The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-01

cleaned at last from between the in.
congruous yellow lashes of Jacks darn
eyes.
.Well, Luly," he began. bye-and.
bye, and Luly detected at once the note
of concession. eff your heart is set upon
trying this thing. why, of course, &c
ahead. I've got to go into the city to-
morrow, and nothing would delight me
more than your sweet company.
She confronted him with a counte-
nance absolutely beaming, and put out
her hands in a captivating little gest-
ure.
"Now you're my good old jack" she
said
Jack laughed and stopped over her,
and carried the hands to his cheek for
an insantt. then went out to his dinner
and away to his business.
That night he came home in perfect
down-pour of rain.
"But it's clearing shower" he as
serted, cheerfully. THE winds get
ting around to the west, and we're sure
of fair day for our jaunt, Luly.
"Whatr he exclaimed, suddenly,
perceiving the lately detected Luly now
very absorbed and eager. posing upon
her up-lifted fingers fragment in straw
and blossoms and dangling ribbons.
Spring millinery
"Well, 1 wasn't going down there
looking like dowdy,' mumbled Luly,
with her mouth fun of pins.
Jacks prediction came true. The
five days sulk and evenings drench
were succeeded by the bonniest of
May mornings. Luly donned the
..love of bonnet" her deft fingers
had fashioned, and managed, somehow,
to look most wonderfully bright and
blooming for person suffering from i'll
health.
"Does your shoulder pain you very
badly, dear?" Jack asked, with tender
solicitude as they pursued their jour
ney.
The vernal sunshine, streaming in at
the car-window's unshaded lower half,
Tapped her in a comfort quite luxurious.
1t was with an effort, in fact, that she
realized even the existence of the afore-
named troublesome member. But.
come to think of it! well, it didn't ache
so perfectly awfdlly as it had some
times. She should hope not, indeed;
but it didn't feel Just right now.
The city was all life and animation
and stir. Beautiful fabrics filled the
shop-windows. Eager-faced people
thronged the walks. So much to do!
This capricious spring had stolen a
march on everybody, and everybody was
making glad haste to get ready for the
welcome invader.
81 must stop here at Hollingsworth's.
I've some shopping to attend to, and l
want to see about the children summer
suits and so on" Luly said.
Jack accompanied her within.
But now 1 must go my way" he
declared, after little. take it easy
here, Luly, and get you some dinner
before going further. Gluck auf."
A lay-tigure stood just before them,
and, in the retirement it afforded, Jack
let his blonde mustache brush lightly
the fair cheek of his companion.
He came back moment later.
81 understand your doctor occupies
new quarters" he said. Wentworth
street, No. 57-one flight up, remember.
You want to take Merivale avenue
ar-and then he was really gone.
1t was not until nearly the middle of
the afternoon that Luly found herself
at the designated place. Her eyes
searched the building for some assuring
sign, but found it not. Yet this was
street surely, and this was
No. 81, and so she ventured in.
With entire correctness, as she soon
gathered from the diminutive son of
CARRIED Enthusiastically, hammered
a la Chesterfeld-who received her at
the door. Across the polished hard
wood floor and Persian rugs of the
quaintly-appointed little antechamber
the urbane servitor led the way. slipped
a silken portiere, and passed her in
under the golden-lilied banneret of
France that depended from above and
between the gigantic pair of lacquered
vases that lowered one on either side.
Immediately there was bowling low
before her, with his hand upon his
heart, a very elegant gentleman in a
very elegant dress-suit and blaze of
diamonds at his breast, as he CHANGED
to intersect a bar of sunlight with the
half-circle his person was describing.
A name of jetty curls fell to his
shoulders. A glitter of white teeth
broke from the blackness of his beard
ed lip. Adamantean, indeed, must be
the fancy to which these so patent
charms could make no appeal! Besides
it was the perfection of fine breeding,
Luly thought, with which DR.. Voullaire
performed the simple courtesy of hand
inc her chair, as it was certainly the
ideal of agreeableness with which, hav-
ing placed himself opposite, he pro-
ceeded to speak of the weather and the
topics of the times in English charm
ingly corrupt.
Then, would Madam be pleased
to look about his den a little?
And he showed to one side small vel
low jar, encircled by an artistically
ugly green lizard and holding a big
bunch of freshly-cut Jacqueminot roses,
the better to display the design of
rare mosaic that formed the top of the
Here was curious bit in antique
bronze; here whimsey in wood-carv-
ing; this painting had a good point or
two.
Luly became so swallowed up in de-
light and admiration as to quite lose
sight of the purpose of her visit, and it
was not until there happened to flash
into her mind a sudden recollection of
the inexorable train for home that she
to say wherefore it was
she had come.
DR.. Voullaire had her seated at once.
'sAh! re rheumatism in re s'oulder.
Ma tois, it is one terrible 'urt.''
He took her hand lightly, and made
few swift passes from the shoulder