Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-04-18

corner of the drawing room, anticipat-
ing quarter of an hours stern cross
examination at the hands of Miss War
rem. Somehow the ordeal did not seem
to be SO terrible as it would have
seemed two days previously.
Sitting in his armchair that night
Paul Westover meditatively addressed
the smoke-clouds from his cigar.
"She is wonderfully pretty-she has
exquisitely sweet eyes and what a
charming talker, even though we did
talk only of the serious things of life.
She is indeed an ideal heroine-in real
life"
Westover pulled himself up abruptly
and laughed quick, nervous laugh.
Come, this won't do-contemplating
such thing already is making haste
too quickly-but that's absurd. Why
before 1 know it I'll be thinking of
marriage. And marriage would be the
ruin of a young writer. 1t would"
But then Westover repeated to him
self all the familiar arguments against
matrimony until finally he went to bed
convinced if not exactly pleased.
His encounter with Miss Germyn
Warren, and the train OF thought it
prompted may have had something to
do with Mr.. Westover's departure for
the west, but the literary journals an
nounced his trip as taken for the pur-
pose of acquiring local color for a
new novel.
During the two years that followed
Paul Westover's literary output served
to increase considerably his growing
reputation. He returned to New York
and prepared to settle down comfort
ably to meet the demands made upon
him by his publishers. The novel, to
prepare which he left New. York, was
pronounced success, and though
his old friends, the critics, did not
appear to notice it, Paul himself was
conscious of certain resemblance in
type between his new heroine and his
old, that is to say Miss Germyn War
rem. He tried to reason that this new
heroine was simply but a develop
ment of the Gertrude Warner of his
first book, and thus he tried to dis
pei his lingering fears that he had
drawn upon Miss Warren, his &C
quaintance Of single evening.
Again in his career Mr.. Paul West
over had an encounter which caused
him to become as discomposed and
nervous as he had been at his first
meeting with the coincidental heroine
of his first book
1t was at literary reception.
Permit me, Miss Warren, to intro
duce to you Mr.. Paul Westover-you
have, no doubt read his clever books"
Eyes, everything Mr.. Westover has
written" said Germyn Warren, as she
extended her hand to Paul, who stood
bowling and blushing like schoolboy.
Then with smile of gentle mischief
playing around her lips as they were
left alone she continued: And I can
not think that Mr.. Westover has for
gotten me since some of my friends
would have it am portrayed rather
faithfully in your most recent novel
and even in several of your magazine
stories"
MISSIONER was plainly surprised at
this frank challenge, and for the sec
ond time in his life he found himself
keenly observing the heroine of his
fiction. He noticed the same clear.
blue eyes and wondered at how close
ly he had remembered them all this
time. He found himself on terms of
old acquaintanceship with this mag
netic little girl. for she was only a
girl. For moment until the pre-
sumption OF the thing struck him he
felt tinge of regret being taken away
from New York for so long. How that
evenings reception passed he never