The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-07-26
VIRGINIA Of
WASHINGTON"
By Eleanor Austin Harris
Copyright, 1906, by e. c. PARCELS

Hasn't he nice blue eyes?' said Miss
Dressed.
Horrors, child. Don't you say such
things out loud! What if he should IN
derstand English?'
impossible, Aunt Ellen. German
blondncss, reading a German paper,
travelling in a German train with bag
gage marked a. Won S., Bremen"
Virginia! What does possess you?
/ never heard you talk So
Miss Dressed laughed a hearty Amer
lean laugh. II am so glad to shake the
dust of Europe off my feet that can't
keep it in. I'm so glad We're headed
for Hamburg, the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse, America and Washington that
-that-well, honestly l should like to
kick the epaulets off the guards gor-
geous blue and gold uniform. Don't
faint, Aunt Ellen. I'll stop and not say
another word for an hour
For an hour and five minutes Miss
Dressed sat silent, ostensibly watching
the valleys, the German gables, the
green of meadows and forests, as they
swept by. For an hour and five min
utes their young German fellow travel
er read his German paper, and for an
hour and five minutes Miss Ellen Van
strum enjoyed perfect peace of mind.
Then Miss Dressed coughed, and Miss
Nanstrum inwardly caught her breath.
Aunt Ellen" said Miss Dressed, la
lilly waving her hand toward the seen
cry as If she We're discussing it-"Aunt
Ellen. do you know that young man
has dreadfully nice face, even if he
is German. Oh, don't look shocked.
talking about the scenery, and he will
never know the difference. I've been
looking at him off and Oh for the last
hour. Just see what q nice firm mouth
he has. He's so we'll groomed too. Just
look at his finger nails. oh, Aunt FL
len, wish you wouldn't gasp So
like his looks better than any foreigner
spent in Europe. Really, l shouldn't
mind being married if l could get such
a handsome, we'll groomed man as he
is.
Virginia, oh, yirginiaw groaned
Mrs. Nanstrum. "It's-it's indecent to
talk about a man like that when he
can't understand"
Don't jiggle your pompadour crook
ed, Aunt Elem said Miss Dressed
calmly. Don't worry. If he under
stood English he would have betrayed
himself long ago. He might be chunk
of pink and white and yellow taffy for
all he understands of the English Ian
here we are almost at Hamburg. Here,
let me tie your VEIL You are getting
it on crooked No, let me carry the
suit case. It's young house. Now
for my last fee-almost-on foreign
soil"
The train had hardly come to long
screeching stop in the great station at
riage was jerked violently open and a
young man pulled the German out
with a hearty grip, eXclaiming in Eng
lish:
Were in luck. There was a state
room unengaged OH the Kaiser Will
helm, and we can sail four days earlier
than we expected. Good luck, man!
Why don't you say something instead
of looking at me like a dazed idiot?'
The German pulled himself together
with q noticeable effort and began to
stammer out something in German
when the other interrupted him impa
| tiently.
Jaw, cut that out! You know per
fectly we'll can't understand WORD
Of German. Never mind, come along!'
The young German flushed red an6
with one appealing look straight into
the eyes of the astonished Miss ORES
sci he picked up his suit case and was
soon lost to view in the hurryint
tArong.
Miss Dressed silently picked up he
1uggage, carefully avoiding her aunt.
eye, and for minute after leavin;
1 the carriage she looked helplessly
abqht 1f. Then the label Berlin OF
q carriage caught her eye, and withou
4-f9Ntf her puzzled relative she tool
hef 6yy The arm. raced her across tn,
&Trdf'apu pushed her in. stumbling il
>h<rAesf%.tst as the guard put his hane
e1Fte dc1r to close it.
Ahskhat-where"- said Mis-.
Vanst'up.
;. II doh't know" said her niece DIES
peratcly. but most anywhere out O.
Hamburg
But our steamer" gasped Miss Van
strum.
What's losing steamer, Aunt Ell
len, compared with my peace of mind
I'd no more sail Oh the Kaiser Wilhelm
now than I'd fly. Aunt Ellen, you're :
Jewel not to say, I told you So, no
even to look it,
you haven't given me time," laugh
ed Miss Vanstrum, "but / must say
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