The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-01-06

stance of souls getting into wrong bodies as
in the case of that girl and her twin broth
err, sir. Phil my lad, look here. 1t makes
her hopping mad to say it, bat-your ear,
boy-hes a young milksop. 1t breaks my
heart, sir-it breaks my heartr'
The Colonel sat rubbing the knee of his
uppermost leg with his open palm, and
pursed up his lips as if 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 glassful 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 round hour in making him
self presentable. He was a well-looking
young fellow, with long, clean limbs, and
curiously naughty pose of head. His hair
was as abundant and waving much after
the fashion of Judith. Perhaps his most de-
Hghtful feature was his mouth-wen 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-
iciously and fragrantly fresh as it is only
given to fair men to appear.
When he entered the draWing-room he
found, a little to his surprise, that Judith
was there already, engaged in the start
ling feminine employment of knctting.
BOughton only saw that her foot, in its
bronze slipper and silk stocking, was very
slcnder-slenderer than any he had ever
seen, in fact-wlth an instep under which
the young man was convinced he could have
rolled good sized marble
|: She had on a nice little frOck of some
creamy stuff, that fell about her, gulltIess
of crinoline, and 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 cam
dies and leaping fire. Beyond them was the
handsome desk of the oak-papeled room,
It's 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 notone 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 a good deaf, as he
would express it, ACKNOWLEDGMENT" He
said: "Hey? what's thatl'' and looked from
ene 20 the other, aud let go of his coat tails
! in sheer arrangement, But as Mistress
judith maintained unbroken silence,
| aud appeared absorbed in her knotting.
Rought0n was at the pains Of explaining
that he had met his cousin on the high
road, and how they had mutually recog
RiEed 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 to an 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 fnttere3
oyer her fair bosom like a hNfyernS