The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1908-09-26

time would have smiled.
1t was past midnight when the two
left the stall and started in separate
ways for their north side homes. The
master felt more secure than when be
left the home of David Gable edrlier
in the night. Elias broom said at
parting:
Il don't like your attitude toward
Mrs. c. It's not very manly TO make
val on a woman
MY good Elias" said Bansemer.
%complacently surveying himself in the
small mirror across the stall, "all men
make war on women one way or an
other"
He did not see Droom's ugly scowl
as he preceded that worthy through
the doorway.
The next morning BanSemer walked
down the Drive. 1t was a bright, crisp
day, and the snow had been swept
from the sidewalks. He felt that a
visit from Harbert during the day was
not unlikely. and he wanted to be
AANNn anu NlGdA nG0NGu IullMdN
down he met Jane Gable coming from
the home Of a friend. He V had
seen her looking so beautiful. so full
Of the Joy Of living. Her friendly,
sparkling smile sent q momentary
pang of shame into his calloused heart,
but it passed with the buoyant justih-
cation of his decision to do nothing in
the end that might mar his sons hap
plness.
She was walking to town and as
sured him that she rejoiced in his dis
tingulshed company. They discussed
the play and the supper party.
Now that I'm engaged to Graydon
I'm positively beginning to grow sick
of people," Miss Cable declared-and as
they all declare at that age and stage.
"Well, you'll 500 recover" he smiled.
Marriage is the convalescence of a love
affair, you know"
"0h, but most Of the men one meets
are so hOpelessly silly-tlresome," she
went on. Its strange too. Nearly
all Of them have gone to college-Yale
or Harvard"
: my dear Jane, they are the unfortu,
satS :1=s 81 L. 1h 9o1 eau / 1ialnv
them, All Yale and Harvard men are
r not tiresome. You should not forget
that q large sprinkling of the young
8 men you meet at the pink teas were
sent to Yale or Harvard for the sole
purpose of Incoming Yale end Harvars
r men; nothing more. Their mothers
never expected them to be anythinl
a else. The poor man sends his son Il
q be educated; the rich man usually doe
it to get the boy away from home, s.
that he won't have to look at him al
n the time. I'm happy to say that | wa
quite poor when Graydou got his diplC
" ma"
"0h, Graydon isn't at all like tn
er others. He is a manp cried Jane, he
eyes dancing.
r. 81 don't mean to say that all ric
a. mems oil are failures. Some of thel
-e are really worth while. Give cred
& unlimited to the rich mans son WI
is goes to college and succeeds in life
spite Of his environment. l must n,
IN forget that Graydon's chief ambitic
n ut one time was to hunt Indians"
"He couldn't have got that from u
ID MOTHER said she accusingly. Bans
= mer looked at her sharply. He ha
n. half expected on meeting her to o.
10 serve the first sign that the Gable far
lily had discussed him well, but n,
er favorably. Her very brightness col
WINGED him that she at least had nj
been taken into the consultation.
81 am afraid 1t came from his horr
y father. But Graydon is a good DO
He couldn't long follow the impuls,
10 of bis father. l dare say he could
a sinner if he tried, too. hate an IL
beetle. An imbecile, to my mind. is Il
in fellow without the capacity TO err /
At %tentionally. God takes care of Il
fellow who errs constantly. Give I
'I the fellow who is bright enough
II do the bad things which might adm
v. him to purgatory in good standin
IN and III trust him to do the goi
things that will let him into heave
pd | often wonder where these chaps
If. after they die-I mean the Yale al
On Harvard chaps who bore you. 1t TAX
so a clever chap to have any standil
Id at all in purgatory. Where do tn.
r. go, Jane? You are wise for your yea
as and sex. There surely must be
u. place for the plain asses"
he "0h," said she, II suppose they ha'
n. a separate heaven, just as the do
have.'
K. mo doubt you're right" he agree
M smiling, but think how bright t
dogs are, as a rule"
- Bobby Rigby says a dog is wor
more than his master. People W
ev steal a dog, he says"
bo II saw him at your house last nigl
Did you meet Mr.. HarbertT
i" "No. Mother said he came in wi
~ Bobby"
mr. "How is Mrs. Gable this mornln
20. think she-er-complained Of a 81
i headache last night"
at "She has such a frlghtful headac
=, that she couldn't get up this morning
Indeed win you carry my respec
ar. and sympathy to herY'