Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-11-08


He is a good fellow. but he has old fash
toned ideas. and he has gone in strongly
for politics. which bores me to death.
Besides. he disapprpved of my ways and
STYLE of conversation. and he took to ex-
pressing his disapproyal, which was IN
tolerable He pretended to be quite cut
up when | told him that | had mad
enough of him, but in reality he was
inst as relieved to be set at liberty as
was. We are now the best of friends.
I think YOU would like him, because he
ia awfully clever and takes serious views
of life. as you do. and he is going to be
nrime minister or something of that kind
before he dies. Come and meet him
some evening at dinner, will your
THANK you. | should like it very
much" answered Dorothy "But-but
does he still come to dinner with your
He will if ask him Why shouldn't
he? We are cousins, you know. and, as
| tell you, we are very good friends.
Added to which it would be little too
ridiculous to allow ones self to be cut by
all the men whom one has been obliged
TO throw over.
Percy Thorold had never had the least
intention of cutting his cousin, and she
was not far wrong in her assertion that
the recovery of liberty had been as wei
come to him as it had been to her. That
she and he were the best of friends was.
however, not quite so accurate a state
ment She had treated him little too
badly for that. and although he no longer
loved her he had been in love with her
for great many years. He was glad to
have been Tilted. but he could not alto
gether forgive the jilt; nor, in truth is
any man likely to forgive woman who
has destroyed his faith in all women
Nevertheless he accepted her invitation
to dinner for the following Sunday, his
chief reason for doing so being that he
did not want her or anybody else to i'm
agine that he was brooding over his
wrongs.
Dorothy Leslie received somewhat
hesitating permission from her mother
to be present at the informal gathering
II don't quite like Sunday dinner
parties" said Mrs. Leslie, who perhaps
did not realize the difficulties experienced
by modern Legislators in meeting their
friends on any other evening in the
week And think" she added more
reasonably that Lady Belvoir ought
sometimes to ask me She seems to for
get my existence
Lady Belvoir had not forgotten that
1ar 4 knr
sion was that Mrs. Leslie was bore
and she would no more have thought of
asking bore to one of her little dinners
than of offering UNBEATABLE food to her
guests. These little dinners, which she
had taken to giving since her widow
hood, were in fair way to become
famous. She had chef who was mas
ter of his craft. she knew everybody
worth knowing" according to phrase
which may perhaps be misleading. yet
Is accurate enough for its purpose-and
without giving herself much trouble
about it she was always able to bring
together people who were likely to get
on well together Percy Thorold, for
example, got on remarkably well with
Miss Leslie, whom he took in to dinner
and in whom he was delighted to recog-
nize girl as yet untainted with 1.-The
something that infects the world
The world, at which we are all apt to
rail as we approach middle age, is doubt
less what we choose to think it or make
it. In the opinion of this rising states
man it was melancholy failure, inhab-
tied by millions of toilers and sufferers,
and governed by a few thousands who,
upon the whole, used their power selfish
ly and unwisely, He was Conserva-
tive because he believed that, bad as the
existing state of things is. it would be
even worse were the toiling and suffer.
ing millions to get the upper hand, at
heart and in theory he was probably an
advanced Radical. The upper class, to
which he himself belonged, he consid-
cred to be almost, if not altogether, rotten,
allowing it no virtue save that of cour-
age. and foreseeing without desiring its
inevitable submersion Probably he
would have entertained higher opinion
OF it if Lady Belvoir had been a good
woman, but he had not pushed self
analysis quite so far as to have OWNED
that circumstance.
10 such pessimist it was naturally
refreshing to encounter young woman
OF his own station whose ideas were
simple and direct, who did not affect the
uniformed skepticism which has be-
come fashionable, who had brought a
tolerably clear intelligence to bear upon
contemporary politics, and who did not
in the least despair of the future glory
and greatness of her native land
81 think you are quite wrong to sheer
at politics, she said, after she had led
him to confide certain views of his to
her; land don't believe you are sin.
cere either. If you are really convinced
that all your party or any other party
cares for is Office, and if you Yourself
don't care for it, why do you waste your
time in the house of commons when Won
might be hunting, or shooting, or bud
ding roses, or amusing yourself in some
pleasant. healthy way?r
Because | am idiot enough to he am.
bilious, | suppose. he answerad u,;+h