Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-03

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home and plenty of horses. wonder
If you married her for her money!"
Jacks eyes narrowed He seemed
to muse. Yes. believe can do it
as easily as did IL years ago.
do what?" I asked. 4
"Wallop that kid brother of mine.
Bob. hope you'll fall desperately in
love some day, and that you will have
devil of time winning the girl You
! need something to stir up your vitals.
| BY George! and hope she won't have,
cent Of money"
'tLovable brother, that!'' Bob
knocked the ashes from his cigar and
essayed at laughter which wasn't par
ticularly felicitous. Surprising was
in love, now, and that the girl had
heaps Of money, and all that?"
| And all that" mimicked the elder
brother. what does and all that
mean?"
'Oh, shut up!"
well, hope you are in love- It
serves you right. You've made more
than one girls heart ache, you good
looking ruffian!"
Then he switched over to politics.
and Robert became an interested lis
tener. Quarter of an hour later the
women returned, and certainly they
made picture which was most sat
isfactory to the masculine eye. Bob
jumped to his feet and Kissed them
both, a thing lacked the courage to
DO How pleased they looked! How
woman loves f1attery from those she
| loves!
Well, William is in front with the
carriage; the women are putting ON
their cloaks, and l am admiring theN
luxurious crimson fur-lined garment
which brother Robert had sent to Nam
cy from Paris. You will see by this
that he was not altogether a thought
less lad. Good-by, Mr. Robert.
leave you and your guiding star to bolt
! the established orbit; for, after this
night the world will never be the same
careless, happy-go-lucky world, The
farce has its tragedy, and what trag-
edy is free of the ludiflcatory? Youth
must run its courses, even as the gay,
wild brook must riot on its way to join
the sober river.
dare say that we hadn't gone 20
minutes before Robert stole out to the
stables, only to return Immediately
with bundle under his arm and
white felt hat perched rakishly on his
head. He was chuckling audibly to
himself
ut will brighten the girls half to
to death. A gray horse and bay; oh,
won't make any mistake. Let me
see: I'll start about IL o'clock. That'll
get me to the spot just as the boys
leave. This is the richest yet. I'll
wager that there will be some tall
screaming" He continued chucklins
as he helped himself to his brothers.
perfectos and fine old Scotch. l don't
know what book he found in the pri-
vate case; some old rascal's merry
tales, no doubt; for my heros face was
never in repose.
We had left Mrs. Secretary of the-In-
terior's and were entering the red
brick mansion on Connecticut avenue.
Carriages lined both sides of the street,
and mounted police patrolled up and
down.
"Poor boy!' sighed Nancy. ..I won-
der if he'll be lonely. It's shame to
leave him home the very first night"
"Why didn't he come, them"
Mrs. w. shrugged her polished shout
ders.
ooh, my cigars and Scotch are fairly
comforting" put in Jack, complacent-
ly. Besides, Jane isn't. at all bad
looking, -winking at me. What do
you say, Charlie?"
But Charlie had not time to answer.
The gray-haired, gray-whiskered am
bassador was bowling pleasantly to
us. A dozen notable military and
naval attaches nodded; and we passed
on to the ballroom, where the or
chsstra was playing "a Summer Night
, in Munich" In moment Jack and
t his wife were lost in the maze Of
cleaning shoulders and white linen.
/ 1t was picture such as few men,
once having witnessed 1t, can forget.
e Here were the great men in the great
) world: this man was an old rear-ad-
: miral, destined to become the nations
hero soon; there. famous general,
! Of long and splendid service; cele-
: brated statesmen, diplomats, tinan-
+ ciers; a noted English duke; scion Of
the Hapsburg family; an intimate of
: the German kaiser; swart Jap; q
v Chinaman with his peacock feather;
, tens of men whose highest word was
listened to by the scur ends of tbs
a world; representatives OF all the grea:
. kingdoms and states. The president
:, and his handsome wife had Just left
. as we came, SO we missed that for
, mality. which detracts from the pleas
ures of the ballroom.
"Who is that handsome young fel.
. low over there, standing at the side
:, Of the Russian ambassadors wife?'
:. asked Nancy pressing my arm.
Where's? Oh, he's Count Karlof