Show tir pi 4 ile OF U A N JU by i W RENNARD dj J 1903 1903 bj the authors shing compana miss pringle came into her parlor at the evermont Ov ermont with her head high in air sure sign with her of a perturbed spirit and an aroused temper who do you a pose is here C lin dy she asked explosively why I 1 cant can t guess replied the girl slowly Is it anyone I 1 knowd anyone you know humph I 1 should think you ought to know him you ve seen him often enough this last year to know him not began celinda tho the pink roses suddenly blooming in the garden of her pretty cheek yes Us too snapped her aunt roger lyon now what dye think of that for downright Impudence 7 9 I 1 don t really see how it Is exactly impudence auntie yes it is impudence and you know it is I 1 replied that lady testily here he has been traipsing after me all win ter me or my money the lord only knows which aldno and a sooner do I 1 get settled down tor for a quiet summer than he bobs up to spoil everything it if that ain t impudence I 1 of d like to I 1 now what you of call it I 1 I 1 wonder how he found out where I 1 was wasa did the roses deepen in hue in that sweet gardena if they did miss prin gle t notice tor for the shapely head was bent low perhaps he didn dian t know he may just have happened to come here lou know evermont Ov ermont is getting to be quite a fashionable resort nowadays happened your grandmother was the forcible if not strictly elegant or ent entirely frely intelligible retort he knew I 1 a as here all right the idea of his thinking that I 1 want him himl why he hes a nothing but a boy boyf not a day over twenty one it if he a that and miss pringle who confessed to thirty years but was coyly reticent concerning the other ten which the family bible generously set to her credit tossed her head in fine scorn but there a just one thing that mr roger lyon has got to learn and that in very short order she continued I 1 in not goin to have him round me any any longer and I 1 want you ou to tell him so with my compliments 1 I 1 I tell him so soa gasped the girl the roses in that garden were white ghastly white now yes you youa why not 7 I 1 id d like to know somebody a got to do it and of course I 1 cant can t so ou must why auntie 1 I 1 I t do it it its s impossible don t ask me oh off indeed I 1 come in called the older woman as a knook sounded at the door gen leman ieman in parlor A mum said the bell boy presenting a card humph talk about you know who and you begin to smell brim stone here is roger lyon s card now you go right down and excuse we and give him to understand once for all that I 1 want him to let me alone oh I 1 don t know what you shall say raising deprecatory hands fairst the storm of celinda a say bay anything be police polite af 9 course bu make it plain that I 1 wont won t have anything to do with him and she fairly thrust the girl from the room 0 it was a very flu hed ard and em ein barr assed young lady who appeared at 0 ad 11 0 6 0 A av 7 1 I r the door of parlor A a few minutes later and an equally embarrassed but eager young man who sprang to meet her why celinda he stammered I 1 in EO glad I 1 hardly dared I 1 hoped yes she ed demurely I 1 know that ou wanted to see auntie lut it she was ivas nas bus so she sent toe rae with a a message but it was you that I 1 granted to see he protested you must have known that only my aunts aunt a message mr lyon Is this she wishes me to say that you must that hat Is that you must not oh dear I 1 am making a mess of it if I 1 don dont t know how to say it only you husn t ary more you know there t what he inquired gravely I 1 don t quite understand 4 4 G 1 Z I 1 arp M oh you must understand I 1 I 1 cant tell you I 1 fear that I 1 must insist upon youl trying he said this is a mattel matter of the greatest importance to me well its it s its it s about your your following her about so much she la is angry because you have come colle here she cant can t lo 10 ca a feel toward towar d you in the way ay you and your attentions annoy her I 1 see said the man thoughtfully miss pringle does me the honor to suppose that I 1 am a suitor for her hand Is thit it ita yes very softly and finding me ineligible she wish es me MO to withdraw my claims and my presence am I 1 still right yes as before h hum u in I 1 of course you told if her er bet tera I 1 ia why why how could 19 how did I 1 II 11 I 1 rowa very rosy the face now such deep tinted blossoms in such a fair lardent arden oh celinda you must have known he cried passionately I 1 was ure that you understood that 3 ou knew that when I 1 ought bought youl your aunt it was you whom I 1 was that I 1 haunted her pre presence bence that I 1 might be near youl you didn dian t you I 1 now it ita and would it have made any dit dif ference if jou ou had dear I 1 ioe loie you and you only will you come to me mea whatever the answer it must have been eminently satisfactory for after a little a much tumbled head of hair was lifted from its pillow on a manly shoulder and a ha fia ly 15 ue I 1 oh roger what a goso you were to court one woman when you wanted another and what a goose you were not to irow I row that you were being courted Ws the gay rejoinder cinder and miss pringle just then looking in at a partly opened door came to sudden enlightenment and stole softly away muttering to 0 o herself and what a goose I 1 tas as to think that I 1 was vas bein courted when I 1 wa r ta t it seems that there are three of cf a kind of us and that I 1 im in the big g gt t goc goose e of cf tho the three |