Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-01-09

sast book"-he noticed : slight flush
creeping around her neck-'1 haye
iouged TO know you as a friend, ana
90 be able 10 tell you how much
admire your work. Il
Miss King turned toward him. and
her face was very grave.
pardon me interrupting you," she
said, ''but understood you wished to
see me on business. Had We not bet-
ter get ON with the Interview? Or,
If you have changed your mind about
that, perhaps that perhaps you will
allow me to attend to my work"
He understood the rebuke, but stood
his ground firmly.
"Give me two minutes" The said ''I
suppose / shah never have the chance
of speaking TO you like this again"
She pondered for a moment, iI-reSo.
lutte, and them dropped into chair.
I'm a life like NINE said Max
"there are few reinememts. A young
journalist cannot as "a rule. afford 10
marry. He lives by himself, OF with
another man. I'M chambers; he feeds
at restaurants he spends ahis evenings
If mot ait his office-in theafers or
music halls. The feminine influence
that fellow diving at home or "a mar
rfed man has the benefit of do not
fall to the lot of the unattached man
In chambers He talks to his aaun-
dress in the morning and a barmaid
at night, but otherwise his social cir
Gle is mainly composed of gross
Males"
"And he consoles himself by inter
viewing ladies ?" said Margaret. read
ing for the tenth time a soap adver
tisement on the back of "a. ma gazine.
"Such an occupation is mot always
ONE of pure JOY" Eden replied, feel.
ing more at home when she rallied
him like that. 'But suppose that he
finds, quite by accident. woman
whose nature is entirely in accordance
with his own; whose thoughts seem
to turn in the Same direction; whose
soul"
"And what if she happens ITO be old
and pFain?" Miss King interrupted,
booking up aft him from her chair.
would that make any difference? ?"
cit would be-impoeSble," said
Max, heSitatingIy.
''Tbat is, il I may say so. silly"
Margaret quietly remarked.
Eden was rather nettled.
at beg to differ with YOU" he as
serted "Beaulty of body is nothing
as compared to beauty of soul AMI
purity of intellect. Tt is your mind
/ worship; your"
Margaret arose again, hastily Such
Nituation as this could NOT be faced
from the depths of low wicker
chair.
81 think this has gone far enough"
she sadd. 81 must ask you to leave
me-"
He ga7ed at her b1iqnlcly for a mo
ment, ais though hardly realizing thai
he WAS ITO be dismissed thurs curtly
Then. in a feeble kind of way. he
picked up HRS halt and moved toward
the door.
AS he WAS going some; hing in his
manner seemed to appeal to the cir;
more than his words fal done. They
had seemed TO her TO smack more OF
the hack writer than the passionate
hover. But as she ncted "a certain
sthop of his sholNdekts and caught q
glimpse of his face. 1t occurred to
her thaIt he might after all, be sin,
cere I'm. his professions. She would
| nOI NAVE DPSn NA3ilINlA II shC heNi
let him leav- like that
"Oh." SIC SAID. and stopped abrupt
| >.
TT wae not very much, but It made
him turn round with a suggestion Oh
hope in his EXPRESSION
She did mot loOk at him. but spoke
hurriedlv
"nt its iuzit possible" she began,
'fthiat there may be something oi
in what YOU have sail. If SO. lam
sorry for treating ft-lfghtQy
He ns silent. but his very silence
went ITO convince her Of his sincerity.
'If you knew anyFl7:ng about me.''
she continnnorR, perhaps YOU would
not have come at an. There is q
secret but 1T is not my secret only.
suppose. however. cam trust YOU?
"You Com" he said quietly. and the
tome of his va'ce told her so much
that the blood surged up into he-
cheeks.
'T think can she said: "and. II
telling you this. I am doing it SOLELY
for your own sake. You would havs
me believe that you-l6ke me-for my
work? ?"
He nodded. Wondering much whaa
was TO come next
''Then you may be interested to
know" she vert on, little bitterly
'that Tire books you refer ITO were
NOT written by me ait ALL
'But Won are Margaret Kings" ex.
claimed Eden, amazed at the comics
sion.
"I am Margaret King" she replied
"and I am received in s1ciety as 4
celebrated auth'oress. 7 go to di !.
mems, ba1ars and meetings in the sam.
character, and I receive Interviews
There my business ends. Come here
she esdded. ''I will introduce you us
| your kindred soul.''
Max WINGED ait the stab, but fol
bowed her 10 an alcove before which /
heavy curtain was drape1, Marraret
drew aside the curtain and revealed ,
table On the table stlcod a phono
! graph
Listen she said, 'tto the voice O,
] your charmer.''
She touched "a 7ever aml the instru
mert lss set working Immediaba1,
there came from the rlantsnritter ,
| SLOWLY spoken and carefully p,rn,cst "
ated sentence. the language and
| phrasfng of which at once .remindes
Eden Of the works with which he wa.
% familiaT. But the voice was tn.
voice of am old mar
Almost immediately Margare.