Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-04-27
A Little Excursion
in Love
By WILLIAM WINSTON

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NTILLIAM CHANDOS and Evelyn
w Banks were about the same age,
their families were of Che same So
cial station and the bank accounts Of
their respective fathers were Of about
the same caliber. Evelyn and William
both played golf and tennis and in
youth had attended the same Sunday
school. marriage between them
seemed the most natural and suitable
thing in the world. The young couple
were never quite sure whether they
arranged the match themselves or 1t
had been arranged by their parents.
William, upon thinking the matter
over, distinctly recollected having pro-
posed and being accepted, but just
how 1t came about was rather a puz-
zle to him.
Evelyn was In the same state Of
mind. She remembered that William
had one night asked her to be bis
wife ana that she had agreed.
Then one day Evelyn woke up. A
short time afterwards William woke
up. And their awakenings caused
each of them considerable consterna-
ton. Evelyn had seen the zone man"
and William had met the zone wom-
an" Evelyn's zone man" was a
bustling young fellow, Philip Van
Zandt, who had come to the small
town on some business mission. Will
liam's zone woman" was a young lady
from New York, Anna Pearsol, who
was visiting an aunt. The aunt, proud
Of her handsome niece, had given teas
and card parties for her, and Evelyn,
William and Van Zandt had. Of course,
been there.
AS soon as william cast his eyes
upon Miss Pearsol his heart began
to flutter. And when he was intro
duced and she spoke to him 1t fiut-
tered again.
And when Evelyn cast her eyes upon
Philip she felt that he was the most
glorious Apollo she had ever seen.
His manners were as perfect as his
clothes; and he could talk on any
subject, had been everywhere and
knew any number Of celebrities.
William, of course, saw the impress
sion which Philip Van Zandt made
upon Evelyn and Evelyn saw the i'm.
preston which Miss Anna Pearsol
made upon william. "What he can
see In her l am sure I don't know"
said Evelyn to herself, "but / am glad
he does see II, whatever It is. II will
make things easier, perhaps. oh, why
did we ever become engaged And
how can the engagement be broken
without great rows and a social scan-
dal? But It must be. Fancy my set
Ting down for life to the humdrum
existence which william and ! would
live together" And william thought,
at can't be possible that Evelyn sees
anything In that four-husher Van
Zandt No. | think she is just pre-
tending to take an interest In him to
plague me. Poor girl, know It is 60
ing to break her heart, but l see now
that we could never live together in
content. should always be longing
for larger vision, a wider horizon
than Evelyn could comprehend"
William did not cease calling upon
Evelyn-Outwardly they still main
tained the appearance of an engaged
couple. But each felt uneasy in the
others presence. Each had guilty
feeling. When girl is preparing to
throw over the man to whom she IL
engaged she generally does have a
guilty feeling. SO does a man when
he is about to throw over n girl Mat.
tiers must come to crisis soon. But
each was loath to begin the painful
operation.
AT last Evelyn mustered up all her
courage and one evening. as they sat
together In her paternal parlor mood.
ly trying to make conversation, she
said: civilian, have noticed that
you are very much interested in that
young lady from New York, Miss
Pearsol, who is visiting her aunt here.
Perhaps-yOu know we neither of us
have seen very many people outside
OF our own little town here-perhaps
we were rash to become engaged be.
fore we had seen more of the world. "
perhaps So" replied William. far.
Ing up. "But as for my being stuck
on Miss Pearsol, | notice that YOU
seem nightly taken up with that Van
Zandt fellow. Wen break or the en-
gagement II you say so; but for
heavens sake don't go and throw
yourself ava on that fellow"
VERY we'll well break of the en-.
gagement them said EVELYN, "hut lie,
me warn you that that Pearsol girl Is
mink II there ever was ONE
snapped Evelyn. "If you don't prom.
Use me that you will have no more
to do with her | won't let you of from
your engagement"
And II you don't promise me that
you will have nothing more to do
with that Van Zandt fellow / wont lei
you Off. either" said william.
The fact was that each was intense.
ly Jealous, as lovers ought to be The
wanderlngs of their affections had
been only little temporary excursions,
Induced by the novelty of new person.
alltles They had never loved each
other ms fervently rs they did AZ that
moment. II they hadn't loved each
other they would not have been so
Jealous Instead of breaking their On
gagement they had simply got Into q
lovers quarrel
Into the parlor came busting Ele.
lyn's mother. "0h children" cried she.
have you heard the newsi rhilip
Van Zandt and Anna Pearsol were
quietly married last night NJ the
Methodist parsonage"
"He's welcome to her." said william.
"She's welcome to him." said Eve