Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-08-22

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4 IN tie package when it reaches you.
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TONE BROS, Des Nsoines, Iowa,
been sold to pay the Oldest sons col
iege bills He plunged once more into
the Mayfair whirlpool, but not in the
company of the ex-Major of Lancers.
Polo distracted him.
He was settling into groove, when
Mr.. and Mrs. John Tempest returned
to their house in Grosvenor Square,
much to the satisfaction of their
tradespeople, and an enormous circle
OF friends. Lady Barnbogle told every
body that dear John had behaved with
sextraofdinary delicacy. A bishop testi-
ned solemnly concerning Angela s
aims and oblations during the six
months succeeding the decree which
was never made absolute. Poppet play
ed delightful part in the comedy, and
delivered her lines with a freshness
and spontaneity which precluded any
possible suspicion of stage manage
ment. At st. Paul's Knightsbridge on
i Sunday morning, saints and sinners
alike We're invited to behold John and
Angela. with Poppet between them,
4 clothed in white shining tissues, an
angel child as Canon Smoothbore OBJ
served to the Duchess of Wallop. And
after divine service, an edifying pa
i rade in the Park followed. The late
Worshippers, with mods and becks and
Wretched smiles. whispered to each
other that the great Gelantire had
been beguiled from the Spitz Hotel by
John, and that poor Spitz was in bed
on account of it and never likely to be
/ quite the same again.
Hugo met the three Tempests not a
hundred yards from the Achilles
/ Statue, where the fashionable crowd
happened to be thickest Poppet ex-
/ claimed in a clear voice:
There's darling Uncle Hugo"
John, purple in the face, grasped
her. Hugo lodged behind a portly dow.
ager. Angela said, without turning a
i hair: why, so it is! | suppose we
i ought to be thinking of luncheon
But Poppet was too young to be
thinking of luncheon and being accus-
4 toned to having her own way with her
tather, protested shrilly and volubly:
He promised me to come back: yes,
he did, he did. And when he came
Mummie sent me out of the room, and
I've never seen him since. Let me go,
Dad. I must give him kiss. l."
SHold your tongue" said John saw
agely
4 Poppet, who had never been spoken
to- in this tone, relapsed into fearful
silence. Hugo escaped. The spectators
smiled discreetly, inwardly smacking
their lips over nicely-seasoned bonne-
bouche of Sunday afternoon gossip.
John, looking red and thunderous,
marched back to Grosvenor Square,
carrying his umbrella as if it were a
rod wherewith to chastise impenitent
blackguards. Angela held her ivory
prayer book tighter than was neces-
sary but passing Duchess, who
bowed and smiled erased some anx-
1ous lines about her pretty forehead.
At luncheon, too, she was quite her
self, although she noticed that
John never opened his mouth except
to put food and drink into it, indeed
too much of the latter
1 The irony of fate had decreed that
only the day before the big fellow had
gone over some belated accounts, In
cluding his handbook. Even with his
notoriously slovenly business habits,
he could not fail to notice that cheaue
for $4,000 given to Angela some six
months before, had not been present
ed.Why?
4 After luncheon he went upstairs. to
the schoolroom, kissed Poppet, took
her on his knee; and told her solemn
ly that he was sorry he had spoken so
I roughly to her. When she cuddled up
TO MIN, he said in rather a thick voice:
what was that you said about Uncle
Hugo promising to come back?"
/ PoppGt, with child's tenacious
! memory in regard to anything or any
body that challengd her interest, gave
details. John listened. Then he went
back to his own den, drank two cups
j OF coffee, three glasses of old brandy,
and smoked, much too quickly, an i'm
i mense cigar.
But he did not get a chance of
/ speaking alone with Angela till late
that night, after dinner at very
! great house in which it had been
abundantly demonstrated that pretty
! sinners married to complaisant hus-
bands with eighty thousand a year are
not to be held too vigorously respon-
sible for their peccadilIoes Angela In
a white frock and wearing no jewels
had looked immaculate. Indeed, Per.
sonage had observed that it was quite
impossible to think i'll Of such a daz-
zling creature. John, it was remarked,
might have been the lady's father and
not father that discriminating
4 daughter would choose, If she were
given free hand. John certainly had
acquired the middle-aged spread and
also that mottled complexion which
indicates the abuse of strong waters.