Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1910 — The Blot on His Past. [ARTICLE]

The Blot on His Past.

“Haven’t you anything to confess, to me before it is too late?” she asked. “Remember that it will be much better for us to part even now than it will be aifter to-morrow. Think. Isn’t there In your past something that you have hidden from me? Don’t he afraid to confess it. -I will forgive you if it is not too terrible, and then we can begin our married life with no shadow to darken the pathway before us.” “Well, Bessie,” he replied, as he avoided looking into her eyes, “there is something. I am going to throw myself upon your mercy. Don’t judge me too severely. Have pity. I once carried on a stamp flirtation with a girl for two months.” -