St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-01
AT THE PLAY.

IlOW luuuy w W hNAO Wf'AS JNN'
said She
He started. The phrase Jared him.
1t was at once inapplicable and undig-
nifed. He turned to her with panied
expression. delightful, perfect, "
"entertaining''-he could have condon-
ed expressions such as these, common
place as they would undoubtedly have
been A man may be tender toward
woman's ihapsodies about her lover
when that lover is himself But
"funnyr"
"Oh, oh, OIL She clutched his arm.
"What funny peopleP The fatal adj
jeotive againl This time he WINGED,
WINGED twice deliberately, lest she
should mistake the first signal Of dis
tress as q mere physical infrmity.
She continued quickly:
"That reminds mel don't know
why it reminds me, but it does; force
of habit perhaps, because he hates bad
ly turned out women so-Don is up in
town tonight Did you know? Iwonder
IL We budlI CUluo uOlOno Nun.
"You mean Lord Kilmore's younger
sonf"
"You remember DOM"
Her glance, meeting his full, showed
some surprise at his obvious i'll temper.
She put her hand out hurriedly, with
pretty unaffected gesture of sympathy.
"Dear You re not ill?"
Nothing irritates man whose liver
is out of order so much as being re-
minded of the fact. The deepening
curves at Chinnock's mouth grew posi-
lively rigid with irritation.
"Of course not. Is anything ever the
matter with me? How your imagination
runs away with you-dearest ~ The
dearest" was dutiful concession to
the situation but, somehow, she shrank
from it, her ardor chilled, the keenness
of her enjoyment marred already
1--WE have still ten minutes to wait
before the curtain rises, he said. He
regretted his customary after dinner
coffee. "What if took the opportuni-
ty of explaining to you the motif of the
play? 1t is triae complex. "
81 would be kind of you," she said,
with little smile, but, notwithstand-
ing her eyes showed some disappoint-
ment as she scanned the house. She
was longing to speak the sweet banali-
ties to which most lovers find it pleasant
to listen; to make her bright little
comments and butterfly criticisms; to
sip to its full the evenings cup of eva
nescent enjoyment; to be, in a word,
herself-the creature of the moment,
and his own.
She had looked forward to tonight
the first of her emancipation-with
rapturous excitement ut will be al
most as good as being his wife, " she had
confded to the married sister under
whose ohaperonage she was spending
the "a hours in town, which broke her
Journey between her Worcestershire Wis.,
it and her travels farther north. "To
have him all to myself for whole even
ing To feel that really belong to him
as he belongs to me! Can you imagine
anything more perfect?
Lady Guthrie could, easily, but she
did not say SO. She had only met Chin
} mock once, and he impressed her as a
prig and bore, and Margot's angry
disclaimers could not alter her sister 8
,, opinion.
"You have to marry him, not IT.
she said comfortably. "What does it
> matter what think? He's we'll off,
which is something At least you can
: congratulate yourself SO far. No one
: can patronize you. Your women friends
e won't be able to pass you on their un'
e becoming last years clothing nor their
, husbands stale tobacco.
YOU'RE prejudiced, Margot replied
"All sisters are. :" Which in SENSE
y was true, for Lady Guthrie's sympathy
y was openly enlisted ON behalf of th(
II scapegrace of the Fillmore family young
81 Don Garrick, who had adored Mango
=. since she trespassed barefacedly ant
II barefoot in the Fillmore deer forest as
W little child But Margot, having sys
N tematically dominated him for lS years
it already felt the pleasure might pail
70 long continued "He has been so nue.
IS to me all my life 1t would be borin
for him to become more still during tn
rest of it, | know him so well-to
g well, she said, in excuse for her col
Mt heartedness. But at objections such @
X these Lady Guthrie shook her head i
re stern disclaimer.
~, Wait" she said sagely, "wait.
90 And Margot waited
ed Tonight for the first time she sa'
les something of the reverse side of hi
or new picture, the canvas back Was
&C. disloyal to wish that Mr.. Chinook b.
re- haved more as one expects lover
of behave even in public, that he shou
ice show some sort of open pride Of posse
* zion, of glad proprietorship? In the 70
hu Immediately in front of them there WI
q gay, absorbed young couple, ohattin
e laughing looking smiling, readl
their own tender meanings into Il
most trivial incidents of the evenin
a Margot watched them, fascinated
INK snite of hnrrelf How difforontly tb