Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-07-07

soil In the whole round world In which 10
replant them. Kitty wrapped them care
fully In a bit of paper and put them away
with her best clothes in her big valise.
Whenever she shook crumbs of rich black
soil out of her best silk waists she thought
Of The Gentleman.
This was how It happened then that
from a parsonage Of no importance at all
Kitty slowly and by degrees became a per-
sonsge OF much Importance In that hotel
at Intersken. People unaccustomed 10
talk English lisped few words OF 1t at
, her-through courteous listening she de-
veloped an ability to Northumberland
girls, got up in every color OF the rain
bow crossing the salon, begged her TO
play, sat silent during the performance
a thing all Germans do--then burst Into
rapturous and ringing applause at the
finishing chords. Those who were going
away sought her out and bade her adien
with seeming regret. and. what was more
marvellous still, those who were just ar
irving insisted that they be introduced.
And as tasseis on the cap Of the climax.
the fraulein beamed magnanimously upon
her, and the chambermaid took to making
up her bed before she had hardly time to
get out OF 1t.
Combing her hair before the brilliantly
framed mirror between her two windows,
she smiled at herself morning and night.
thinking how the magic change was due
to the courtesy of The Gentleman who had
constituted himself her knight.
At the end of the week she who had
thought to hate the place regretted leav-
ing it. not because of the Alpine glow on
the Jungfrau. nor because OF the inter-
vening mountains that showed dark blue
In the dawn. changing to emerald green
when the sunlight shone upon them. nor
because of the tiny hill nearer TO her over
which the clouds flung themselves ana
clung csressingly, so low down that she
might almost have tiptoed and caught
handfus of them II she had tried, but
because of The Gentleman.
As she might have expected. he made
a little fete OF her last dinner, ordering
the fraulien to open bottles OF cham
payne, which the party that had climbed
the mountains with them drank with res
onant clinking of glasses. wishing her bon
voyage and a happy return on the follow
ing year, to the intense admiration OF
those at the other end Of the table. who
looked smiiingIy and champagnelessiy on.
At that dinner every time she glanced
at The Gentleman she found him gleam-
ing at her.
why do you leave Interlaken?' he
asked at length. "Lucern." for that was
her destination, "is-humph-not half so
nice a place. 1t is city. You can fnd
everywhere cities. but not everywhere a
place set In a nest of fine hills like Inter-
laken."
He looked at her again.
Resides" he added. this place be-
comes you When you first came, you
were pale and thin. Now your cheeks are
rosy and your eyes are bright Humph,
your eyes are bright
Kitty laughed.
TT is not the place." she told him 1T
is your care of me and the drinking or
your wine"
1t was early when she left, so early that
the mist hid the Jupgfrau and all the
other mountains, but The Gentleman was
UP to see her off. He followed her
through the row of servants, who received
her parting gifts benignly as II they had
served her well from the first and stood
at the step of the cab.
81 wish you could have staid awhile
longer" he reiterated This place be-
comes you So
Kitty laughed again-he talked of the
place as II II were a ribbon or new
gown, or fine, beflowered hat-and held
out both her hands.
II am sorry to leave it." she said, "and
you"
Then the cab drove past the rows OF
man-high hollyhocks out into the mist,
which enveloped now not only the noun
tains, but the hollyhocks and The Gentle-
man. about whose white head 1t shone,
Kitty thought, with something ike the
glow of a halo.
"It is Just as WELL" she said to herself,
that he is old and gray and l am going,
or should have ended by falling in love
with him"
Turning her head. she looked back, but
she could not see him. The way between
was mist, all mist
"Gratitude Is a flower Of love" sha
finished. talking into the mist that mas
been known at times to burst into full
bloom. am not so sure but that I'm half
in love with him as It is