The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-09-16

You must De SICK Oh SeoluS Iue oil
the time, so shall give you rest for
a day or two Telephone whenever
you think you can bear the sight Of
me again, and I'll be with you in 35
minutes. I shall not stir from home
in this baking weather. If you think
I'm in mischief you're quite mistaken,
dear lady, for I'm up to my chin In
work."
81 envy you," Margaret said, when
he paused at last 1--WE nothing on
earth to do, and the piano here is out
of tune. But you're quite right, l
don't want to see you little bit, and
I'm not jealous, nor suspicious, nor
anything disagreeable. So there!"
How nice of you!"
I'm very NICE" Margaret answered
with laughing emphasis. Il know 1t.
What sort of work are you doing? It's
only idle curiosity, so don't tell me If
you would rather not! Have you got
a new railway in Brazil, or an over
land route to the other side of be-
yond?"
Nothing so easy! I'm brushing up
my Tartar"
brushing up what? I didn't hear"
"Tartar-the Tartar language-T-a-r
-" he began to spell the word.
Eyes, hear now," interrupted Mar
garet. But what in the world is the
use of knowing it? You must be aw-
fully hard up for something to do!"
you can be understood from Con-
stantinople to the Pacific ocean if you
can speak Tartar" Logotheti an
swered in a matter-of-fact tone.
II daresay! But you're not going
to travel from Constantinople to the
Pacific ocean"
81 might. One never can tell what
one may like to do"
"Oh, if it's because Tartar is USE
full against the bites of sharks" an
swered Margaret, quoting Alice, learn
it by all means!"
Besides, there are all sorts of peo-
pie in Paris. I'm sure there must be
some Tartars l might meet one, and
it would be amusing to be able to talk
to him.
"Nonsense! Why should you ever
meet a Tartar? How absurd you are!"
There's one with me now-close
beside me, at my elbow"
Don't be silly, or I'll ring off,
"If you don't believe me, listen!"
He said something in a language
Margaret did not understand, and an
other, voice answered him at once in
the same tongue. Margaret started
slightly and bent her brows with a
puzzled and displeased look.
"Is that your teacher?" she asked
with more interest in her tone than
she had yet betrayed.
"Yes."
81 begin to understand. Do you
mind telling me how old she is?"
Its not she,' it's young man.
don't know how old he is. I'll ask
him if you like"
Again she heard him speak a few
incomprehensible words, which were
answered very briefly in the same
tongue.
"He tells me he is TO-" Logotheti
said. \"He's good-looking young fel-
low. How is Mrs. Rushmore? l for
got to ask"
She's quite we'll, thank you. But l
should like to know"
"Will you be so very kind as to re-
member me to her, and to say that l
hope to find her at home the day after
tomorrow"
"Certainly. Come tomorrow if you
like. But please tell me how you hap
pened to pick up that young Tartar.
It sounds so interesting! He has such
q sweet voice.
There was no reply to this ques-
ton, and Margaret could not get an
other word from Logotheti. The COM
munication was apparently cut of.
She rang up the central Office and
asked for his number again, but the
young woman soon said that she could
get no answer to the call, and that
something was probably wrong with
the instrument of number one-hundred-
and-six-thirty-seven.
Margaret was not pleased, and she
was silent and absent-minded at din
ner and in the evening.
'It's the reaction after London" she
said with a smile, when Mrs. Rush.
more asked If anything was the mat
ter. II find / am more tired than
knew, now that it's all over"
Mrs. Rushmore was quite Of the
same opinion, and it was still early
when she declared that she herself
was sleepy and that Margaret had much
better go to bed and get good nights
rest
But when the prima donna was sit
ting before the glass and her maid
was brushing out her soft brown hair,
she was not at all drowsy, and though
her eyes looked steadily at their own
reflection in the mirror, she was not
aware that she saw anything.
Potts" she said suddenly, and
stopped.
"Yes, ma'am?" answered the maid
with meek interrogation, and without
checking the regular movement of the
big brush.