The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-20

Among the tuuHlou Ou uAo uCoA- go
here II is. You know I told you that
Olsen said that his boss had gone
with his family to Newport"
He handed her the paper as he
spoke. It was New York journal,
opened at little notice In the society
columns. She read It alcud in her
clear. soft voice. with Its vague South
ern accent:
"Mr. and Mrs. Daubee and daugh-
ters have just gone to Newport, where
they have taken fashionable apart
ments for the season. Later they will
go with a select party of friends to the
Adirondacks. Mrs. Daubee, who is q
leader In social circles. has just an
nounced. informally, the engagement
Of her eldest daughter to French
nobleman who was very popular In
social circles last winter. A smart
dinner party will be given little lat
er, when the parties arrive at home,
and the engagement will be officially
announced. Mrs. Daubee, who has
been negotiating with the last scion
of decayed royal family Of Europe
for the diamond parure that has been
an heirloom in his family for genera
tions. as bridal gift for her beauti-
full daughter, has Just countermanded
the order. upon learning that dupli-
cate OF the parure was in exist nee.
both having been made identical for
twin daughters OF the Earl Of
"That will do, Alice" A swift
movement sent the paper to the floor.
Il viii venture to say that II the hol-
lowhorn hadn't broken out among the
Daubee fiocks and herds, that dupli-
cate parure would never have been
discovered Poor Olsenl He cried
like baby to-day when he told me OF
the great heaps Of dead cattle that are
rotting out on the Lone Star"
"Jim," she said, timidly. 81 saw
DR.. Weatherbee to-day"
He choked back a word that rose
to his lips.
G. you did" he said, faint some
thing in his voice. What did he
say?"
"You know he has come back from
the East"-a vague term among the
Western folk, that is all comprehen-
sive enough to take in North, South
and East HE asked me about the
baby. and he seemed to think that
was looking badly-and-he sent you
a message"
''The devil he didi" said Agnew, in
tone which his wife pretended not
to hear.
"He was in to see Minnie's little sis
ter, and at first didn't think that he
noticed me. but after little he said,
Have you been Ill, Mrs. AgnewT"
"And I said No. not at all,' and
he frowned a little and said that he
fancied that / had; and then he said.
What has caused that ugly line across
your forehead, them? and rubbed my
hand across my face and said didn't
know. and he said that 1t wasn't there
last year, and said I was an older
woman now, and he frowned a little
again and said, Exactly - seven
months older. believe and then ne
went away; but when he got al far AZ
the gate he turned around and came
back"
Il heard that you were going back
o-Missouri-is it?"
"And I--couldn't say a word-I
couldn't help 1t, Jim, but the tears
rose so to my eyes that could hardly
see him standing there right in the
sunshine, and could only say so
foolishly, Jim, that 1t was all mis-
take-I had not heard anything about
1t. and he said, 4 certainly heard It
somewhere. Tell your husband that
I said so, win your"
Il saii | would, but that 1t was all
a mistake; but he wouldn't hear to It."
"T am afraid that have been tell
ing tales out Of school, he said, DO
litely; maybe your husband meant to
keep 1t secret from you for the pres
ent, madam. as pleasant surprise.
but certainly heard 1t, though just
where slips my mind. Missouri IL
beautiful now he went on. I stopped
at little town one day. The leaves
are Just beginning to turn, and there
was spring of ice-cold water where
the wild grapes grew"
The voice broke.
Little woman--little woman, are
you homesick?"
"Homesick? No; why should You
think so? Homesiclk for the old clay
hills Of Missouri, with the little coun-
try post Office and the geese squawk-
ing about, with the mules hitched near
and the men gabbling noisily about
politics, and the fiddle in the corner
and the tune that was always
Dixie"
'I must go home," she said trem-
ulously. Il guess am nervous-and
the baby will be fretting for me
But there was knot in the bonnet
strings that she could not unite and
her eyes were wet.
"Alice, Alice, I never meant to be
cruel to you. child | never meant
are you really SO homesick as all that,
Alice, and yet never told me?"
81 am not homesick, now" she
sobbed family. Maybe at times,
when the wind blows--and / can not
- &ho o,,n-rr voy hovo fho haad.