Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-06-30

SllChS, as ne TOWelleQ ulIlSell Will
spurs to keep himself awake. He
feared lest the spurs of conscience,
which had been SO sharp in his case,
might cease to prick, painful and
puzzling though the pricks were, and
the wolves rush in upon him.
| His intellectual powers seemed to
be developing phenomenally. He was
writing poetry so amazing that ne
dared no longer show it to Lady Kit
| ty When he preached he was aware
that his hearers hung breathless on
his words. When he was in the pulpit
he thought in visions, and translated
/ them into words in voice of ever
increasing magnetic quality. He did
not mean to do it. 1t was something
he had tried to resist, but in all these
visions Lady Kitty was so vividly in
the foreground, that, when he preach
ed, the girl felt as though he was
making violent love to her She would
try to fight the feeling, but curious,
enervating languor would steal over
her, rising round her like mist. PEN
etrating every pore. She would loll
back in the corner Of the great fam
lily pew, with her blue eyes closed,
restraining an inclination to hold out
her arms to the man who was domtn-
ating her. Then the voice would
cease, and, looking up, she saw face
| which filled her with repulsion. and
the fresh, wholesome face of Stand
| ish Vandraken wouli rise up and blot
1T out She could not understand why
/ the presence of Fabian Dare should
always force Vandraken on her con-
sciousness; she felt she would have
forgotten him long ago If the young
chaplain had not come into her life.
Fabian was painfully aware, now, how
strongly his face repealed her, and
their companionship was gradually be-
coming a thing of the past. When
they did meet, he felt, like hammer
blows, the wondering censure of her
glance, the disinclination to touch his
hand His intuition, sharpened by
love, felt her every thought, and he
knew that while she wondered and
censured she also pitied.
The effect OF all these cross-cur-
rents of attraction and repulsion, and
the drag of two personalities on her
own, began to have very bad effect
on Lady Kitty's. nerves The pallour
of health, which had always gone SO
well with her red-gold hair, began to
give place to a wan look, the lustre
of her eyes was dimmed by constant
worry, and her figure began to lose Its
exquisite curves.
Lady Donoyle commenced to notice
this about the time of Mr.. Strayne's
visit Of anathema She rather mag
ined that the effect of Mr.. Strayne's
attack on her chaplain would be his
resignation, which would mean tho
bother of getting another, and the
present incumbent was the first who
had not bored her terribly Also, she
was getting tired of the winter, mild
though it was.
She preached the subject of going
abroad to her daughter next morning
at breakfast
What do you say to our becoming
tourists for couple of months, Kit
ty? You look as If you needed a
change, and I feel as If I do"
Anything you like, mamma" an
swered Kitty, listlessly. AT least,
anything so long as it isn't Switzer-
land
what do you take me for, Kitty?
Have been such a bad mother, that
you insinuate that would take you
to country which is entirely govern
ed by headwaiters, with the money
wrung from the overworked scenery
and circular tourists? No. l had
thought of Morocco. 1t has not yet
been much vulgarised by the picture
post card.
Mother" asked Lady Kitty, sud
denly, apropos of nothing, and calling
her by name she had not hitherto
used, "can a girl love two men at
the same timer
Her mother gave her swift glance.
but, instead of replying, looked
straight in front of her crumbling up
a bit of bread thoughtfully. At last
she answered very slowly:
"Only this I know, Kitty; that
through the life of nearly every WON
an has passed some man whom she
could have loved-better than the
man she does love-
CHAPTLR XIII
Women like the Cobra hold men
faithful to them because they do not
demand fidelity. The creation of vice
was more fascinating to Vandraken's
mistress than her personal interest
in it, AS some women's attitude to
love consists in loving it more than
their lovers. so was the Cobras atti-
tude towards evil. 1t had been no
trouble to her to extract from Van
draken the secret of his ability to lead
the life he was living without showing
any trace.
When Vandraken, in the transports
of their first intimacy, had sworn
constancy, she only laughed at him.
$50 long as you worship my GODS"
she insisted, 81 care not who is in
the temple No! But I tell you what
to me is infidelity; when you forsake
me and my kind for la femme mere
what you call the good woman Then
1 become jealous, and when l become
jealous Vandraken did not happen
to see her eyes as she said it, or he
would have shuddered. Instead, he
laughed, and she repeated, dreamily:
Eyes, you will see something when
become jealous
They have lived in Paris for going
on two years, with occasional visits 70
other European capitals. The resent
ment in America against Vandraken
still smouldered, blazing up spasmod-