Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-06-20

people, Mr.. BROMLEY, probably well
enough for You to place me-
CT The Judge Lee Sands'?" asked
Sch. as he held cut his hand.
II am judrC Lee Sands oldest
daughter said the sweetest voice
had ever heard, one of those mellow,
SippIiug voices that start the magma
lion on a chase for knocking bird.
only to bring it up at the pool be-
meath the brook-fall in quest of the
harp of moss and watercresses that
sends a bubbling cadence into its
eddies and swirls. Perhaps it was the
southern accent that nibb'ed off the
corners and edges of certain words
and languidly let others mist them
selves together. that gave ii it's
luscious penetration - however that
may be, it was the most noyesterday-
notu.morrow voice l had ever heard
Before | grew fully conscious of the
exquisite beauty of the girl, this voice
Of hers spelled its way into my brain
like the breath of some bewtching
oriental essence. Nature, environ
ment, the security Of a perfect mar
Ciage have ever combined to cOnsti-
tute me loyal to my chosen one, yet
as | stood silent. like one dumb, alb
sOrbing the details of the loveliness of
this young stranger who had so sud
denly swept into my office, it came
over me that here was a woman in
tended to enlighten men who could not
understand that shaft which in all
,,;, l,I
mems hearts and sOuls-love at first
sight. Had there not been Katherine
Blair, wife and mother-Katherine
Blair Randolph, who filled my love
world as the monday August sun fills
the old-fashioned well with nesting
warmth and restful shade-after this
interval, looking back at the past,
dare ask the questiOn-who knows
but that too might have drifted from
the secure anchorage of my slow Yam
kee blood and floated into the deep
waters?
Beauty, the cynic's scoff, is in the
eye of the beholder, or in an angle of
vision-mere product of lime-light,
point of view, desire-but Beulah
Sands was beauty beyond cavil, SUI
perior to all analysis, as definite as
the evening star against the twilight
sky. In height medium, girlish but
with a figure maturely modelled
charmingly full and rounded, yet by
very perfection of proportion escaping
suggestion Of 'plumpness." The head,
surrounded and crowned with a wealth
OK dark golden hair, rested on neck
that would have seemed short had its
slender column sprung less graciously
from the lovely lines of the breast and
shoulders beneath. 1t was on the
face, however, and finally on the eyes
that ones glances inevitably fingered
the face rose-tinted, with dimples in
either of the full cheeks, entering
laughing protest against the sad droop
that brought slightly down the corners
OF a mouth too large perhaps for
beauty, II the coral curve of the lips
had been less eXquisitely perfect. The
straight, thin-nOstriled nose, the broad
forehead, the square, full jaw almost
as low at the points where they come
beneath the ears as at the chin, sug,
sested dignity and high resolve cou
pied with a power OF purpose, rare In
woman. The combination of forehead
Jaw, and nose was seldom seen. Had
It been possessed by a man it would
surely have driven him to the tented
field for his profession. But the great
est glory of Beulah Sands was heI
eyes-large, full, very gray, very blue
vivid with all the glamour of her per
sOnality, full OF smiles and tears ant
spirituality and passion; one instant
frankly innocent, they illuminated thu
face of blonde Madonna; the next
seen through the extraordinary, long
jet-black eyelashes underneath thu
finely penciled black brOws, they ca
ressed, coquetted, allured. afterwart
found much of this girls purely physi
cal fascination lay in this strang
blending of English fairness with An
dalusian tints, though the abiding
quality Of her charm was surely l al
exaltation of spirit Of which she Nigh
make the dullest conscious. AS sh
stood looking at Bob in my office tina
Iongago noon, gracefully at ease in
suit Of gray, with a gray-feathere
turban on her head, and tiny lac
bands at neck and wrist, she was YER
exquisite. exceedingly dainty, and
though southerner of southerners, YER
unlike the typical brunette girl VIII
comes out of Dixie land.
This girl who came into our ono
~ that, July Saturday, just in time to IL