Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-01-05


that her name is Scruggins."
"Oh, no, | haven't. have serious
doubts about it now-since that look
that turn of the head. Didn't you
notice IT? Don't you remember a lit.
tie way Edith had of leaning her
head just little?"
Mot particularly. | wish they
would open the doors or something
This place is sitting"
'llow do you mean, Not parlicu
larly.' You didn't notice 1t particu
tarly, or you don't remember it par.
ticularly?"
Really, Kate" the bonnet said
with rather artificial laugh, you
are getting to be like cross.examin
ing lawyer. ] wish they would open
Those doors"
And the bonnet turned around and
buoked behind her to see il the doors
were opened SO as to lie. little air
I'm The hat also looked round and
suddenly exclaimed, "Hello!"
what is it?" said the bonnet
SLOW is II that | saw him first, my
iearr' said the hat THAT isnH
right, you know. Your own Aance
You ought to have been conscious OF
his presence by subtle magnetic
thrill"
perhaps was" said the bonnet
N a matter-of-fact tone. But he said
he was coming for lis at the end, and
gotmg Ito wait outside in the lobby"
'IIas he seen this before"
81 think not He said he hadn't
Then you think you had reason to
doubt his verachy?'
What nonsense you are talking to
lay, Kate,' said the bonnet, and the
nat laughed as il she had said some
thing very funny.
well" said the hat, you laid such
an emphasis ON said" you know"
And here the music stopped, and
the curtain went up again.
All through that last act the bon
net seemed to be suffering from an
|attack of twitcheS. She seemed to be
struggling against powerful force
that tended to make her turn her
head and look behind her, instead oil
looking at the stage. 1t may have
been that she wanted to see IL the
doors had been opened so as to let q
little air into the sitting theater. VI
may have been something else.
And the hat kept smiling in thu
wrong place.
Gladys Mortimer came on AGAIN
only at the very end, and then sh'
l. seemed nervous. Once more she ha'
) to turn her head quickly. II wa
y where the bad lord said something
and the bad lord was standing behn'
her. up the stage. And again Their
was that little individual tilt of tn
{ head which the hat i'm the stalls ha'
I saudi reminGe I'd her of Edith Winston
This time the hat nudged the bonnie
= and the bonnet gave little shr'i
u ard leaned back, AS IT she ara nc
h take much interest in the finale c
y the play.
vi When 1T was over the hat bega
II chatting volubly as they rose to go.
81 haven't the least doubt about
" now she said. "lt's Edith and \
II ONE elise. DO you think we ought
u 90 and leave oaur cards behind ii
w. scenes? wonder il she knows?
3 mean, about you and Laurie. Oh,
u course 1t wouldn't make any dife
II enre If she did. III was all OFF b
i tween them long before she wei
10 West. ! wonder how 1T came about
y Thought she was going to be a typ
III writer in Chicago, didn't you? Bl
u 1T must be little emba nrassing IL
81 Laurie"
10 "Why?" snapped the bonnet.
"Oh, mean, just when your el
Z gagemQni has been announced, va
+" know"
u "Im sure don't care. hope she
II making a great success on the stag
X The only wonder to me is that hi
I'd mother let her do it,
ID YES said the hat, "lhey were
c
> very particular
Il 'Bui, Of course, Needs must whe'
what are you laughing atY
III 81 hope you don't mean that II
u devil drove poor Edith on to Il
'e stage"
1t "royerty-much the same thing
Il said the velvet bonnet. Wow ! wo
der If that young man has gone on
side into the lobby to wait for MS,
sc he said he would"
BY this time they were beglnnii
10 be able to walk with rather le
of a football struggle. They we
Z near the door. where the crowd W
thinner Both the young WON
: were craning their necks this vs.
u and THAT, looking for the velvet bo
nets fance, who should have be
w. waiting FOR them i'm the lobby,
~ But there was mo such pers
among the few males dotted here a
there, ike sheep that had gone astr
,,fi al. az futni H. ~