The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-04-28


Insist that you've cone to tell me a.
your oldest friend that you've really
found some one that you could care foi
at last and then you sit and twist your
mustache and make me guess all the
wrong people, and"
II never made you guess any one.
said Indignantly, removing my baud
from my upper lip with a jerk.
merely informed you that foll in Low.
yesterday. suppose there's no obiec
tion to that1 And when you sugges.e,
that IL happened at Lady Follets
agreed"
Well" said Elva IN a iudicis tone
"you didn't stay more than three-qu.l
ters of an hour Directly you arrived
you took me 20 see the aviary. and the
rest Of the time you spent in the rosary
with Molhe Richards"
III I'd known you we're watching my
movements so carefully" began.
Elva blushed furiousiy.
When people make themselves con
spicuous," she said, frostily, their do
ings are bound to form the subject oi
comment Mollle Richards always Pc
slsts in wearing maize with her partil
ular shade of red auburn hau, and.
could see her nom all over The gar.
den"
Almost without looldngg" sug.
gested carelessly.
Elva passed over this remark WITH
conterpt, but | couldn't help noticing
thar the flush deepened.
"well, as IFS not Mollie." she OBJ.
served, with dignity, "an4 as you've
called on purpose, pc Aps you'll be
obllging enough 70 tell me who it is. SO
that may congratulate or coadola
with You, as the case may be-"
You'll condole," said /, with coz
viction
why. piease?"
Because she-this girl, who isn't
Mollie Richards, you know, doesn {
care a straw for me-in tha way, aua
the whole thing Is hopeless.
Elya softened instantly.
How can you tell if you've never
asked herr" she demanded "she mey
be simply piniag away for your sake. II
you only knew'-her gaze wandered
through tlie window and settled on a
bed of brilliant begonias in the from,
garden girls don't always wear ihel
hearts on their sleeves, even in these
matter-offact days, Monty"
raised my eyes. rhey mad becu
busily engaged in tracing the pattern
of the carpet
DO you think it's likely" l asksd.
What any girl would really fall in love
with a man twice =. age. H."
"Oh she's young." interrupted Elya
hastily. 'Do you know, I'm rata4.
glad Of that?"
! neld up a depreclating hand.
Please lot me finish, l implored.
Twice her age when shes tyrannizel
over him teased him and looked upon
him as an old fogy for the greater part
of her natural life"
Slya eyed me sharply The color
came and went in her cheeks in a way
tnat I had never seen it come and go
before. put my eyegiass in order T.
better admire the effect
"lou said you'd only seen her once
or twice" she resumed. severely: but
the quiver in her voice robbed the ae.
verify of any sting.
/ waved my hand
Lovers li,ense." I said, airl!y Il
couldn't diyulge every hing at once"
'lf you've known her SO long. hox
come, It that you only-wsll-discoyer.
ed the state OF your feelings yester-
eay2'
" There Is a tide In the affairs of
mer.' quoted. Likewise. there is a
psychological momenK aud that ps,.
Geological moment occurred at Lady
Fone+'s"
Occurred at Lady Follcts" ! echo
ed. And then there was long silence.
let my eyes wander slowly rourd
the room. They fingered vaguely on
the ridiculous blue cats with which
Flya adorns her mantel shelf, and
sIdmmed the photographs OF her mum.
crous admirers-so of hem thrust
oarelessly into the oyermantel. AMI
some, the more fortunate, smirldng at
me from elaborate frames.
think Elya's eyes must have been
wandering too. for they came TO an
chor az the same moment as mine. and
hen, without any rhyme or reason.
they hred quite suddenly with tears
Now, I can never see a woman cry
without feeling that something some
thing drastic must be done at once.
! started up, and then The rest seem
ed TO follow as a natural and easy con-
sequence.
In less time than it takes to chron,
irie Elva was crying quietly on my
shoulder,and the blue cats were gria-
ming diabolically from their several
coigns Of vantage
And when.' l asked, after we had
become more or less normal. and re-
urned % earth once agaln. when was