The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-08-31
A GAME TOO DEEP FOR
MRS. HIGGINS

You may remember that when | re-
ceived a telegram from Alonzo, telling
me to join him at onee at Upper East
%Scottypaw, | thought he must be sick,
and rushed off helterskelter, without
so much as a brush and comb. I admit
u~nsuited things for travelling, but
nothing that would count for much in
a two weeks stay at a hotel with sew
erty-five other women
1t was annoying, but is was a mis-
understanding that couldn't be helped
but had to be circumvented as far as
possible. That meant that 1 tele-
graphed to Bridget and Della to pack
up every gown they could find and
send them to me by express immedi-
ately. and then / went to my room
and rested from my journey for
three whole days.
l was truly tagged out, but Alonzo
said that the relation between the
amount of repose l needed to recover
in and the length of time 1t took that
trunk to travel from New York to Up
per East Scottypaw was the most
evenly balanced thing he'd ever seen.
Alonzo can be sarcastic. l didn't
feel perfectly sure of what he told peo-
pie about me down stairs, although he
stuck to it that he hadn't given me
away. The first night | wen down on
to the veranda with something that
felt a good deal like the bashfulness
that l remember in the summer Of
1885," as Alonzo says. making my
knees shake, although | knew l look
ed pretty well in my pink crepe, and
that's always an encouragement. But
all the people Alonzo had got ac-
quainted with came up and told me
how sorry they were that I'd had such
a fatiguing journey and how they hop
ed | was feeling quite we'll now until
| made up my mind that Alonzo must
have turned over a new leaf and gone
in for white lies. No taradiddles for
him.
So | couldn't understand this state
of affairs, and | got him off in a croner
for a minute and accused him Of a
change of heart. But he said it was
in the expression; that he'd never
gone beyond saying: Poor Mrs. Hig-
gins doesn't feel like coming down
vet" which was as true as the gospel
but he'd thrown such pathos into the
poor that everybody jumped to the
conclusion at once that | was vast
ing away ON a bed of pain.As long as
he deceived them l don't see much diff
ference between what he said and a
good round fib, but AlonZo insists that
at least he stuck to the letter of the
truth, for l didn't feel like coming
down stairs. did /?
One of the first people l met was
Mrs. Martin from Trenton. She was
! older than Indeed, she had a daugh'
ter of 17-but we seemed to be sym
pathetic at once. You get to talking
Immediately about golf or the mos
artistic lengths for stole ends, o.
George AIDES Fables" or things lik,
, that really touch you. Mrs. Martil
I and / discussed New York shops mos
I of that evening, but she told me whit
! everybody on the piazza was, and wh'
was attentive to whom and what kind
J of cheese the hotel served for dinner
That always tells so much about
I place, don't you think so?
She introduced her daughter, Helen
. to me-a perfectly sweet girl with
I blue gown and fluffy light hair. Sh,
, was walking up and down with a gooC
, locking young fellow, and 1 didn'
think Mrs. Martin seemed pleased
She told Helen to sit down near he
scolding her for being conspicuous,
and Helen blushed and went to i;
bench just around the corner. But tn;
young man-his name was Reynolds
Hugh Reynolds-occupied the bench
with her, and when | went around
the corner half an hour later they
had gone, and l thought l saw he
blue dress going toward the popular
path. so / don't think Mrs. Martin
came out much ahead.
She referred to 1t the next day
said Helen was a sweet girl, but head
strong; and that she was so distressed
about this affair with Hugh Reynolds
Not that he wasn't a nice fellow. oh
yes, he was a dear boy. so tender an,
manly. and so devoted to dear Helen
but awfully young-only 20. Yes, h,
did belong to the millionaire Reynold'
family; he was old Peters son, IL
fact. But money to her was nothin,
beside her child's happiness. and sh'
didn't believe in such youthful mar
riages. l told her / thought she wa
one of the least mercernary people
ever knew. and she said she wishes