Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1902 — Then He Said “Good Night." [ARTICLE]

Then He Said “Good Night."

The subdued light in the room made even his “howling” necktie a thing of beauty. For fully three minutes they had sat amid the silence which it seemed cruel to break. Then he stirred uneasily. "Don't you Miss Lulu, that it is a great mistake for a man like me to travel through this life alone?” She regarded him fixedly for a mo.ment. “Won’t your"—the words came slowly and with firm enunciation—“won’t your mother chaperon you?” To this day she is uncertain whether It was sixteen or seventeen seconds that elapsed before he took his hat and his departure simultaneously.