The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1904-09-21

/ 10 find ont II young men ana young
women are the same as they used to
be in spite of all their superiority to
the little things of life. But how vul-
gar scientific experiments make you
feel All .he same. Tom Harroway's
father was one of my earliest beaus,
and | went to school with Amy Sef-
tons mother"
Next day when the secretary came
Mrs. Van Stylert was more difficult to
please than ever.
pardon me, Amy" she said at one
moment, when she had severely con-
demned the present mode of caiig-
raphy. which. as she insisted, was too
! bold and energetic for any lady to en-
ploy, lit is all Tom Harroway's fault.
Charlotte Templeton is the most beau
tiful girl in, town, and no end Of a
catch. and yet he is letting Count De
STANG have the innings. | am doing
what | can, though. | am interested in
| Tom; he is my heir-his father was
one of my earliest beaus Think what
match it will be. Charlotte Temple
/ ton has a million in her own right
and Tom will not have more than
two thousand a year till | die"
The secretary arranged her papers.
Here are three invitations to dinners"
She said.
accept them ALL" gloomily replied
her employer Il might as well kill
myself that way as any other"
The secretary accepted for Mrs. Van
Stylert the three efforts toward self
immolation.
Here" then she said. lis a letter
from the Society For Assisting Indi-
gent Widows and Single Women"
Not a dollar responded Mrs Van
Stylert 81 will assist no INDECENT sin
gle woman. And l am a widow my
self"
Just then Harroway came in.
won't you spare me a cup of tea?'
he asked
by the way" said Mrs. Van Stylert,
isn't this the day of the Templeton
reception? l don't go to afternoon re-
ceptions. They are so unearthly. But
you do"
after my tea" he replied.
Il don't begrudge you the tea" re-
turned his hostess, but l should think
you would want 10 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 ! understand each
other" he informed her Whereupon
she managed to oyerturn teacup.
"Then l am TO congratulate you"
she cried.
mo, no" he FASTENED to say, Il 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"
80 there is he rejoined. 1--WE are
good friends, comrades, chums"
"Impossibler' 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 a great hurry;
! it is ten minutes of g." The secretary
had risen.
Il 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
stifly. And she went away because
she thought she had no right to hear
our private talk"
at seems TO me-" he returned, OBJ
livious to the latter part of her words,
that her costume is very well chosen
for her work What a fine face she
has,
"She looks like her mother" was the
reply. Il 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 Stylert's manner was becom-
ing atrocious. Before these last two
weeks the lady had been kind and
friendly. But for Mrs. Van Stylert'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
eoo,, him b,tt Sha Sud1pnIV shot rOund