The Nevada County picayune., 1907-09-05
press him to come into our firm as

press nlm to come Into our nrm as full partner.
 Five years later during which time affairs business and social, had been slipping along as we'll as either Bob or l could have asked, 1 was preparing for another sit-down to show my chum that the time had now come for him to help me in earnest, when a queer thing happened-one of those unac- countable incidents that God some times sees fit to drop across the life paths of His children, paths heretofore as straight and far-ahead visible as highways along which one has never to look twice to see where he is tray cling; one of those events that. looked at retrospectiyely, are beyond all hu- man understanding.
 It was a beautiful July Saturday noon and Bob and l had just packed up fer the day preparatory to joining Mrs Randolph on my yacht for a run down to our place at Newport. As we stepped out of his office one of the clerks announced that 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 10 shake the heat and dirt of business for food and the good air or all outdoors ?9 growled Bob. Then he said, Show her in
 Another minute and he had his an sWer.
 A lady entered
 eMr Brownley9a She waited an in. stant 10 make sure he was the Vir- einian.
 Bob bowed
 T am Reulah Sands. Of Sands Land ing. Nirsiaia. Yonr people know om people. Ar. Browalef probably well enough for yoa 10 place me
 eoGtbe Judge Lee Sands ?" asked Rab, as he held out his hand.
 T am Judge Lee Sands oldest daughter. said the sweetest voice had ever heard, one of those mellow.
 iarliHg voices that start the imagna- tiou on q chase for a mocking bird. only to bring it up at the pool be. heath the brookfall in quest of the harp of moss and Watercresses that sends a bubbling cadence into it's sddies and swirls. Perhaps it was the seathom accent that nibbled off the corners and edges Of certain words and taneuidly let others mist them elves together, that gave it is luscious penetration - however that may be- il was the most no-yesterday- H6tomorfow voice l had ever heard Before 1 grew fully conscious of the exquisite beauty of the girl this voice of hers spelled it's Way into my brain Hhe the breath of some bewitehing oriental essence Nature. environ. aent, the security of perfect mar siage have ever combined to coasti- tute me loyal to my chosen one, yet as | stood silent, like one dumb, ab sorbiHg the details ot the Ioreliness of this young stranger who had so sud 3enlS 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 i'll all ages has without warning pierced l 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 nestling
 warmth and restful shade-after this l interval. looking back at the past, 1 l dare ask the question-whO knows but that l too might have drifted from the secure anchorage of my slow Yan-
 kee blood and hoated into the deep waters?
 Beauty, the cynic's scof. is in the eye of the beholder, or in an angle of yision-mere product of lime-light, point of view, desire-but Beulah Sands was beauty beyond cavil. su- | perior to all analysis as definite as | the evening star against the twilight sky. In height medium. girlish, but with figure maturely modelled, | ehalmingly full and rounded, yet hy very perfection of proportion escaping suggestion of "plumpness.' The head, surrounded and crowned with wealth af dark golden hair, rested on a neck that would have seemed short had it's slender column sprung less graciously from the lovely lines of the breast and shoulders beneath It was on the .acc.# however and finally on the eyes that ones giances inevitably fingered
 -the face rosc-tirtod. with dimples iu either of the full cheeks, entering | laughing protest against the sad droop | that brought slightly down the corners | of mouth too large perhaps for beauty, if the coral curve of the lips had been less eXquisitcy perfect. The straight thinnostriled nose. the broad
 forehead, the square, full jaw almost ac I1v. at tho loipt, ,,,bCv1 tl,o,- ,.,,.,,