Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1914 — NOTHING BUT BUSS AHEAD [ARTICLE]

NOTHING BUT BUSS AHEAD

Summer’s End Confession That Dissolved Clouds Threatening Harold and Muriel. “Harold, * she whispered, “the time has come when I must confess the truth to From the\each before them came the flap-flapping of the restless sea. It is an ocra thing how people will flock in thousands every 'year to the restless sea in search of rest. But let that pass. “Muriel,”. he answered her, “I, too, have a confession to make,, But you make yours first. You are an heiress and have the right of way over a guy like me.” ' In the south the summer moon lavished his silver on the beach, being half full. Half seas oyer, you might say. "No, Harold,” she breathed, "it is not for a girl like I —like me, I mean—to take precedence over a millionaire’s son like you. Speak first, Harold.” “Very well, I will,” said he. “I will be brutally frank. Muriel, I am not the millionaire’s son you think me.” “What millionaire’s son are you, then?” “No millionaire’s. My father is a traveling salesman for felt hats. I have basely deceived you, Muriel. The money which I have flung around so extravagantly to buy you salt water taffy and roller chairs took me a whole year to save up put of my salary of 18 per. Forgive me, dear one, but our dream is over. I am only a clerk in a railroad ticket office, and a man of my station can never hope to marry a society girl like you.” She drew a quick, shuddering sigh, almost like a sob. “I thought you were a society young man,” she gasped. “I thought that we could never wed because I was not your equal. For I am not a millionairess. Hhrold, lam only a milliner. But now ” “Now we can get married,” he cried, “and neither of us will have to be a doormat for the other’s relatives.” The moon jumped behind a cloud. The restless sea crashed upon the sand like a colored man chuting in a load of coal. But there was no cloud on the bliss of Muriel and Harold, and the sea of matrimony spread before them as calm. and smooth and free from danger as a cup of tea. —Newark News.