The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-09-02

women crowded about her with cries Of
graduation and welcome. Amid the
genial clamor Kathleen kennaird took
the chance Of saying TO her lover:
You have been doing another wild
thing"
What do you mean?" he queried. with
MANTLE innocence.
"Oh, last night at the Granercey
club. You'll not deny, surely, that you
blackened your face and went in at des-
sert to the large dinner Harry Madison
was giving, Us negro banjo player,
and that nobody found you out until a
wisp Of your light hair happened to
show under your wig"
That's really deliciousr' Alonzo said.
''AIy face was no more blsckened than
yours Is now-anG Heaven knows there
are roses and lilies enough there! I'd
promised to be Ut the dinner. and
reached the Gramercey shamefully late
So sent from the club for my banjo
(which, by the way, detest as an in
strument and play horribly merely for
the purpose"
kathleen shook her head IN deplor-
ing way Is he paused. For the pur-
pose OF doing something horribly odd"
She said. Confess it You nay as
WELL
But the blaclzening OF the face Is all
nonsense Johnny Chadwick got me Z
black mask from one OF the walters. /
dare say IL had been worn at some sev-
ants mask ball, and happened to be
living about somewhere in the club. l
put 1t on after sending for the banjo.
1t was all Johnny's idea-nOt the banjo.
but the mask ] merely wanted 20 go
, in to the dinner with q little music, as
I'd got there 50 scanGalously late. Every
thing else that you've heard is the sheer
est rubbish
Kathleen laid slim. glCved hand on
his arm Well, WELL she faltcred,
ALLOW that you We're Inaligned that
time, Alonzo. But your taking of
your coat Z few minutes before
mamma and I appeared! Oh,
heard of Il: never mind who told
NE. And these dreadful escapades of
yours get into the newspapers They
they sA0WE stop. You cheaper yourself
by indulging IN them. No one likes you
the better for them, and things are said
behind your back which you don't rea-
lie, because you trust your friends SO
implicitly"
Il don't trust many friends, hath
leen." came the low-voiced answer.
But l trust y0V, and you're the only
real friend I have IN the world. Now,
believe ne. there shdI be reforma-
ton. From this moment promise one.
yGhen you marry ne next april you
shall marry a man who hasn't kicked up
his heels for weeks
The music burst forth again as Alonzo
finished speaking. When the jewellers
were invited 20 recnter the TWO front
drawing-rOoms, chairs had been ar
ranged for cotillon- Philip Le2ing-
ton led the dance with Mrs. Van SAINT
! voord, at AlOnzo's request Through
the first figures the participants i'm
agined that it was only an iulpromptu
dance. But suddenly they were called
upon TO take II more seriously. since be-
fore the first figure ended bouquets of
the rarest flowers had begun to circu-
late, and by six o'clock, when the final
strains of the music were sounding,
jeweled fans had been lavished on the
ladies for favors and the gentlemen had
received cats eye scarf-pins set round
with tiny pearls
1t had all been a sumptuOus and
yet charmingly tasteful tribute TO
the sweetheart of the host People
pressed AlOnzo's hand in their ardent