The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-09-26

"You have been sufficiently over
kind to even up accounts In mention
| ing them mt ALL" returned Ashe.
"There, you see can do the
proper; now, for heavens SAKE |
Miss Gregory, tell me If dreamed
Of you, or saw you, that day at Dick
Thurston's?" The girl drew back
IL don't understand you," she
said, q little haughtily, and then she
smiled ut his crcstfallen face.
1T can't be possible!" insisted
Ashe. 1.-THE Princess Constantia
Gregorius-and was ass enough to
ask Of what! Don't you know. Miss
Gregory--didn't you realize that you
are my Lady of Dreams 2"
"I?" said Miss Gregory-"I your
LADY of-oh, Mr.. Ashe! Remember
that I'm not a resident-not to the
manor born, as IL were. I'm just
country cousin from Binghamton.
Do YOU think it's nice to make fun
Of me? Constantine Gregorius, in
deed!" She laughed out, merry
little laugh.
"'She comes from a land nor near
nor far" said Ashe, guilty OF
. the banality Of quoting his own
verses. Miss Gregory surveyed him
, with amusement.
"This is too fine frenzy for me-"
she announced. "Aren't you hungry,
/ Mr.. Ashe? Shan't we go and have
, something to eat?" Ashe followed
: her mechanically.
'Don't you sometimes wear
| l. LA6
: sometimes" she answered, with
k lifted eyebrows.
e weren't you in Morristown at the
j. Thurstons' last September" he pur'
e sued.
s eyes. was in Morristown, but
e only occasionally at the Thurstons','
d she returned.
y "Then you didtalk into the librar.
e one Sunday afternoon and tell M
n you were the Princess Constanti'
% Gregorius." he said, positively.
It "Mr. Ashel" she said, reprovingly.
le "Have YOU . twin sister," aske
g Ashe, desperately.
ID az am all the daughters OF m
10 fathers house." she said lightly, bu
As her eyes were dancing as she CAV
him his chocolate.
m Don't you remember the paint
m taking off Of Sapphira?" he inquiries
ne sternly.
pc Mss Gregory counted on her fl
% gers. "A princess, Constant
Oregorius, an astral body-let n
az see! q dream, and now a liar!" 81
&c, said. "Oh, fie, Mr.. Ashe."
10 II have $50 that belongs to you
~ said Ashe, irrelevantly.
M II beg your PARDON" said the gil
- blankly.
"By rights" asseryated Ashe, wi
nod. Half of what got for tn
- poem, you know. i calculate tn
nv thought and labor are good 4
half, but you furnished the ide
- YOU see" Miss Gregory sat dov
=. on the nearest chair and laugh
:. aloud. Asbe slipped his chocola
a. meditatively and watched her.
ac- For a poet" she said at last, "
are most unexpectedly practical"
"When I've offered to share my
Ter come with a comparative stranger
a chimerical, elusive dream-lady
Inv that?" he asked, raising his c,
ter brows.
NV "I'm not sure about chimeras. b
I think they were monsters OF sol
[rs. kind" said the girl. "And your
md come is too small to be alluring. \
uld Ashe. If you don't wish any me
n.y. of that chocolate. won't you ha
you something cold? No. Well, tn
mes come back to Mrs. Foster. I'm airs
tic you'll be borrowing money OF
next, to say nothing of the way
50" which you are straining your poe
he's fancy to find fattering names
her me- She took his cup and turf
too away. Before he could follow
ers. was seized upon and carried of
ow, triumph by some fair admirers,
quick glance back showed him u
,uz- fortunate elderly gentleman
scd. taken possession of her. so he
mis- signed himself to the inevitable,
h a did not see her again until just as
was leaving. He had looked for
red to say good-by, but in vain, and y
ms, Foster did not know where she
in hidden herself, so he was start
of. disappointed. but resolved
re- to let the thing drop. when her v'
Z / stopped him with his hand on
in door.
The "Au revoir, Mr.. Ashe,' she =
lsci- leaning toward him from the low
step of the stairway. "Au revoir
| to "Thank you," he RESPOND
do heartily. "And very soon. most
you lady Of the realm Of my dreams
THAT is really a loving thing,
$ In Ashe." she said. "and ! am '
! In proud to think that you think
ever had any part in IT,"
"But didn't your" he demanded
sly" sDo I believe in telepathy?"
nder asked, mockingly. "Am / an as
d ~ body, or a bad drcam?" He sh
how his high hat Overwhelmingly at her
"The truth is not in you,
speh emoisclle Sapphira," he announc
Mr.. "Hear the lion growl!" she ret
an ed, with . saucy nod. and turned
Q 90 60 upstairs. He took step tow
W. her.
10 ~ "Miss Gregory" he said, inn
,ro1v ssSeriously. now?" she loo