The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-22
LIE or THE THIRD GEN

ment restored to her normal ease. a part OF
the group. and making her part of the talk
that touched the latest news from town.
the flower show, automobile show, Irving
and Terry. the morning meet; tne weekly
at length upon certain matters or marriage
and divorce.
Ladies' iadies-this is degenerating into
a mere hammerfest." Thus spoke a male
wit who had listened. Give over, and DC
nice to the absent
=, The end OF the fairy story was. CON
tinued the previous speaker. unheeding,
'and so they were divorced and lived hap
PLY ever after"
Il think she took the Chicago motto.
Marry early and often" said another
but here she comes
And as blonde and fluffy little Mrs. Axe
init, a late divorce, Joined. the group, the
talk ranged back to the fourishing new
hunt at Goshen. the driving over of Tuxedo
people Tor the meet the nasty accident 10
Warner Ridgeway when his blue-ribbon
winner Musette fell upon him in taking q
Miss Milbrey had taken stock OF her fell
low guests. Especially was she interested 10
note the presence OF Mrs Drelmer and her
protege, Mauburn. 1t meant, she was sure,
that her brothers wo0ing of Miss Bines
would not be uncontested
Another load of guests from a later train
hustled in, the Bineses among them, and
there was more tea and fresher gossip.
while the butler circulated again with his
tray for the trunk keys.
press upon all that only by doing exactly
as they pleased, as to going and coming,
could they hope to please her. Had she not.
by this policy, conquered the cold, Scottish
exclusiveness of Inverness-shire. so that the
right sort of people fought to be at her
house parties during the shooting, even
though she would persist In travelling back
and forth to London I'm gowns that would be
conspicuously elaborate at an afternoon re-
ception, and even though, In any condition
of dress. she never felt quite enough of her
N no
During the hour OF dressing sacQue ana
slippers. while maids fiuttered through the
long corridors on hair-tending and Dress
hooking expeditions, Mrs Drelmer favored
her hostess With confidential chat In that
lady's boudoir, and. over Scotch and soda
and cigarette, suggested that Mr.. Maui
burn, in a house where he could really do
as he pleased, would assuredly take Miss
Bines out to dinner.
Mrs. Gwilt-Athelstan was instantly SYM
pathetic.
"Only / can't take sides, you know. my
dear, and young Milbrey will think me
shabby If he doesn't have first 60; but III
be impartial; Milbrey shall take her in, and
Mauburn shall be at her other side, and may
God have mercy on her soul! These people
have so much money. 1 hear. II amounts TO
financial EMBARRASSMENT but with those two
chaps for the girl, and Avice Milbrey for
that decent young chap. i fancy they'll be
disembarrassed, in a measure. But /
mustn't play favorites, as those siangy
nephews of mine put it."
And it befell at dinner in the tapestried
dining room that Psyche Bines received as
siduous attention from two gentlemen
whom she considered equally and superla-
lively fascinating. While she looked at one,
she listened 10 the other, and her neck
grew tired with turning. OF anything. save
the talk, her mind was afterward blank;
but why is not that the ideal dinner for any
but mere feeders?
Nor was the dazzled girl conscious of 9TH
ers at the table-of Florence Akemit, the
babyish blonde, listening with feverish at
tention TO the German savant, DIR. Won
Herzlich, who had translated Goethes
"Iphigenie in Tauris" into Greek merely as
recreation, and who was now justifying his
choice Of certain words and phrases by cit
ing passages from various Greek authors;
a choice which the sympathetic listener,
after discreet intervals for reflection. invari-
"Oh, you wonderful, wonderful man, your
she exclaimed, resolving to sit by some one
less wonderful another time.
Or there was Mrs. Gwilt-Athe}stan like a
m0therly Venus rising from a sea OF pink
velvet and white silk lace. asserting that
some me, one or other would never get within
shifting distance OF the Sandringham set
Or her husband, whose face, when he
settled IL in his collar, made the lines Of
perfect Tyre, and of whom 1t would presently
become inaccurate TO say that he was get
ting bald. He was insisting that too many
houses spoil the home," and that. with six
establishments, he was without a place to
lay his head, that is. with any satisfaction.
Or there was pale, thin, ascetic Winnie
Wilberforce who, as theosophist, Is under
stood to believe that, in former incarna-
ton, he came near TO having an affair with
danseuse; he was expounding the ESQ.,
terics of his cult to high-colored brunette
with many turquoises, who, in turn.
rather inclined to the horse-talk of one OF
the nephews.
Or there were Miss Milbrey and Percival
Bines, Of whom the former had noted with
some surprise that the latter was studying
something she had never before detected in
him.
After dinner there were bridge and music
from the big pipe organ in the music room,
and billiards and some dancing.
The rival cavaliers of Miss Bines, perceiv-
ing simultaneously that neither would have
the delicacy TO withdraw from the field cum
ningly inveigled each other into the billiard
room, where they watchfuIly consumed
whisky and soda together with the design
of making each other drunk. This resulted
in the two nephews, who invariably hunted
as pair, capturing Miss Bines TO see IL she
could talk horse as ably as her mother, and
when they found that she could. planning a
+ coaching trip for the morrow.
II also resulted in Miss Zines seeing no
more of either cavalier that night. since
they abandoned done their their contest only after
and at a time when IL became necessary
for the Englishman to assist the American
up the stairs, though the latter was moved
TO protest, as a matter of cheerful general
ity, that he was law ri'-entirely cap'le"
AT parting he repeatedly urged Mauburn,
with tears in his eyes. TO point out one sim
gle instance in which he had ever proved
false TO friend
To herself, when the pink rose came out
of her hair that night, Miss Milbrey adj
mitted that 1T wasn't going to be so bad.
| after all.
She had feared he might rush his pro-
posal through that night; he had been so
much in earnest. But he had not done so,
and she was glad he could be restrained
and deliberate in that "breedy' sort of way.
IT promised well, that he could wait until
| the morrow.
ITO be Continued Tomorrow