Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-09

axe me long to get rld OF my puu-
ding soul. The man who won't go near
another man because he is too near
a precipice may save himself alive,
but there will be nights when he 9TH
or mans shrek will ring in his ears.
If my life had left any mark on me,
could understand. If l looked like that
parson chap, Dare"
"You do?" The words were wrung
out of the girl in a whisper. "Oh, /
don't understand it," she walled.
"Of course, your face can't have real
ly changed, but my idea of it has
changed" she added, as the young
man rushed, agitatedly to the nearest
mirror.
How absurd" he laughed in a re-
lieved voice. "It is some delusion,
some dream it will pass" He tried
to take her hands but she shrunk
away from his touch.
''The delusion is there" she insist
ed. Perhaps, as o say, 1t will
pass. You must go away can't
break our engagement now. l can see
it would be cowardly in every way.
l will try to conquer this delusion.
You must help me by encouraging
what you call your budding SOUL" she
added, with a wan smile. 81 suppose
that this power to idealize, which
women have, to think of man as per-
feet, sometimes forces them to see
the DETACHMENT of perfection. It is all
very hard on both of us. No doubt. a
doctor would say I am hysterical.
You can think that way if you like,
Standish; but till l get over it, keep
away from me. Meanwhile, our en-
gagement is still a secret, and On trial
for it's life
She left the room without looking
back at the man, who could still feel
the gaze of her eyes which are not
eyes, piercing the borrowed barriers
of the flesh, and began to realize that
all Won Tarsenheim's powers might
not avail against a woman's intui-
ton.
Vandraken almost felt grateful to
MI. Bulpitt during the next few
weeks, the excitement Of the finan-
cial wal which he waged with that
gentleman so completely took his
mind off the suspense and the feeling
of catastrophe suspended like a cloud
over his head.
The sensational exploit Of Dash
more and Vandraken in Morocco
smothed the way for the former when
he started to enlist a syndicate of
gilded youths in New York to oppose
the plans of the Industrial Corpora
ton Presidents. He showed them that
the security of their own luxurious
lives was threatened by the Unsuitable
money hunger of the financial giants,
''and ever if it was not" he argued,
sit will be no end of fun to have a
go at the old boys" So during a few
weeks, groups of amateur financiers
might have been observed trying to
look very wise as they whispered to-
gether in the clubs.
V%andraken had no trouble in get.
ting all the financial assistance he
wanted in London, and his inherited
business instincts responded to the
sudden call on them in the wonderful
way which inherited instincts do. He
bought options, and he bought stock
at first very secretly, rut when he
had taken so much of the latter of
the market that he vas confident thai
the bear was in the trap, he bought
sensationally, and filled the papers
with the true story of the fall in Metal
securities. "The thing which COULDN'T
have occurred" the stock which. was
too big to be cornered, was corner
ed, and V~andraken showed no mercy
to the, enemy; but with the silly
! sheep who had got mixed up in the
battle he settled on terms which
stamped him as a financial philanthro
pist.
Interviewed by a great paper or
- WI, OF la p,nont ~ do with hic urno1th
he reiterated to Mr.. Bulpitt: 81 NEAR
to return to America and buy it bacl
for the American people"
The million dollars which Dash
more accepted as his share of the
:. spoils removed all obstacles to his
marriage with Miss Sidcombe; though
what a happy-go-lucky chap like
Dashmore could see in the severe
beauty of that young lady was a mat
ter of silent wonder to Vandraken, as
most marriages are to everyone bu
the two who understand, and to Wis
Old Nature, who knows that the
l average must be struck if the type |:
, to endure.
| Lady Kitty and her mother were ii
Paris, where Lady Donoyle had taker
her daughter to do some shopping
confident in her ma~terialistic wis
I dom that a really good %troussea,
! could put the wierdest fancies t
Cieht; and it seemed as though events
, would prove her to be right, for a
! soon as Lady Kitty was removed
| from contact with the two men who's
combined personalities exercised
such a curious influence on her, sh
9 began to think that her ideas mus
? really have been the result of som
I passing hysteria. To her mother
e great delight, she entered into the de
2 tails of the trousseau with real enjoy
! ment, though she still warned he
mother that she might never wear i
and. her letters to her iance were de
! cidedly guarded.
u Il will know when l see him agar
/ after this separation" she would tel
/ her mother. IF it was only some pas
v sing fancy, the result of Mr.. Dare
sermon, as you suggest, it won't r.
9 turn. How funny - not KNOWN
whether you love or can't bear
man. Also, how tragic"
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