Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-13

y bey." Priscilla warrington aumitlsu "
herself, as she whirled down Piccadilly
n In a hanson and eyed the passers-by
The sentiment may have indicated low tastes; out
it must be urged in extenuation that during two
months on the Continent, Priscilla had met many
beautiful cathedraIs and no nice men Not that the
men had been unappreciative. From Naples to
Berlin. from Budapest to Paris Respondent om-
GERS. registering students gallant citizens of many
types had invited her smiIes but she had not dared
to smile.
In our country she explained when writing 10
a home friend, lone knows that man viii stop
when one crosses ones fingers and says Kings x;
but doubt, seriously doubt whether these heav-
emily angels in comic opera Clothes understand the
rules of the game.
And SO, being wise young woman, with whole
some respect for unknown explosives as/well as
mighty curiosity concerning them, Miss Warning
ton had while travelling, restricted her smiles to
the ranks of boys walters and porters, and had
eliminated from her calculations all men who could
not be tipped The small coin of the realm, so she
found furnished an excellent line of demarcation
Now, at the end OF June, Priscilla was
established in England and was finding diH-
Guilty in keeping her smiles from becoming catho-
lie AS she looked from her cab she reflected that
there was something very satisfactory about tweeds
and bowlers, after q surfeit of uniforms and caps
These big, sturdy with the strong mouths and
the boy1sh eyes, reminded her of the dear, SAFE
comfortable men at home. They looked as though
they might know the rules of the game and abide
by them
But don't know any of the creatures" sighed
Priscilla; then frightened. Weren't the rest of
her party well under way for Windsor? Hadn't she
whole smiling June day Eli to herself? Wasn't
she wearing her smartest frock and hat in honor of
the Clarksons with whom she going to have
tea, after seeing the Abbey and St Margaret's?
'Stop at ST. Margaret's frst," she said blithey to
the cabby, he turned into Westminster; and
when he drew up before the church and she stepped
out with froufrou OF Gibbons she signed to him to
wait. Extravaganza, of course, but this was day
for extravaganza.
The slender .lgure was swallowed by the old gray
doorway. Inside of the church there shad-
owy quiet rose perfumed. A few tourists buazed
about under the eye of a dgnifed yerger. but Pris
ella did not join them. She a mercurial young
woman, prone to shifting moods; and now, all of
sudden she felt distinctly 'churchy." The word is
her own; but it describes well enough, the vague,
yearning emotionalism which prompted her to slip
into an out-of-the-way pew and drop upon her
knees WheWshe rose the tourists had vanished,
but a group Of fashionably dressed folk had
placed them, and others drifting IN 4
There's going to be service" thought Priscilla
still in soulful mood. II believe I'll stay for it."
She settled back in her seat; but gradually she
realized that the character OF the service was
scarcely devout. Everybody seemed to know every
body else. and conversation though subdued, flowed
freely. The girls brain searched and found the
answer to the riddle. weddingl A very swell
weddingi All outsiders save her, had been shooed
out OF the church, but she had been overlooked.
OF course she was an intruder; but leaving now