The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-04-06

waiting gentlemen to the right about.
for. though he was only 20. Gov"
Prime. as a junior at Columbia. had
been ingeBuously devoted TO the lit
tie lady from the very first evening
he saw her. A boy of frank, impulsive
nature, was "Gov"-a boy still in spite
of the budding mustache, the 20 sum-
mers and the barely passed exam
thai wound up the junior year and
entitled him 10 sit with the seniors
when the great university opened its
doors i'm October. Studies he hated, but
tennis, polo. cricket. riding and dane
ing were things he loved and eXcellcd
in. Much of his bOyhOod had been
spent at one of those healthy. hearty
English schools where all that would
cultivate physical and mental manhood
was assiduously practiced, and all that
would initiate against them was as
vigorously ''tabooed."
At the coming of his twentieth birth
day that summer his father had hand
ed him his check of S5,OOO-the paternal
! expression Of satisfaction that his boy
had never smoked pipe, cigar or cigar
I ette-and the same week GOV" had
carried off the blue ribbon with the
racquet. and the second prize with the
single sculls. 1t was during the Eek
ans" the first week in June, when
/ dropping in for five o'clock tea of some
girls whom he had known for years,
,.he was presented TO this witching lit
..tIe creature whose name he didn't even
catch. I'VE met her way out at an
army post in Wyoming when papa took
us 10 California last year." was wills
pered to him. land they entertained us
so cordially. and of course we said if
ever YOU come to New York you must
! be sure TO let us know-and she did
but" and there his informant paused,
dubious. Other callers came in and il
began 10 rama sudden, drenching
| shower, and the little stranger from the
/ far west saw plainly enough that her
/ hostesses, though presenting their
/ friends after our CHEEKY American fash
/ ion. were unable TO show her further
attention. and the newly presented
almost all women, said $50 very
pleased" but failed to look it, or other
wise to manifest their pleasure. She
couldn't go in the rain. The butler had
! 'phOned for cab. She wouldn't sit
/ there alone and neglected. She delib-
/ erateiy signaled Mr.. Prime. THE la
dies are all busy" she said, with a
charmingly appealing smile, but l
/ know YOU can tell me. 1 have 10 dress
/ for dinner after l get home, and must
Ia nj CIR.
at 1880. How long will it take a car
riaga 10 drive me there? Oh, is that
youlS Isociety pin? Why, are you still
/ in college? Why. thought"
That cab was p minutes coming.
and when il came Mr.. Prime went with
/ il and her, whom he had not left an
/ instant from the moment of her ques-
ton. Moreover. he discovered she was
/ nervous about taking that carriage
/ drive all alone away up TO One Hundred
and Tenth street. Yet what other way
I could a girl 90 in evening dress? lie
J left her at her door with q reluctantly
! given permission 10 return in an hOm
/ and escort her TO the distant home of
/ her friends and entertainers. He drove
1 10 the Waldorf and had q light dinner
with half pint Of Hook. devcured her
Z with his ewes as they drove rapidly
Z northward. went 10 ii Harlem thcotor
while she dined and forgot him. and
/ was al the carriage door when she
/ came forth 10 be driven home. Seven
! hours or less "had done the business"
so far as Gouverneur Prime was con
cerned.
II was the boys first wild infatuation
as mad. uureasoning, absurd. yet in
tense as was ever that Of Arthur Pen
dennis for the lovely FCtheringay. Mar
| garet Garrison had never seen or known
the like of it. She had fascinated others
for a time. had kindled love, passion
and temporary devotion, but this-this
was worship. and il was something so
| sweet 10 her faded senses. something so
rich and spontaneous that she gave
| herself up for q day or two TO the de
light of studying it. Here was a giori-
Gus young athlete whose eyes followed
her every move and gesture, who hung
about her in utter captivatiOn, whose
voice trembled and whose eyes i'm
plored. yet whose strong, brown. shape
" hand never Gase5 20 much as touch
hers, except when she extended it in
greeting. He was to accompany his IA
Their and sister TO Europe in a week. so
what harm was there? He would for
get all about il. He knew now she was
married. lie was presented to Mia,
but had hardly 4 word and never a look
for her when Margaret was near. He
was dumb and miserable all the day
they drove in the park and later dined
/ al DelmOnico's with Col. Frost. He was
sick, Svsn when mounted on his favorite
English thoroughbred and scamperirg
about the bride path for peeps at the
drives,s when she was al the park again
with that gray-haired reprobate, that
money shark. Cashton-a Wall street
broker black-balled at every decent
club in New York. Why should she 90
with him? He had been most kind, she
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