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

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mean. Aren't you tremendously
grateful to Providence"
He paused moment, stirring up
last years leaves with his stick be-
| fore he answered her
81 suppose l ought to be grateful,
| but one sometimes wishes Providence
would begin a little further back. Now
| feel like child who has been crying
sugar plums to keep him from crying
because he has been deprived of his
dearest possession. yes" he added,
bitterly, everything comes to the man
who waits. and works while he waits
except the one thing he really wants.
| The stars throw that into the mouth OF
some other man who has neither work
ed nor waited, but only opened his
mouth and shut his eyes"
$50 some other spoilt child has the
sugar plum you wanted?" said the girl
lightly, half hoping she would not sue
coed in keeping him from speaking the
| words no woman is willing to take for
granted But you know we all
think that the other children's sugar
| plums are nicer than our own. What
child
"vandraken!" he burst out 81
wouldn't tell you if | wasn't certain
| you already know it. l wouldn't tell
4 you if my love wasn't PROSTATE at the
feet of your spirit, in such holy rever-
ence as knight Of the holy grail
might throw himself at the feet of the
Madonna. / wouldn't tell you if l
| thought you were giving that part of
yourself to the man you are going to
marry; but you won't. 1t may not be
for me, but it will never be for him"
The girl was deeply stirred, and bent
before the pentup forces which she
had liberated; but she made her wom-
ans protest:
"You oughtn't to say such things, Mr..
Dare. You take too much for granted.
Just because Mr.. Vandraken is rich
you think, like the rest of the world,
that | am marrying him for his
money"
81 think it is almost worse than
that" he whispered. 81 think"
II don't want to know what you
think" answered Lady Kitty, hastily,
getting UP from the log; "and | am
very angry with YOU
And she went away, leaving, Fabian
Dare, who knew very little about
women, under the impression that she
really was.
]. That night, when Lady Donoyle had
come to her daughters room to say
goodnight the girl almost upset her
brilliantly maintained calm by ask
ing:
'sWhat is the best way to break off
an engagement, mother?"
But she managed to answer, with
a sleepy yawn:
"It depends on the reasons, Kitty.
4 If moral, you take high moral
ground If financial, you take much
higher moral ground. Why, whose en-.
gagement were you thinking of break
ing?"
my own" Kitty tried to say it
firmly.
.Few things in this world are worth
taking seriously, my dear; but really
a girl should regard her engagement
to the richest young man in the world
as something too sacred to jest about
: I'm afraid have brought you up bad
ly"
I'm not testing" answered the girl
tensely. 81 have come to the con
clusion ought not to marry Stand
ish Vandraken."
: "You don't think he would make you
happy?"
mot in the right way, mother. 1t is
the worst in him that has appealed tc
mel did not know it till today, but
l know it now. There is something
very bad at the back of the picture
GAS I told you once before, there Is
nearly always dust and things at the
back of Enthusiastically mems pict
ures my dear. What's the good o.
looking?''
II tried not to, mother. suppose
wouldn't have minded a few cob
webs on the canvas, but there is al
entirely different picture of Standisl
, painted on the back, and it's rather I'm
canny. A little bit of me wants tt
see more of it, but thank goodness
the most Of me never wants to see i
again"
Lady Donoyle started, and looked al
most disturbed, but force the cynica
smile back to her pale blue eyes al
she answered: "You have been go
at, Kitty. Somebody has been TALKING
nonsense to you, and helping you tt
take yourself to pieces and look a
l the bits. But it won't come to any
thing. Convention and realities, ant
the good things Of life, are stronger il
! the end than moonbeams, and-sou
, sickness You have an ingrowing tenn
permanent, Kitty, and 1t is giving yo'
!, trouble; but it won't last. shall sleel
perfectly soundly. You have discover
$ ed that you are not as much in low,
e with Standish as you thought. We'll
. I have always known that, and beel
3 glad of it. You know my theory on tn
4 subject of marrying for love-marr
I for his money, and be happy
"It is too late now" replied he
9 daughter, sadly. ri would be Twin
v among the ruins Of an IDEAL l shal
I break the engagement.
= "You think you will, Kitty, but 20
won't. In the end you will follow tn
= line of least resistance, like the res
|. Of us. Goodnight" She kissed he
e daughter TRANQUILITY and left the room
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