Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1898 — She Knew How to Be Cruel. [ARTICLE]

She Knew How to Be Cruel.

A young man, upon whose upper lip the first faint signs of .adolescence had begun to manifest themselves, had become deeply enamored of a maiden several years his senior. His home, and hers as well, was In an ambitious college town in the middle West, among whose municipal regulations—but let us not anticipate. He had been under the Influence of the tender passion for a period certainly not less than four weeks, and could wait no longer to know his fate. One eventful evening, after walking up and down in front of her home until nearly 9 o’clock, he went up the doorsteps, rang the bell and was admitted. The young lady received him in the parlor, and without loss of time he declared himself in the most impassioned manner. There was a brief silence. Then the deep tones of a distant bell were heard. “Harry,” she said, patting him gently on the head, “there goes the curfew. Come earlier next time. Good night.”