The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-12-04

1 snE QUIZ Ot W. u Wa
| wide awake, and in the easy char near
| her sat a man. a stranger TO her. Strange
| TO say, she felt neither alarmed nor EN-
| barrassed, and after the moment OF
| surprise mt this sudden visitation she
| stole another look at her unexpected
companion, who was gazing intently
into the fire.
He was rather tall and slender, and
his regular features and dark. dreamy
eyes were pleasant TO look upon.
She nad q vague impression OF ia
miliarity as she watched him. and q
haunting resemblance 10 some one, per-
hnps a mere brain image, puzzled her.
just then he turned toward her and
smiled slightly.
II do not wonder that you like to sit
here" he said in courteous accents; lit
i. a pleasant room md gratiies ones
csthet1ic sense. You like to watch the
fire light glimmer through the room.
now playing upon the gilt of the picture
frames. or suddenly lighting for a mo-
ment some dusky corner; but, best OF
al, you like to watch the warm glow
leap over hat marble Psyche. You
have n passion for color"
"Yes." she said. wonderingly; "but
how did you know? Who are your"
There is no thought Of yours that J
10 not know" he said; land | came
here in response to your wish. l am
your lonred-for kindred soul-your re-
slized ideal"
Miss Rossiter was silent for a mo-
ment and sat vainly trying to recall the
theories that Herr Gundlach had adj
vanced before the German club concern
ing kindred souls and afinities. If she
remembered rightly he had said that
each soul had a kindred soul, but that
sometimes there were limitations OF
time and space which in another world
but just here the stranger interrupted
, her thought by saying:
, "eYs, that is true. but sometimes,
under peculiar conditions. as tonight,
I time and space are rs nothing and SO i:
is that / am with you now"
He ceased speaking. Surely IL was
the opportunity OF Miss Rossiter's life
for unboundcd soul revelations, but, odd
J ia relate, she felt strangely silent.
A number of naturally curious ques'
: tons fitted through her brain, but she
!. checked her thoughts a little guilty
' as il occurred to her that in all prob
ability the stranger was cognizant o.
I her thoughts and might consider hel
: inquisitive.
y "No." he remarked. politely. Il an
u not permitted TO reveal the laws which
~ al l~x~ lnHn
e may be able to remain with you
Then he really did not know what sh'
: was thinking.
: She had never imagined how yer.
perplexing it would be to constant.
: control ones thoughts: to put a checl
rein on them. to quote Toms language
o She turned a little uueasily in he
u chair. and in doing SO inadvertently re
: vealed one of her daintily slippered feet
u Now Tom bad a special weakness TO
n dainty slipper, as she well knew, an
. forgetting for a moment that it wa
no Tom who sat there she looked up !
: apparent Inconsistencies Of any littl
feminine art, only 70 meet an amuse
smile in. the strangers eyes.
: Eyes, most men like to see a prett
slipper" he commented, benevolently
"A coquettishly-placed ribbon. a fowe
in the hair, are SO many arrows to tn
masculine heart. Little men dream
of the time and thought that have bee
given to what seems to them some un
conscious little arrangement"
Miss Rossiter flushed angrily, an
drew her foot back with n jerk. Rea
=. Nv. this thing of laying bare ones ever
little thought was too much, and We
was it not exactly what she had wishe
:. for-to be perfectly understood?
4, She ought to be above such littl
weaknesses. anyhow.
or Perhaps if she tried books the col
r. ~yersation might become more an
mated.
The stranger followed her glance a
&c il rested on a small table near be
10 where several books were lying.
"You have been reading" he r.
marked. "Ah. yes, | see 1bsc1
browning. Tolstoi." He smiled a Ii
tie YEARLY.
"You, OF course, have read them all
said Miss Rossiter, a little shyly. for ST
happened to think b a "boundle'
knowledge" was one of her wished-f'
ideals attributes.
II? Oh. yes" nc answered. "Ie
do not quite know whether you ca
for Ibscn or not, do your
Now, this was indeed true, but as u
4 president of an Ibsen club Miss Rossit
had never before faced the fact.
She was a clever girl and accustom'
20 being looked up to as quite an a
thority on literary matters by her ov
special ~cotcrie. Had not Cunning Jons
the mostsucccssful journalism he elf
told some one that Miss Rossiter was
very interesting girl. well read and up
ED everything? But before unbound
knowledge" how could one talk cas-
4, or air ones little opinions?
For the first time in her life the sc
possessed, cultivated Miss Rossiter f.
shy. crude and ignorant. She was RET
Is a very superior young woman, OF lof