Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-06-13

oh. 1t was only silly idea I ha,
that If could see the other side o.
your face quite quickly, it would lool
difrerent from the side you turn to me
The way children try to get behind {
mirror"
Vandraken dropped his empty tea
cup with clatter Of spoon and break
Ing Dresden. ooh, l say, Lady Kitty!
I'm awfully sorry! 1t was unpardon
able clumsy! Such pretty cup tool
He began to pick up the pieces to hide
his agitation. Good heavens! he
thought, there must be some horrit
flaw in Won Tarsenheim's Invention
If people were already spotting some
wrong about his face.
1T was my fault" said Kitty g
startled you. was abominably per
sonal. / always am when like PEG
ple.''
Like people!" Vandrakens face
lighted up, and the pink in his cheeks
deepened. Does that mean you like
me. Lady Kitty?"
We'll, it's not hard to like you.
think you are quite likeable, Mr. Van
draken''
"In spite of that other side of my
face?"
ooh, no!-on account of it! You are
so delightfully."- battling. 1t was the
mystery about Bluebeard which made
him so attractive to women. l am
convinced that it was because his wife
lost interest in him after she cleared
up the mystery that he killed her"
But suppose when you get round tC
the other side, you found Bluebeard
chamber? What then?' He spoke
earnestly.
II should say to the little devil that
lived in 1t, You have been here long
enough, and we are going to house
clean. l give you a months warn
ing" and she laughed again and re
sumed her seat
II see you won't take my little devil
seriously Poor little devil!" They
both laughed, and Vandraken felt re
ieved, and picked up the wreckage OF
the china
so, you know. fee. as though we
had known one another much longer
than twice 1t is absurd, the way PEG
pie walk round and round one another
for weeks before they stop boring one
NiicciiSh anu USSlh w tctih. al w oy
feel like saying, Skip all tnat!' But
1t would make them cross. You may
smoke, If you like. This is mamma's
smoking-room."
and you? Don't you smoke, Lady
Kitty?"
Only with mother. I once overheard
man say that looked like an ad
ventures when l smoked, and l look
ed in the glass the next time, and saw
that he was right. l suppose it is the
colour of my hair"
sit isn't that" replied vandraken. as
he lighted his cigarette; 1T is because
woman often get their first impression
of woman smoking cigarette from
seeing it done on the stage, and al
ways by the adventures of the play
So when they light cigarette, they
unconsciously take on some Of hel
haracteristics-a process of menta
suggestion"
Il wonder if there, is anything il
that?" meditated Kitty. 81 remember
now that the first impression eve
had of the kind was seeing Sarah
Bernhard in Camille so perhaps
there isl
What a darling she Isl" thought the
young man, getting more infatuated
every moment.
Il am sure you are unusually i'm
questionable, Lady Kitty" The speecr
gave him an excuse for looking into
her eyes, They were full of unspent
laughter He wondered whether the
possession of such fund of gaiety and
joy would not more than compensate
him for the saturnalia he would have
to relinquish to get it
II hope by that you don't mean sus
ceptible. can't afford to be suscepti
BILE, you know, and have been very
says, and she ought to know
What wonderful woman you1
mother is! You might be sisters-JoJ
and Sorrow"
Sorrow! Do you think mamms
has such sad face?"
you can't see 1t, but you can fee
it. The more brilliantly she talks, the
more one is conscious that she Is
being crushed to produce the clever
ness. Very happy women hardly evel
strike me as being clever women"
What blow! What reflection
on my brains!" Lady kitty pretended
to be overwhelmed. You Just accused
me of being a happy woman-and
fancied was making such good i'm
pression!''
"Be comforted, Lady Kitty. You
have the cleverness of the child-s
most exquisite possession. knowledge
comes, but Wisdom lingers,' YOU
know. That's the kind of cleverness
mean"
81 have always thought that line
extraordinarily true said Lady Kitty
thoughtfully. She worked back int
the corner Of the sofa and shifted w
the smoke of Vandraken's cigarette
with enjoyment
What did you mean just now whe1
you said you couldn't afford to be
susceptible?" asked the young man
after slight pause.
II might fall in love, and that would
make marriage SO difficult. Accord
ing to mamma, mixing up love ant
marriage is as dangerous as mixing
business and sentiment II l were
very rich would marry the first maj
fell in love with; but, being poor,
must marry the first rich man wht