The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1908-04-22
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Homecoming
By CecHy Allen.
Copyrighted, 1908, by Homer Sprague.

this fact was nothing new. But some
how just at this particular moment it
was borne in upon him afresh and at
novel angle.
Her hair was blue black, SO were
her lashes. and her eyes were a won
derful blue, which, somehow, some
times, turned TO an equally wonderful
violet
The last time that Nat had looked
into them his own had been full OF
singing unshed tears. How could he
stand six months In Panama with the
light OF those blue COR We're they violet
eyes denied him?
But her notes had been SO brief and
unsatisfactory that even In hot, lazy
Panama he had caught himself read.
Ing between the lines and finding there
q selfish soul, the small narrow soul of
the girl given 20 personal conquests,
the soul stepped in admiration and fed
on compliments.
She was smiling at him now across
the cars broad aisle and above great
granny muff of gray squirrel That
all the more piauant and dainty.
Occasionally the man on the right
intercepted the friendly glances which
Peggy Barton shot at the newly re-
turned Gregory, and he glowered. Nat
Gregory knew just how the chap felt
He had Intercepted the same sort OF
glanees, and they had made him
squirm too.
She simulated a tiny cough and in
stantly raised the muff again. The
cough was n good excuse for a fetch
Ing pose. but somehow the absurd little
deception annoyed Nat Gregory. 1t Is
SO sometimes with men who have had
their minds and souls opened and
broadened by travel and contact with
men Of affairs.
So he let his glance wander to the
girl next to Peggy. She smiled at the
returned traveller, too, but Ii was
different sort of smile. a wholesome,
friendly smile, without any vague
sense of ownership behind IT. Peggy
Barton always assumed that air with
men-her sister Janet. never
For, you see, Janet was the ugly
duckling of the Barton family, famous
for its pretty daughters and the good
matches they made Janet was the
youngest, and she might not have been
considered homely If Peggy had not
been SO brilliantly. seintillatingly beau
tiful by contrast,
There were those, principally women
and young men without prospects, who
said that Peggy Barton always drag
ged her younger and less attractive sis
ter around with her as foil.
Something of this was passing
through Nat Gregory's head as he sat
watching the little comedy. The other
chap would be furious If Nat crossed
the aisle and talked with Peggy. and
Peggy would be furious If he did not
So he would strike happy medium.
lie would join the party and talk TO
Janet
How well he could remember their
many trips together-peggy, Janet and
himself-to the links. where he and
Peggy played golf and Janet sat on the
veranda or disappeared In the woods
where Wild flowers were thick; to the
matinee where between the acts he
ana essy 'iscusseo 'he ioVe ihteres.
Vi Tue pay as 1t were persohai
'na',c'' "ni'e janet reaa ,he auVer.ise-
ments In the programme; to the rink,
where he aud Peggy skated together
and Janet found some girl friend as a
skating partner or sat against the wall
inaAins humorous llehtai comment on
the circiihg Tue peIore her'
ia, Joiiy niue pegear janet nad
peen III 'nose uays! II sue naa oeeh
poreu sue hao newer SHOWN IL, aho-
ne was e'anolns peiore .he .rio now,
Inc man. hred Marsden, had been
uuiy Introduced feggy had turned
the iuii oat.ery Oh her WONDERFUL eyes
without tue aid Oh the granny nun
upon 1regorys tanned and clean cut
race ana Janet haa murmured some
.hlne ABOUT oiu times,
maven sKatea-why' II Is nearly
year since I've been on ice,' he was
get uainiltahce 10 this party ana give
you al chalce 10 laugh at my awK-
"arohess. 10 you think ! couid rent
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Marsoeh was poiitely put not emu
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