The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1902-09-05

| her expression. was torn ictWcrn tx.
ultation and fear. A tremendous up
heaval was going on within. Love was
struggling with some intruder, and the
conflict was sharp.
When at last size spoke, there We're
| tears In her eyes. lin SO sorry. Jack"
she said softly. 81 do love you; / real
ly do. but ii would kill my career.
have come here To work and win. Mar
riage would spoil all my chances"
Thurston mentally consigned careers
to a place where they would be very
apt to shrivel up and gave voice to
many arguments. but all III vain. Ma
bells head WAS filled with I'LL the non-
sense written about bohemia and the
necessity for being Il bachelor girl if
one would succeed i'll literature. Her
mind WAS set upon success. and she
never realized that she WAS starving
soul and brain by living in makcShift
apartment and eating with the b ,hr-
mianS, wh"r, the feast of reason WAS
supposed To atone for Il lack of food.
Against this fixed idea even the ar
gument of her own heart was Un:iNail
ing, and when they resumed their
stroll homeward the best promise
Thurston could get from her was that
when fortune came to both she would
marry him.
Beyond a warmer handclasp when
they met and parted no ailusion was
made to the incident for several weeks.
Jack was polite and saw that Il cam
palgn was necessary. \ coup would
not avail. The forces were too evenly
matched. According to military STRAIT
egy, Il Siege was necessary.
He induced her to change their res
tuurunt. The sbciety people and those
who constitute the under crust had fol-
lowed the space writer's TO the Ostrich.
The NANNY had grown rich, and with
her Increased position came the belief
that she WAS losing money, running
accounts which never would be paid
by those who had virtually created the
place.
The new Bohemia was located III
Rlcrrkpr street. The proprietor had
an Italian maine, and they drank log
wood Chianti at 10 cents pint and
tried 10 like il. At the Ostrich the
cooking at least WAS clean. Here moth
ing WIS. The hot summer days had
come. Luigi WAS fighting the ice trliS
ut the expense of his patrons, who ac
counted themselves fortunate II half
the dinner WIS eatahle.
Mabel wanted 10 change. but the 10
hemians had not yet moved on. Thurs
ton noted the fact with satisfaction
and encouraged Luigi to p"rsevere.
even going 20 the extent of writing up
the place while he paid his bill.
One August evening the revolt came.
The soup WAS thinner than CrotOn wa
ter. The fish fairly appealed to the
board of health for investigation. I'll"
entrse WIS worse, the roast but LITTLE
better, while the inevitable ice cream
WAS half melted and utterly without
flavor Mabprs best story had CONF
back that afternoon. She was sick ant
discouraged
Their table was in a little nook free
from observation She let her head
drop forward on her hand. ThurSton's
hand stole softly toward her own. Ii
was convulSively clasped as n tear
dropped on it.
Mabel" he urged. don't you think
1t about time you gave this sort OF
thing up? You have lived eight months
in Bohemia . You see what an cmpt!
farce il all is. Let's 20 out and get
married and start housekeeping i'll the
morning. In place of coffee and rolls
we will have real breakfast. We
Will have Il real home. and we wont
get Indigestion from changing the III.
tiunality OF our StonHrhS every time
the leading hohrnians exhaust thril
credit. We aren't real bohcmian>.
dear. Let's 20 back home"
An energetic nod of the head an
severed the question. and Mabel LOOKED
up smiling through her tears. =
wanted To when you lirSI asked me.
she said: NOW I'm sorry didn't S;:
yes then
Tnur>ton called the waiter. carlo,
he said imprrSSivcly. you take th!.
bill. Go up To the saloon on the cUrnCi
and get Il bottle of real wine-thr rr:i
thing. YOU understand. not the stun
we get here. We want to drink 10 oul
last night in Bohemia"