Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1908-12-11

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-fuI unblemished skin Of snow
He thought to himself Quite Inner.
sonally: shes real beauty. that
youngster No wonder they ask her 70
dance and nobody is horrid. Men are
likely enough 10 go quite mad about
her' as Nina predicts. Probably some
OF 'em have already-that chuckle-
headed youth who was there Tuesday
gulpiag up the tea"- And, what
was BIS name?" he asked aloud.
| Whose name| she Inquired, reused
by his voice from smiling RETROSPECT
ton.
That chucklehead-the young man
who continued to haunt you so per.
sistently when you poured tea for
Nina On Tuesday. OF course they oil
haunted you." be explained politely as
she shook her head in sign of noncom-
DrehensioD, "but there was one who
ah-gulped at his cup"
''Please-you are rather dreadful.
aren't your
"Yes. So was he. I mean the infat-
uated chinless gentleman whose facial
ensemble remotely resembled the, fea-
lures Of a pleased and placid lizard OF
the reptilian period"
ION, George Fame! That is particu-
larry disagreeable Of you, Captain Sell.
wyn, BECAUSE his wife has been very
nice to me-Rosamund Fane-and she
spoke most cordially Of YOU
(which one was she?"
"The Dresden china one. She looks
--she simply cannot look as though she
were married. It's most amusing. for
people always take her for somebody's
Youngest sister who will be out next
winter. Don't you remember seeing
her."
"No, don't. But there were dozens
coming and going every minute whom
didn't know. Still, ] behaved well.
lidn't III
pretty badly--to Kathleen Lawn.
whom you cornered SO that she
couldn't escape until her mother made
Ter 20 without any tea"
"IIere comes Mr.. Fame now with
trikingly pretty girl. How beautifully
hey are mounted" smilingly returning
5ane's salute, land she-oh, so you do
,now her, Captain Selwynf Who Is
heY
Crop raised mechanically In dazed
alute, Selwyn's light touch on the
,ridle had frightened to clutch. which ,
brought his horse up sharply.
"what Is it?" she asked. drawing
,riile in her turn and looking back
nto his white, stupefied face.
PAIN" he said, unconscious that he
poke. At the same instant the stun :,
led eyes found their focus and found
Ter beside his stirrup, leaning wide
rom her seat in sweet concern, one
flowed hand resting on the pommel OF
lis saddle.
"Are you ill?" she asked. "Shall we
lismount? II you feel dizzy, please
can against me-" !
81 am all right" he said coolly, and
g she recovered her seat he set his
l0rse In motion. His face had become
cry red now. He looked at her, then
,eyond her with all the deliberate con-
entration Of aloof indifference.
Confused, conscious that something
ad happened which she did not COM
rehend and sensitively aware of the
which, if II did not ig-
ore her, accepted her presence as OF
10 consequence, she permitted her
orse to set his own pace.
Neither self command nor self con-
rol was lacking now In Selwyn; be
imply was too self absorbed to care
that she thought-whether she thought
t all. And into his consciousness,
heavily under the rushing
eaction from shock, crowded the crude
act that Alike was no longer an APP
arition evoked in sleeplessness, In sun
{ brooding, in the solitude Of crowded
venues and swarming streets; she was
n actual presence again in bis life.