Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-07-08

your paper. l haven't made the record
yet
She toea his wrist in her fingers and
counted the pulsations-
I'm sure / should have died had it
not been for your care" said Bob.
Miss Tweed noted his pulse and took
up the body thermometer
You're not only a peach; you're a
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 he
broke loose again while she was max
ing the record on the ruled paper used
for the purpose He told her she was
the loveliest creature he had ever seen;
that her cheeks were roses, her lips
corals, her eyes wondrous, through
which her pure soul looked from heav.
en-.
He had got thus far when she stop
ped him.
You are not saying all this she
said Its ina gination 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 says
the same thing. You will not have
been out ten days before the scales will
fall from your eyes and you win see
me as i am"
i 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?''
Il can't say that 1 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
l am in earnest, 1 ask you now to be
my wife,
And in thirty days you'll ask me to
release YOU
81 swear
Very 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 inexpressibly
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. M
IN never release you," he said impa-
tiently.
Exactly one month from the day Bob
Wynkoop returned to business he re-
ceived note from Miss Edith Tweed,
inclosing her likeness and stating that
as 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 sick man to his
| n =
! 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 a hole"
For heavens sake, Robert, what is
it?"
'That nurse 1 had when I was III.
proposed to her"
"Oh, Robertv'
ct think must have been out of my
head"
did she accept you?"
Yes, but with the understanding
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 Venus, is she?"
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 certain firmness
in her tone, Il 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
I 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 win make it easier for me,
won't it, mother?''
Decidedly"
Miss Tweed assented to Bob's propo-
sftion, and Mrs Wynkoop invited her
to spend a few weeks with her as her
guest She appeared, instead Of in
uniform, becomingly dressed and Bob
remarked that she wasn't so homelv