Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-12-17
bad enough as it is, but that would

bad enough as it is, but that would
have been just the last straw" III ID
es"Ia4am sure Il don't wish to know
that you would regret hav-
ing told me,". Brooke made plain.
But il it will help you to tell it to
me, or II I a be OF any service be-
cause Of knowing it, then I'll gladly
listen" -.
She folded her small, dainty, shape
ly hands. n gloved and M bares
upon he lap, and sat up q little stiff
ly, her gaze fixed rigidly between the
ears OF the jogging cab horse.
Listen she said, with q charm.
ingly. unfamiliar sternness. tits not
al very new story-the first Of it, at
Hast. It's the old one of q girl falling
IN love-no, not that, either-of a girl
becoming. infatuated-yes. that's bet
ter-with her riding master. It hap
psehed this, time that the riding master
son of q baron, and that the gifl was
fool enough to think that because of
that he must be better than an evety-
day mister"
She paused for just a breath, and
then turned, suddenly, to face Brooke
once more. Its marvellous" she in
terjected, "how wisely philosophical
I've grown in the last half hour, isn't
it,"
He smiled approvingly. and she
went on:
Well, he and she used to ridesa
!ot together in the park here, ana he
made love very deliciously, ands the
poor girls head was turned mora isor
less completely. Then she went West
with hec father and sister, and ,swas
away for five months, and all the
while the riding master wrote to- her,
avowing his deathless devotion and
begging her to come on and make
him endlessly happy.
And at last, on some 7insy pre-
text, that her father, or at any rate
her sister, should have seen through,
but didn't, she came to New York, ac-
companied only by her maid. went to
hotel, 'phoned her riding master,
and the next dayzthat is today. lat
high noon-he and she were uhitSd
I'M the holy bonds Of wedlock inss Tie
rectory Of the Little Church Around
the Corner"
She paused o for breath, but he,
gaze remained fixed in the vicinity OF
the ears Of the, faithful cab horse.
Brooke. leaning back in his corner
was still all attention.
Economically, minded, as usual
she continued. 1.-THE bride proposed q
most appropriate post-weddinE diver.
sion, a horseback ride to Clarensont
howevetss@thatssst the breakf9etts.gasMaa
~foresee1ss Dhasis,tthe eonntrrSsii y,aasA M; IL mn
most .ptinfal.. I Z sa ! I e. s;M5
"TheAbrdegrroo,mr, overcome ~ the
~prospectsofS this speedy culmination 81
his long-delayed hopes. had chosen
prior to the ceremony to indulge with
unYtse abandon In the cup which in.
ebriates rs well az cheers, and 1,
neededsonly the wine which he liber.
ally ordered at the wedding breakfast
Ito change his humor from. that as.
sumed One ofsthe tender, lovin swain
to the real. m~ercenary, self-seeking
acquisftiYes.ss1o
x g.s,11.s sd..pgessasH
AgaiaH IS 6Edsed. III sesmad \
she had snerved herself to the recifSi
but the recalling Of this tryins
episode Of the breakfast proved fol
1.-THE moment too much for her tenset
nerves, And 11e sank back now IN til,
cab, sobbing softly:
"oh. I'm q sorry!' Brooke synnii
pathised. 81 Wouldn't have had %,
tell me H I'd thought tor q mo
Never mind. she interrupted
making . brave effort to recover staeu
nonchalant gayety. "But Il was rxt&s
Ar a facer; you know. However. that
about all Of II. He wanted none
then and there; and when I told hin
I had none. and that my father woult
be sur 70 dlstnherat me for what
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