A Fool For Love
ical drawl when Winton gave him the d
tting it in his pocket. The handwriting was the same as that
thing to laugh a
f's posse packing without striking a
t you give Mr. Darrah the credit of being what he really is at
ou are going to accept
y; and so
nton scribbled a line of acceptance on a leaf of his note-book
ness of that aphorism which sums up the status post bellum in the terse phra
us, but I assured her she didn't rightly know men of the world: told her that a picayune business affair in
rteret to help, but Winton was far above the trammelings of time and place. He had eyes and ears only for the sweet-faced, low
Bessie from her niche between Adams and the Reverend Billy at the far
one, "very far from it. He has been a bit off
jected Miss Bessie. "I should say he
ss Virginia handed her cup to Adams, and so had him for her compa
nd the Reverend Billy, to a small table in a corner
Bessie, Winton looked to see the true inwardness
f for suspecting the ulterior motive. And when he finally rose to excuse himself on a letter-wri
joyed it right much. May I hope you will
d have crossed the compartment to make his adieus to M
If you are dying to smoke a pipe, as Mr. Adams says you ar
iful night," he hastened to say.
s heart's desire, which wa
for the plunge,-h
this other railroad is purely
e so; a mere matter of doll
another offer, from
is involved: honor, integrity, good faith, everything a man values, or sho
only fair that you should have your warning. My
er eyes, and so had courage
as I can, but I shall always be his deb
od changed and sh
n I should have said you were the last to care so