Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-07-16
ASAGITTARIUS WOMAN
By OLARIoE IRENE oLINGHAE.

Copyright 1888. BY the Authorl
On long narrow peninsula pointing |
earingly into boisterous and turbulent !
ocean is handsome cottage where ev
cry year Mr.. and Mrs Lyman Baxter
are wont to come, with q few intimate
friends, for genuine rest and recreation
Sometimes the Indian summer catches
them there and holds them with its
sweet mistiness and yellow warmth of
SUD-
Long ago some hippant visitor named
the place Saints Rest" on account of
the identity of the family name with
the author Of "a certain volume much es-
teemed by its Puritan ancestry, and the
pseudonym olings to it.
Late in the summer season a couple
of young people might have been seen
lettering on the beach. They were q
handsome pair, and they We're absorbed
in each other. They had reached that
plane of good fellowship where CONVEX
sation is optional, not necessary. Cuth
bert Ogden was journalist anu sumo
thing Of Bohemian who was making
heroic struggles to endear a newly fiedg
ed daily newspaper to the reading pub
lie. Dorothy Van Deering was an heir
ess, the descendant of proud old Dutch
family and very popular. They had
known each other ever since their school
days, and their friendship had always
been of the frankest and most platonic
character, though of late this conven-
tionalism had worn a little thin.
Mrs. Baxter was interested in the
young man, partly because he possessed
the artistic temperament SO pleasing to
women and partly because she knew he
had a wealthy uzole who refused TO rec
Ognize his existence on account Of a
family quarrel. Mrs. Baxter was a nat
ural peacemalSer; she loved to smooth
over difficulties aud solve problems II
occurred to her that she might by bit
Of diplomacy mead shis young mans
fortunes thereby putting him in the
way of Immediate success instead of by
long and labcrious processes So after 8
little thinking she invited young Ogder
down for ten days nt Saints Rest auC
at the same time extended an Invitation
to his uncle, General Stanhope. for th'
same length Of time. hoping to effect I
reconciliation between the two Mr.
Baxter doubted the SUCCESS OF this plan
He said there was nothing st Saint
Rest for q man like the general, who il
his later years had become a bookworn
and q reclusa. On the other hand, hi
nephew, whom he was known to detest
would be thrust upon him.
cit won't do It's too pnipable, " b
said He'll see right through il a
once
'tWilI he2 Then we shall have to IN
vite some one here to amuse him.
said Mrs Baxter, In nowise daunted
s'There's Uncle Swithin. " she added
with sudden inspiration.
"What, he of the Solar Biology?
asked Mr.. Baxter obviously
EYES, the professor. know he's eS
centric, but he is really very brigi
old gentleman, and has written sewers
books, you know. 1 ann sure he and Ii
general are acquainted and we can as
them both to meet each other. Ism
that good ideag''
81 don't know how they'd pull in
team. I've always driven them sill
gly," observed hex husband "Howeve
we might try it. But are we going
have no one bat them?'
Certainly, dear. Let me see-Mr
Van Deering and Dorothy. there's tw
LaIla Braddon, whose mother has gol
abroad for a couple Of months and wan
me to take Lalla 4 little under II
wing; then Lalla's engaged to Ja'
Armitage; SO We must include hir
Then there will be the general, the pr
6essor and Cuthbert Ogden co whet I
our intellectual faculties "
Mrs Baxter plan worked capital
All the invitations met with prom
acceptance, and the guests had arriv
with the exception Of Professor Swithi
who was delayed three days. As Gut