Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-02

: remember how Mamie used to hate
him, and now his portrait is in her
Il vnos"S''
Then room, put in Martha. Hers
and the Gregorias'. That g not Nannie's
doing"
And she positively smiled when
she saw him in church last Sunday. A
year ago she would have got under the
seat rather than look at him, and this
is Hagar's doing. wonder what her
little game is? But with such over
towering influence as hers over Mamie
1t should be the easiest thing in the
world to marry her to any man her
steamship pleases.
"Ah! cried Martha. $50 you agree
with me. You don't believe the influ-
ence is exactly holy one that she exer-
cises over Nannie?' up to a certain
point" said tse quiet voice, sit will do
no harm. For instance, those headaches
that Mamie always suffered from and
which Hagar can soothe away almost
with touch-to be saved those hours
of suffering is distinct gain, and must
honestly say that l have never seen that
influence exercised for evil. Still, if it
comes to parting Of the ways, if, for
instance. both fall in love with the same
man, Mamie, not Hagar, will go to the
wall"
Therefore she is no true friend, /"
said Martha. Tomorrow they both re-
turn to Straubenzee, and Will Cassilis'
exile is not up till Sept. ], which gives
four clear weeks to Blake Trelawny.
She will see him every day, just as she
met him ut balls, at her fathers hunt
breakfasts, ut dinner, everywhere, in
short. during the Christmas holidays,
and she will have the Gregorias to aid
and abet him in every possible way,
and shouldn't like to bet ON the re-
sult."
Mamie is the stanchest, dearest lit
tie soul in the world" cried out one of
the girls stoutly. Horses wouldn' t drag
her away from her Willie. Don't you be-
lieve ity That's her charm-that she's
so true hearted. And she is only civil to
Trelawny to please Hagar.
a man might well be civil to him
for his own sake!" said the quiet voice.
drawing deep breath. There's man
fer you il you like! When look at him,
feel as il all the other men are pin
cushions or walking sticks. Trelawny's
alive. and let's you know it..
WELL" said Martha" confess
like that sort Of man, anything that rep
rcsents movement, life, motive power
man who makes you realize something
Of the forces that rule the world. and is
always moving, living, fighting, achiev-
ing. never standing still and rusting
like students and women"
I'm not sure that I like such an in
carnate potcntiality as Trelawny," said
the quiet voice. There is such thing
| as being too SGgressively masculine, just
as the overdose Of feinirinity in our
grandmothers has produced the mon
strous creature from whom men now
fee Ell masse. must belong primarily
to myself. Blake Trelawny would regard
a woman as belonging solely to him."
"Odd he never fell in love with the
Gregorias," said Martha. THAT type
Of man is usually mad about beauty,
| and Mamie is just sweet little white
violet beside q rare, wonderful flower
that blooms once in a century. Hagar is
| Greek reiDcarnated, and I'm always
expecting her to drop into the Pheni-
clan tongue. There's the bell! Thank
heaven it's the last time we shall hear
it for over two months. Heigh no! We
can't all be Nannies going home to be
married. but what do you bet, girls,
that the Gregorias comes back next
term: lay 10 to she doesn't; that she
has done with work and means play"
YES" said Hagar behind her. II
do Please God. this is the last class of
imbeciles shall ever hold"
| And it was.