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Show DECIDED NOT TO PROPOSE After Such an Extremely Broad Hint It Really Did Not Seem to Be Worth While. 'He had been worshiping her for months, but had never told her, and she didn't want him to. He had come often and stayed late very late and she could only sigh and hope. He was going away the next day on a holiday, holi-day, and lie thought ihe- last night was. the time to spring the momentous question. He kept it to himself, however, how-ever, until the last thing. It was 11:30 by the clock, and it was not a . very-rapid very-rapid clock. , "Miss Mollie," he said, tremulously, "I am going away tomorrow." "Are you?" she said, wiih the thoughtlessness of girlhood. "Yes," he replied. "Are you sorry?" "Yes, very sorry," she murmured. "I thought you might go away this evening." eve-ning." Then he gazed at the clock wistfully and said good night. |