Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-21

voice. Excuse me, but don't try to
tip the waiter. It's against the rules;
it amt fair on us; and If the walters
copied he gets the sack"
He nodded cheerily, and hustled
off.
Guy smoked to the end a long cigar
before he moved. The great room
emptied quickly. The diners received
checks from the walters, and paid
their bills to a young woman in a box
near the main entrance. Some of the
regular customers exchanged a smile
and a word with her-there was not
time for more; then they passed or
and out, leaving her cooped up, IN
able to stretch her limbs, even-a sort
of Mademoiselle Balue in black al
paca, doomed to remain for yer in a
cage like this, or another just like it.
Nevertheless, she had a c%ontented
face; and If she could fly from her
cage a thousand other young women
would tumble over each other in their
anxiety to take her place.
Root, hog, or-die!"
The positive injunction echoed in
his ears. He began to twist the
phrase, to analyze it.. For instance,
did it apply to hogs only? Was he a
hog? Had Gree changed him into
the unclean beast? He was not on
scious of change. At any rate, he had
not been conscious of change till this
afternoon, when the ~confounded Way
farer passed him by with a curt nod,
when the swashbuckling Lancer &C
claimed him as a pal"
He tried to look at himself with q
sense of detachment hitherto up-
a~chievab1e. If this bagman saw him
as hog, If half England perceived him
on "all fours," he still believed him
self to be standing upright, without
porcine instincts or tastes-a man.
1t is true that when he attempted to
consider his relations with Angela
Tempest he became logged. Once be-
fore, at the beginning of the trial, he
had tried to grope his way into q
clearer atmosphere; but the fog had
thickened till 1t assumed a pea-soup
consistency. Then he had stood still,
doing nothing and saying nothing.
Now that sentence had been passed,
a clearer vision might be vouchsafed
him.
Very slowly he worked his way
back to the beginnings of manhood, to
his last term at Elton.
One of Fortunes favorites, success
at school had come to him swiftly,
with both hands. He had doomed
large in the playing fields as a mem
Der Of the cricket eleven, in "Pop" as
its most distinguished member, in the
rachet-courts as keeper, in the schools
as a fair scholar. At Oxford, in the
House" his career had not been
quite so blameless. Ultimately he
was sent down (for a venial %offence)
and had not returned to take his de
gree. Instead, the shooting of the
largest red deer in the Altai noun,
tains had engrossed his attention and
energies, whetting to razor-edge 9
hereditary keenness and aptitude fol-
sport. After that followed an expedi
ton into the Canadian sub-arctic for
ests in search of musk OK. After
that, again, expeditions to Somali
land, Thibet and Manchuria, without
prejudice to the slaughter of fish, ant
flesh and fowl in the United King
dom.
Within a decade he achieved fame
as a hunter of big and small game. vi
to this point in his career it is safe
j. to affirm that he was perfectly salts
fed with himself which contrast 81
far had kept clean and sane. For 81,
months each year he was up to hi
knees in clover, the rest of the tim'
he endured with extraordinary goo.
temper hardsnips which might hay'
tried Job.
t During these wander-years he hat
passed almost out of sight of Cynthi'
! Charters. For him she remained, q
a distance, the best woman in tn
world, the n and only. He used t
begin his letters to her: My dea
! Halo" But he spent very little tim
$ at Saffron Charters, and most of tina
on the stubbles or in the coverts
: Without a word between them, it wa
understood that Cynthia was disar
pointed. She lived in a country wher
partridge are %regiarded. az the frs
. Importance. Briefly, it had been TOT
? jours perdrix with her. Edward
: with a ponderous attempt at a joke
. said she was "gun shy" Edward, how
! ever, with all his limitations, con
manded respect as a. excellent lane
lord. He had written a monogram
3 on East Anglican subsoils, he wa
chairman Of the Conservative associs
ton, a county councillor, and n c
S the soundest magistrates on tn
bench. In his heart of hearts he ma
have thought st. Partridge nearer an
dearer to him than st. Paul, but tha
s did not prevent his taking the Con
munion regularly upon the first SUI
" day Of every month. From that nigt
when she found Guy under the BET
Cynthia had planned for a successf,
future. All the best women bull
s castles in Spain for others to live in
s and Guy, with his good looks, his goo
S manners, and his good brains, plus
large income, was obviously destine
to occupy a palace. We knew ths
Cynthia (she was very young) ha
not begun by bending the twig in tn
n direction of duty. Perhaps this g
plains her silence afterwards. Sf
had striven to give the boy a GOO
time; and she had been so successf'
that he acquired the habit of it. Whe
lie he pursued pleasure-or what to hi
was pleasure-above the snow lin
If she blamed herself. More, she said
. much to Edward, who agreed wit
at her exa~speratingly: "You were fl