The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-07-03
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himself. bat he would not acknowl.
edge III: j. You dragged him about
tied TO the heels of wild horses. as
those ho"rid men IN the old times used
to do. But l don't believe l could
have lived without your letters, you
dear"
Il can scarcely credit that," said
Alecia. smiling brightly upon the
small chatterboX with the warm heart,
when you so easily forget our COM
pact of calling me just simple Alecia.
But Just Little Me- could not fail to
be sweet with ncr sweet heart. You
don't know how much you are to be
congratulated, Mr.. Leland, in having
secured BeSs to yourself"
"Oh, but 1 don't feel at al secure" ,"
said Lane Leland, laughing. NO one
ever could feel secure in relation to
Bess, Mrs. Graham. But you are
looking we'll, and it is good to have
you back again. Of course you had a
good time abroad:'
"Of course they did!' retorted Bess,
scornfully. Don't ask such common
place questions, Lane. Everybody
goes abroad nowadays, and everybody
has q good time, though they wouldn't
tell YOU SO for worlds. 1t is such
horrid fashion to be too languid to en-
Joy anything. 1 simply cannot be
fashionable to that extent, and III not
try to. AS though fashion shall tell
me what shall like and what shall
set aside! It's aDsurd. l am able to
think for my own self, and approve OF
myself, and like what want to. Nev-
ertheless you did have a lovely time,
girls. and Paris was the same Old
dear, and the shops made your hearts
ache-if you have any hearts left
and you have come back to the SURF
to rest and get yourselves comiorta-
bly, Americanized before next winter.
It is so nice to have you-every one
of YOU! AS for Cora, why, shall get
Jealous of her right away. because
she has already begun to firt with
Lane, having no one better. You
heartless coQuette! Weren't you WICK
ed enough before you went to Paris
that you must come back crammed
full of side glances and sly smiles ana
wicked. wicked dimples? AS though
ANYBODY could help falling inextrica-
bly in love with you without them!
Of course, you lost your heart to one
of those horrid foreign creatures! II
would be Just like you to do it. only
won't acknowledge you if you did
That's run down to the ground SO low
that I am almost ashamed to accuse
you Of 1t, you poor dear"'
She paused for breath, Laughing
with them at her own volubility, but
so happy that, like pleased chlld'
she must vent her feelings in many
words and innumerable little loving
pats and dimpllng smiles and flashes
from under her curled black iashes.
For Miss Bess Catherwood was as
wicked as of old, with her pretty, be-
witching ways, that won her friends
In spite Of their professed scorn OF
her frivolity.
.sThen pray don't accuse me OF it.,
Bess." said Cora, easily, q strange
deepening of her color and dropping
of the silken lashes, "for I come back
to YOU with just as whole heart as !
Went away. I could not do anything
else, you know, being patriotic, though
7 must confess that dear, lovely, gay
Paris almost won me over. We had
two such winters there, Bess Gather
wood"
"And Corlenhe had so many admir-
ersv' added Beatrice, laughing. 1T
was quite wicked to tear her away.
There was a regular mob down at the
station to see us away-to see hef
away. Even the Partisan beauties
had to acknowledge that an Amerl-
can can have eyes and lips and color.
Oh. heard lots of little stage whis'
pers and by-plays, you know! al
ways do. It's my vocation, L think.
But Paris was delightful, Of course.
"And even the sea-sickness couldn't
alarm your' added Cora, wickedly'
Beatrice laughed. Her eyes were
brilliantly black now, glancing along
the water toward the island in the
distance Her thoughts travelled more
swiftly than the steamer. knowing
r., xro,,ld r,oot her there
"Yes," she said, "even the ocean
sickens Cora, though l was i'll but one
day. Lots Of the passengers were in
clined to be homesick, can tell YOU
and wish that they had never been
tempted away from land. Poor
T. ,s n,tbetio EsDecially