The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-10-26
THE FOURTEENTH GUEST

Z N%$#N>\S& Miss Katie Wad-
dington, her pretty roguish face
flushed with indignation-Fm aston
ished that you venture to speak to me
You know Iconldn't refuse, with
that horrid Lady Houghton introducing
you, and looking over my shoulder at
my card.
He quilting his waistcoat a little,
because his shirt front pointed too
much)-Is that why you waited for me
in the conservatory? No, please don't
go-let's sit it ont.
Miss Katie sits down again and be-
gins pulling rose to pieces. You've
treated me shamefully, haven't your
mot bit'
Indeed you have; and don't fidget
with your necktie."
''Now, which of your pretty white
teeth have you against-me?"
Cant you speak in plain English,
instead of using your French phrases?
Come, now, didn't we meet at Devon
shire park? Oh, it's just like you to
hint that we weren't properly intro
duced; but we were afterward."
"Never mind the fashion of the in
PRODUCTION" said he, hiding a smile be-
hind his glove.
"You know such introductions are
almost the fashion at the seaside"
.You mean such almost introduc-
tions are quite the fashion," he OBJ
served; ''but suppose we did, and sup
pose we took walks together, and
dances together, and went fishing to
gether, and put on the, and sup
pose / was in earnest?"
''Never mind what you suppose" she
said, sharply. you know quite well
! that at the seaside"
s.By the sea maiden's fancy lightly
turns to thoughts of-firtation.
81 shall leave you at once if you re
so flippant and rude" said Miss Katie
and she got up and then sat on another
seat with the light at the back-a very
! pretty white back-not the seats
"Didn't you pretend you were bar
rister?'
mo, certainly not"
.'How can you tell such a."
1T isn't "a. didn't pretend am ,
barrister."
"Well, even il you are, you needn'
bubble, and. besides, there are lots o
barristers who don't earn as much"
| ''As much as shoeblack. There
your Cousin Jack-but he plays bill
lizards splendidly-yo should see hin
at Carr's during term time"
Bother Jack! And besides he is ;
good sort, and / like him much bette
than you, Obi how could you deceiv
me so? Why, that horrid Glendowe
girl who drove me home in her broug
ham-I know it's only hired-the mo
ment we got in said: Really, dear
that man you SO affiched yourself will
at Eastbourne is quite decent for on
of Whiteley's young men! Ugh! hire
guest.
..But assure you, +"
ssNow, isn't it true you came to Mrs
Hooper's as hired guest? Weren'
you sent for because at the last INC
ment there was a man short, and sh
was afraid of thirteen at dinner
There, / knew you couldn't deny il
Why anyone should ask so many pee
pie to dinner goodness knows Its bar
barous-it's not dinner; it's a meal
And you called yourself Howard
that the name you're called? And go
a guinea and instructions in the hal
not to talk politics, theology, or schoo
boards, or new woman"
"a guinea wasn't the price," sal
Mr.. Banks, gloomily, biting one OF hi
gloves. land wasn't paid; it was sen
direct to Whiteley, and we aren
trusted with the money, and I'm reall
q barrister with good practice, an
you're cruel. Even if it were all true
YOU need not hit so hard"
, Miss Katie sat silent for momen
and listened to few bars of lie Rev
de Mon Occur" waltz, that sounded d.
Ms NH