The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-09

< dotted net over white chiffon. Long sto
which seems almost sweeter when you
are young and foolish and the world
I is gay the state which Vers tent SIGH
Won selbst, as the expressive German
/ phrase goes.
Frewin wrote home fanciful accounts
/ i'm confidence. to his favorite sister dt
is q curious fact that most griffins do
this) and wrote Rose many chits when
he should have been attending to the
service of government. The spring wind
blew rose leaves through their small
particular world and made life a glad
thing.
March brought back Nazra's summer
population, including sundry of the
heaven born. without whose guiding
hands the station managed to do very
wen during the winter months but who
/ were absolutely necessary to the work
ing of things there when it began to
warm up in the plains.
Old C. S. men, with many rupees and
few joys owing to their toEchy Hvers-
or their wives. younger ditto. TO whom
Nara meant little work, much gayety.
and many flirtatons, and who voted
India immense" not being able to see
/ from their comfortable place on the top
rung that Anglo-India was situated
chiefly at the bottom of the latter, in
steaming plains where there was small
/ leisure and less heart for polo and lawn
} tennis SICK men WHO li1Q BFtl NCAt1A07
erately sent up by their firms in order
4 to save giving them six months to Eng
! land men without their wives, longing
i fer them daily. men with their wives.
! wishing them anywhere but IN Nara
; hourly. pallid. snarly- tempered women,
/ with ba bies thar were ditto, only more
So Objectionable Anglo-Indian chill
/ dran compared with whom the Amer1-
/ can genus is as an angel-aH the mis-
I cellaneOus unWhOlesOme collection, or
varied color. which swans up to an
idyllic hill station and makes it Hades
The Nara crowd included the usual
limited number of Just out girls,
brought out by their relatives as
/ marriageable lots under which heading
came Miss Ethel Maynard She was
the most perfect specimen possible OF
the conventional English girl-the sort
YOU saw every Wednesday in Punch IN
Du Maurier's time, tall. fair we'll dress
ed warranted irreproa enable in CONVEX
eation and department, with knoWl-
edge of all the polite accomplishments
and no grain of originality or tender
ness in her whole body-tne klhu 81
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 gets very tired
and generally he lives his real life
apart
Tt was at what the newspaper hack
still continues to describe IS a minor
function that Miss Maynard met MISS
Rowan. naturally Miss Rowan. being
associated with trade was not asked to
the great functions
THAT is Miss Rowan" in response to
Frewin's directing nod. 'Ohl"-the
Probationary nasty little "Ohi" with
significant pause after it. she is the
Miss Maynard almost said person.
7 "the same who did that extraordinary
thing last week-galloped a mile and a
half at night. alone to see some natiVeY
She was still hon0ring Rose with the
i'm E7neliE6 a & nnIitR
F'rfwin. not being a large minded man.
felt awkward under Miss Maynard's
disapproval Yet he had thought at the
time. when Rose had shvly told him of
the Incident. how splendid it was of her
"Fr-it was very Old serVant-her
1 mothers ayah. I believe" he replied,
and she was diving. and sent message
to her missile ba ba be broke off. lamelN.
Tt sounded really absurd now. and
Miss Maynard's light, cold eyes were
disconcerting
Then he did a foolish thing even for
/ griffin with no tact-he introduced
Rose to Miss Ethel Maynard. There was
I the usual stiff five minutes converse
ton. and as Rose moved away Miss
MAYNARD noticed that the last look was
to Frewin-
Ignoring the look and what it told her
I cruelty comes naturally 10 many Wo-
+ men-Aliss Maynard with Rose barely
out of hearing. asked briefly.
Country born2H
ONLY that-with the exquisite infection
1 of the most refined and utter contempt
natural to pucca girl from home"
"lIr-yes-I believe So said E'rewin.
i'm a vague tone. as if he wished he could
deny it. and completed his confusion bv
adding She's really Irish, YOU know "
Miss Maynard laughs the English
woman's little laugh of polite incred-
( ulitv
Yes T., Funny Funny thing. isn't it? They are
Luckily Frewin's Indian experience has
not been sufficiently lengthy for him to
/ appreciate the insult applied.
But when he rides with Rose next dav.
the soft staccatO voice Jars on his for the
drst time the MANY trif1ng ignorances
strike him in new light and she Quivers
/ al his irritable tone
The idvns ending was swifter than had
been its beginning. Miss Maynard was only
| one of the many who with the very best
intenuons-was there ever vet a woman
[ who did harm without these same good
Intentions told him more or less candidly
that il was simply impossible that he
/ should think seriously Of that Rowan
girl His chiefs wife who had a pecu-
liar aptitude for manaeing other people 8
affairs reasoned with him urgently; the
owners of the marsiaeeahle lots. viewing
ia the service asked him to dine while the
/ lots themselves. observant that he was
! nuitc rice looking bow. and would prob
ably have comforta bic billet lateS
! iirted with him to degree that simple
hearted Rose had never attempted The