Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-23
aPronise youn never tell" ordered

Promise youll never tell" ordered the first young person, sternly.
 Honest. Cross my hearth vowed the second 16-year-old on the front steps You owe me a secret any, how. I told you one last"
 The first young person edged a trif1e closer and lowered her voice nyste- riously. I've got terrible crush!F
 Alice! Really?" gasped her friend. entranced. Who ?"
 T don't know who he is" confessed the first young person triumphantiy.
 The other fairly jumped up and down. How perfectly lovelyi" she cried. T never heard anything so TO- mantle. Why, he might be anything a duke in disguise, or"
 T don't think he can be duke" interrupted the lovelorn one with a bit of worried frown Hes too young. Dukes always are old, aren't they? Maybe his fathers a duke, though"
 T haven't a bit of doubt of it!" enthusiastically agreed her friend. T read a story just the other day and the man in 1t did the most wonderful things and he had fled his country for his own good and was concea1ing his noble birth. But where did you meet him? Is he tall?"
 T haven't met him." reluctantly said the first young person with a. sigh.
 'He-he goes past the house., she continued. "Of course never would stare at a stranger, but, if you are sitting on the porch and just happen to blame if you catch persons eye. Of course looked away again at once that is, almost at once. And before he turned the corner he looked again" Tt was love at first sight," her friend told her. 'SGo on! Go on, ,,Iaocat | yUbot doas ba look Iilxais Emily said the first young person, grabbing the others arm hard. The is positively the handsomest thing you | ever laid your eyes on. He is awfully tall and dark and his shoulders are well, they are just grand. He had on perfectly beautiful clothes. and he walked just the way Bushman does in | the movies. His eyes are the sort that make you feel he is leading your every thought-real piercing, and yet kind. l 'T never in the world can tell you 1 the thrill I had when first saw him | One can tell, you know, when the rea 1 thing has happened to one. I knew right away that he was very differ I ent from Tom and Arthur and the
 boys I've always known. There's not l a bit of romance about boys youvt
 known all your life"
 | q should say not!" agreed hel friend, emphatically. T never in ths 1 world would fall in love with a boy I'd seen led into the house Dy one cal 1 or chasing alley cats or cutting th' front grass Somehow that disullu' sions you so. Did you just see hin l that one time%'
 l Her friend smiled reminiscently anC 1 sighed.
 seNo." she confided. Its been going on long time; almost two weeks. feel as though I had known him ages
 You can tell, you know, whether { person is congenial. He comes b! every day at just about this time 1 that's the reason I told you to com, over now. I wanted you to see him.
 "Alice!" ecstatically breathed tn
 second young person, If you aren' the grandest friend! I'm perfectl! crazy to see him. But hadn't bette sit back where he won't see me"
 T should say not!" insisted the frs girl. You won't interfere at all. Why I don't suppose he will even knov you're here, right beside me, becaus he's always looking at me so intent 1y, you know"
 : "Well, all right" said the secon young person stiffly. He must hay
 perfectly terrible case. though, he is obEvious to all human being
 but you inside a mile limit"
 fIer friend sighed. You don't knov