BY TELEPHONE. There wore sharp words that morn=- ing and vou at all creditable to the young wewbers of the family. Glean beid out his cup and saucer bath of which bad been duly painted kod wml they looked duly ane them out across the short aud | tque~—held wav of the bie to his sister. “Another sip of coffee, if youplesse, May, he Aud see here May don’t look at the sugar you put iait.” “Wuat are you talking about 7 de- manded his sister, testily,. She was suspicious of sume covert unpleasant pews in the quiet words. What do ? Why shouldn't I look at said, you mean the sugar.’ * Because, Glenn. “Because what!” May asked, with some asperity. “Why don’t you tell ! Why suouldo't Ilook at your said the nov-committsd sugar 7” “Because you might change it into something sour.” “What & rich joke !” she said, turn- iag up her nose, with all her other fea, tures pinched. “You just the same as detn’i got up at all this morning. It'y mearly eleven o'clock. And mow I have to sit here and pour your coffee whea [ promised the girls that I'd help decorate the ball for the festival.” “Why didn’t you tell me this soon- er?” Glenn said, deliberately sipping Ins coflee. “What good would forty tellings have dove 7’ May snapped. “I should have bad to wait and get your coffee sll the same. You would have gone om with your morning napping Mamma just makes a baby of you She pets you till you can't sit up. If I'm not up at family breakfast, I have to take just anything I can find about the pantry, while you can sleep till eleven, and get uo to fresh coffee and hot quail and waffles, and everything mice, and I have to stay and watch you eat, you great baby! Mamma won’t let me stir out of this house till you are breakfasted. You tyrannize aver me through mamma” She paused, but when Glenn made no reply, continued, “I wouldn't mind i if you worked at night, like railroad men and telegraph boys and night editors and doctors. Bat you don’t doa lick of work, night or day. You just sit up with that girl of yours, I know.” Glenn looked at her in 8 solemn way, but said noting. ‘E wish you were going to get mar- med to her right away,” May weat on. *Bat 1'd pity your wife!” As Glenn was leisurely folding bis mapkin, their cousin Betty, entered, in seushing way crying oat : *Js this the way you help decorate the hall? You promised to come for me by nice o'clock. I've waited and waited and waited. Sister Ann's been out to the gait forty times to see if Jou were coming, and she’s been to the east window twice forty times. It's = fact. I've just haunted that window a0 that mother couldn't see to sew, be canse | was in her light all the time, sad she scolded me about it. Andall our folks got vexed at me and called mes fidget, and its all oo your ac esunt, May, and I think its a shame fir you''—— “I think it’s a shame for you to chat- ter at this rate |” interrupted the ir ritated May. Betty's talk teased her Fike pic-prickings on an already net tled surface. “You always were a eattle-box. . You can talk longer with out saying saoything than any one ever | koew.” At this Betty's face flushed in sud: den resentment, Come May, you're carrying things too far,” said Glenn. “Don't let race speeches hurt you, Betty.” “I dou’c mean to let them hurt me I always consider the source from which a thiog comes,” answered Betty pouting st May and smiling at Glenn, ‘Pll go to the hall, and tell the girls that May is too cross for any use in the world; that she'd wither the flow. ers if she were to try to help us make wreathes, Come on Glenn! You're going my way.” She hooked her arm in his, and of! they started, chatting and laughing as if there wasn't any teased May to care for. Their noncha'ant way made May wadder. Beside, Betty should not have the last word, “I am glad you're going,” May mut. tered, “and I hope you'll never come bere mzain.™ her Betty. gawd and vorned, ber fuoe waa hot and flashed, her eyes bright. “I shall take care not to come back antil you ask me to come.” “Then you shall never come again,’ May said, quiokly, her temper raising every moment, “Why May'!" Glenn remonstrated. “You forget yourself.” “No, I do not forget myself,” quickly interposed. “You owe Betty an apology,” Glenn continaed. “Then I owe something that I'll never pay,” May retorted, with promptuese, “But I do not owe her she an apology. She owes me an apol- ogy." “I'm sure I've nothing to apologize for,” Betty said, her head. “The idea of my apologizing, when she has beer saying suck rude things! tossing Come along, Glenn!” May heard the front door close on them, but kept her seat at the table for some minutes ; sat there breathing bard, her heart swollen, her dips tight, her nostrils widened and tsembling. Just then May's aunt dropped in, a dear, good soul to whom May con- fided everything. To ber May told her story. “Apologize to ber indeed!” said May. “I won't do it! And if she waits for me to invite ber, she'll neyer eoter this house again. It's Borrid in Glenn to tease and worry me till he gets me angry, and thea tell me to apologize for not being sweet. It's insulting. And now I suppose that he's gone off to the merchantile libra- ry to read some novel, leaving me to clear the table where he's been dally- ing. And he took Betty's against me! Betty, with her chatter, is simply horrid! Chattered like a magpie, and then went prancing off with Glenn, instead of helping me clear the table, so that I could go along with her to the hall. She's as selfish as she can be! Bat I'm rid of her, that’s one good thing! She isn't ever coming here again till I invite ber. I suppose her father and moth- er will lay all the blame on me, for they think Betty is perfectly perfect On their account I'm sorry about the trouble, for uncle and aunt have al- ways made a pet of me, because I'm auntie's namesake, I suppose. I shall have to see Betty when I go theres even if she shouldn't come here any more, Very likely, though, they won't want me to come when I'm out with Betty. It will be dreadfully lonesome not to have Betty's to run to, part and to have uncle sad aunt cold and distant to me. And I'm #0 used to having Betty fly in and out at all hours that I don’t know how I can ever get along without it. We've al- ways done everything together. And I know that mamma will think I'm to blame ; she always does when Betty aod I have a spat, and I guess it's about so, for mamma's judgment is geoerally correct; and I'm spunky. snd I don't control my temper, and I let my anger get the better of me I believe Betty means what she says. I know she does. She means rot to come till I invite her. Bat I'll not invite ber. I said I wouldn't, and I won't, if she never comes! I show her that I can be as set as she is.” Feeling somewhat braced by this confession May proceeded to clear away Glenn's breakfast table. But there was a cold, heavy spot in her throat, “I suppose I can stand it if Betty does stop coming here,” she went on saying. “I don’t know either how I ean, I'd give everything I own if she'd come running in this minute. Bat I'm not going to break my word: I shall not invite her. I think she's cruel to say such a dreadful thing, Oh, dear! dear!” Haviug by this time got the table cleared, and having liberty to cry May did ery, dropping into a chai, and hugging its back. “Oh! Oh! Oh! O! I don't believe 1 can ever stand it!” she said. “And I know that Betty means it ; she'll nev- er come here again unless I invite her sod I can’t invite her without eating my words and swollowiog them right down. “I suppose I ought to eat them and be glad of the chance, even if they choke me, for I don't really mean them. I spoke them when I was in anger. People oughto’s to speak when they're angry, and if they do ought to take back everythin thy "y, for they hard yy dear! 1 anything they can stand Tov Bo 4 my lips had a spring lock that would lock when I get angry. Yes, d ought to take it ull back; I ought to, but oh! oh! oh!” Bhe was crying aloud when the telephone rang. It was a very inter- esting thing—this new arrangement in their house, just put in the day be- fore, and a summons from it was sure to etart May to her feet. She patted one eye with her wadded up handker- chief, then the other, get the message, “Who is it?” she asked, "” and hastened to “A penitent,” was the reply. May's heart gave a strong spring, “Who? What penitent?” she asked, hardly able to keep the eagerness out of her voice. “One who behaved very badly to- ward you this morning, said the tele: phone. “It's Betty! Oh, it's Betty,” May in joy whispered to her heart. Her face was radient, her lips were parted in smiles as she asked : “What do you wish to say 7” “I wish to ask your pardon for my this to blame for your erossness. Telephone back my pardon, dear,” behavior morping, I am May could hardly stand stall as she to the mouth-picce “I for- times, you Aod won't you put her eager lips and said in a jubilant tone: ten thousand blessed old sweet! give you forgive me once, precious? I've been crying ever since you went away mad at me.” “Poor dear,” was the reply, “I wasn't mad at you at all.” “And if,” May replied, “I was a particle mad at you, I've got all over it, and was so sorry for my unkind words that I could have cried my eyes out, and did, almost.” : “Well,” said the telephone, “bathe your eyes and come down to the hall, and I'll go home with you.” “And stay to dioner,” amended May, all in a twitter that she was to have Betty again in the house, and that without first giving the invitation: “Of course I'll stay for dinner,” re- plied the telephone. “Yoa are the sweetest thing in the world,” said May, quivering with de- light. “You're another, ” was the “Come along to the hall.” reply Io fifteen minutes May was down town. As she entered the hall, Glenn came down the aisle to meet her. “You look happy as a queen,” he said, re- calling the mood in which he had left her. “I feel as happy as a queen,” she replied buoyantly, “Betty and I have made up.” “I am glad to hear that” said Glenn, for Betty was very much hurt this morning. She said, most decided ly that she never would make up with you, unless you made the first ad- vances.” “And yet she made the first ad- veoces,” May said, with triumph. “It was splendid in her, and just as nice as could be.” At this point & lady called Glenn to assist in putting up a cross of flowers. May hastened over to Betty who at that moment happened to be sitting a little apart, weaving a wreath, She did not lift her head, even when May stood close alongside. “Dear Betty,” said her cousin, slip ping into a seat beside the wreath. “It is just the sweesest thing that ever was for you to make up, and to offer to go home with me without waiting for me to invite you. I think it was grand in you--s0 much nicer than to stick to a silly promise made in an- ger. “Why!” began Betty, May went on eagerly, without no- ticing the interruption, “Bat 1 iuvite you now, with all my heart, not only to stay to dinner, but to spend the afternoon and stay all ‘night and ell next week and all next year and for. ever and forever,” “But,” said Betty, *I don't know— “You showed what lots of sense you have by not laying up my foolish worde,” May went on, “but honor bright, Betty, would you have given up if you couldn’ have done it by telephone “By telephone,” maid Betty, her face full of question. “Wha are you talking about? I can't under: stand you? What do you mean 7” “Why I mean this: wasn’: it easier to make your confession by te!ephone aod ask my forgiveness by telephone to face with met Wouldo you | that it would be easier, Glenn” continued, ar he came up. “I haven't made any confession, or asked your forgiveness by telephone, or in any other way,” Betty declared. | “What :"” cried May, “You haven't | confessed by telephone? Who did, | then? Bomebody did!” Glenn was emiling with a compre | she | hensgion of the situation, “I was the | penitent,” he explained. “Was that you, Glenn,” her face sobering at the revelation. | “The voite didn't sound at all like | May said, | yours,” “Well, as to that, I suppose a per than Le lephione my tele. | familiar | i son uses a higher pitch of voice natural in speaking by Besides you haven't heard phone tones enough to be with them.” “So you haven't made any advane: A May said to Betty. “Not an advance,” Betty laughed. “And I've gone and invited you to ' May “I'm so glad I don't know what to my house to stay forever,’ | said J ! | do, for [ was wishing to make up. And though I didn't ask your for- giveness by telephone, I have asked it by this note, which I meant 10 se ud | you by Gleau.” Betty drew a scrap | of paper from her pocket and handed | it to May, saying: “My bond to | keep the peac: with you.”— Youth's | Companion — A A—— A PLUCKY WIDOW, ! 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