Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-12-28

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Min Tweed thrust the thermometer
Into his mouth, thereby stopping thesa
Expressions Of admAak1oa. Neverths.
LES b continued b ease upon her;
V11A - senGsoo1As thsrunometer be
broke loose again vhils abe was max.
tho the 1ecos1 On ~ rulsd paper used
Tor IT, btEposE h to1d her she wal
IL leVo1leGe c4tAtnES ~ ha1 ever seen;
tha1 ~ cheeks wGEe 1oeo1, her ltps
corals, her eyes wondroug, through
which her pure soul looked from heav.
en-.
He had sot thus far when shs stop.
ped him.
"You are not saying IN this" she
said. ITS imagination talking. For q
week you have seen no one but me.
We nurses are used TO this sort Of
thing. Every siek man We serve sayS
the same thing. You win not have
been out ten days before the scales wll
fall from yoar EYES ana you win go
me as am"
Il win never - h yua anything but
the loveliest, pureDk tsnderest woman
that ever lived. Haven't you been
bored by artists whaling you to cit for
q model for Madonnar
81 can't say that have. When you
have recovered you'l say, How could
I ever have considered that girl beaUti.
fuly"
"I'll do no such thing. To prove that
am In earnest, eek you now to b
my wife,
and II airy days yeu'll ask me to
release you"
II 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 win be only too glad to
do 90"
you've made mo insxpressibly
happy" he saia, takisg her hand II
his. He would have drawn her to hin
for . kiss. but she would not permit.
Not till you have refused to be 70.
leased" she said.
IN mover release you." he said impa-
tiently.
Exactly one month nom the day Bob
Wynkoop returned to business he re-
cesved . nots from Miss Edith Tweed,
inclosing her likeness and stating that
- more form che asked Do 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 q proposal from q sick man to his
NURSE Ths reason for her writing was
to relieve his nind in case he felt DIFF
ferently from what he had q month
ago about the matter.
Bob took The letter to hiS mother and
said lugubriously:
Mother, Tn in Q hoaSs.'''
For heavens sake, Robert, what y
itr'
THAT nulss hAd whsa I vas NJ !
proposed to hse."
"Oh, RobsrtF
II think I must have been out a ny
head"
did she accept y0r
Yes, but with tho understanding
that she would ask to be released one
month after got out Shes made thoi
request and sent me her picture. {
There's the note and there's the pc
ture. She's not a Venus, 10 sheY'
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, 70. mother ~ he asked,
looking over her shoulder at the pic
ture.
Il certainly do. What reply are yoa
going to make to- her noteg"
That's where I'm In the hole. Z
swere that would never release her.'.
Robert" said the mother sympa-
thefcally, tnt with, a certain nrmness
in her tone. ~ hope my boy viii never
90 back on, hlA word.'
"Oh. mother: you don't think I'm
stuck. do, yous'
That's not the way to look at it..
my son. Ny advice to, you is to write
Miss. Tweed admitting that a court.
ship under the circumstances Is not a.
fair test Of whether two persons 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 1t easier for me.
won't 1t, mother?"
Decidedly"
Miss Tweed assented to Bob's propo-
sition, and Mrs. Wynkoop invited her
to spend q few weeks with her as her
guest. She appeared, instead Of In.
uniform. becomingly dressed, and Bob
remarked that she wasn't 30 homely. /
after all. Mrs. Wynkoop contrived to,
leave the two together good deal
during the visit. and they seemed to
be at least quite companionable. One
day Bob said to his mother:
THAT girl has more sense than any
woman ever met"
Horse sense, you mean"
"Yes. horse sense. She'll never tnou-
BILE her husband, whoever he may b.
with any fool notions
"And he'll find that q great a6vsD-
tage."
"A woman don't keep her good 1eoks
but q few Year,, does sheY
'The prettiest woman In the world
will have no more beauty. than ysur
mother in time"
you don't need beauty. 1sthse;
you're Just a. good without it-n
And Bob kissed her lovingly
Well, the upshot Of It all was that
Bob married Miss Tweed. Shells now
forty and 5ust 90 good looking ias abe