Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-11-17
ROCKVILLE MORNING, NOVEMBER n 1916
which his nurse had handed him. BE
looked up at her and said:

into his mouth, thereby stopping those
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 used
Tor 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. TITS imagination talking. For
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 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
model for Madonna2"
II can't say that | have. When you
have recovered you'll say, How could
ever have considered that girl beauti-
fulr"
"rll do no such thing. To prove that
am In earnest, ask you now to be
my Wife"
"And in thirty days you'll ask me to
release you"
II swear
Every well. I'll promise to be your
wife, but one month after you have TO-
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.
mot till you have refused to be re-
leased" she said.
"Pll 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 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 a proposal from 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 lugubrlously:
Mother, I'm IN n hole"
For heavens sake, Robert, what Is |
itT
"That nurse had when / was III. |
proposed TO her"
"Oh, Robertr
II think must have been out of my |
head"
did she accept your"
Eyes, 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 she2"
Mrs. Wynkoop glanced at tho 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 noteT
That's where I'm In the hole. I
sworo that | would never release her."
Robert" said the mother sympa-
theically, but with n certain flrmness
In her tone, 81 hope my boy VIII never
go back on his word"
"Oh. mother; you don't think Pm
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 court
ship under the circumstances IL not
fair test Of whether two persons are
fitted to make ench other happy, but
you propose TINT her request to be re-
leased be postponed til both Of you
know more Of each other"
"Thnt VIII make It easier for me,
won't IT, motherf"
Decidedly"
Miss Tweed assented 10 Bobs Dropo-
sltion. and Mrs. Wynkoop invited her
to spend few weeks with her as her
guest. She appeared, instead Of in
uniform, becomlngly dressed, and Bob
remarked that she wasn't 30 homely,
after all. Mrs WynkoOp contrived to
lenye the two together good deal
during the visit, and they seemed to
be at least quite cOmpani0nable. Ono
day Bob said to his mother:
"That girl hns more sense than any
woman ] ever met"
Horse sense, you mean"
"Ycs, horse sense. She'll never trou-
bic her husband. whoever he may be,
with any fool notions"
"And he'll find that great advan.
tnge"
"a womna don't keep her good looks
but few yenrs. does shef"
""fhc prcttlcst woman in the world
Will have no more beauty than your
mother IN time"
you don't need beauty, mother;
you're just NJ good without H."
And Bob kissed her lovingly.
Well. the upshOt OF II all was that
Bob married Miss Tweed. She Is now
forty and Just rs good looking rs she
was Mt twenty Bob adOres her.
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