Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, July 17, 1913, Image 8
JOAN AND TWO MEN
The girl sat on the side of her
bed, swinging her legs and thinking
deeply, with a very worried expression
on her interesting face. She was
not exactly pretty, but much more
arresting than many prettier people.
If seen in her clothes?including
shoes and stockings?she was tall
and very slight, with red hair and
golden-brown eyes and the creamy
skin inclined to freckle that usually
goes with that type.
She had just returned from a
dance and had evidently brought
back with her mitch food for reflection.
The burden of her thoughts
ran somewhat thus: "1 like the man
and he has tons of money, and if
only one could arrange to live with
him on nice, friendly terms without
unnecessary love-making it wouldn't
matter his being more like a billy
goat than a man, and I shouldn't
have so much minded marrying him.
But now I'm afraid I really couldn't.
I should always be wishing he was
Hughie, and that wouldn't be moral.
Would it? Nor quite fair to him
either perhaps. Hughie is the
greatest difficulty, because if I wasn't
in love with him 1 don't think my
conscience need have pricked me for
not being properly in love with Mr.
Tudor. Men with handy legs and
goat-like boards can't expect their
"wives to he wildly in love with them.
Now can they ?
"You can respect a goatee l>eard
and deeply sympathize with bandy
legs, but they never could inspire in
you 'a purple passion scarcely holy,'
and you could never, never kiss them
?I mean him?of your own accord.
Hut oh, why must I marry at all
just yet?
"How on earth am 1 going to
make up my mitid ? I know what
I shall do. Write to Hughie and
ask him to come here tomorrow to
help me to decide."
Next morning a note was dispatched
to Captain Hugh (lore, Irish
Guards, Chelsea barracks, and at
4 :30 p. m. .Joan was in the drawingroom
waiting to receive him, garbed
in softest white?red-haired women
should always wear white or black?
and looking extremely fetching.
Presently Captain Gore was announced,
and after the usual greetings
started off in rather prim style.
"1 got your note, Miss Verney.
and have as you see hastened to obey
your summons."
"Oh, thank you so much for coming!
I hope it didn't inconvenience
you awfully. Hut you've to come
down olT your stills. Call me Joan
just for the occasion, and help me to
decide a most aw full v momentous
question. 1 shall call you Hughie,
too, nnd shall try to think you arc
a young divine or Christian brother
or something in the professional advisory
line so as to excuse my sending
for you."
"Rut, my dear little girl, why
bother nhout any excuse? 1 was, as
you very well know, only loo delighted
at the opportunity. But," not
taking her seriously, "nothing I
hope is going to interfere with your
coming down to the club on Sunday.
We will have a jolly time. First the
drive down?and, by the way, you
must sit in front of ine?then after
lunch I will punt you up to Bray
away from 'the madding crowd,' and
we will laze and laze and laze, and I
shall tell you a story which though
it has l>een told hundreds of times
before?"
"By you, flughie?"
"?Is," unheeding the interruption
except by a guilty look, "nevertheless
always interesting when told
by the right i^rson."
"Are you sure it would interest,
me, Hughie, and that you are the
right person to tell it?"
?> en, i nope devoutly it would
and that I am. And, sweetheart,
Why need we wait till tomorrow, I
mean Sunday? Let me tell it to
you now."
"On no account, Hughie; it might
be fatal to a sensible decision if you
allowed yourself, or I allowed you,
bo become sentimental. And I'm not
ure that I like sentiment on the
river either. There is such an ait
an odor of low license?you needn't
laugh, I've heard father use the
term in talking of licensed house#
where people drink too much, and it
eems to me just as appropriate foi
those kind of people in punts whr
lriss and cuddle and behave in i
manner, to quote Mrs. Gamp, 'to<
brazen for words.' It makea on<
burn to the bone, and you neve
know where to look, though the;
don't mind what you see and, a
mother saya, 'glory in their shame.
But we must get back to our mut
| ton; and, Hughie, you're got to
; muster all the wisdom and cupidity
you possess and leave sentiment entirely
out of the question."
"Well, for goodness' sake let us
worry it now and get it over whatever
it is, and then we can enjov our
; tea."
"Well, firstly," Joan said, "would
I you mind Mr. Tudor coming with
us?"
"Why, certainly I should mind.
Ami why in the name of everything
that's sensible should you want to
cart that ass down for to be getting
in everybody's way?"
I "He's not an ass, Hughie, and J
| assure you he can be quite giddy and
i festive. And you see it's like this"?
i with a little saintlike sigh of resignation?"I
may he engaged to him
j l>y Sunday, and that's what I want
you to help me to decide ahout."
j "Well, of all the acts of coolness I
j ever heard of this takes the hiscuit
: ?to lure me here to advise you as
, to marrying another man."
"But why this outburst, Hughie?
I thought you liked me."
"0, did you, indeed? Well, then,
, you were mistaken, for I have no liking
for you, and I should have nothj
ing but hatred and contempt if you
i were to marry that blighter, or any!
body else."
"But, Hughie, dear, you don't
want me to be an old maid, do you ?"
"No; I want you to marry me as
you gave me reason to suppose you
would."
"Oh, Hughie, you must have been
dreaming, then, or I must have been
i drowsing or drinking or something,
for how could you support me and
j dress me and amuse me? You have
only got enough for your own needs,
and I've got nothing, but heaps and
heaps of neinls, and I do so love
'purple and fine linen.' Hughie,
dear, 1 am greedy, too, and love nice
1 out-of-season goodies and sparkling
wines and Ufllies and things. Of
course you know I would a hundred
times rather marry you than Mr.
Tudor, but he is quite a decent |>erson,
and I am, in fact, quite fond ot
I him. And just think. Hughie, of all
U..J.. I > : ~ t 1-- i lit
hut uhciv i mm hocks i coma navo 1
i and the scrummy things I could do
and the frantic envy I could arouse i
in the breasts of my dearest foes,
and the way I could strut and patronize
and snub people who had been j
horrid to me, and 1 could he so nice
to my friends who gave me good sul,
vice like you, Hughie. They could
come in their seores and scores to
borrow from me because I should get
father to see that Mr. Tudor made
me a huge allowance, even enough j
for that, and. Hughie, you must see 1
surely that it would la1 simply a
splendid match for me. Hut,
Hughie," so softly and cooinglv,
"what would you do with an extravI
ag&nt, ungodly wife like me if I i
; were to decline this brilliant alliance
and marry you instead?"
"I should love and cherish her and
sail away with her to some country
where 1 could labor and live for her,
and I would make her as happy as
the happiest woman in the whole
world.
"Oh, Hughie, what fun; and you
are a darling! And I may tell you
now that I was only piling on the
agony alsuit my extravagance and
greed and general odiousnegs just to
put things Iwfore you and 'cos it
j seemed only fair to give Mr. Tudor's
, proposal every chance; hut, honestly,
j I don't believe I should mind n bit
being poor with you and, after all, it
1 is one's own affair chiefly who one
marries, so I just will inarrv you, i
j Hughie," jumping into his out- |
'stretched arms. "But, snakes alive!
I
won't the announcement give rise to
occurrences when mother comes in!"
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