Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-12-01
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You see, the same key fittedi"
Mrs. Lanyon paused, stammered,
flushed, then came to a sudden stop
The man advanced a step and held
out his hands. It's a world of COM
pensation," he said, and smiled.
"Of-?"
ordinary meeting compensates in some
degree for the pain of that last very
ordinary one" he said.
Mrs. Lanyon stared for a moment.
81 hope you're not going to be silly"
she observed. Il shouldn't have come
in here if l had known"
But now you are here" the
pushing of an easy chair toward her
pointed the unfinished remark.
Certainly not. l only wanted to ex-
plain. I'm not going to sit down and
talk to you. If you hadn't looked up
at that particular minute 1 should
have slipped away, and you never
would have known. It's all the fault
of that lift-boy."
He shall be tortured-scrumptuo
ly. say, I'm awfully glad to see you"
And it wasn't till l got right into
the room here that saw my mistake
The hall are so exactly alike, and
with all those draperies you never
know where you are"
Il do-just now"
And 1 was so frightfully confused
it's been a meeting at our cuban
Extraordinary Meeting the secretary
called it when she sent me my invita-
ton card-I mean. notice, and we had
to pass resolutions and things. The
chairwOman-she's my very dearest
friend, you know-wanted to explain
that by some accident the accounts are
all wrong. Of course, | don't under
stand these things myself, but when
it came to doubling our subscriptions
l said Certainly not-whatever next?'
And when the lift-boy put me out on
the wrong landing l was too worried
to take proper notice. wouldn't have
done such thing for the world"
Il wouldn't have had you miss do
ing it for a score of worlds. l haven't
seen you for-for-how long does it
take to make an eternity? l say, don't
hurry-couldn't we-mightn't we-let's
have some tea," he suggested.
"My one weakness!"
"Methinks the lady doth protest too
much. 1 seem to remember another.
Is he's he-well?"
He? which,"
why, the-the-weakness He was
grinding for his majority last year, and
l was cast into outer darkness by the
reflection of his genius. I'm going to
ring for tea
For goodness sake, don't tell any
body l had tea here alone with you
while your wife was out" said Mrs
Lanyon presently; our chairwoman-
she's quite my dearest friend, but
she's so tactless, she'd ruin her grand
mother for want of thought"
Il suppose the Majors awfully con-
servative?"
MY dear boy, how on earth can
tell? He hasn't a constituency, and /
know nothing whatever OF his princi-
PIES"
You don't mean you're-you're sep.
arated, are you?"
Separated? Why, he's in India"
Some people have all the luck!"
The tone was envious and gloomy.
Aren't you happy where you are.
then, Billy?"
Happy" He leaned over the back
of her chair and took possession of her
hand. I'm awfully-awfully happy,
only l can't keep it up. You're just
the same as ever, and not day older,
and you've got the prettiest fingers in
all the world"
A little pause, then spoke Mrs. Lam
yon, seriously. 81 think you're rather
foolish, don't you know, foolish or
worse? If it hadn't been for that
key"
"Bless its hearti" was the fatuous
interruption.
for that key, shouldn't have
dreamt of coming in here, and you
wouldn't have been silly. And you are
not to hold both my hands. What on
earth would your wife say if she
should see your"
"She wouldn't mind"
Shed be Mortified"
Shed be awfully in the way. Look