The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-05-13

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JUDITH ENGAGED IN A FEMININE EMPLOY
MENT.
stance of souls getting into wrong bodies as
in the case of that girl and her twin bro h
er, sir. Phil, my lad, look here. 1t makes
her hopping mad to say it, but-yOur ear,
boy-he's a young milksop. 1t breaks my
heart, sir-it breaks my hearth
The Colonel sat rubbing the knee of his
uppermost leg with his open palm, and
pursed up his lips as # to whistle, but sud-
denly turned and spoke again.
"And the way that child loves him is pos
itively pathetic. Phil-'tis, on my soul! To
hear her talk you'd think he was the smart
est, bravest, Quickest - well-well-the
boys never been tested, that's fact. I've
hopes of him-yes, hopes of him." said
the Colonel, who would never have made the
foregoing admission had it not been for that
extra gassful of the mysterious beverage,
drunk in Boughton's honor
Boughton all this time was steadily Won
dering if Judith would give him chance to
make his graceful speech by appearing at
dinner.
The Colonel, who was mighty hunter
and sportsman generally, always dined late
at this season of the year. He employed an
overseer, and spent most Of October and
November in fox-hunting. So it came to
pass that they dined as rule by candle
| light.
Phil spent a round hour in making him
self presentable. He was welllooking
young fellow, with long, clean limbs, and a
curiously naughty pose of head. His hair
was as abundant and waving much after
the fashion of Judith. Perhaps his most de-
| lightful feature was his mOu:h-well curved
and parting little one-sidedly over uneven
and very white teeth. HIS luggage had fol-
lowed him in the care of his body servant.
and he issued from his room finally as de-
liciously and fragrantly fresh as it is only
given to fair men to appear.
When he entered the drawing-room he
found, little to his surprise, that Judith
was there already, engaged in the start
ling feminine employment of knotting
Boughton only saw that her foot, in its
bronze slipper and silk stocking, was very
| slender-slenderer than any he had ever
seen, in fact-with an instep under which
the young man was convinced he could have
rolled a gOod-sized marble.
She had on a nice little frock of some
creamy stuff, that fell about her, guiltless
Of crinoline, and a string of blue Persian
beads around her throat.
The Colonel was revolving slowly before
the fire, with parted coat tails, at the same
time rocking backward and forward on his
toes.
Boughton paused in the hall some time to
watch them. They made such pleasant
picture in the welded light of the wax can
dies and leaping fire. Beyond them was the
handsome desk of the oak-paneled ROOM
its high, carved furniture and big French
mirrors.
As he entered he saw that in one of these
mirrors was another Judith, and another
and another, and another, stretching, like
the kings in Macbeth, to the crack of doom.
for all he could tell. And they were all
knotting, and all had delicate feet in bronze
slippers, and wore blue beads. and not one of
them looked up at him, although the Colonel
came boisterously forward, and hauled him
in by both hands, and he babe his lass give
greeting to her cousin Phil
Quote she:
eyes, dad, dear, that's all right; we have
met already. My ball. dad, darling; you
are stamping all over it. Thanks as Phil
handed it to her.
Now, the Colonel was q good deal, as he
would express it, ACKNOWLEDGMENT He
said: "Hey? what's that!' and looked from
one to the other, and let go Of his coat tails
in sheer amazement. But as Mistress
Judith maintained unbroken silence,
and appeared absorbed in her knotting,
Boughton was at the pains of explaining
that he had met his cousin ON the high
road, and how they had mutually recog-
nized each other.
AS he made these remarks he caught
himself watching the subject of them out OF
the tail of his eye, and fell, moreover, into
a strange fancy which hkened the slim
foot in the gray silk meshes toan iridescent
beetle caught in somewhat bulky spiders
web. Her hair was just about the color of
her shoe, he observed-a little redder, per-
haps-and bow of blue ribbon fiuttered
over her fair bosom like butterfly
The Colonel laughed good deal, and he
had the rare accomplishment, or, rather,
faculty, of laughing well He was as hand
some as his daughter, in a more regular
way, and wore his thick. riOt0usly curling
hair in q queue. He had broad chestnut
eyebrows. that met above his nose, which
had . peanut-like but arlstOcratic ripple in 1t,
and his mouth was set between two longish,
curving dimples. like pleasant sentence
between two brackets. He had . deep
cleft in his chin, which was sometimes