The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-09-09

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s'L.onz! how can your reprOaclled his
sister. ss'The word successor is per
fectly insulting. I don't know what
you mean BY it!'
She was very pretty as she sat there
before her brother, with her trim neat
figure, her c1ear-cut, supercilious little
blonde face, her Partisan gown and its
harmonious adjunct of a jaunty bonnet
The late dance had given her checks "a
becoming pink tint; her foes were apt
to say of her that she was too pale, and
perhaps a few of them said it because
they wanted to tempt her into rouging,
which would have been a salient peg on
which TO hang their sluFs- The ''Hec-
tor to whom she had just referred was
her husband, whom she had married
when she was only eighteen, clipping
with him for that purpose and whom
it was whispered that she now gave a
handsome yearly allowance IN the
double capacity of letting her alone and
not appearing to let her alone too much
t'HectOr has every conceivable VICE
she had said, not long ago, to her
brother, except that of incivility- He
is so refreshingly polite to me ] dare
say / might have tried to get a divorce
from him three or four years ago, if It
hadn't been for his beautiful manners"
Were the truth told about Kate Van
.
Elections upon her husband. She was
one OF those women who hunger in
their g-irIhOOd, for protective fondnessr
and to whom an early marriage IS hence
an agency teeming either with pOrten-
tous misery or joy Treated with dc
cent marital respect she might have
made an excellent vile; treated quito
the reverse Of that, she had turned wife
hood into a travesty- The aiiment OF
frivoHty on which she fed had aug
/ mented her natural feeblencss OF char
acter. She was like a child foraging in
a box Of sugar pluns, which can be
| taken from it only With tragic shrielzs
/ and tears. AlonzO dreaded something
of this sort now. And yet the box of
/ sugar plums had to be taken away.
/ There was no help for it.
II always want to mean pleasant
/ things when 1 talk with you, Kitty"
/ her brother now replied. 4 only wish
1 that could always mean to say them"
''You don't always try" she pOuted,
| not at all compromising him Just
! look how other women behave. I'd
/ have You understand that consider
myself the pink OF discretion"
| you should lilsen yourself to lily,
my dear, and not a pink Like the
/ lilies of the field, you toll not, neither
i do YOU spin. But I'm afraid, Kitty,
/ yOur-your vacation is over"
MY vacation over?' she qucricd, lift
! ing her brOws, staring mt him, for the
/ first time Perceiving that his face was
/ colorless and that there were drawn
/ lines near his lips. But still no real
! suspicion of the truth came to her ''Oh!
! dear" she exclaimed, you're going to
/ lecture me! You've heard something
/ horrid about me and you've believed it. d"
Alonzo smiled sadly, and for a mo-
/ ment lowered his look. I've heard
7 - D.. - D
said, "uud I'm compelled to let you
know what it is" Then, amid silence,
/ he lifted his eyes, and soon added: 1T
concerns our money. There's been q
great lossr'
"a great loss?" was her cry, as she
started up. ''Wheu? Where? How?
Do You mean that any of my money has
/ gomez"
Yes" and as she again reseated her
self, ngitated and frOwning, he pursued:
kitty, what viii you do when you've
heard the entire truth, since you depOrt
! yourself like this on the mere threshold
of it?'' He at once proceeded to tell her
the entire truth, and some time before
he had ended she was almost in straits
for breath.
s.Ohl Lonz," she at length gasPed.
'I-I can't think of myself as poor! It's
too CHASTITY! Don't you believe therell
I be anything left?'
There's always something left in
/ these hidcous affairs. AlOuz0 answered.
Its like a shipwreclz-some kind OF
rubbish or another is sure to get washed
awfully SO. But the thing has got to Zoe
borne"
..Borner' she almost shouted. sI-I
can't bear it, and wOn'tl PoorI ugh
l loathe poverty
Most people do"
''Ohl that vile Chichester! I always
did detest himi He was eommonness
itself. with his tvang, and his diamonds
and his negro coachman."
II quite agree with you,''
''He should never have been allowed
in the firm" raved the sister of Alonzo
And then her hippancy broke through
her despair, in ludicrous contrast to it
He didn't only have a negro coachman
but once met him at Saratoga in tho
morning with a white evening neclStie.
''And he has ended crimina4ly, n,
might have been expected
ooh! you joke about it, 3" moaned Mrs
Van SnntvOOrd, bursting into tempest
nous tears YOU'D joke at the can
mons mouth"
THAT would depend upon what th'
lannon's mouth happened to be saying
. But, Kitty, look here: Phil
2 osophy in these cases can't but prov
/ the wisest course"
PHILOSOPHY! Poohr' She had jumpe,
2 up from her chair and began an excitet
/ promenade, pausing and turning ever,
few seconds with q swish of her sillzel
skirt. philosophy can't pay one
= tradespeopIe for onei To be poor is t.
, be low and contemplate! Oh, yol
2 needn't tallSl know the pettiness an,
{ nastiness OF an empty pursei See here
! LonzP' and she suddenly shot up to hi
/ side and seized "a lapel of his coat witt
e trembling hand Il shall go mad
2 know I shall ] don't mean that It vii
break my heart, no doubt Hector dis
: that, long ago, and I've been living OF
2 with the two pieces humping on
= against another IN my breast and per
r haps making me the restless, feverisl
creature am But If it doesn't breal
I my heart it viii break my brain" Eh
snatched her hand away from him as b
! tried to take it, and then stopped he
e head while pressing n palm agains
t eithe- temple. At the same momen
she gave vent to shriIl, hysterie laugh
&, AlOnzo caught her in his arms and al
a most carried her to q lounge It wa