The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-05-14
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"A PLAN OF
CAMPAIGN

seated before siiver-littered dressing
| table doing her hair. Whenever her
emotions overpower her she trncon-
sciOusiy brushes harder. slowing down
| IN the more meditative moments.
/ These are her thoughts, %"
| cit is simply atrocious and unforeiV-
able, I've considered the subject very
carefully, very carefully indeed, from
| all sides, because | believe in always
being Just, even when you are the in
tured person. Why, I've considered Ii
! fully Is minutes and I believe my
head aches from the intensity with
4 which I've devoted myself to II, and
headaches make wrinkles and Tn not
going to be such a goose As TO start
wrinkles In my face becatse Of man
like Winchester Henderson. Not /,
| I'm not going to give him the sat
| fsfaction of knowing that anything he
| could do would affect me In the least,
! That's the trouble-hbw 10 show
! proper resentment that will be notice
4 able even to a stupid person like him
self without giving him ground TO nat
| ter himself that he has Disturbed me
Men are so frightfully conceited
| They think all they have to do is look
at girl and she is simply overcome
! with gratitude at being noticed. And
| Winchester Is as bad as the rest. even
II he does cover up with that air OF
| retiring modesty. IT really is decsfit4
full when you come TO think about II
| IF he thinks for one minute that
| I'm going to stand his forgetting an
| engagement with me he lis very much
mistaken, What If the head of his
firm did come to town and keep him
and what If his sister did telephone
that the baby had the measles and her
husband was away and she was scared
to death? Little things like that
shouldn't entirely upset his mental
processes wonder that he dared put
such feeble excuses on paper
Il suppose. Ire faHcies that when he
calls to night, as he says he VIII, ri /
receive him as sweetly as usual Well +
I'll fool him!
ut won't do, however, 10 so in with +
tragedy queen air ! think on the /
whole I'll be downstairs when he /
comes, and reading A person can +" I
almost insultingly rude and absent
minded looking up from a book with +
an instants farawaV stare as though (
she couldn't quite place the caller who (
had just entered Her subsequent (
elaborate sweetness doesn't remove f
the shock ne has OF feeling there was
even all instant's time when she could /
forget HIM But then Ia have TO co' I
tinue being sweet and that wouldn't f
DC! i7'"
"It might be better Ia come down /
stairs with my chin not M I'm the mir, /
hut perfectly level greet him WIN
elaborate ppliteness and keep Tie con
versation on the moot perfunc'ory SO I
cfety plane just ~ though Ne vas
Some one didn't In the least care
about. but was going to he cohrteois
70 II died for II. And be so nice r.
him that he wouldn't have a single
thing to get offended AT and yet keep
a regular stone wall between MS! II
would take clever handling, but u
could manage that Kind OF situation
very nicely There's nothing that ~iH
30 battle and infur'iate man as mat
ION the whole. that's too much OF
fort 10 waste on Winchester. II doerut
matter suf,ciently to cause me 10 ex, I
ert myself as much as that J might
act lust plain bored, reply absent
mindadly and when he tried 70 repeat
his excuses say carelessy. almost as
though ] were amused at hfs thinking
ANYTHING he did affected me, thai
didn't matter In the least, that other
things which were more important
had quite swept 1t from my mind.
az could say. oh. did we have an EN-.
gagement that nightT and then laugh .
kind OF helplessly and murmur some
thing about how shockingiy ! forget .
things. That would beat into his brain !
the novel Idea that maybe he wasn't
so important after all!
'Td Just like to stir him up bit
and make him humble and apologeuc.
7 suppose he's too devopred by conceit
to have anything like that affect him. /
though. He knows there are plenty
more girls on earth besides me- silly /
ones. too. who would be only too glad
10 have him come 10 see them.
You really can't blame the men
when girls are 90 foolish. Annette
Billings, now would simply break her
neck II she Thought there was
chance 10 get Winchester away fron'
me and goodness knows when s'fi
like that starts in IL is all up SO lev
as any other girl IL concerned Wen
are such idiots that way-they always
run sfter a girl who natters and
eaioIes them and takes such an in'ei
ast IN them and their careers ouch'
Nv, how pulled my hair /
Il expect the real clever, subtle
nerson woala let even her desire Ter
revenge go II she wanted to outwit f
rival Who was rying IN wait. 1t would
no NV cue to receive Winchester as
usa,al listen sweetly. and forgive with
generous nfagnanimity, thus putting
him IN my debt He'd be entranced
w,th INV lovely nature. because nc