Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-05-02

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one another under the rafters of the
sewing room in the listless, desultory
manner of those who have not gone
home till morning, till daylight did
appear. The dominant note of sum
mer cottage is the rocking chair, and
there were two in the sewing room,
where Katherine and Dorothy swayed
gently back and forth as they talked.
They sat close to the low. broad win
dow which presented SO beautiful
picture of the blue bay and the white
shipping. The huge CONSERVATION lay
moored with her broadside toward the
town, all sign of festivity already re-
moved from hull and rigging. and to
the scarcely slumber satisfied eyes of
the girls something of the sadness Of
departure seemed to hang as haze
around the great ship. The girls were
not discussing the past, but rather an
ticipating the future, forecasting 1t.
with long, silent pauses intervening.
$50 you will not stay with US? You
are determined TO turn your wealthy
back on the poor Kempt family"
Aatherlne was saying.
But / shall return to the Kempt
family now and then. if they will let
me. / must get away for time and
think. Ny life has suddenly become
all topsy turvy, and need to get my
bearings, as does ship that has been
through storm and lost her reckon
ing"
she dunno where she are as the
song says
exactly. That is the state Of
things"
81 think it's too bad, Dorothy, that
you did not allow us to make public
announcement of your good fortune.
Just imagine what an ovation you
would have had on board the cruiser
last night if it had been known that
the richest woman in that assemblage
was a pretty, shy little creature sitting
all by herself, and never INDUCING in
even one dance"
81 shouldn't in the least care for that
sort of ovation, Kate, and if every one
present were as well pleased with the
festivities as /, they must all have en-
joyed themselves immensely. believe
my friend Kate did my share Of the
dancing as we'll as her own
g She danced, and she danced, and
she danced them a din l think those
are the words of the Scottish song that
the prince quoted He seems up in
Scottish poetry and does not even re-
sent being called a Scotehman. This
energetic person of the song seems to
have danced them all to standstill,
as l understood him, for he informs
me "a means ALI and din means
done but told him I'd rather learn
Russian than Scotch; it was SO much
easier, and his highness was good
enough to laugh at that. Didn't the
lieutenant ask you to dance at all?"
"Oh. yes, he did"
"And you refused 2"
II refused .
II didn't think he had sense enough
to ask girl to dance"
"You are ungratefuI, Katherine. Re-
member he introduced you to the
prince
eyes that's SO. ] had forgotten.
shall never say anything against him
again."
'sYou like the prince, thenf"
aOf all the crowned heads, emperors,
kings. sultans monarchs Of every de-
scription, dukes, counts, earls, mar
-quises, whom l have met and who
have pestered my life asking me to
share their royal perquisites think 1
may say quite truthfully that like
this Jack Lamont better than any one
Of them"
'.Surely Prince Jack has not offered
you his principality already"
mo, not yet, but with an eye to the
future 1 have persuaded him to give
up Tolstoi and read Mark Twain, who
is not only equally humorous but much
more sensible than the Russian writer
Jack must not be allowed to give
away his estates to the peasants as his
silly sister has done. may need
them later on"
"Oh, you've got that far, have your
II have got that far. He hasn't. He
doesn't know anything about 1t, but
I'll wake him up when the right time
comes. There are many elements OF
sanity about him. He told me that he
intended to give up his estates, but In
the first place he had been too busy
and In the second be needed the mon
ey. His good sense, however. requires
refining, SO that he may get rid of the
dross. don't blame him; blame Toll
stoi. For instance, when asked him
If he had patented his liquid city In
vention he said he did not wish to
make profit from his discovery, but
intended it for the good Of humanity
at large. Imagine such an idiotic idea
as thatg'
II think such views are entirely to
his credit" affirmed Dorothy.
ooh, Of course, but the plan is not
practicable. If he allows such an in
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