The evening Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1902-1902, 1902-07-21
"GREGS0N'S
LATEST. :"

announcer, none OF Them very SERIOUS
20 far as Gregson was concerned,
but with just enough sentiment and
q few heartaches and tears on the
part of the young women 10 leave
memories like those of delicately
crushed rose-leaves.
First there had been the demure
young daughter of Professor Des-
chelle, who was suddenly and not
unwisely shipped off to Berlin for a
years finishing. Then Miss Bow
doin, daughter Of a St.Louis million
aire, came to nurse he brother
through pneumonia, and after meet
ing Gregson remained SO long that
her father wrote inquiring whether
they now quarantined nurses i'll
pneumonia cases. The next little
affair was more serious SO far at the
elder Gregsons purse was conc ern-
ed. and some of the college men are
wondering to this day how much
Lottie Vaughn of 1.-The Dazzler"
company named as the price of
withdrawing her suit.
Alter three years Gregson had what
his friends irreverently termed "a
rep as juggler with feminine
hearts. The newest girl in town was
quite generally referred to at the
end Of week or SO as 'Gregson s
latest, and hostessses remarked 10
their young guests: NOW, DO look
out for Harry Gregson. my dear. He
is such a charming fellow, but an in
corrigible. absolutely unprincipled
flirt.''
Perhaps these same married wom-
en- and chaperons who shook their
heads over him, and then smiled un.
derstood aud s. Unparalleled with lin
more than they realized. In reply
to their remonstrance he would say
plaintively: "Bless your heart, |
can't help it,now honestly. 1t is the
girls who take this So seriously. l
never do. Why can't they enjoy a
dance, q few flowers, box of candy,an
evening at the theatre and other ill.,
tic trifes without expecting u propos-
al tackled on the end OF these atten-
tons? don't want to marry them.
l always tell them SO, and then they
get mad and say I'm a reckless flrt
and ought to 60 on the stage, where
! could n Ike guogOo eyes ut thelead.
ing lady all the while. Now l think
that's unjust.
No one understands me. l just
want to enjoy myself, to sip lightly
of life's pleasures, but those women
take life seriously. II they want to
he unhappy and hollt w-eyed and
Ophelia like and indulge in hopeless
undying passion, why | can't help
that now, can 19'
So it happened that when Greg
son decided to 60 home with Dis
brow for part of the vacation the
sensation created was profound.
Gregson away from Newport and
the country club, a thousand miles
from yacht, buried on a id-West
farm. What would the girls do and
what would Gregson do!
The intimacy between the two
men was on the surface inconsruous
Graasnn was tvnical citv man.
,raii nroomed we'll dresse,, and alb.
soi,,+alv saif Contained His Grand
fothar had baen one of the few mil
lionaires of his day; his father was
now one of the many. Disbrow
came from mid West farm, from
,n,1;aI, hn had ,vrnno Inv the literal
s,raot ~ his brow n course at the
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th's aWk"aro cliup 1o"ai" Mao.ii
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selilshly drawn. Anu ~ TIC lal'eo
az the DlsproW iarin WIN d se'ec
ZION OF clothlhg which, thousu
credit TO MS goou preeaihS III lCs
slmpikaty, YET stanlpou MN as
apart from inc men among "noih
he was 10 move LOT inc heN' TWO
ponths. Gregson would 10 wen
CNesseu IN Jeans anu ootio give
certain twist toa bargain counter
tie that made IL quite ms own AT
least that was what Alice DAVIS had
thought while he danced attendance
upon her at the strawberry testlVal