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

Archalc, very archaic, she inter.
rupted.
"Disillusioned in ten seconds" !
cried, dismally. How could your"
She laughed.
Have you no romance? Can you
not see the fitness Of things? IL you
have not box at the opera, you
ought at least to make believe you
have. History walks about us, and
you call the old style archaic! That
hurts!"
"Methinks, Sir Monk"
There! That's more like 1t. BY
my haldiom, that's the style!"
odds bodkin, you don't tell mel"
There was a second ripple Of laughter
from behind the mask. It 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 it, indeed"
The mask is the thing" l cried,
enthusiastically. You can make love
to another mans wife"
cor your own, and nobody is the
wiser,"-cynically.
We are getting on"
Yes, we are getting on, both in
wears and in folly What are you do
ing in monks robe? Where is your
motley, gay fool?"
II 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. lie wab-
bles like a ship in distress. in the wild
effort to keep his feet untangled from
his rapier. I'll wager he's wealthy
plumber on weekdays. Observe Anne
OF Austria, What arms! I'll lay odds
that her great-grandmother took in
washing. There's Romeo, now, with
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-
nizahle. My, my! There's Harlequin,
too. walking on parentheses.'
The Blue Domino laughed again.
You talk as If you had no friends
here, "-shrewdly.
But which is my friend and which
What. Is your tailor here, them
Heaven forbid Strange, isn't it,
when follow starts in to pay up his
bills. thar the tailor and the under
taker have TO wait till the last"
The subject is outside my under
standing"
But you have dressmakers."
Il seldom pay dressmakers."
All. Then you belong to the most
exclusive set!"
"Or perhaps make my own
dresses"
"Sh!" Not SO loud. Suppose some
one should oVerhear you?"
ut was a slip OF the tongue, And
yet, you should be lenient to ALL"
Kind heart! An, ! wonder what
all those Interrogation points mean
the black domino there?"
Possibly she represents Scand al"
Scandal, then, is symbolilzed by
the interrogation point?'
Eyes. Whoever heard OF scandal |
coming TO a full stop, that is to say,
period?"
II learn something every minute, |
A hundred years ago you would have |
been a cousin to Mile. de Necker," |
"Or Nine. de StAel."
"Oh, II you are married."
II shall have ceased to interest |
your"
ION the contrary. Only marriage |
would account for the bitterness OF |
your tone. What does the Blue Dom
inc representa-
THE needle of the compass" She /
stretched a sleeve out toward me and
I observed for the first time the min
iature compasses woven in the cloth. |
Surely. one does not rent a costume
like this.
Il understand now why you at
tracted me- Whittier will you guide
me?"-sentimentally.
Through dark channels and stormy
seas, over troplc waters. into the
haven under the hill"
"Oh, II you go to quoting Tenny.
son. it's all up with me Are you
married."
Zone can easily sea thai at any
rate you are not"