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An Explanation That Reconciled
the Sweethearts.
By MARTHA M’C.-Wl LLI AMS.
Outside it was raw and gusty, with
White, high lying clouds scudding so
thickly across a pal • sky that only
wan and. watery sunshine strained
through the breaks between, inside
there was the halm of May, especially
in the south parlor, where i knew I
■.should find Myrtilla.
Myrtilla is tall and twenty, with a
child’s foot and a turn of the head and
neck that would become an empress.
She has coral red lips, a fine, straight
nose, olive skin, dark almond eyes,
heavily lashed and lidded, and a low.
straight brow, deeply shadowed by
<dusky floss silk hair Tn virtue of all
~ wer most
men. We had been engaged until two
weeks ago—to bo exact. until the date
of the Verinews’ ball and the episode
of the Grantley girl.
The ball is ancient history now. Be
sides, it has really nothing to do with
the case. I left off dancing with the
Grantley girl at 4 a. m. to fling my
self into tweeds and sot forth upon a
week’s journey. Coining home from
it, I found my table cumbered with
my letters to Myrtilla -mown to the
most fragmentary note—those of the
last week unopened—my ring, my
books, a bracelet or two, the locket
with my picture and a litter of those
idiotic things one sends at Christmas
and Easter and on birthdays. It was
this litter that saved me from utter
despair. I reasoned that if Myrtilla
had cared enough for me to keep it
all this time she could not give up
•caring for me in a moment.
Still, I knew there was a tough job
ahead. But I did not dream she would
go to the length of refusing to see or
hear me or even to listen to my side of
the case through Aunt Bab, most tact
ful of intermediaries. Iler people back
ed her, too—all but Dicky. Dicky is i
fifteen and owns the distinction of be- !
ing the only think in trousers Myrtilla
has found herself unable to subjugate. ;
1 cannot flatter myself that Dicky's !
advocacy of my cause was wholly dis-'
interested. Dicky has a fine taste in :
terrier pups and a relish for stolen gal-'
Inna nn mv biininra \r home be is al-1
lowed nothing more hazardous than a '
Steady going cob. However that may
be, it meant a lot to have any sort of I
friend at court. Otherwise how should
the hall door have swung open at my
approach? The servants had strict or
ders to shut it civilly in my face.
“She’s in there. It beats me why
you want her, why you want any girl,
when you’ve got heaps of dogs and
horses,’’ Dicky said, grinning, as 1 shot j
past him. “She’s been real hateful po
lite; no good for even a fight this!
whole week,”’ Dicky's voice pursued
«ne down the hall.
The south parlor is a square jut,
•open upon three sides to the sun. with
walls more than half windows, iron
barred outside and full of green grow
ing things within. There is a big fire
place.
Myrtilla stood in front of it, ‘her eyes
intently fixed upon the smoldering logs.
At my entrance she started ever so lit
tle. turned her head the least bit ami
kept on staring in the fire.
"Myrtilla,” 1 ventured irresolutely,
my hand si ill on the doorknob.
She sat down and took up her em
broidery, her face still further averted.
Then I knew I had won half a point.
.If siie mid been as augij as she be
lieved herself to be she would have
marched away with her nose in the
tdr.
1 began again formally. “Miss Grey,”
but stopped short. She had begun to
whistle over her work softly, medita
tively, as though she knew herself to
be alone.
Something happened then. I am nei
(her poet nor romancer, but my rang
ing eye saw iu the south window a
creature Os tropic charm, slim and tall,
green gowned as a wood nymph, with
wonderful golden tawny eyes and a
crown still more wonderfully red. As
I went to her she shivered and set all
her green gown fluttering defensively,
but I pedd "0 heed to F, only said joy
ously, baring my head:
“Amaryllis! You are a real godsend.
1 was never so glad to see any one in
all my life.”
Myrtilla’s head came around so that
I saw her profile out of the tail of my
-eye. I fancied she stared, but dared
not make sure of it. My wood nymph
barely nodded; her tremors were all al
vest. I bent toward her low enough
to look into her golden tawny eyes and
ran on:
“What have you done to yourself:
You are so beautiful, so strangely, sc
rarely beautiful, it makes me desper-
•♦a t <o.i <>ai pAop my heart for
•yav or, r.Hm.r, p. would make me des
' jerfd e if 1 • <»•>>:«• k-ow. things that could
Certainly the wood nymph stared
golden lawny eyes looked at mt
in winking. Myrtilla’s head had turn
■_ 1 w ■■■■■■ ■ 'ips were the
least mt paiieu, as though her breath
•came hard. T straightened and stuck
a hand iu my pocket as I added:
“The pity of it! There's a true heart
gone to waste! True hearts are nom
so plenty, Amaryllis.”
“Certainly they a~e not,” came scorn
fully from the fireside. I affected not
to hear and went on manfully:
“I’ve played and lost—lost so miser
.ably. Listen—then tell me if you think
I quite deserve what I am getting.”
“I am going away,” came faintly
from Myrtilla’s chair, but Myrtilla her
self sat still and even made a pretense
jf putting stitches into her work. Find
hig me silent through a long minute,
uhe sat very straight and added:
■“Naturally one is nervous at flndlnj
oneself alone with a lunatic. Only lu-1
natics talk to things as though they
were people.”
“Don’t mind he”, Amaryllis,” I said
softly. “Boor creature, she is jealous.
She thinks you are no more than a lily
blooming in a pot. We know better,
of course.”
“Really I did not. dream you had so
■ meh imagination,” Myrtilli < said out
right, snipping her thread as sb,e spoke.
1 stared harder than ever at Ajnaryl
lis, saying: “Imagination is a tearful
thing s. metimes. I am glad. Amatyl
lis, you altogether lack it. You wouirk
never see in ordinary civilities to a
pretty girl anything to turn your love
ly golden tawny eyes green.”
“Dancing or sitting out every other
number, I suppose, comes under the
head of ‘ordinary civilities,’” Myrtilla
said, her lip curling.
1 kept on quietly: “And even if you
felt hurt you would let me explain.
The Verinews have hearts as big as
their fortune. Thus it happens 1 owe
them what money can nesT pay.
Not so many years back there was a
big flurry in the street that put my
governor in the worst sort of hole.
It needed a cool million to’get him
out, and a Verinew million did it. Yet
the governor was hardly an acquaint
ance. Verinew learned his extremity
by chance and came to his help be
cause, as he phrased it, lie didn’t think
the other side was putting up a square
deal. It does not lessen the obligation
that he got his million back, plus a
good profit. Eventually the Grantley
girl will have it with several millions
more. She is a granddaughter—unac
knowledged because Mme. Verinew
wishes to seem as young as their for
tune—but the very apple of the Veri
new eye. They wanted her to be the
belle of the ball. She was shy and
sensitive and frightened half out of
her wits. Somehow she trusted me”—
“I don't at all wonder at that,” said
a voice from the fireplace.
I bowed gravely and resumed:
“When she is not frightened she is
pretty, Armaryliis. Iler head is splen
didly red—not quite so red as yours.
She is light on her feet, too, and loves
to dance as well as the flowers do.
The trouble is she has not yet quite
caught the rhythms she must move to,
so needs must lean heavily upon her
partner. 1 understood some of the
others did not. Occasionally oue was
flurried, still more occasionally one
impertinent. And a single cad let her
sec he was ashamed of dancing with
her in spite of the millions. At her
first ball—think of it! 1 had to take
away the sting of it somehow. Per
haps I did seem devoted, but she
didn't understand. I told her about
Myrtilla in our very first waltz.”
A little inarticulate cry from the fire
place here. Covertly 1 saw tears on
Myrtilla’s checks. She made as though
to rise, but sank back, turned away
her head and resumed the furious
stabbing with her needle. I gathered
the greenery of Armaryliis in my
hands, laid my cheek against it and
said dreamily:
“Amaryllis, tell me why I am fated
to love dusky hair. All the painters
and poets agree that red is ever so
much more beautiful.”
“Are you sure, quite sure, you do
love it?” Myrtilla asked tremulously.
She was not answered in words. \
Five minutes later Dicky, bursting
in U; -m us. found ns side by side,
looking down at Amaryllis through
sunshin.' grown suddenly and magical
ly warm and golden. After a long
lot k Di ky whistled, turned on his
heel and said from the door over his
shou’.h "So y.m two have made it
up. McSnifters said you would ’cause
that r *d lily bloomed so far ahead of
time. Brit 1 don’t care about that.
All I want is to know what you’re
goin’ to give me when you get mar
ried.”
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