Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-10-31
ON FASHIONS. HIGHWAY.
By FRANCES RIVERS
Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bow1es.)

ss: All .sI Il = + ~ Copyright, 1906, b!
Il Toward five O'Clock, on a supremacy
y hot July day, Mr. Godfrey Boyle
g strolled leisurely along the grave
H path of the promenade. -
He Ioitered, seemingly at random
Il making his way slowly between groups
& Of animated people, stopping for nc
Y reason, and remained idly agaze ove1
the heads OF the crowd ON fashions
= highway.
T. At any rate, he thought, applying
T thisSrecollection as healing JUNCTION te
4 the scratches imprinted on his vanity
r Dy the acid of such general forgetful
: ness, Audrey has remembered; and he
smiling, recalled the facility with which
Intimacy with Lady Annandale had
been resumed; the friendly informal
= 1ty with which she had reentered into
relations with him; the bewilderins
immensely of her social influence; the
celebrity which, at first as the wife,
then as the widow, of yiscount, no
tor1ous in career and memory for his
many vices, she had acquired.
ions highway, the purpose OF
Joining Lady Annandale being less
distinct in his thoughts than the wish
to see he's. So immersed was he in
reflection that he failed to notice that
a victoria had stopped opposite to
him Suddenly footman addressed
him:
I beg your pardon, sir" said he,
"but her ladyship sent me to say that
she wishes toispeak to YOU"
Godfrey turned; Lady Annandale
was stepping from the carriage
You can go home" said she to the
footman
Very good, my lady,"
Then she gave to Godfrey her hand:
This place" she glanced round at
the radiant prospect-''seems scarce
~ the spot suited to serious discus
{ sion. We might, perhaps, over there. :"
ss So, side by side, Lady Annanda1e
and Mr.. Godfrey Boyne walked across
the SOFT, green turf and established
themselves upon chairs under the
sweet-scented lime trees, whose shell.
tering boughs masked them from OBJ
seryation-
He beamed amiab1y round.
7 have brought you here, that you
may continue your last nights inter
rupted account of the woman with
whom you were In love-" said she
Was in love? It's absurd to use
the past tense. am in love with her.
Love is not state from which You
can recover as from an epidemic. !
am, of course, speaking of the real
thing"
4 see; something other than t1irt-
alton
Filtration is but the froth of
love"
Lady AnnandaIe laughed. Passion!
does your real thing include that?'
Passion is loves dregs, besides
being Cupid's pseudonym for the work
he is ashamed to acknowledge
Il had no idea l was speaking to
IN expert; but how, may I ask, did
you come to- study the subject so pro-
foundly?'
20 In Ceylon, beyond loves influence,
I devoted some attention to the sci
ence.''
She raised her eyebrows.
rs that all you learned?"
p ''That, and to make money"
ITO make money!
Certainly. I'm a wealthy tea-plant-
er of Ceylon.'
"a wealthy tea-planter, did you
say2 But to return to your love-" she
suggested
You can't return to a thing you've
never parted from, can you?'
Then you know more of the sub
ject?',
"A great deal MORE
= How much?"
Here it is. I see a boy and girl,
the joyful intimacy of their childhood
+ deepening into the poetry of youth
i And, of course, the girl knows that
the boy loves herr
j !. + :z. Naturally; since not an hour of
j the day passes but he tells her so.''
81 ~ Tells her? Surely not"
s&& a.t4.By every means in his power, ex-
s.cept his tongue. He doesn't put 1t
into words, because he knows that to
do so would be hopeless If she doesn't
y understand without that.
mi: h 4 Don't you think she might make
. mistake If he says nothing?"
:j~,5< But she must know that he dreams
his dream of the future, In which, hav-
ing made a nest and lined 1t softly
with down, he will come to her and
say: 1T awaits you Then he hopes
that, with the gracious spirit mani
fest in all her bearing, the girl, with
love and tenderness shining from her
eyes, would, putting her hand in his,
say: 7 am ready"
Srs !. :, four vision is charming, idyllic;
4 but how about the girl and her dreary
days OF waiting, for suppose the boy
I to have gone OF into the world2"
q Z He had to go into it to fill his
mans part g.. IT,, % .~ - ..... .
/: Before going he should have told
her In words of his love-"
+ T, ~ on really think that his doing 80
would have made any: difference
when an that he was then in a posi-
ton to ask was faithfulness?' !
! Az s5ss55 Lady Annandale sighed. i. 49,. T..
Fhis particular girl was probably
brought up to marry, as, had she
{ been boy, she would have been
i brought mp to some profession. In
your vision, what became of herr, ~ r.
E55 She fulfilled what ] see you con
slider to have been her destiny, .
tMarriage?''' j. NJ + =. s :. y. /: " E