Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-11-07
remarked a change SO welcome and

that In like measure as the father re-
covered his self-possession, SO, as
swiftly, had the daughter journyed to
the confines of tragedy and learned
there some of those deeper LESSONS
which the world ia ever ready to teach.
Anna returned from Henley so greatly
changed that her altered appearance
rarely escaped remark. Defiant, reck-
less, almost hysterical. her unnatural
gafety could not cloak her anxiety nor
all her artif1ce disguise 1t. If she had
the truth: it would have been to adj
nit a position, not only of humiliation
but Of danger. "A within, by which she
would have amused herself, had
created a situation from which she
could not escape. She loved Alban
antagonist against whom she played
caught her in the deadly meshes Of
his fatal net. Not for an instant
since she stood upon the lawn at
Ascot and witnessed the defeat Of her
| great horse Lodestar had she ceased
to tell herself that the world pointed
the finger at her and held UP her name
to scorn. They say that I cheated
them" she would tell herself and that
estimate Of the common Judgment was
entirely true.
It had been a great race upon a bril-
liant day of summer. Alban. had &C.
%conpanied her to the enclosure and
Toasted his eyes upon that rainbow
scene, SO amazing in its beauty, so be-
%wildering in its glow OF color that t
stood, to his unframed imagination,
for the whole glory of the world. OF
the horses or their meaning he knew
nothing at all. This picture of radi-
ant women, laughing, feasting, flirting
at the heart Of a natural forest; the
vast %concourse of spectators-the
Thousand hues of color flashing in the
sunshine, the stands, the music, the
royal procession, the superbly capari-
soned horses, the state carriages
what a spectacle 1t was, how far sur
passing all that he had been led to ex-
pect Of Money and Its kingdom. Let
Anna move excitedly amid the throng,
laughing with this man, changing wit
with another-he was content just to
watch the people, to reflect upon their
happy lives, 1t may be to ask himself
what justification they had when the
children were wanting bread and the
great hosts of the destitute lay en-
encamped beyond the pale. Such
philosophy to be sure, had but a short
shift on such a day. The i~ntoxication
Of the scene quickly ran hot in his
veins and he surrendered to 1t willing
ly. These were hours to live, precious
every one of them-and who would not
worship the gold which brought them,
who would not turn to 1t as to the
lodestar of desire
: And then the race! Anna had talk
ed of nothing else since they set out
In the motor to drive over to the
course. Her anger against Willy For
rest appeared to be forgotten for the
time betng-he, on his part, eying
Alban askance, but making no open
complaint against him, met her In the
paddock and repeated his assurances
that, Lodestar could not lose.
They run him down to evens,
Anna" he said, sand precious lucky
were to get the price we did. There'll
to US? Are we a ph%ilanthropic society
do we live to endow the multitude?
Not much, by no means, oh no. We
live to make an honest bit-and we'll
make 1t today If ever we did. You go
easy and don't butt in. I've laid all
that can be got at the price and the
rests hest in your pocket. You'll wait
q bit for the other races-eh, what?
You didn't come here to knit stock.
ings, now did you, Anna?"
She laughed with him and returned
to see the race. Her excitement gave
her a superb color, heightened her
natural beauty and turned many ad.
miring eyes upon her. To Alban she
whispered that she was going to make
a Fo,f, a n ~ - -,-%111J a.
ly, almost afraid for himself and for
her. When the great thrill passed
over the stands and they're off"
echoed almost as a sound Of distant
thunder, he crept closer to her as
which she was mistress. The specke
upon the green we're nothing to him
those dots of color moving swiftly
across the scene, how odd to thinl,
tAat they might bring riches or beg.
gary in their train! This he knew Il
, be the stern fact, and when men be.
!. gan to shout h%oarsely, to press togeth
er and crane necks, when that very
; torrent of sound which named the dis
{ lance arose. he looked again at Anna
and saw that she was smiling" "She
3 has won," he said, "she will be happy
3 tonight"
, The. horses passed the post IT
: a cluster. Alban, unaccustomed to tbs
objects of a ~race-course, had not ar
! eye 30 well trained that he could readi
ly distinguish the colors or locate with
certainty the position of the pink
green sleeyes-white cap'-the rae
ing Jacket of Count Donato,'' as Ann:
was known to the Jockey club. H.
could make out nothing more than {
kaleidoscope of color changing swift!
upon a verdant arena, this and an I'm
broken line Of people stretching ava!
to the very confines of the woodland
and a rampant wall of stands ant
boxes and tents. For him there wer'
no niceties OF effort AMI of counter-et
fort. The Jockeys appeared to be g,
e many little monkeys clinging to tn
necks Of wild chargers who rolled il
their distress as though to shake OF
s the imps tormenting them. The roa
8 OF voices affrighted him-he could no
l. understand that lust of gain which prc