Omaha daily bee., 1885-01-03

make a bull whenever he opened hi
mouth"
appearances are quite deceptive
Catherine remarked quietly, but with ,
dangerous light in her eyes. "Mr. Grief
enstett is in M sense n boor. Among al
my a|cquaintauces | scarcely know one
who is at hearta truer gentleman thanhc.'
',Ah, yes; at heart perhaps But ht
chooses a singular sort of dtapery for hi.
gentlemanly heart. His trousers, foe eN-
ample, seem to have been cut without ref
erence to the human figure"
al engaged him for his genius, not fol
his trousers" she rctorted with an indif.
erence which rudely shocked Mr.. Romilly',
sell importancc.
When you think genius incompatible
| with well-cut trousers"
"No. But there is u compensation in
all things. Some men shine by dint Of
genius, others rely upon their trousers. II
"By jove, Miss Catharine, that is toe
bad, l never had anyone speak that way
to me as long as | have been alive"
Mr. Romilly had jumped up, in spite OF
his resolution to remain cool and sarcastic,
and he took two indignant strides toward
the very window where Cathatine had hid
her agitation when she was called an
earth clogged soul. 1t was very odd, too,
that her suitor should have hit upon the
very same phase in protesting against her
frankness that she had employed in shield.
ing herself against Greifenstett's mcon.
querable cdndor. She could scarcely ex.
plain it to herself, but Romilly's displeas.
IRE (Which formerly would have rufled
her considerably seemed at present
he seemed to have undergone some
queer transformation, and his social inn
portance, which had formerly impaired to
him a certain dignity, had become a mat
ter of no moment. BE seemed to be-
come dimly aware that the wind was
blowing from an ~unpropitious quarter, and
he made haste to bow himself out before
he had actually lost his temper. He had
never been 50 maltreated in all his life,
and he trembled under q sense of outrage
| which slowly i%mbedded itself in his soul
like some restless, b%urrowing insect. He
was one of those men who gov angry by
degrees, and reach white heat after hours
of indignant reflection. All sorts of de-
liciously cutting things that he might have
said kept occurring to him, and if it had
not been so ridiculous he would have gone
back and said them. He was keenly con.
scious, however, of the fact that Catharine
had never looked so radiantly lovely as
she did to-day, and he knew that,
in case he should feel tempted tc
unload the culver of his sarcasms, hel
beauty would probably dlsar1n him. There
was an animation in her face and gesture
which he had never witnessed there before
as if the music, somehow, hadlentits rhythm
to her pulses and mixed some stirring
notes into the cadence of her voice. His
vaguely patronizing feeling toward hel
vanished and odd as it may seem, her in
difference made her supremely desirable,
Instead of Boosting of his anonymous con
quests (Which had been one of Romilly's
~favorite diversions at his club) he took W
a copy of the North American Review fol
the purpose of improving himself intellect
ually so as to be a match for her at theil
next meeting. Since she had taken a
fancy to that sort of thing, why, he would
show her that he was the man to beat hel
on her w ground.
(To BE CoNTINUED.)