Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-06-16

nlRd you or some duTer who does that
sort of thing"
Don't worry" laughed Kitty. "You
are not bit like HIM. Indeed, the
first time l met you. should have
said you were opposites; but today
something in your personality reminds
me OF his. particularly when I was
looking at your hand
The man and the girl mad been too
engrossed in palmistry to notice Lady
Donolye standing by the door. She
looked at them beamingly for mo-
ment, and locked her hands together,
leaving an opening between the
thumbs; then she threw a brilliant
smile to Lord Ancestor, who was COM
Ing along behind-she had picked him
up in the Park--and they both passed
the door on the way to the drawing.
room. Once in the room, they looked
at one another, Lady Donolye trium-
| phantly: Lord Ancestor shrugged his
shoulders and looked depressed. Lady
Donolye smiled down on her locked
hands, and held them out to the man.
RIVE she said softly, put your
finger into the crows nest.
Half an hour afterwards the two
men left the house together They
walked in silence for a while, Lord
Ancestor cherishing an .'Itold-you-so"
expression
At last Vandraken said abruptly:
"You were right, and I'm for Paris.
| I'm not susceptible-hang it all, I'm
not susceptible, but if | had stayed
much longer alone with that girl },
should have asked her to marry me-.
| And you didn't feel worthy said
Lord Ancestor, hopefully. Muddy
current mingling with clear stream
that sort of thing, Ell? l know the
feeling" After all, he reflected. the
| man has some conscience left, in spite
of Won Tarsenheim.
But Vandraken only looked per-
picked. Didn't feel worthy! Nothing
of the kind! But I've got sense enough
left not to be done out of my 'hurrah
time I've mapped out my life, and
I'm not going to change the program
me-"
Silence fell again between the two
men, till Vandraken went on, abrupt
ly: "That girl dosen't play the game.
She can't play with fire, because she
IS fire. | never felt the same with
any other woman, Ancestor felt as
monks feel about the Madonna. What
did you bring her into my life for?
after all the trouble and expense I'VE
taken to see that my high old times
throw no shadows! Suppose her face
comes between me and my pleasures.
what's the good of Abdul Won larsen
helm and his conscience extractor?"
They were held up by block of car
riages near florists shop in Pic
cadilly.
"Ah, my dear fellow" replied An
you about the brotherhood of the I'M
der-world. If that is the order you
belong to, celibacy is one of it's condi-
tons. The double life is a miserable
life-almost as bad as the simple life.
Pick your world, and live in it; but II
you can get Won Tarsenheim to hypno-
tise you again, and put you where you
were before, for Gods sake do it!
Marry Lady Kitty Poher, and use your
money and your brains to restore SOC
iety to it's center OF gravity
The young man shook his head and
turned away, as. two thousand years
ago, another young man, who also had
great riches, turned away sorrow
fully from the gate of heaven.
I'm five years, Ancester-no, in
three years. Give me three years Of
it. What's three years? But I mustn't
see Lady Kitty any more-and yet, no
one else shall marry her-do you
hear?"
I'm afraid you will find that rather
hard to arrange, won't you?"
Hard! Not in the least. Money can
do anything, If you only know how to
use it. But l mustn't see her any
more. I must not even think of her
any more. Paris-that is what will
put this nonsense out Of my head; and
If there is anything in that talk you
put up about being my shadow, you
Will come with me. When we get
tired of Paris, we'll work our way east
by way of Vienna, Buda-Pesth, and
Constantinople I'll take out this
sentimental susceptibility that's crop
ping up in me and drown it, like a
yellow pup" he ended, almost hys-
terically Vandraken was an excitable
youth.
How white those lilies are!" said
Lord Ancestor, calmly, nodding to-
wards the florists window. "They
have some wonderful way Of keeping
unStdlueQ III dll me CRIME OF LOnQOQ.
Have they also an Abdul Won Tar
senheim?'
"They are just the thing to send to
Lady Kitty. Wait minute, will your"
Vandraken hurried into the shop.
Make all those lilies into bunch"
he ordered, land send them to this
address" He wrote down Lady Kitty's
address. His eye was caught by
some crimson roses of great size. He
took one in his hand and smelt its
exotic perfume. "Put this rose in the
heart Of that bunch Of lilies," he order
ed. ooh. yes, and call hanson. Let
one Of your people take them immed-
lately"
He was about to leave the shop
when an idea occurred to him. RE
peat that order every day till further
orders. You can easily keep informed
of Lady Donolye's address. Send your
bills In to my London secretary, at the
Ritz"
Lucky invisible soap Is cheap" OBJ
served Lord Ancestor, as they walked