Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-03-05
dwelling place in natures such

dwelling place in natures such as
these.
And it was in this fashion that love
had come by stealth, as 1t were, into
the heart of Katherine Granger.
CHAPTER XIV.
To sit and eat dinner alone In
large dining room was beyond Kath-
crime Granger this evening. She went
up stairs resolutely determining to
work again, but she had reckoned
without Dennis.
The maid was ripe for a good long
chat She insisted, too, on bringing
up some dinner and waiting on Kath-
erine
Dennis found the girl looking very
tired and depressed But when she
pressed this point Miss Granger
promptly declared that she had never
felt better in her life.
Tell me all that you have been do
ing, Dennis" she said.
Really it was a rest for her to sit
and say nothing, rest not to vex her
brain with futile questioning for .
while
1t amused her to hear the maids
view of things in general Dennis ad-
| I'LL dllOi III d DSduIllut Couillly
| ly depended on how the servants we're
lodged and cared for in any particu-
lar house.
"This 'eres kind of paradise" she
said; down with them rich folk in
Devonshire we was that crowded we
didn't know how to turn around.
Some of them slept in huts, but I was
a bit better off than most, because
Mice L., ma ~
most of the time. What do you think
of her, miss?" Dennis asked abruptly,
don't you find her looking simply
awful? She's that shaky, | do declare,
at times can hardly get her into a
frock and for all she swears it isn't
SO; I'm certain she's got something
> worritin' her.
Dennis was silent a moment, then
she went on: 81 wouldn't say it to
! soul but you, but can't help thinking
as it's that fellow Broxbourne as is
: vexing her.
> Katherine sat with her elbow on the
table, her face Swallowed by her hand.
But isn't it rather ridiculous, Den
nis?" she asked why should Sir
. Samuel vex her.
4 "Ah! my dear" said Dennis, that's
u
I to the Lord she'd marry and settle
I down; for there's no getting away
1 from the fact that Sir Samuel's been
y buzzing about her ever so much Of
late and it does her no sort of good"
g A note of evaporation came into
$ Dennis's voice. "Just to think of all
d she's got now. all what's been done
!. for her. How she's been took out of all
q her difficulties, and stands on her own
). feet! Didn't she ought to be lively and
!: we'll? I can't make it out! Why don't
! they marry, miss?"
u ooh, / think they will now very
= shortly" Miss Granger said NOW
), run down and have your own supper,
Dennis* it is getting late"
When the maid had gone, Rather
l. inc sat in the same attitude. She was
not thinking of what Dennis had just
r told her, she was thinking of that
r. deep, tender note in Haverford's
. voice when he had been speaking OF
r Camilla How he loved her! The one
d creature who had brought to him all
n that had been lacking in his life till
It now! How many years he must have
hungered for such love- Sure now
o that it had come it would have Its rea
q value! SuTely love SucH as nls
1t could not be bore only to be wasted!
II "She Is SO dear to me-" the words
g haunted the girl, and when her mind
is jerked back and she recalled the
e earlier hours of the day, and the veri
y table anguish she had experienced
u when she had looked at Camilla's
h changed, almost worn face, her eager
y ness to stand and help him, to put al
"a end to this indecision, this dangerous
% and futile waiting, seemed to burn In
Is her veins, and quicken the beat of hsl
t. heart.