Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-09-19

| ~, neil be back before long. and
| without his membranes. And Flo
ra's delighted TO get a winter abroad.
1t couldn't have happened more con.
veniently, she says
| He told me to tell you that he
thought your young friend-he meant
Harry Tristram-was lost forever,
now"
What a shame!" cried Nina, in.
dignantly
Just like Robert, He never could
understand that a man has history
Just as country has. He is and
ought to be a part of his family"
No sense of historical continuity. y
nodded Southend 81 agree. and
that's just why, though l admire Mr.
! Disney enormously, Il"
Generally vote against him on crit.
zeal occasions? Yes, Robert makes
so many admirers like that
rs his work at Blinkhampton moth.
lng? demanded Nina.
He got let in for that while he
was dispossesed" smiled Southend
Il say, thank heaven he wouldn't
have the viscounty."
That would have been deplora
ble," agreed Lady Evenswood.
It's all very curious little epi
sode.'
Yes, no more than that"
Yes, it's more" cried Nina. with.
out 1t he'd never have married Ce
oily"
Romance, Nine zabriska, ro
mance!" Southend shook his head
at her severely.
Nina tinched little under the op.
probrium of the word; yet why? In
these days we have come to recognize
Indeed there has been small choice
In the matter, unless man would
throw away books and wear cotton
| wool in his ears-that the romance of
one generation makes the realities OF
the next, and that a love affair 90
years Old becomes a problem in he.
redlty demanding the attention of
| the learned and receiving that of the
general public also.
That temporary inferiority of Bob
Broadley's on which Cecily had touch
ed so feelingly, was soon redressed
and after the wedding Harry had a
talk with the bride. 1t was not un
natural that she should blush a little
when he spoke to her-a PASSING
tribute to the thought of what might
have been. Harry greeted it with a
laugh.
| Il suppose we'd better be straight
forward about this he said. Ming
hampton's so near Blent, you see
We're both very glad, aren't we, Mr.
Broadley?"
Il amagine So" said jamie. "Yor
show no signs of pinfhg, anyhow"
And as to our behavior-there's
not a father in the kingdom who
wouldn't think us right
was in love with Bob all the
time"
Il was just as bad-because
thought you were, too" said Harry.
How could we do it, them" sh,
asked
That's the odd thing. 1t didn'
seem at all out of the way at tn,
time" he pondered.
You'd do it again now, if the cas-,
arose, but l shouldn't. That's the diff
ference" said she.
Harry considered this remark TO
moment with an impartial ait
We'll, perhaps l should, he admit
ted at last, but you needn't tell tina
to Cecily. Content yourself will
discussing it with Nina or MI
Neeld"
I'm tired of both of them" sh
cried They do nothing but tall
about YOU"
That night as he sat in the garde,
at Blent with his wife, Harry return
ed the compliment by talking of tn
Imp. He looked up toward Merrfo,
and saw the lights in the windows.
Il think Nina is with us for life
Ceeily," said he.
Il like her to be-" she answered
then l like you to be loved, and sh
loves you Besides, she's been 81
closely mixed up with it all. hasn'
she? She knew about you before
1 did. She knew Blent before / did
And it's not only with you and me
She knew your mother, Addie iris
; tram, too"
Yes; Nina goes right back to tn
beginning of the thing"
And the thing, as you call IT, Il
what brought us together. So Min;
seems to have had something to d,
with that, too. 1t comes all back t,
INV "hSh looh dl uSl, anu ike II
have her here"
well, she's part of the famil,
with laugh. First, because | lik,
being loved, and she loves me. Ant
story now. And she'll probably keel
a journal and make entries about us
like the late Mr.. Cholderton. ant
some day be edited by future Mr.
Neeld. Nina must stop, that's clear
IT'S clear, anyhow, because moth
ing would make her CO." said Cecily
Lets go up the hill and see hel
now" he suggested
Together they climbed the hill and
reached the terrace. There were PEG
pie in the drawing room and Harry
signed to Cecily to Keep out of sight
They approached stealthily.
Who's with her. l didn't know
any one was staying here whis
pered Cecily.
Harry turned his face toward her
smiling. Hush; it's old Neeld!"
They peeped in. Neeld was sitting
in. an armchair with some sheets OF
paper in his hand. He had his spec
tacles on, and had apparently been
reading something aloud to Nina: in.
deed, they heard his voice die away