The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-05

with baby" walled Kitty with tragic
eyes,
.Baby, Baby doesn't come into it at
all. Hugh treasured her briskly.
Now. just get on with dinner, please,
like good girls, for I suppose Dolile
doesn't want to miss the first act OF
her play"
ergy. s'And the very best part of all
is to sit and thrill before the curtain
goes up
The entrees were being handed when
Chisholm slipped into his seat again,
and he returned an altered man. Dolle
could scarcely believe her senses, he
was so changed. He had dropped a
burden of care and some ten years of
age outside the room. He was grown
young, gay, amusing, and gallant. And
he made no further references to bust
ness
somers wanted to buy another newspaper
Chisholm stopped him.
oy Le eussf ffGrgst fo this he urged oge night e 4
events. Tomorrow shall take care of it.
self Don't you think that's the best way.
Dollie certainly thought that the way
which aI CHI ne new adopted of appealing to her
deed. Although she could really be quite
happy without attracting any nptice at
all still she found the experience of being
treated as little lady of Importance as
n9 Me aS i %as peas1g ader,v 70 have
discovered her existence, so to speak,
The ist OF op sto dl ana Of
He showed, too, the laudable intention
Of not letting his discovery elude him for
Thus. though Dollie had intended re-
turning home next day, she found herself
before the evening was over involved in
all kinds of agreeable arrangements pro-
posed by Chisholm and accepted by Kitty,
end of the week She consoIed herself
for the Disappointment which Mumsie
knowledge of the larger budget of news
she would have to take back
to herself as she went to bed that night
with her head in whirl.
state of excitement next day when Mr..
Chisholm came in with the news that the
he had sold out on the. top Of the market:
he eye tRad to YOU MISS Ms Mdassingha;m
| took a cab to the nearest telegraph Of
flee and cabled instructions to my brokers
tunately five hours later than New York
time, he got the message at p m. yes
thing through The consequence is that
today, I'm wealthy man instead of a
not resist such direct guidance from Prov
idence-or anyhow from old Waller
in my soup, WASN'T eis it9'' said Dollie Who
was really awed, yet half inclined to
Seems queer. doesn't it?" Chisholm
agreed. yet after all spirits have to act
neither hands nor feet, nor tongues
bodies, they make use of psychic force,
isn't it called Mr.. Somers? And l expect
they found you a sympathetic medium,
Miss Massingham. I know I find you
sympathetic he added in tone suffi-
GENTLY lowered that only Dollie could
hear And l want you to let ask
question this afternoon when out
driving" for the first of the charming
gagements for which Dollie remain
ing in town was a coaching excursion
that day to Oatlands Park.
And she was really a very fresh ana
unsophisticated little person since CHS
holm's question, when he put it after tea
beneath the chestnut trees, surprised her
more than anything which had ever oc-
Cured in her life before; but when she
had grown accustomed to the idea and
her new happiness she reflected with de-
light that here at least was a most ex-
citing piece of news to take home to
MumSie