The new age. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1902-190?, 1902-09-27
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! HONEST
STRATEGY
) By vENE KENNEDY
Copyright. I9Os.
J bSthe S. S. Mcclure Conpany
By vENE KENNEDY

what an honest woman"
From compulsion. Roy. was bor.
here"
I'm the year of our LORD clevI
added.
Eighteen hundred end sixty" coni
pleted Mrs. Karl easily. Il am thirty
eight. ys See"
Thirty-eight. repeated Roy. II
can't be you are ten years older thaI
] am;
Yes she answered smilingly.
Slender. graceful charming. she loot
ed scarce thirty and knew il.
With a pout Cleva started for III
tennis court. followed by Roy Kendd
and Madison Harding.
And il was hot. Soon Harding becd
to breathe heavily. As they finishd
the game he held out his racket r.
painted:
"Here. Brady. Ill leave you and Mil
Temple TO whitewash Kendall ad
Cleva."
Are you warm?" said Mrs. Karl
he Joined her on the veranda.
Am J warm? Well" reaching eagt
ly for the leo vater on the table besII
her.
NO" she commanded. go chaib
your clothes. Not a cold plunge. !
memher-just rub and dry linen"
He laughed. but obeyed.
When he returned. she banded hid a
glass of water. then a nicely ped
peach.
"Uh" he grunted. This beats fn-
MIS-"
81 think So" she said.
They chafted for some time. Ter
he asked suddenly:
why haven't you married agait'
1.-THE usual reason" she answered.
"a beautiful woman. with twhty
thousand a year. ought TO find MIR
Right surely"
Madison" she said softly. II Ivei
loved Robert. Now-well. mus he
sure of myself aud him."
Robert was good man" be kaid
gravelv
YES" she repeated. Yet ! hfed
him ut times because | could noioyt
him"
But you married him."
"Yes, ard | deserved to be mot IN
happy than was. He was brty
eight. twenty-five; he rich. | Door
he ready TO settle down. | ready t.
have q fling with life. Somehow Mad
ison. | think he ought TO have kn\wr
better thar to have asked me. Nt
ought to have known l couldn't ki
. him"
why notT His voice was co
strained.
youth loves youth. Much as Robe
loved me. ! think the first few yea
} were equally disappointing to both.
was ready for my fling and had II.
, know now how bored he was with
all. It's glorious to do stunts wit
one is a colt, but afterward"- 81
laughed merrily and handed him q
peach she bad been pairing.
"But afterward" he repeated. 7
"One wants TO jog along" she ca
tinued. "The normal woman ps
} thirty-five can say what she may, b
the excitement and strength TAXI
amusements that she reveled In duri
her teens and twenties-ah. they're Q
worth the pricer' $1,000
His answering smile quickly disf
peared as she went into the houI
He was forty-five, Cleva Culloh two
ty-two: be rich. she poor: he had b
his fling, she Just ready for hers.
had accepted LOrene Karl's invitatb
to spend the month Of August at !
country home because Cleva was to-
there. He had determined the latt
should be bis promised wife beft
thev left. but
He slept little that night. A pictt
of Robert Karl. wearied and surfeitt
dancing attendance on the gay. unit
ing Lorene. rose before him. ITO }
along" bad soothing sound. but
vision of Cleva's laughing. girlish "a
made his jaws set determinedly.
Ii ralned during the night. Next y
was cool aud clear.
"Ob. me! oh. N.Y. said Mrs. Ha
"Wby am | not seer? IL ] had kno'
II was to be such charming day
would bave had our dance tonight
Friday II will probably be rs not
blaZes."
"Wbat's the odds?" said Cleva.
can dance II IL registers q hundred.
$50 can l." said Roy-"with you.
"Then she'll give you the first a
last dance and two in between
said. with a gay laugh. glancing ir'
under her long lashes at Harding.
"I'U take the rest" he repli
] promptly. "if IT registers two hundrel
Friday night simply bl'zed ioF
I heat hut Cleva and a crowd OF you
folks danced as merrily as thou
lack Frost were in the air.
Harding noted a wondrous sparkle
| Cleva's ewes as she and Roy swul
J around the room. and he looked sa'
! disgruntled as he Joined Lorene nan,
7 "Tbis is our dance" he said listlesl
GO change your collar" was the 4
/ swer. land put some talcum on H'
1 neck. Then we will sit unuer i
trees-sit. not walk"
when be returned. be asked oil
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