The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-09-09

CO HE messenger boy waited while
Jack Powers wrote his answer
to Her note She might have
telephoned, but it was Her way to
send messengers with her missives.
Every well, Kathleen" wrote Jack,
'I'll be there. You say for the last
time l wonder whyY'
He sent boy with this note and
an order on a florist for a box Of VIC
lets, as the messages accompaniment,
and then he turned to his work again.
But his eyes failed to do more than
stare at the figures before him. His
brain could not grasp their meaning.
Kathleen's face persisted in dancing
about the inkwell, in a two-step that
played havoc with Business.
I'm a beastly cad" cogitated Jack.
done. For the last time, she said.
Perhaps she's heard. 1t would help
things lot if she had"
He looked meditatively at photo
graph which he fished from a dark
pigeonhole in his desk.
"Shes a mighty nice little thing"
he said to himself, "but-"
And then he took another photo
graph from an inner pocket of his coat
and kissed 1t tenderly.
"Violets!' Kathleen buried her nez
retrousse in the purple fragrance and
shifted with satisfaction.
Jack always sends violets," she
said, to no one in particular, though
her maid sat near by sewing some
lace on the dinner frock her mistress
had babe her lay out for her to wear
Kathleen looked gloomily upon tall
vase of long-stemmed American Beau
ties that stood on the table.
That's the difference in men. Law
renee sends big Beauties, because they
cost money and Jack sends violets be-
cause they're my favorite flower. Poor
Jack! How can l break his heart
for I suppose it will. You say for the
last time 1 wonder why? Heigho!
We must take our medicine, Marie.
Because / prefer millions to love In a
cottage-that's why. Hurry with the
waist, Marie; must not be late at my
last dinner with Jack"
mo, 1 didn't think we needed a
chaperon tonight, Jack"
why not to-night?"
Because, we'll"
"'Idfe is too short to quarrel,
Life ia too short to sigh
"Pn tell you by and by, Jack-aftel
the fish, perhaps"
81. too, have something to tell you
Kathleen"
For the space OF ten minutes, whil
the garcon placed the soup befor
them, Jack felt uncomfortable. Every
body hates to attack disagreeabl
duty. When the duty involves prett
woman, 1t is doubly distasteful. How
ever, he took surreptitious peep a
the photograph In his breast pocket
and 1t nerved him to his task. Never
theless, there was no hurry about II.
isn't 1t absurd, Jack. to say tina
love makes the world go round2" aske
Kathleen.
In her diplomatic. feminine way sh
had wished to lead up to the subje'
she had come to discuss.
"Of course it is" he answers
"when champagne-if one has enoug
of twill do the same thing"
'Salmon-oh, Jack. do you remen
Der how we trolled for salmon at d
Monte last summer
Did he remember? He had to p
the photograph In his pocket to 70
get
81 read the other day." Kathleen WI
saying, "that a girl who couldn't NAL
up her mind between two lovers hasI
a mind worth making up"
She looked at him from the corne
of her eyes.
Jacks face lighted up. She kne
then. and that was the meaning of b
desire for a farewell dinner. He
easy ii would be now to explain.
But Kathleen was not waiting
an answer.
'sThey say there's no skill in winni
q game where one holds all the truml