| Show relgiousTl The Issue < or the Day Phyllis ariingr There rasiatremor in the full rich manly tone He looked up with beseeching eyes in which tho fat suspicion of a tear glistened glis-tened at the fair perfect type of all that could be ilorely in woman that stood before hint and as he looked long earnestly in t ensely bisvoice broke in a trembling treble Outside on the brickswathed pave could be card tho low dull sog of tho raindrops and the soft plaintive gurgle of the organ rinder asho gyrated the crank for all there vasin it while the merry invitation of the man next door to have anozer one fore wo go home broke upon his ears with a startling distinctness that made his tired head ache Phyllis I H What is it Clarence said the beautiful gir turning the rare and dazzling loveliness of her face toward his but there vas no answering an-swering tremor in her voice Have yon a pain Perhaps a porous plaster or a pUP Doyou mock mestill he cried springing to his feet while all the pent tip agony that had twisted his internal economy With a gas i > lier twist tortured his features intOI awful look of You know how despair madly passionately I love you It is i te you are rich and I Owe for your lat weeks bard came the cold calm matter of fact and business like replyTrue alas to true But it will not always al-ways be thu I am young And callow chipped in the maiden 2fot noticing the interruption Lecontmued will work carve L name for myself and paste it on each successive rung on the ladder of fame until wealth and position are mine For you I Listen to me ClarenceCoughdropp there was a cold steady glitter in her ye I asked you a question last tiight a simple everyday question that every schoolboy and schoolgirl in the land could have iiuswerec with their eyes shut you stared at modi blank amaze You remember it do v0lot11 Yes he faltered I remember It was whether 1 favored the league or the brotherhood brother-hood And you told me told me without the shadow of a jest but in dead earnest tha you never heard of the league or brotherhood and did not know what they meant lsjt not s01 Clarence bowed his head He could ant speakAnd And you expect me t marry yon con tinued the now thoroughly aroused woman You A man who confesses himself actually actu-ally ignorant i of the existence of the league brotherhood You think Im or must tik SL brotherhoo mu chump And they parted forever Pittburg Dispatch |
