The daily Alaskan., 1920-08-24
CROSSED WIRES
By CORONA REMINGTON.

No one had ever loved as deeply | as those twO-James Wilcox and : Constance Helmson. They looked into each others eyes In rapture and for the tortIeth time that evening | made the same remark-wth slight va rlations.
 No one, dearest; no one on earth ! has ever felt 1t as We have" he told her. I'm sure We have not only | known each other all our lives, but from the beginning of tlme-clcar back to the first day"
 And 1t shall be this way to the end Of time," she sighed softly into his ear.
 After a long and tender parting kiss, , almost sad because It was the last, he left her, never to return, they both ! kncw-untll the morrow.
 And thus the days sped by and were as minutes to the adorlng couple who were totally unconscious of the world about them. At Inst one bright Sunday 1 in June Constance said casually:
 Jimmy, darling, my sister Aggie, 1 the one you've never seen, came home from college last night. Shes out now, but l want you to stay to dinner and meet her.
 Sure will," he replied. But what do care about sister Aggle? She'll only try to monopOllzc my very own est" He kissed her again.
 Later they were summoned to the dining room and James was introduced to Agcic. He took his eyes of Con- stance long enough to glance at the newcomer while being presented when l suddenly his knees shook beneath him and he thanked heaven when he was safely seated. Aggle was exactly like COnstance-only more so, and she had good many things Constance lacked l foo. CunStanCe'S eyes were wonder 1 full. Aggie's more wonderful. Con stances nose was pretty Aggtc'S beau ufuI; and SD 1t went.
 When he awakened from the first shock feeling of uuSpeakable re- | morse came over him. AS soon as. he decenuy could he got away, mumbling some excuse about a business engage ment.
 All that night as he toscsd and turned It was Aggte's picture that kept smiling at him in the darkness anu nor Cuu>uuce's. In panic he would close his eyes to try to shu, out tue vision. but always it was ,hrre. And the next day he was 10 bring Con ] stance over Co take dinner w,,h his l family, She would be sure to notice the change in him-thc whole world would $rc-yet il was impossible 10 get out ot it,
 At dinner the following evening after he had introduced his father anh ! brother to Constance, his mother haE- Ing already me, her, he broke the news of the business trip
 "lnrry. you'll have 10 entertain Coury and look after her while I'm cone, I've bought tickets to 'The ] Shrphcrd's Cal' You must take her | and think oc me when you Go it, old chap." he ended with heartfelt pathoS.
 Reaching home at night he went straight to his room and dropped tnro chair. a muro~c heap of brw.idrred lnrro>rrrtion. Ages later he was conscious of his brother standing be- silr him in his smoking jacket.
 "rhat things a beastly color" was 1 James only greeting us he glarcd a1 the offending garment, including the occupant, in his hostile stare. Harry made no comment but switched of the light.
 "What the dickens did you do that | for?" roarcd his brother.
 "Ercause I want to tell you some i thing, aud-I have to say it in the dark"
 Hurry up then, do," he srowlcd Tn reply.
 James. | swear I hid it, swear I 1 d.d." Harry began in a frenzy. Hid what, you lunatic: Are you dart?"
 Hid it until Conny broke out cry ing Inst night and confessed she didu't love you any morc."
 "What?" gaspcd James in a hiss 1 ing whisper.
 "Ycs." Harry continued, "and when she had made 1t perfectly plain and I realized it was all up between you, l simply couldn't keep it in any more.'
 SppeChluSs. James jumped out of the chair and blundered toward the door in the dark.
 "Wuft. Where are %ou coinE?" l called Harry. "You wouldn't do any l thing to Conny-wouId you?"
 "Conny, nothing" answered JomCs. "Tm going to make an appointment with Aggie. Shes more like Conny than Conuy herself is, but how the devil did Cupid ever get his wires crossed like that"
 Aroentincs Have Sweet Tooth. i According to the third national cen