Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-23
Copyright, 1908, by Horace Ennesley Vachell


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Don't be idiotic! John is certainly
behaving we'll, with a delicacy which
is quite astounding. Apart from the
delight Of having the darling with me,
her presence will make all the differ
ence. There is no %chaperon like a
child. The victory is half won"
What victory?"
my dear old boy, how stupid you
are this morning! My victory, our
victory, over a horrid, unkind world!
Have you read the papers?"
mo"
81 have. Then let me down rather
easy She smiled complacently. 81
owe that entirely to you, Guy, and
I'm going to be so grateful in six
months time. You'll see. Meanwhile
the sooner you start for Newfoundland
the better"
ITO Newfoundland"
Didn't you say Newfoundland?
Oh! | said so. 1t makes NO difference.
You must clear out"
You said you were going aboard?'
i've changed my mind. l have the
fiat. And I shall teach Poppet her les
sors, and be seen everywhere with
her"
"In half mourning.
mo flowers, except violets. ST.
Pauls Knightsbridge, on Sunday
morning, the Albert Hall, with Pop
pet, in the afternoon. may do a lit
tie Summing"
What a charming comedy"
"As to that, there will, Of course,
be no leading a My poor Guy,
how terribly | shall miss you! And
how you will miss me! But you will
kill millions of caribou"
'It's too late to shoot caribour. |
thought of staying here, and locking
the front door. l might hang a yard
or two Of Grape on it"
Seriously, you must go away"
81 shall do so, If you decide to stay
in town"
Where will you go?"
envy fancy turns to Jericho"
When she had gone. Guy opened
the window. He wanted air, and he
wanted to get rid of the faint per-
fume she had left behind her; a scent
whose name he had forgotten. Once
he had told her that this particular
scent, SO elusively, subtly fragrant,
was the sweetest odour on earth for
him. She had replied. with a smile
which robbed the words of any faint
Of ~vulgarity, that the scent was the
costliest in the world. The Empress
or Russia used it, and Sarah Bern
hardt. He rang the bell for Prixton.
"Pack my kit-bag. A couple OF
rough suits and n~ecessaries.
shan't want you. Whistle up a han
som in half an hour"
Where shall l label the bag, sir?'
%"Jericho."
Pixton packed the kit-bag, while
Guy routed out an atlas. After all
Jericho was rather remote. He
glanced indifferently at the map
Should he travel north or south, east
or west? Where could he find a nice
quite spot?
Afterwards, he remembered what 8
trife guided his decision. He was
seriously thinking Of taking a pencil
shutting his eyes, and making a DAT
at the map, when he found his glance
riveted upon a beautiful p~roof-engrav
ing of the Iron Duke. Wellington
: Waterloo! Of course he would drive
to Waterloo. The ticket-clerk was
: sure to be a knowledgable person.
!, The ticket-clerk hot only aroused eX
) pectation, but satisfied it. A quite
spot? Certainly. There was no quiet
er spot in November than the New
Forest. Guy had never seen the New
Forest. He knew nobody who LIVED
t there. The adjective New alluret
3 him, because he wanted something oil
that was new to him. And here 20,
t had 1t. ninety thousand acres Of 1t, al
out Of doors: and Incompatible reser
y walton.
Westward Ho! to Lyndhurst Roa'
r Station.
Once in the train, however. a re
action took place. To many OF us traV
ell Is an exhilaration. To be born
e swiftly through pleasant places. tn
woods, the fields, the hills and wales Q
such a prosperous country as Enc
land; to see, panoramically, the re
suits of a thousand years of labour an
civilisation; to feel that we are par
owners OF this goodly heritage; tha
we are indeed sons of the soil, is
g stimulant indeed to the inaginativ
If mind, particularly when 1t is youns
Today, Guy felt WORKOUT. He tried t
It to think of something, anything, col
crete or abstract, that would thri
b. his pulses. and failed. He knew ths
certain drugs might do 1t, Mont
1t Cristo took hasheesh. Gould one wal
into a one-piece drugstore and as