The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-04-20
CLAPHAM MYSTERY

y CLAPElAM M YOIEh L.
st is all arranged for tomorrow, .
said young Mrs. Latymer-W -Wynne, as
she and her husband took their seats
at the dinner table
What is arrangeds" asked her
husband, a little grumpily, for he
had had along and fatiguing day in
the city.
'soh, the football match, OF
course. .
sAndare you going to waste your
afternoon in looking ons''
"Guelle idee Oh, no. I am going
lay
your said Harry, and he almost
spped his spoon in disgust.
Why nots It is all the rage now,
and you know like to be in the
fashion. .
'sYou cannot be serious, Kate.
You, a married woman, with two
children, going to exhibit yourself
in that way before a crowd OF loaf
ers! And in that dress tool"
"Well, the dress is little unbe-
coming-that's the worst of it. But
as to exhibiting oneself, that's all
nonsense. Isn't it a woman's busi-
ness to exhibit herself! Don't we all
exhibit ourselves when we so to a
drawing room?''
At any rate, you don kick about
and tumble in the mud when you go
TO a drawing room.
mo; because the rules of the
game are different, but one is as
much an exhibition as the other. -
Mrs. Latymer- Wynne was decided
" cleverer than her husband, and
kept him, on the whole, in state of
subjection. He was good, honest
fellow, who did very well on the
Stock Exchange, wherehis high ami
NAL spirits and propensity for prac-
teal joking were much appreciated,
but he was no match for his pretty
wife in the little verbal conflicts
which sometimes take place between
the most affectionate couples. And
his wife, though very fond of him,
took a delight in teasing him; his
awkward attempts at repartee
amused her.
I'm really very lucky to have
the chance she went on. LADY
Flyte-that'sour captain, you know
said that, on present form, I
hadn't much claim to a place in the
team, but that as two of her cracks
were down with the flu she'd give
me trial. Oh, wasn't it good of
herr"
''Confound herl'' said Harry.
"But, 1 say, Kate, this is beyond
joke. 1 really must beg that you
will drop it,
Eyes; into the goal mouth" said
his wife demurely. "Now, Harry,
don't be an old goose. A hundred
years ago, no doubt, it wouldn't t have
been done at all. Today it is just
the newest thing out"
And you're going to allow lot
of cads to criticise your legs. and
perhaps call out, Go it, Tommy, as
they did at a ladies' football match
the other day. Ladies indeedl It's
positively disgusting"
"Oh, 1 think my legs are all right,
Harry. And if they like to call me
Tommy, l don't mind. You know
it's meant as admiration. %
''And woman will do anything for
that Well, say again it's mon
strous thing, arr you will never
play football in public with my
sanction
Mrs. Latymer-Wynne smiled con-
tentedly. She was probably con-
scious that there were good many
things which she did without the
sanction of her husband
Harry noticed the smile, and for
once it angered him. He knew that
the old days when wives were sup
posed to submit themselves to their
husbands were over and that di-
rect prohibition from him would
only make his wife the more deter
mined to carry out her plan, so he
merely said:
"You will regret it yourself one
day, Kate. am sure you will. Z"
But Mrs. Latymer-Wynne only
smiled again. She would not give
way. Still, if she could have fore
seen the terrible calamity that was
about to befall her, she would no
doubt have relented. But who can
foresee the futurel
Those who were living at Clap
ham-or indeed anywhere in Lon
don-at that time cannot have for
gotten the extraordinary sensation