The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-01

full partner.
Five years later. during which time |
affairs, business and social. had been |
slipping along as well as either Bob |
or could have asked. was preparing |
for another sitdown TO show my chum /
that the time had now come for him |
to help me in earnest, when queer |
thing happened-one of those unac- |
countable incidents that God some !
times sees At to drop across the life !
paths of His children, paths heretofore |
as straight and far-ahead visible as |
highways alcng which one has never |
to look twice to see where he is trav. |
cling; one of those events that, looked !
at retrospectively, are beyond all hu.
man understanding.
1t was a beautiful July Saturday
noon and Bob and | had just packed
up for the day preparatory to joining
Mrs. Randolph on my yacht for a run
down to our place at Newport. As wo
stepped out of his Office one of the
clerks announced that a lady had come
in and had particularly asked to see
Mr.. Brownley.
Who the deuce can she be, coming
in at this time on Saturday, just when
all alive men are In a rush to shake
| the heat and dirt of business for food
and the good air or all outdOors?"
growled Bob. Then he said SHOW
her in"
Another minute and he had his an.
swer.
A lady entered
"Mr. Brownley2" She waited an in.
slant to make sure he was the vir.
ginian.
Bob bowed.
81 am Beulah Sands OF Sands Land.
ing. Virginia. Your people know our
people, Mr.. Brownley, probably well
enough for you to place me-"
"Of the Judge Lee Sands'?" asked
Bob, as he held out his hand.
Il am Judge Lee Sands oldest
daughter" said the sweetest voice
had ever heard, one of those mellow,
ripping voices that start the imagna.
tion on a chase for a mocking bird
only to bring II up at the pool be
meath the brook-fall in quest of the
sends a bubbling cadence into its
eddies and swirls. Perhaps it was the
southern accent that nibbled of the
corners and edges of certain words
and languidly let others mist them
selves together, that gave it is
luscious penetration - however tha
may be, it was the most no-yesterday
no-to-morrow voice | had ever heard
Before | grew fully conscious of the
exquisite beauty of the girl, this voice
of hers spelled its way into my braiI
like the breath of some bewitchinl
oriental essence. Nature, environ
ment, the security of a perfect mar
riage have ever combined to consti
tute me loyal to my chosen one, ye
as / stood silent, like one dumb, alb
sorbing the details of the loveliness o
this young stranger who had so sud
denly swept into my Office, 1t cam,
over me that here was a woman in
tended to enlighten men who could no
understand that shaft which in al
ages has without warning pierce,
mems hearts and souls-love at frs
sight. Had there not been Katherin
Blair, wife and mother-Katherin
Blair Randolph, who filled my love
world as the MONDAY August sun fill
. the old-fashioned well with nestlin
warmth and restful shade-after thi
interval, looking back at the past,
dare ask the question--who know
but that | too might have drifted froT
the secure anchorage of my slow Var
kee blood and fioated into the dee
waters?
Beauty, the cynic's scoff, is in tn
7 eye of the beholder, or in an angle {
vision-mere product of lime-ligh
y, point of view, desire-but Beula
= Sands was beauty beyond cavil, 81
perior to all analysis, as definite a
y the evening star against the twiligl
= sky. In height medium, girlish. BIT
with a figure maturely modelled
charmingly full and rounded, yet b
= very perfection of proportion escapin
suggestion of ''plumpness." The hea,
~ surrounded and crowned with a wealt
of dark golden hair, rested on a nee
that would have seemed short had II
slender column sprung less graciousl
II from the lovely lines of the breast an
70 shoulders beneath. 1t was on tn
~ face, however, and finally on the eye
that ones glances inevitably lingere
~ the face rose-tinted, with dimples
III either of the full cheeks, enteriu
~ laughing protest against the sad droo
% that brought slightly down the corner
ie of mouth too large perhaps Il
d beauty, if the coral curve of the iii
a' had been less eXquisitely perfect. I'll
straight thin-nostriled nose, the broa
ol- forehead, the square. full jaw almo
is as low at the points where they con
r beneath the ears as at the chin, su
a gested dignity and high resolve co
ed pied with a power of purpose, rare
er woman. The combination of forehea