Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1906-11-15

~Su' uiShaiiy' now could your
She laughed.
Have you no romance? Can 20,
not see the fitness OF things? II yol
have not a box at the opera, yot
ought at least to make believe you
have. History walks about us, and
you call the old style archaicl THAI
hurts"
"Methinks, Sir Monk"
There! That's more like 1t. BY
my haldiom. that's the stylei"
odds bodkin, you don't tell me-"
There was a second ripple OF laughter
from behind the mask II was rare
music.
Il could fall in love with you,"
There once was Frenchman who
said that as nothing is impossible. let
us believe in the absurd. | might be
old enough to be your grand mother"
lightly
Perish the thought"
Perish il, indeed"
The mask is the thing," cried.
enthusiastically. "You can make love
W duolutI man NlIe-
"Or your own, and nobody is the
wiser. "-cynicAlly
We are getting on"
Yes, we are getting on, both in
years and in folly. What are you do
ing in a monks robe? Where is your
motley. gay fool?"
Il have laid it aside for the night
On such occasions as this, fools dress
as wise men, and wise men as fools;
everybody goes about in disguise"
How would you go about to pick
out the fools?'-curiously.
beginning with myself"
Thy name is also Candor!"
Look at yonder Cavalier. He wab-
bles like ship in distress, in the wild
effort to keep his feet untangled from
his rapier. I'll wager he's a wealthy
plumber on weekdays. Observe Anne
OF Austria, What arms Iii lay odds
that her great-grandmother took in
washing. There's Romeo, now. with
a pair OF legs like an old apple tree.
The freedom OF criticism is mine to-
night! Did you ever see such ridicu-
lous ideas of costume? For my part.
the robe and the domino for me. All
lines are destroyed; nothing is recog.
nizsble. My my. There's Harlequin.
too, walking on parentheses."
The Blue Domino laughed again.
You talk as il you had no friends
here, "-shrewdly.
But which is my FREUD and which |
Is thc man 70 whom | awe money %" I
What is your tailor here. them"
Heaven forbid Strange. isn't il
when follow starts in 10 pay up his
bills. that the tailor and the under
aker have TO wait till the last"
The subject 10 outside my under.
But YOU have dressmakers.
seldom pay dressmakers."
All. Then you belong to the most
Exclusive set"
"Or perhaps make my own
resses--"
"Sh'' Not SO loud. Suppose some
ne should overhear you?"
ut was a slip OF the tongue. And
ct, you should be lenient to all"
Kind heart! An. wonder what
II those Interrogation points mean
he black domino there?"
Possibly she represents Scandal"
Scandal, then, is symbolilzed BY
he Interrogation point?"
Yes. Whoever heard OF scandal
oming 10 full stop, that is to say.
period?"
Il learn something every minute
hundred years ago you would have ,
zen a cousin to Mile. de Necker."
"Or Nine. de Stael." ,
"Oh, II you are married."
Il shall have ceased TO interest c
,u?" .
"On the contrary. Only marriage
ould account for the bitterness OF 4
'ur tone. What does the Blue Dom. b
o represent"
The needle OF the compass" She s
retched n sleeve out toward me and 7
observed for the first time the min. Y
ture compasses woven in the cloth.
rely, one does not rent a costume N
re this. :
Il understand now why you at g
acted me. Whittier will you guide q
e?"-sentimentally. "
Through dark channels and stormy G
as, over tropic waters. into the s.
ven under the hill'" 1,
"Oh, If you go to quoting Tenny.
H. it's all up with me. Are Won
lrried9" v
One can easily see that al any I.
te you are not" n