Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31

tion of the most refined and utter
contempt natural to a pucca "girl from
home"
"Er-yes-I believe so" said Frewin,
in vague tone, as If he wished he
could deny it, and completed his con-
fusion by adding, She's really Irish,
you know"
Miss Maynard laughs the English
woman's little laugh of polite incredul-
ity.
Eyes? Funny thing, isn't it? They
are generally Scotch"
Luckily, Frewin's Indian experience
has not been sufficiently lengthy for
him to appreciate the insult applied.
But when he rides with Rose next
day, the soft staccato voice Jars on him
for the first time, the many trifing
ignorances strike him in new light,
and she quivers at his irritable tone.
The idylrs ending was swifter than
had been it's beginning. Miss Maynard
was only one of the many who, with
the very best intentions-waS there
ever yet a woman who did harm with
out these same good intentions told
him more or less candidly that 1t was
simply impossible that he should think
seriously Of that Rowan girl" His
chiefs wife, who has a peculiar apti-
| tude for managing other peoples at
| lairs, reasoned with him urgently; the
owners of the marriageab lots, view
| ing F'rewin as young man likely to
come on in the service, asked him
to dine: while the lots themselves,
observant that he was quite nice
| have
comfortable billet later, flirted with
him to degree that simple hearted
Rose had never attempted. The long
solitude deux was ended, and even
when 1t was possible to renew it Ere
win showed no eagerness to do so.
A place was made for him in Nara
society, by virtue of his position and it's
probabilities, and his eminently re-
spectacle relations at home. but there
was no room for Miss Rowan in the
same circle.
She missed Frewin, and being young
and foolish did not understand. Out of
the fulness Of her loving heart she
wrote him notes which made him frown
and put on his judicial look-the same
look which he in later years gave subs
when he told them that "this course
must be Immediately discontinued"
He wrote replies that were vague ex-
Icuses at first, and stiff'y formal de-
malls later.
| Rose cried over them. and the strange
pain that had come into life grew
greater, with each letter. She wrote a
last appeal, full of loving foolishness
and angelic forgiveness, and went up to
the little Catholic chapel to petition
| that the answer might be as she would
| have 1t.
| And Frewin wrote back that lowing
to circumstances-circu over
which neither of them had any control
he had been forced to the conclusion
| that any more intimate relations than
those of friends, would not be wise for
either" etc.
1t was a long semi-officiai letter, try
ling to justify position of which even
Frewin had the grace to be ashamed
but the long words and careful phras-
ing were lost on girl whose heart was
broken.
lie
by the way, Frewin," says man
| at dinner, in after years when FreWin
lis high in the service, and the former
Miss Maynard is presiding over his
house and name with all the chill dig
nifty of which she gave promise, who
do YOU think nursed me when was in
the hospital with typhoid last month:
That pretty Rowan girl who used to be
mt Nara when you were there. Went
into convent and is hospital sister
now. Funny thing for her to do, WASH
ito"
The speakers tone is light. The mat
fer is only a dinner table topic to him.
| But Frewin responds: "Yes-l should
think So" so absently, his eyes looking
back on lifes yesterday for a moment
| that his wife tells the kitmagar rather
sharply that the burra sahib is want
/ ing champagne.
Ai:sL4 Ny,c Aer Terror.