Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31
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Florence NJ. Bailey
In Black and White.

Nara. with occasional weeks at Luck
now, and one whole fortnight OF dlssl-
patton III Calcutta.
Moreover she had the nature OF a
saint rather than a flirt, and it was
her amazingly angelic temper which
most won F'rewin. A man likes that
Tsort cf Griselda girl--until it pals, and
he wants a change.
SO they rode and danced and dined
together thruout four months of winter
while Mrs. Burton beamsd propriety
and conveniently went 20 sleep.
There was no definite engagement
hut Just the mutual understanding
which seems almost sweeter when you
are young and foolish, and the world is
gay-the state which verseteht SIGH Won
selbst, as the expressive German phrase
goes.
Frewin wrote home fanciful accounts,
| in confidence. to his favcrite sister dt
| &; a curious fact that most griffins dc
this). and wrote Rose many chits when
| he should have been attending to the
service of the government. The spring
wind blew rose leaves thru their small
particular world and made life a glad
thing.
|
March brought back Nazra's sum
mer population, including sundry of
the heaven born. without whose guild
| ing hands the station managed to do
very we'll during the winter months.
but who We're absolutely necessary to
the working of things there when it be"
gan to warm up in the plains.
| Old C. S. men. with many rupees and
| few joys owing to their touchy livers-
or their wives, younger ditto, to whom
! Nara meant little work. much gayety
| and many flirtations, and who voted
! India immense" not being able to see
!! from their comfortable place on the
I top rung that Anglo-1ndia was situated
| chiefly at the bottom of the latter. In
sieaming plains. where there was small
leisure and less heart for polo and lawn
| tennis: sick men who had been con-
Islderately sent up by their firms in Or
der to save giving them six months to
England: men without their wives,
| longing for them daily; men with their
wives, wishing them anywhere but IN
Nara hourly; pallid, snarly-tempered
women. with babies that were ditto. on
| " more so: Objectionable. Anglo Indian
! children, compared with whom the
American genus is as an angel-aii the
| miscellaneous unwhoiesome collection,
of varied color. which swarms up to an
Iidyllic hill station and makes 1t Hades.
| The Nara crowd included the usual
| limited number of Just OUT girls,
brought out by their respective rela-
| tives as marriageable lots, under which
| heading came Miss Ethel Maynard. She
was the most perfect specimen posi-
| bic of the conventional English girl
the sort you saw every Wednesday in
Punch in Du Mauriers time, tain, fair,
well dressed. warranted lrreproachable
in conversation and department, with
knowledge of all the polite accomplish
ments and no grain of originality or
tenderness in her whole Dody-the kind
| of woman a man marries because she
| suits his dining table and the family
plate. He is never ashamed of her. but
as the years go on he sats very tired
land generally he lives his real life
| apart
| 1t was at what the newspaper hack
| still continues to describe as minor
function" that Miss Maynard met Miss
Rowan: naturally, Miss Rowan. being
associated with trade. was not asked
to the great functions.
.aThat is Miss Rowan" In response
to Frewin's directing nod. "Oh!'-the
Englishwoman's nasty little "Oh!'
with a significant pause after it. "She
| is the"-Miss Maynard almost said
"person''-"the same who did that ex-
traordinary thing last week-galloped
mile and half at night, alone, to see
some native?'
She was still honoring Rose with the
stare known in vulgar English as po-
lite. Frewin, not being large minded
man. felt awkward under Miss May
nard's disapproval. Yet he had thought
at the time. when Rose had shyly, told
him of the incident. how splendid 1t
was of her.
"Er-it was very old servant-her
mothers ayah, 1 believe" he replied,
land she was dying, and sent a mes
sage to her missile baba,' he broke off,
lamely.
1t sounded really absurd now, and
Miss Maynards light, cold eyes were
disconeerting.
Then he did foolish thing, even for
grimm WITH no tactic itltouuee"
Rose to Miss Ethel Maynard. There
was the usual stiff five minute CONVEX
sation, and as Rose moved away Miss
MAYNARD noticed that the last look was
to Frewin.
ignoring the look and what 1t told
her-cruelty comes naturally to many
women-Miss Maynard, with Rose
barely out of hearing, asked briefly:
Country born?"
Only that--with the exquisite infec-