Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-07-12
A LOVE COMEDY.
Que Of the Ways Of Winning y
Fair Woman.

weather. Ida, l can recommend thos,
marons glaces."
They werein Lady Brereton's boudoil
In Green street. bosom friends and
alone. A five o'clock tea equipsgs
stood between them, and q TOO brillian,
June sun was excluded by blinds Of .
becoming tint and an stagsrs Of ferns
Pale mauve entered largely into the
scheme Of decor alton, and there were q
great many Parma violsts about In old
silver bowls
MIRA Crosbie helped herself TO 4
sweetmeat leisurely, and with . due
regard for her irreproachabls glove,
before she responded. When she did
90 her words, to an uninitiated person,
would have seemed somewhat irrele.
want
"Of course, you know" she 70.
marked, that Capt Vslence b homo
from lndia?"
Somebody told me yesterday that
he had just arrived. But why the of
course?'"
~ don't know-if you don't Only"
Mrs Crosbie looked through the
cream jug at futurity-'it's just the
year since poor Lord Brsreton died"
And what OF that?"
Mrs. Crosbies eyes deserted the tea.
tray, and fixed themselves severely on
her friend.
Blanche" she said, you are in one
Of your moods, and you don't practise
on me! Are we alone, or IL somebody
hiding behind those curtsinsP"
you ridiculous womanI''
"Then, why this superlativs limo.
cence? Why this affecta ton OF coy
seventeen? For heavens sake be q
rational being, and treat me like onel
Az II everybody doesn't know that
Arthur valence worried himself nearly
sick over you at the time Of your mar.
riage. And you try to persuade me, Of
oil people, that you think 1t means
nothing when he returns to England,
after an absence OF five years, just as
the first twelve months Of your mourn.
Ing expirel"
swell, you shouldn't have said that
OF course, insinuating that had pri-
vatc information about him." MUIR
INJURED Lady Broreton plaintively. Ills
movements don't interest mo In tho
least, and don't suppose mine any
longer interest him. You seem to ig.
more the lapse OF time since we met,
and faithful hearts, my dear. went out
Of fashion with the crinoline. Besides,
he wasn't a mamie was only q nice
boy. And treated him badly"
YES" said Mrs. Crosby.
The too-ready acquiescencc displeased
Lady Brereton She fdgeted with an
apostle spoon and frowned.
Not SO very buddy. After all. how
could help him being silly enough to
care for me? As to taking him seri-
Ously, mere boy of twenty-five, and q
younger sonI Anyhow 1t doesn't mat.
Ter now. lie has probably forgotten
vi about me long ago."
She spoke with y complacent disbe.
lief in her own words which made her
hearer laugh.
III you thought for moment that
ne had forgotten, you would be irrit-
lble beyond endurance"
II hope you are not laboring under
The absurd delusion that care in the
east.
IAN your enemy that l should &C.
,use you OF having q hearth" laughed
Mr.. Crosbie u merely meant that
FOUR amour proprs would be rufiled, my
lear. ] know you SO WE'LL"
"You were never more mistaken In
our life," asserted Lady Drereton,
almly. " am utterly indifferent.
Therein she was insincere. 1t was
rue that she had snubbed him unmer-
fully in years gone by, and the only
ceiling his boyish passion had inspired
n her had been sisterly liking, after
Yards mingled with pity, amusement
nd gratifed vanity. But neverthe-
nss she looked to the renewal Of the
oral chains which bound him to her
arriage wheels with q truly feminine
leasure
Therefore, with the possibility be-
ore her mind OF o visit from her old
dmirer, she bestowed sundry adjoining
ouches to her toilet, countermanded
he victoria, and set tied herself in the
rawing-room, in graceful attitude,
repaired to be very much astonished to
re him, indeed.
The afternoon waned, however, and
9 failed to put in an appearance
either did he come the following day.
or the one after, nor the next Evil
emily he was In no hurry to cali ON
er, and Lady Brereton's usually sweet
,mper developed inequalities in conse-
uence. She had declared 1t improba-
10 that his devotion should have sur
we'd. but the possible truth Of her
ords ranked in'her heart Of hearts, al
Tough she would not acknowledge 1t
zen to herself She was broadminded,
ut she had her limitations
When, within . week Of his return,
. greeted her at length on the neutral
round Of the birmingham club, she
'und him good deal changed-older,
approved, nothing Of the boy she re-
embered about him, except his fea,
Tres, which were good.
Then you haven't quite forgotten T.
o." she said. /.
Forgotten you'll 1t Is likely? My ,
,ar Lady Brereton, don't you recollect =
y youthful alteration? You made me )
wretched % . lovc-sick boy can be.
he letters ! used to write you, the
eeches used to makel How | must
we bored you! was so very much In
rnest; one takes oneself SO seriously 9,
twenty-five. ! have often laughed i
er the thought Of it sinc's." :,
He laughed now. So did she, very !,
tnn Rut aha WAS not nlansadi