Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-07-27

holding those unsatisfactory opinions
which We denOminate Opposite"
''Mrs. Carter, says Cara.
Delighted, . murmers Jack.
Helen VIII be here in q few minutes
She stopped at the MarstOns' box to
settle about some engagement with
them. Dick viii bring her over here.
''She seems to have a great many
engagements with them Of late, ''saYs
Miss lie CrOix.
"Only One-with Dick-I think, %
laughs Mrs. Carter.
Bless their innocent hearts, these
childrenl They think I dOn't see.'
you have missed the best act Of
the play on account of that AT
HOme,'" says Cara.
81 know it." the lady responded.
81 am a martyr to my friends, but
Herr Blum said something almost
witty, and that cOnsOled me. He
says she continues, turning to Jack,
THAT Bernhardt's full face looks like
a profile
cit was Heine who said it first,
says Herr Blum.
He always attributes every
thing he says to some one else
1t relieves him of so much re-
spOnsibility," Mrs Carter explains
amiably to Jack. And, as she does
so, with a smiling, strong restful
face, Jack grasps nervously at the
chair on which he sits, as if to steady
himself, for, incOngruOus and mex
plieable as it may seem, she also re-
minds him Of that picture. Not in
the lines of the face, certainly, but
rather in it's entirety, it's strength,
its repOse, it's
''Well, the worst has come thinks
he, rising with determination. 'FWhile
the last faint spark of intelligence re-
mains viii make my way home. If
1 don't go soon viii have to be tax
en-.
"You are not going?'' says Cara.
mot before Helen comes, anyhow
Seel she is here now
Jack takes one look at the girl who
enters, and turning to Cara says:
''AIy dear girl, 1 am losing either
my brains or my eyesight."
ut must be your eyesight, - laughs
Cara.
"Ohl'' says Jack, desperately; ''you
don't understand. Isee resemblances
to that pictured face in sections
everywhere. In you, in Miss LeCrOix,
in this Helen, and just now notice
/ that even Herr Blum looks q little
like it,
'You have the photograph on
! your brain" answers Cara, so that
| Eugene hears.
Speaking of photographs" says
she, ''makes me think of new thee
ry of Herr Blum. He thinks if we
could get a composite photograph of
/ peoples brains, as we can of their
faces, it would be an easy way of get
! ting the average intelligence" .
| a composite phOtOoranbP' Jack
/ caught at the phrase with frankhope
ga composite photograph is"
a composite photograph" echoes
! the professor, settling himself to be
! instructive, sis obtained by exposing
different photographs of the same
! size, for the same time, on the same
| sensitized plate. These ladies were
| taken in this way recently, and il
| made beautiful face. How could it
| do Other?'' he added, simply enough.
J ''AprOpOs of your explanation, pro
fessOr," says Jack, 81 have a story
/ to tell of friend of mine who was the
/ victim of an unparalleled hoax"
''Mrs. -," said Cara rising, els
reckoning to me, and thing I shall
! go and speak to her for a minute, If
you'll excuse me. VIII you come,
! heutenant?"
''You had better stay and defend
/ yourself, . says Jack, ''fOr Pm going
/ to tell"
II shall need no defence here I am
sure, . she says, laughing softly. eau
! revOir!"
Three weeks after, as Jack and
! Cara stand before the neWly-framed
! picture, he says: cit was rather
! shabby of you to do it, but forgive
you, and am just as much in love
with it as ever.
/ 'YOu can't marry them all. ,"
Unfortunately, no. Utah is re-
mote. I might do it in turn. Who
sat frst?"
81 refuse to tell you - SAYS Cara.
! but cOlOrs slightly as she speaks.
''YOur eyes have told me already
/ he answers, and there, for a minute.
| they regard each other steadily. She
/ has SO much and he has SO Iittlel
She has refused him once before, and
/ yet-Of late, he has almost dared to
hope
do you think, Cara-that You
ever could love His eyes finished
the sentence for him, and he reached
his hands toward her with infinite
| longing.
81 think, . she says, smiling a little
as she lays her hands in his. s'that Il
might were sufficiently urged. .
! And then, with one of those passion
4 ate veerings which he knows so well.
81 think I have always loved you,
Jack"
/ Ten days later she receives q note.
] over which she smiles, as it has been
/ hllf q few hnrre eir,no he -. IL -.