Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-08-19

match 1t will be! Charlotte Temple
/ ton has million in her own right
and Tom will not have more than
two thousand year till die"
The secretary arranged her papers.
Here are three invitations to dinners."
she said.
Accept them ALL" gloomily replied
her employer. II might as well kill
myself that way as any other"
The secretary accepted for Mrs. Van
Stylert the three efforts toward self
tmmolation.
Here" then she said, lis letter
from the Society For Assisting Indi-
gent Widows and Single Women"
Not dollar" responded Mrs. Van
Stylert.. II will assist no INDECENT sim
gle woman. And l am widow my.
SELF"
Just then Harroway came in.
won't you spare me a cup Of tear.
he asked.
"By the way" said Mrs. Van styiert,
"isn't this the day Of the Templeton
reception? l don't go tc afternoon re-
ceptions. They are so unearthly. But
you do.''
after my tea," he replied.
II don't begrudge you the tea" re-
turned his hostess, "but should think
you would want to be with Charlotte
as much as possible now that the
count is so terribly in evidence"
He caressed the flower in his button
hole.
Charlotte and l understand each
other" he Informed her. Whereupon
she managed to overturn teacup.
"Then am to congratulate your
she cried.
mo, no." he fastened to say. II meant
nothing like that"
'In my young days." she said, when
a young man confessed that there was
an understanding between him and a
young lady, the inference was that
there was-something between them"
$50 there is" he rejoined. I'VE are
good friends, comrades, chums."
"Impossible!' and she shook her
head. mo cumming among young
people Of opposite sexes. AS for you,
you don't know what you are missing.
Charlotte is just the wife for you, and
Really, Amy, you are in great hurry;
1t Is ten minutes of s." The secretary
had risen.
II will make up the ten minutes to-
morrow" the young lady said, and
left the room.
Harroway looked after her.
mo wonder you are critical" said
Mrs. Van Stylert. "She dresses SO
stiffly. And she went away because
she thought she had no right to hear
our private talk"
ut seems to me-" he returned, OBJ.
livious to the latter part of her words,
chat her costume is very well chosen
for her work. What a fine face she
has!"
"she looks like her mother" was the
reply. II went to school with her
mother. There, now, run to the Tenn
pletons'-and Charlotte"
Thus dismissed, Harroway left the
house. Outside, he saw the secretary
going down the street.
Now, the secretary was annoyed.
Mrs. Van Stylerts manner was becom-
Ing atrocious Before these last two
weeks the lady had been kind and
friendly. But for Mrs. Van Sylert's
kindness and friendly interest she
would not have got along SO well.
But all that was changed now. And
what had she done to merit the Sights
to which she had recently been sub
jected?
True, Tom Harroway had been fire.
quently at the house of late. developing
a craving for afternoon tea that verged
closely on dissipation, and all the time
he was there his hostess was full of
encomiums FOR Charlotte Templeton
and as full Of miserable fault finding
for the girl who acted in the capacity
Of secretary
Harroway saw her going along in
front of him. He made up his mind
that he must join her. She may have
seen him, but she suddenly shot round
corner, and when he reached the cor
ner she had disappeared from view.
"How unkind women can be to wo-
men," he unused. "Mrs. Van is letting
herself out. Maybe, though. she has
been all along like this in private. and
now go there SO frequently she Is
getting not to mind me. And I am
to blamew And he went on to the
Templeton reception.
In her rosy room Mrs. Van Stylert
felt more comfortable than had been
the case for days.
CATER all" she said vaguely, 'scien-
tiac experiments are wonderful things"
She rested her chin on her hands and
looked into the fare of the crate with
reminiscent expression in her eyes.
The secretary made up the ten min
utes the following day, and, although
Mr.. Harroway did not put In an ap-
pearance, Mrs. Van Stylert was quite
difficult; said that the plain manner in
which the secretary wore her hair was
disgraceful and felt that she could tell
her so because she had gone to school
with her mother; quite agreed with
her secretary, who, she insisted, had
so expressed herself, that Tom Harro-
way was no use in the world and that
If he had grain of manliness in his
composition he would attempt bust
ness career. She said she felt she
could so criticise the young man IN his
absence because his father had been
one of her earliest beaus.
A few days later, and when this sort
of medicine had been given In heroic
doses HarrOway came for his cun of
tea. He was very cheerful. Mrs. Van