The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-11-12

LADY CONNIE'S PLUNGE. |
Usual Conditions of q Romantic Rescue
Were Reversed, But Both
Were Happy.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
BY CLIO GRAVES

G|NT HAT chance!" gasped Lady
w Connie, taking her fair, dis
heveled head out from among the
cushions of her boudior lounge and
drying her tear-stained eyes with an
absurd little gOssamer handkerchief;
what chance has a girl-a mere girl,
who has only been out for a season
and a half-against a married woman
like Mia lie Quesne?'
'None. at ALL" said her friend, a
rather plain, sensible young woman,
with sporting tastes and tailor-made
garments. Not the ghost of a
chance!"
Yet, she's over 3O-and makes up!'
said Lady Connie, viciously.
Men prefer women over 30" said
Molly Verdon, sententiously, "and 1
am inclined to believe that they lean
to makeup"
"Her waist is at least six inches
larger than mine," Connie persisted.
'She is of the vOluptuOus and re-
dundant type, 1 grant you" returned
her friend; "but men like that, too"
"Her boots are fives and her gloves
seven.''
''She is given to pedestrianism and
drives four-in-hand. Men adore that
kind of thing, = returned Molly, light
ing a cigarette. MY child, what per-
feet tobacco!"
Capt. Lorriker gave men the box
when he came home invalided from
Africa, and"
You got so chummy?"
"He-he was laid up at his aunt's
in Belgrave square, and-I visit there,
you know"
"Or, you did just then, and you used
to drop in and spend the mornings
and the afternoons and sometimes the
evenings, reading and singing and
playing to the wounded hero" Molly
made a little bit of a grimace.
1T was only Christian charity"
said Lady Connie with dignity. "He
had a splinter of a shell in the mus
cles of his ribs on the right side-''
''And little Connie thought that an
arrow, sidlfully implanted in the left
side might serve as a cOunter-irri-
tant." Molly eXhaled a thin blue cloud
of Turkish vapor and smiled at the
water eolors upon the wall. ''Now,
Capt. Lorriker is we'll"
almost; only he gets awful at
tacks of cramp, and turns blue"
Does hep"
Every now and then. 1t has some
! 1 4 H. -,
Africa. He vows he will never drink
another drop as long as he lives"
Its the kind of oath you ran really
rely on a mans keeping. But, tell me
one thing. While you were playing,
not sister, but cousin of mercy, where
was the lie Quesne?"
"In the Riviera. And Fred-I mean,
Capt. Loqriller-admitte to me that
there had been what he called "a
slight entanglement,' and promised to
steer clear of such things for the
future"
"And you believed him? GoOse!"
'And then" went on Lady Connie,
rising to her feet and beginning to
walk up and down her sanctum, her
pale draperies trailing, her gold hair
disheveled, her cheeks and eyes fam
ing with Indignation, and her fingers
nervously wrestling with the clasp OF
her Egyptian silver girdle: ''then she
came back. o, it was degrading! She
just held up one of her fingers-gave
him one look, and"
And he fell to heel like the we'll
trained retriever he is. The lie
Quesne is famous for breaking-in men
/ rather admire her for it."
do you? well, if you're going tC
lunch with me at the Dips club, you
will have the pleasure of seeing then
together. Both are members, yor
know"