other Would the spell
vanish when he no longer saw her
held her close? At the thouph, ha
turned SICK OF soul absence ne knew
mad but made him fondcr Of lean.
scorhlui lean, VINO had flung him TO
Leeta As one ninrs "A bone TO y
Nwii'mperinS pup lean. whom he Ind
zen 10 ne the soul OF truth. Yet who
mao evidently played with him a game.
or hearts wherein ne risked an. she
nothine. He began To wish in bravado
she Wonid come back. then was terror
stricken at INC thought sh. nigh,
guess she never must guess how, I,o,
corning had betrayed him. TIM,
HN'H - .hsuftrao pie Ana really n.
than hurt Was he not v.ry han,,'.
mere with l.e"tn ior MS own
fate. which asks such ou.s,ion.
sometimes also answers them rbra.
days later David knew with avful Ger
ta'n'y ne would never lie happy without
Jean He met her ont in sun,xashad
neids. scre and nipt, but smiling y; curl.
ing low mists that were tossed sIo,t Ia,
small, rufhing south winds she stood
upon ledgy rock, bareheaded. ber ca
ments blown backward face upraiscd
put hands iistlessly down UnutterahIc
sadness lay In her deep eyes as the
rested on him. JOY as unu,terab!e
~ mashed up. iNuminiHg them. Then ana
thus he knew. Then ana tber. Mo "a
z solve was ihEen--Io know the truth
and, knowing IL. dare. So he laid hold
or poth her hands and questioned her
stubbornly. As stubbornly she fenced
with him, knowing the hazard Of truth.
Leeta had won him; let her keen him
be happy with him. She would IL. On