The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-11-02
which his nurse had handed him. HI
looked up at her and said:

which his nurse had handed him. Fl.
looked up at her and said:
Miss Tweed. you're peach"
wait moment Before you begir
your paper. l haven't made the RECORD
yet.'
She took his wrist in her fingers anG
counted the pulsations.
"1'm sure I should have died had i
not been for your care" said Bob.
Miss Tweed noted his pulse and tool,
! up the body thermometer.
YOU'RE not only peach; you're 4
BRICK
Miss Tweed thrust the thermometer
into his mouth, thereby stopping these
expressions of admiration. Neverthe
| less he continued to gaze upon her
! When she removed the thermometer be
| broke loose again while she was max
| ing the record on the ruled paper use{
for the purpose. He told her she was
the loVellest creature he had ever seen
that her cheeks were roses, her lips
coraIs, hc1 eyes Wondrous, through
| which her pure soul looked from heay.
ell.
He had got thus far when she stop.
ped him.
you are not saying all this" she
said. Its imagination talking. For a
week you have seen no one but me.
We nurses are used to this sort of
thing. Every sick man we serve saws
the same thing. You will not have
been out ten days before the scales will
fall from your eyes and you will see
me as am
Il Will never see in you anything but
the loveliest, purest, tenderest woman
that ever lived. Haven't you been
bored by artists wishing you to sit for
a model for a Madonna?"
II can't say that have. When YOU
have recovered you'll say, How could
l ever have considered that girl beauti-
ful?'"
''I'll do no such thing. To prove that
1 am in earnest, 1 ask you now to be
my wife,
And in thirty days you'll ask me to
release you.'
81 swear
Every Well. III promise to be your
wife, but one month after you have re-
gained your health I'll ask you to re-
lease me. You will be only too glad to
do so.'
you've made me inexpressihly
happy" he said. taking her hand in
his. He would have drawn her to him
for kiss, but she would not permit.
"Not till you have refused to be re-
leased" she said.
"In never release you," he said impa-
tiently.
Exactly one month from the day Bob
WynkOop returned to business he re-
ceived a note from Miss Edith Tweed.
1ncloslng her likeness and stating that
as a mere form she asked to be re-
leased from what might be considered
an engagement. She trusted that he
would not consider from her writing
him that she attached any Importance
to proposal from a sick man to his
nurse. The reason for her writing was
to relieve his mind in case he felt diff
ferently from what he. had a month
ago about the matter.
Bob took the letter to his mother and
said lugubriously: .--~.:
Mother, I'm in hole.'
For heavens sake, Robert, what is
it?''
THAT nurse L had when was ill.,
proposed to her.
"Oh, Robertr'
II think I must have been out of nv
head"
did she accept you?''
Yes. but with the understandings
that she would ask to be released one
month after got out. She's made the
request and sent me her picture.
There's the note and there's the pic
ture. She's not a Venus, is shc?''
Mrs. Wynkoop glanced at the note
and looked carefully at the picture.
There's character in that face, Rob
ert." she said.
do you think so, mother:' he asked,
looking over her shoulder at the pic
ture.
Il certainly do. What reply are you
going to make to her note?''
That's where I'm in the hole. 1
swore that I would never release her,
Robert" said the mother sympa-
theically, but with a certain frmness
in her tone, 81 hope my boy will never
go back on his word''
"Oh, mother; you don't think I'm
stuck, do your
"That's not the way to look at it,
my son. My advice to you is to write
Miss Tweed admitting that a court
ship under the circumstance is not a
fair test of whether two :.sons are
fitted to make each other happy, but
you propose that her request to be re-
leased be postponed till both of you
know more of each other.''
''That will make it easier for me.
won't it, mother?'
"Decidedly.''
Miss Tweed assented to Bob's propo-
sition. and Mrs. Wynkoop invited her
to spend few weeks with her as her
guest. She appeared, instead Of in
uniform, becomingly dressed, and Bob
remarked that she wasn't so homely,