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AMIDVII IQ nniniiiLLiui 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.” iVon.’d Have Cost Kim His Life. Os.-.-ac Bowman .Lebanon, Ky., writes: I lure used Foley’s Kidney Remedy and t:mc great pleasure in stating it •uitpermanently of kidney disease wh: ce;thinly would have cost me my life.” For sale by Dr. J. B. George, Gainesville, Ga. Human Blocks and Pulleys. The block and pulley, or “tackle,” was a great mechanical discovery, but nature made every man carry several of these about with him at the very beginning of creation. The most im portant of these tackles is found in the eye. It - you turn your eye to the tip of your nose you use this block and pulley, which is just as perfect as any erected on a ship to hoist sail. The muscle which moves the eyeball works through the block easily and smooth ly and without friction, for nature has supplied 1o all of her machinery auto matic or mechanical lubricating inven tions. These never fail to work un less we are ill, and then tlie danger of a hotbox is to be’consiuered. Mi that a: I nature are always nm-t su< cessful. Chamberlain's Gough Rem- tv act-, on this plan. It loosens tlmeoagh, relieves the lungs, opens the s. •.dim h and aid- nature in restoring the syst em to a healthy condition. Sold by Dr. J. B. George, Gainesville, Ga. T omboy. Verstegan gives the following origin of the word “tomboy” as applied to romping girls: “Turn be, to dance; Tum bod, danced; hereof we yet cab a wench that sklppeth or leapeth ryke a boy, a tomboy; our name also of tum bling comet h from hence.” Chamberlain’s Stomach, and Liver Tablets are safe, sure an,d reliable, and have been praised ]>/ thousands of women who have been n stored to health through their gep.’.ie aid and curative properties. Seal b Dr J. B. G< urge, Gainesville, Ga. FffiW nR SffiS . For every use in preserving, purifying and beautifying the skin, scalp, hair and hands of infants, children and adults, Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment have no rivals worth mentioning. For af fections of the skin and scalp of young and eld that tor ture, disfigure, itch, burn, crust and scale, they succeed when all else fails. Sold throughout the world. Depots: LorCon. ?7. Charterhouse .-1 . Paris, 10. Hue <:■’ It C?i:> irao d Antin; Australia, R 'towns A Co . Sydney, India, B K Paul. 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