White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-07
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-Ther. Are Heroisms All Around Us"

AAR HUNGERTON. her father.
really was the most t~actless
person upon earth-a fluffy,
untidy cuckoo of "A man, per
fectly good natured. but absolutely
centered upon his own silly self. Ii
anything could have driven me from
Gladys 1t would have bcen the thought
of such a father-in-law.
For an hour or more that evening l
listened to his monotonous chirrup
about bad money driving out good. the
token value of silver, the depreciation
OF the rupee and the TRUE standards of
exchange.
But at last | was alone with Gladys.
and the ome of Fate had come. All
that evening | had felt like the soldier
who awaits the signal which will send
him on "A forlorn hope. hope Of victory
and fear of repulse alternating in his
mind.
She sat with that proud. delicate pro
file of hers outlined against the red
curtain. How beautiful she was. And
yet how aloofl We had been friends,
quite good friends. hut never could |
get beyond the same comradeship
which | might have established with
one Of my fellow reporters upon the Ga
zette-perfeetly frank. perfectly kindly
and perfectly %unsexual.
Gladys WAS full Of every womanly
quality. Some judged her 10 be cold
and hard. but such IA thought WIS trea-
son That delicately bronZcd skin, al
most oriental In lis coloring. that ra-
e hair, the large liquid eyes. the full
but exquisite lips all the stigmata of
passion WIS there. Hn | was sadly
conscious that up 10 now ! had never
found the secret of drawing II forth.
However. come what might. ! should
have done with suspense and bring
matters to a head tonight. She could
but refuse me, and better be a re-
pulsed lover than an accepted brother.
So far my thoughts had carried me.
and l was about to break the long and
uneasy silence when two critical. dark
eye looked round NJ me, and the proud
head was shaken In smiling reproof.
81 have a presentimcnt that you are
going to propose, Ned. | do wish you
wouldn't. for things are No much nicer
MS they are"
drew my chair N little nearer.
'"Now. how did you know that | was
going TO PROPOSE | asked I'm genuine
wonder.
Don't women always know? DO
you suppose any woman In the world
was ever taken unawares? Butch,
Ned, our friendship has been so good
and so pleasant! What a pity to spoil
1t! Don't O feel how splendid 1t Is
that a young man and a young oma
should be able to talk face to face as
we have talked,'
II don't know, Gladys. You see, |
can talk face to face-with the station
master" / can't image how that Off
cial came into the matter, but In he
trotted and set is both laughing.
That does not satisfy me IN the least.
] want my arms round you and your
head on my breast. and-oh. Gladys. 1
want
She had sprung from her chair, as
she saw signs that | proposed to dem
,onstrate some of my wants. you've
spoiled everything, Ned" she ssaid.
IT'S all SO beautiful and natural until
this kind of thing comes ini Ii Is
such a pity, Why can't you control
yourself?"
II didn't invent It," | pleaded. ITS
nature. It's love-
We'll, perhaps II both love II may be
different. l have never felt It,"
But you must-you, with your
beauty, with your souli Oh, Gladys,