Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04

fountain In the grass plot below her. Ken-
rick is watching her.
'You think she was right, too7" She
raises her head to look at him.
II hardly know" gloomily.
''You hardly know? You," slowly, "who
adore her?''
"I should be slow to adore her-or any
womanP
@''Should your" she laughs. mockiugly.
rWhy?"
"Who can depend upon woman?" says
he.
ssMy, word, you can be rude" says she
''Therer' impatiently, "never mind I have
given up understanding you long ago. Let
us return to our argument on Rhoda-
Your argument, you mean.
"Why? Do YOU decline to discuss her?
Is she too precious?"
''What do you mean, Brenda? II you
think 1 ought to give an unqualified ap-
proval to her going put as servant you
think wrong. believe it was mistake on
her part +"
"You and auntie are of one mind, tn en- I
am of fanother; SO is Tom"
''TomT'
eyes. Tom and are of one mind. So
that gives US all equal strength %
Toni" says Toms brother again. f'He
thinks her right because you think her right
suppose"
"Tom is not an automaton," SAYS she.
She laughs little as if compelled to it
against her will. And people thus COM
PEELED are generally very angry with any,
body, clnse to them; because when you are
angry with yourself it is ever so much nicer
to pretend you are angry with somebody
else. "It sounds like joke" says she,
"but assure you didn't mean it. 1 am
far, very far, from Joking. Tom is a reason
able being, with plenty of reasonable
thoughts of his own" j"
tom is perfection, no doubt" says Ger
aid very disagreeably.
"Indeed, he is not. He is far too delight
full to be perfect. But don't want to dis
cuss Tom. What want to say is that I'm
very glad Rhods has finally broken away
from life of Slavery. Now, aren't you?'
81 don't know" still very gloomily. 'It
seems to me always a risk for q young and
lovely-woman to leave her husbandP'
Leave Q hateful wretch, you mean"
"Even sol Her husbandP'
81 don't see why creature like Sir Gas
ton should be sacred thingl I can tell you
II had husband like that I should leave
him."
81 hope you will never have q husband
like that. But 1 still think that as Rhoda
has one, and as she is"
$50 young and so Iovely-you can skin
all that, says Miss Bowen, with tilt of
her pretty chin. 81 know your infatuatiou
in that quarter. But should lave thought
it would have led you to rejoice in her
emancipation.
81 am not infatuated-and am not re-
joicing," says Kenrick, who, most unfortu-
nately, is always at his worst when he
would be at his best, SO far as his little i'm
petuous cousin is concerned
SOY and you are two, indeed" saws she:
SIT doesn't take extraordinary vision to see
that! But, good gracious, Gerald, what is
the matter with you to-day? Only last
month you were all for her leaving Sir
you are against it You are a |
perfect weathercock! There is no having |
you anywherep'
81 don't see that you want to have me. /"
says he, sulkily enough, yet even more |
misers5ly. Miss Bowen, however, fails to |
read the misery ''writ SO large" between
the lines. .
''You really ought to make up your mind
one way or the other"
coidly, shave made that up long
ago."
about what?'
"About your
TO be personal il, a. rule, to be rude"
'aid Miss Bowen. "And after all why should
We quarrel, Gerald?''
She pauses, gazing at him with most in
Ienuous countenancA