Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-05-21

lery.
TT seems little incongruouS' an
swered.
..What?" she demanded.
THAT this great place should belong
10 so small a person, and that she
d should live in it alone.
Don't you think it would be rather
nice" she cried abruptly, as she
Stopped before portrait OF lady OF
George lis reign, If women wore
powder nowadays"
Every generation has its own
method of Disgusting nature l sug,
gested.
Elsa raised a pair of merry eyes.
do you mean to instnuate that
mine"
81 have known it far too long to
feel the slightest doubt" | answered,
with a glance at her yellow head.
Men" she cried, looked more gal
liant in those days"
Anyhow, they were more inclined
to galantry,' | admitted.
STILL said Elsa, with sigh Il
believe that life had more of ro-
nance"
What do you mean by romance
Il could tell you better who is I'M
romantic" she retorted.
Well" l suggested your own ex-
perience has been romantic enough.
4 81 thought must be dreaming" she
q said, when | heard that Uncle Rich
ard had left everything to me-"
"A veritable fairy tale
But still"
"Only requiring the prince to COM
plete the fable" | answered.
M 81 feel certain, she exclaimed
with suspicious embarrassment that
there was more romance in those
days. Everybody says that chivalry
leading the way along the gallery, lis
it since you went abroad?"
-Four years" | said.
ooh, dear!' cried Elsa, with a sigh
show quickly the time passes!"
Has it seemed very short?"
1T has simply flown" she answered
t'But," she said moment later, as she
stopped to inspect a small Dutch inter
ior Il never quite understood why
you left England"
Didn't your
Elsa turned her back to the picture
and stared up into my face, solemnly
shaking her head.
4 mo suspicion entered your mind?"
81 am not of a suspicious nature
But still"
How could it when you didn't tell
u me?" she demanded.
isn't a good deal of a woman 6
knowledge supposed to be intuitive?"
| suggested.
81 suppose was scarcely a woman, -
she murmered. :
How old are you now?"
"Twenty-one."
yet l fancied that you had some
idea"
# Elsa shook her head again. perhaps
with little less determination.
@ Why did you go?"
"To seek the root of all evil"
ooh, then, | ought to hope you
didn't find it," she exclaimed
Well l said, q didn't"
$50 your voyage was wasted?"
81 seem to be a complete failure"
confessed.
"Oh, but how can you possibly tell?"
she asked, with serious expression.
| dare say laughed little grimly
M You can't possibly tell whether
you have won or lost till the game is
\ fnishedt' said Elsa.
Anyhow" | retorted, "the first
hand is played out"
How horribly mercenary you must
!. be- she exclaimed a few moments
a later
"Mercenary-"
You must be very fond of money
"a to spend four years looking for it."
cried Elsa" and she began to take off
her gloyes-they were white this sum.
mer afternoon.
1t wasn't exactly the money"
Then she demanded, what was
it?"
Il happened to be fond of some one
else
Oh she cried with a laugh, now
| am beginning to understand. Don't
you think that is a sweet face?" she
& added rather impetuously the next in
slant. as she held out her right hand
with the white gloves hanging from
1T, toward a Greuze few yards away
i imagined you understood four
years ago" | answered.
Did YOU have IA very hard
i 3ime?" asked Elsa.
"Oh. well, it was pretty rough now
and then"
Il suppose you found it rather
rather lonely right away from every
t. body" she suggested.
"Of course" explained, there was
Howard.
Howard"
Il had known him at the varsity"
I continued, "and we were both in the
1 steerage."
You Travelled in the steerage!"