The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1906-11-29

aress and servants But when the
light has waned. and the glo" Oh Tue
fire fills the corners OF the room WIN
dancing shadows, even dress anu
servants are left, and the conversation
invariably turns--to the other great
stock subject: man.
aOf course. | didn't do 1t 10 oe
thanked; but | think you might nave
murmured one little word of gratituue
TO me for asking Mr. Carr down.
mean. ordinary politeness requires
some attention even from you
Eva looked up at Mrs. Cluttoh from
a deep dell of bot coal which had oeeh
formed between the bars. mann
Won" she said and then, added lot
nothing, -.
Mrs Clutton was one Of those long
sliabt tired women who always dre9s
to perfection, are never ruined hesei
different, who are able to hurry VIM
appearing to dawdle, to be e&ceeuihs
Nv annoyed without the least app"i
ant effort to laugh heartily without
making a sound, and TO talk Win
great animation, without in any way
disturbing the undulating' Fei'e's
drawl with which they are born
you might talk to me from no" tlIi
tho middle of next week she SAID
and then you couldn't convince He
that you are not glad that he Is mere
A laugh sprang across Eyas race
| to be instantly hunted away by sign.
"Mv dear Enid, | haven't the taihtest
| desire to prove hat | am not nope
! lessly I'm love with him Unfortunate
lv IL Is known to everybody In thls
world except the man himself And
the absurdity of the whole thihs
the thing that makes me feel IKE nan
a tomato on a gridiron-is that ne
lust as much In love with me as
am with him. and that's very great
deal indeed.
"I don't see where the absurdity
comes In. II you are both in love as
much as all that why don't you mar
ny him.
Half-tragically half-comically, whoily
In the manner--so far as we can guess
of a petulant angel, Eva sprang 10
her feet. and finging her collection OF
cushions far and wide, commenced
dashing about the room, greatly TO us
danger.
Marry hint marry him. Don't
want to marry him? Isn't 1t my one
ambition in life to become the wife OF
this silly. foolish, timid. wretch? lts
ali fine for you to sit there and say
those easy. insane things; but | can
run away with the man, can /!
can't buy toy pistol, meet the poo'
! dear In dark passage ana shriek
Marry me. or you die! can |? can
, chase him into a conservatory, flop OF
my knees, and cry, Teddy | love yo'
with a love that Is almost tndiscreet
: be. OH be my husband can |, can
can II" Eva caught one OF the cusn
ions a beautiful kick, and sent II ny
!. ing against whatnot.
mot very we'll" said Mrs. Cluttor
!. "put shall tell you what you ca
D and will dor
d WHAT" cried Eva, eagerly
r Smash my precious china II 20
kick cushions about like that.
The point Is, have You given him an
encouragement?
7, Eva laughed the laugh OF theate
70 scorn. Encouragement? why, III
3, dear Enid. have done everything
"a nicely.brought-up girl ought to q
and a good deal that she oughtnt
During that time. matter OF pc
" haps minute and quarter-Mr
III Chtton had been thinking hard.
$. though II would have been impossib
to guess 1t from the placid state
- her features.
n Eva" she said finally, have "
ever noticed that picture painted
the panel over the bookcase, of q
sitting on an armchair with her ey
cast down, and with her hands fold
re meekly on her lap?
No" said Eva, and II had. VIII
- on earth has she to do with my h
:. rid problem
:. Mrs. Clutton undulated on.
Va ngure of the girl works on hinl
no and sometimes when my husband h
ar got into a hoyish scrape and want
of TO hear what his father said about
as To his mother. he used To get
mt sister to pull the picture back. a
ait In the girls place to report
MIN what went on. A dishonorable a
"o very fascinating proceeding. A ch
Nv was placed behind the picture in
TN next room. the floor of which is oi
nd. level with 1t, and in this kind of Iii
Id It was impossible to tell the ditferel
200 between the real and the unreal <
Now. don't YOU think"
,hs Think Think" cried Eva. {
en-. ering the permanently quiet
ext Clutton with kisses, Il should tn
has | do think oh. Enid. YOU engine
You want me to get into the pictu
led YOU want TO bring Teddy here to
as my new portrait, you want to lie
sSr' him TO say to me on panel "
no darent say to me in the tle
and then. when at last he cries
darling. my beautiful piquant, Ii
ana beauty. love YOU SO. IL only c,
ma screw up courage to ask You To be
line wife, you want me to say, 're
: ia YOU infant. I'm dying to be
fDr wife
~, How wonderfully we'll"
~, Before Mrs Clutton could get
further Eva mounted upon the b
- case. had pushed back the panel.
49,, caught up a chair from corue
rnJ the little room which could Just
al. !