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Show i ; - , : ' RHsfai!)ii ' Will)' mi II. i, i -J" ' "Well, wcli, o,thhi.(4 New Year's , day," Mid lr Hinoiiar. ' Do you remember re-member how we qiurrcled this day one year ngoj I "Hemember! I think I do!" cried lla wife. "Why. the cards were ordered order-ed when It happened, and I didn't know whether I could have your name taken out and Dick a tntcrted, In caie I changed my mind " "In caae I changed my mini, you mean, dear. Strange that I neer eus-pected eus-pected how much poor Dora cared for cie until that day." "I'm aure aho had concealed It very well the way ahe ran alter t)lck, aa If ho ever had eyea for anybody but me! tlte nevnr(nil hla love, but a woman's wo-man's Intuition V's-"..-' "A aynonym of vanity, dear. Of v. - , course, I couldn't help knowing that aho rared for nio when I met her In the boarding houae parlor, with her eyea full of leara, on tho very morning alter you had told Marie, her dearest friend, that ve Mere to bo married In a month "Humph, that girl would cry about nnythlng, I've known her to cry when the villain In tho play wan killed oa If a villain could expect nnythlng else In the last net Hut aa soon n I saw Dick that morning I knew that ho know It. Why, his necktlo had slipped around undor ono ear and his voice, aa he wished mo a happy Now Year, waa o sad, that I felt guilty, though my conscience con-science told mo that t had not encouraged encour-aged him" "You're forgotten how jou'used to pralaoithoharc of his held."' '.'As Jf that racial anything! A girt i only praises the shapo of a man's head , when ahe ennt find anything eUe to natter him nbout It It means no more than It does v. hen ahe tells a mall man that he resembles Napoleon, Hut when I remembered that you had Gf onco gone dow)i on t,he floor In jour inew trousciajto pick up Dim's hnnd-jkcrchlcrfkoow hnnd-jkcrchlcrfkoow that 1 hadiecn cruelly decolvcd Bo when you rlproached me j about Dick, I-'l MMMMr.. -in"1 remembeMiow ' badkj felUwUsn YftaaasaiBasstsh&L t"9 replied to my Now iVar's Krjot-, HHHHstaFiIna7 wljh tho rcdiark tli'it, happiness for her was over forever. And beforo I could comfort her Mlssv Marie came In and I could only go 'sadly away without telling her that r should al ways bo a brother to her " "And poor Dick, I asked him If there was anything I could do for him, he replied: 'Yes,' but Just then the maid came In with a note for him, and he said he must go at onco I think he wished to be alone with his sorrow, Then you came In, and. Instead of sharing my pity for him, you accused me of flirting with hlml" ' I er don't remember that. Hut wasn't It odd that beforo I left you for-. ever, Miss Marie ahould come In and tell us that Dorn nnd Dick were engaged! en-gaged! I've often wondered how It happened that tbey decided to console each other" ' "And so have I. Why, here la Marie now perhaps tshe can explain Bit down, Marie-, do Tom uni I nro Just golncrover old times Do you remember remem-ber last New Ycar'a day, and" "Indeed I do I've Just In en to" are Dora, and sho was talking about It. flho and Dick quarreled last New Year's llvo about the dato of their marriage, nnd nlmost parted forever' "Blir. AND DICK QUAIMISLB!) ' They think you both must bavo guessed guess-ed IL I remember that Tom was In tho parlor with Dora when I ran In on Now Year's morning-to tell her of your engagement She had been on the mnk4iVpkwjltWilck.Aadewhn-sie told mfi about It, I wrote" him a nolo telling htm that I believed sho -would forglvo him If be camo at once. That nolo found him at your houso, Ircno whero ho had gone to ask your aid as peacemaker. Odd, wasn't it? ' |