The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-10-20

not heen ne2r Us Tor al age. w nat mas
become of themy
s'They are given over to the dressnak-
ers and milliners You know we go
away next week said Gregory.
1--WE 60 very soon. said Cornelia.
When You 80. I shall begin to believe
what the society papers say-that 'ev-
erybody is out of town. said Gregory.
You may say the Same words, IN sew
eral different ways. This mi ght have
been said SO airily as to imply nothing.
But Gregory's tone gave it meaning.
He looked into Cornelia's eyes, too, as he
spoke, and his look said more
Cornelia felt her color rising, and she
looked down, and then she was sorry
that she had given what might seem to
be an evidence Of taking his speech seri-
ously.
She had always said to herself that
she would never seem ready to fall into
anyone's hands ike ripe plum. She
was conscious of disposition to be
romantic which she had combated vio-
lently all her life. There was an awful
example in the Van Tassel family in the
shape of a certain Miss Pamela, now an
ancient damsel, who had worn the fash
ions of her youth and been grinned at
by vulgar populace therefor adown so
many years that she was now in the
height of the fashion again. A Captain
Pepper, of whom she had retained a
black court plaster silhouette that peo-
pie took to be the likeness of a poodle
dog at first glance. had once upon a time
broken her heart. She had been known
for so years as ''NIiss Pamela who was
disappointed" She lived all alone 1T a
moldy old house and wept over the
black profile alluded to and a lock Of
hair like piece of old hearth brush
which she likewise treasured. She was
as forlorn q creature as could be met
with though sho was rich and had been
handsome-ludicrous to everybody else,
tragic to herself
It had often occurred to Cornelia
when her grandaunt Pamela exhibited
these relics and told how the gallant
captain had v-ooed and ridden away
that if there was q prclisposition to this
sentimental madness in the Van Tassel
blood she must be careful. And so
those girls who talked Cornelia over
said that she was bright and nice, but
that sho was too Indifferent to gentle
men. She liked 40 one particularly and
never cared for any one much. She
would marry. from motives of interest,
never from love. Cornelia knew that
she had that reputation, and she was
pleased to know it.
And here she was looking down be-
cause Gregory Blanchard had made
silly speech. She must account for the
dropping of her lids-and quickly.
''Oh," she cried, with little shiver.
ooh, Mr.. Blanchard, will you see if that
is measuring worm on my sash? They
disgust me SO. Brush it off with your
cane. please, if it is"
Gregory stopped and with his finger
tips gathered up bit of yellow floss, the
tiniest fragment possible,
cit is only thread of some sort" he
said.
cit must have caught to me in the
shop where ordered some woods for
mamma" said Cornelia.
Gregory felt little piqued. How
ever, his temper was too sunny and he
was too well satisfied with himself to
cherish offense. After all, he rather
liked it, he thought, as he walked along
and reached Nine. Us door. There he
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he carried off her music roll and ran
back with it.
Cornelia watched him as he fastened
toward her and held out her hand for
the roll.
GLOW good of me not to cry Stop
thiefr" said sho, and took it from him.
He fingered, loath to go, and she supplied
q motive by asking question.
''Do you suppose you will interview
any of those anxious authors today"
at may fall to my lot. he answered.
''Be kind to Them" she said. ''Read
some of their work. Fancy how proud
you would be to discover a second Mil
ton."
'sOh, nobody would publish Milton if
he wrote today!' said Gregory. Seer
tainly no one would read him.
swell, then, a second George Eliot,
or new Charlotte Bronte. or at least a
third Duchess" laughed Cornelia.
81 will try if you command me. said
Gregory.
ooh, 1 merely advise great publishers. !"
said Cornelia. Il am too modest to COM
mand them"
''And [ am very chivalrous. though
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Gregory. 81 have always regretted not
being born in the days of chivalry, when
could have gone about with lance do
| ing all sorts OF brave things in honor of
the lady adored. would have killed
fiery dragons and disenchauted sea SER
penis and srnitten off the heads of obnox-
ions personages. can't do that nova
days: but. I assure you, it is from lack CT
opportunity. Command me-"
every well, - said Cornelia, sit is my
command that you discover new great
author
eff any such there be, interpolated
Gregory.
ooh, they are at least as plenty as as
teroidsF' said Cornelia. You'll find
one
twill devote myself to the object, :"
said Gregory. 81 will plunge my hand
into the great basket of rejected manu-
scripts every morning, as if it were the
grab bag at a church fair, and keep
Wa. ,-.ell. 1t may be the coming
great author"
''Or authoress,' - interpolated Cornelia.
''Just as probable" said Gregory.