The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-03-31

Of sympathy, but she detained me.
She said. the plaintiff did, it's much
worse than that, it's much worse than
that. lie insisted on marrying me.
! did not want TO be like Aunt Lou with
n house full of children and unable to
deucate them She put her handker-
chief to her face"
Here Colonel Brecbinridge spoke
very slowly and reprod uced the
mournful tones which young woman
might use in making such a confess
sion. "She said; Il gave him higher
proof than that contract Then
said she ought to marry him any way.
She said: 4 can't; | have grown away
from him. know what other men
are and his very presence Is offensive
70 me- I replied: You can't afford
not to marry him; a young girl as You
are Then the conve rsation drifted
away There was nothing more
could say. She seemed to have said
all she cared to-" There was an ex-
qui9ite minor key of retrospective
pathos as the colonel sunk his voice
through these passages.
"The conversation drifted away"
he repeated, rehectively. lingering
the bible at hand. "As l stood there
with my hat in my hand, she said: Il
have set my heart on becoming an
authoress' | said: Il don't see why
you can't do that, but you must re-
member this double life. ," Here he
assumed the stern tone of a moralist,
man stainless, above reproach, re-
producing the paternal. advisory man
ner OF the counsel he said he gave to
the young woman. "'This double
life,' ] said, may come. up against you
at any time. He has you in his power.
A young girl can't afford that. You
should marry him as soon as you can
! She said: Il won't do that now, any
way; no danger of his giving me up
! Then she spoke of an entertainment at
Vine street. She said there was to be n
cornet tist play. have been go.ng to
Cincinnati ever since I was boy but
| never knew which one of the hills
Vine street was on She said In IN
entirely proper way-perfectly pro-
per- Colonel Breckinridge seemed
anxious to make assurance doubly
sure on this point-''that we might
ride. | asked If they would let her
go. She said she was a summer
boarder and she knew no rule against
it. Then young man came into the
room. whom ] recognized as Mr..
Brown, for although / did not know
he was connected with the school he
had represented Jessamine county in
the legislature. We shook hands and
he said it would be perfectly proper
for us to go Then l took dinner at
the Burnett house.
After dinner alked up to a sta
BILE and selected carriage. without
any particular thought about what
kind it was. II was a warm August
evening. There was quite little
group ON the portico. Nothing was
said about a closed carriage or about
my having a sore throat. No allusion
whatever, no excuse, nor any reason
for any excuse" In the mild, depres
catory gesture with which the colonel
brushed away the breath of suspic-
ion of improperly from his action at
that time, he knocked tumbler from
| the stand with crash which startled
the room, and men looked around APP
prehensively, as though they thought
of Kentucky shooting irons 1--WE
started out in an entirely pFoper
way" he resumed, ANY excuse
would have been entirely out of place
| nor was any reason asked"
For the first time the flow of silvery
depreciation was harshly torn by the
matter of fact query of Major Butter.
worth. How long were you at the
college that afternoon"
20, about an hour and half. There
was light conversation which deep
ened into . tense, grave conversation
and afterward became light again"
'She seemed to be young woman
of 90 or 90. She might have been 10
She was fully grown young woman
of perfectly proper manner" Glanc
ing for the first time at the plaintiff
''very deferential, very"
Anything to indicate that she was
not y proper young wnman2n
Colonel BFeckihridge wanted nons
OF his hearers 10 cherish o suspicioi
that he would have yentured forth
with an improper person, His dis
elaimers were repeated. and in hi
softest tones. Not the slightest" =" ht
replied, mot the slightest. Her con,
dlct was entirely correct. Nothing
was said about her peculiar relations
te Mr.. Rhodes"
There was a marked infiexion upon
the word, peculiar" as If Mr.. Bre clS
infidge did NIT wish II speak out
right of such things as these relations
Returning TO the drive, he continued
we pOnh tnc ltltHAuu TOhu AT tnt
top of the hill, because she said tn,
right-hand road through the park wa
made intentionally hot by the ga
lights 80 ! told the driver to turr
TO the left"
"Were the windows of the carriag,
open or shut?"
, They were OPEN" replied the col
oncl, and then, without prompting
I he came TO the heart of his narrative
AFTER we had driven some dis
lance, +" he said. "and she was talkin,
. st some length about her desire to &,
; into journalism, to be an authpress
and we had spoken of George Eliot
she took off her hat and put II ON tn,
: front seat | put nay arm around her
There were no prot.stations ON her
part No offer of love. What oc
/ CURED, occurred In the natural way
/ put my arm around her and drew
her to me. was man with passion
She was a woman with passion. Tha'
Z was all There was no outcry by her
po resistance, man 4s / was, tool
liberties with her,"
4 "Just case of Illicit lovep" brok,
| in Mr.. Butterworth.
That was il, Butterworth. am
nan she q woman humRH both o
as." az
? Continuing: THAT was going out
, Going back there was hardly wore
ON aN.Nh Il 4