The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1902-06-03
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! STRATEGY
By VENE KENNEDY
Copyright, 1909,
But :. =. Mcclure Company

Q Copyright. 1909,
| x Blythe s. =. Mcclure Company 4
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"Please. Mrs. Karl. come and play
tennis" said Cleva Culloh appealingly.
Its too hot" said Mrs. Karl laZily.
| I'm too old to frisk i'm such weather"
"Heari Heart" cried Roy Kendall
! what an honest womanr'
| From cOmpulsion. Roy. l was borr
here"
| "In the year of our Lord Clevr
added
Eighteen hundred end sixty" com
pieted Mrs Karl easily. II am thirty
eight. you see"
.Tbirty-eightr' repeated Roy. III
can't be you are ten years older thar
amr'
Yes" she answered smilingly.
Slender. graceful. charming. she look
ed scarce thirty and knew it.
With pout Cleva started for the
tennis court followed by Rov Kendall
end Madison Hnr,iing.
Ard IT was hot. Soon Harding began
to breathe heavily. As they finished
the Pame he held out his racket and
painted:
"Here, Brady I'll leave you and Miss
Temple to whitewasb Kendall and
Cleva."
Are you warm?" said Mrs Karl as
he Joined her on the veranda.
"Am warm? Well.' reaching eager
IL for the ico water on the table beside
her.
NO" she commanded. go change
your clothes. Not cold plunge. re-
memher-jnst a rub anr dry linen"
| He laughed but obeyed-
| When he returned. she handed him a
glass of water. then a nicely pared
peach.
"Uhr' he grunted This beats ten
MIS-"
81 think So" she said.
They chatted for some time. Their
he asked suddenly:
"Why haven't you married againY
THE usual reason" she answered.
"A beautiful woman. with twenty
thousand a year. ought to find Mr.
Right surely"
Madison" she said softly, Il never
/ iONeO hObtFt i~oW-"cii- muSt p<
sure OF myself and him."
Robert was q good man." be said
gravelv.
"Yes." she repeated. "Yet I hated
him Mt times because I could not love
him"
"But you married him."
"Yes, ard ! deserved to be more IN
happy than was. He was forty
eight. / twauty-two; he rich. poor
he ready TO settle down. ! ready Il
have ding with life. Somehow. Mad
ison. l think he ought To have known
better thar to have asked me. HI
Ought to have known | couldn't love
him."
J "wby notT His voice was con
strained.
"Youtb loves youth Much as ROber
loved me, | think the first few year,
were equally disappointing to both.
: was ready for my ding and had it
1knOw now how hored he was with 1
all. It's glorious TO do stunts wheI
one Ia q colt. but afterward'- Sh,
laughed pnerrily and handed him thu
peach she bad been pairing.
Dct
"OuA wants 10 jog along" she con
tiuuad. THE normal woman pas
thirty-five can say what she may. bu
the excitement aud strength takinl
smusemepts that she reveled in durin
her teens and twenties-ah. they're no
worth the price"
His answering smile quickly disaI
pearej as she went into the house
He was fOrty-five. Cleva CuilOh TWEEN
ty-twO; he rich. she poor: he had ha
his ding. she Just ready for hers. b
had accepted Lorene Karl's invitatiO
to spend the month Of August at he
there. He had determined the latte
. should be his promised wife befOr
thev left. but
He slept little that night. A pictur
of Robert Karl. wearied and surfeited
] dancing attendance on the gay. until
ing Lorene, rose before him. ITO jo
along bad soothing sound. but
\ vision OF Cleva's laughing. girlish fac
I made his jaws set determInedly.
J 1t rsined during the night. Next da
\ was cool and clear.
III "Oh. mel Oh. mvP' said Mrs. Kar
"Why am not seerl IL had know
I II was to be such a charming day,
! would bave had our dance tonight. 3
\ Friday II will probably be rs hot q
I blazes."
"Wbst's the oddsT said Cleva.
7 can dance II II registers rrndred."
! $50 can l." said Roy-"with you"
"Tben ! sh"ll give you the first an
I Hast dance and two In between" sh
\ seid. with q gay laugh. gisncing froI
I under her long lsshes mt Harding.
"l'll take the rest" he reptile
\ promptly. -if 1t registers two hundred
~ Friday night simply bl'zed fort
\ heat. but Cieva and a crowd OF youn
\ folks danced as merrily as thoug
! Jack Frost were In the air.
\ Harding noted wondrous sparkle
I Cleva's eyes as she and Roy swuI
! around the room. and he looked sad
I disgruntIed as he Joined LOrene Karl.
This is our dance" he said listlessl
: "t;o change your collar" was the a
swer. "and put some talcum on yo'
\ neck. Then we will sit under Il
I trees-sit not walk"
When lie returned. he asked cuI
! ously:
: Where did you learn SO much wi