Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-04-21
AT THE YACHT CLUR
by s. Ii. ROGERS.

| She said the palmist held both he1
hands i'll his most tenderly-in fact
caressingly-and said impressively:
You are in love-
Moll1e jumped nearly out of he,
chair, but the rascal held her hands
| nrmly and then proceeded to describe
the man. He painted Rivers to the
lie, even mentioning that little scar
ne got in Heidelberg of course. Mol
! lie recognized the portrait and went
away quite shaken up. Until then
she had fancied herself desperately in
love with Billy Brown
i can't tell you his NAME said
the old rascal, because my art doesn't
carry me so far, but l can tell YOU
that this man means to call on YOU
this very evening, and some time dur.
ing the visit he will sing II Arise
From Dreams of Thee"
well. you may imagine how fright.
ened Mollie was when she was all by
herself and thought it over. She said
the only way she managed to quiet
her nerves was to telephone directly
to Billy Brown and beg him to call on
her that evening, and some time,
some how, some way, manage to sing,
or even just hum, I Arise From
Dreams Of Thee
BILLY responded like a man. He
said he was surprised and altogether
filed with deep and mingled emotions
at the request, but he'd come and do
his BEST"
Think of Brown singing anything"
put in MacPhail.
Go on, for heavens sake, man;
don't keep us all in this suspense"
roared Sanderson.
Barlow slipped his wine luxuriously,
tantalizingly.
They both arrived together" he
drawled, land just as Mollie parted
the portieres of the drawing room,
they both burst, simultaneously, into
I Arise From Dreams of Thee Boys,
1t was really dramatic"
"And was it Rivers?" questioned
MacPhail.
why, of course; because she had
asked Billy to sing it, so in that way
she tested fate. She didn't dare dis
obey the finger of providence when it
was pointing so unerringly at old Riv.
ers. He sat out Billy Brown, and she
accepted him."
THAT explains why she shipped
Billy" remarked Sanderson, reflect
lively. "But l wonder why she kept
her engagement to old Rivers so
quiet?"
"You know Rivers always hated
publicity of any kind" returned Bar
low. But he really couldn't keep that
Egyptian affair dark. He had to tell
some one, and it CHANGED to be me.
1t was here in this very club one
evening last summer. He said he
nearly died when Billy Brown started
up and sang I Arise From Dreams of
Thee almost at the very instant he
began to sing it, but he just put it
down as a remarkable instance of
thought transference, until Mollie
herself confided the whole story to
him."
II think it's even better than his
funeral" commented MacPhail.
1T certainly couldn't have been an
ordinary funeral" remarked Barlow.
1T was, indeed" assented Mac.
Phail. most bizarre. AS told you,
he died ostensibly from heart fail
ure. Dropped suddenly in the bank
while he was cashing a check.
THE funeral took place from his
apartments uptown. and l never saw
such a crowd of girls in my life at
funeral before. All the girls we knew
he knew. and regiment Of girls he
knew we didn't: at least, we'd never
seen them before.
'Mollie was there and we'll to the
fore, although we never suspected she
was more than an ordinary mourner,
but she and all the other girls wore
crepe rather ostentatiously, and really
seemed overcome with grief.
81 got over by Mollie and asked her
who the deuce they were. and she
tossed her head disdainfully, and said
she didn't know; they were probably
stenographers."
1--WE found out later they were from