The bee., 1909-04-29
A PLAN OF
CAMPAIGN

In the more meditative moments
These are her thoughts.)
ut is simply atrocious and unforgiv
able! I've considered the subject very
carefully, very carefully indeed, from
all sides, because l believe in always
being just, even when you are the in
jured person. Why, I've considered II
fully IS minutes and i believe my
head aches from the intensity with
which I've devoted myself to it, and
headaches make wrinkles and I'm not
going to be such goose as to start
wrinkles in my face because of a man
like Winchester Henderson! Not |!
I'm not going to give him the sat
isfaction Of knowing that anything he
could do would affect me in the least.
That's the trouble-how to show
proper resentment that will be notice
able even to a stupid person like him
self without giving him ground to fiat
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
IL he does cover up with that air Of
retiring modesty. II really is deceit
full when you come to think about it.
'If he thinks for one minute that
I'm going to stand his forgetting an
engagement with me he is very much
mistaken What IL the head Of his
firm did come to town and keep him
and what If his sister did telephone
Tat 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. l wonder that he dared put
such feeble excuses on paper!
IT suppose he fancies that when he
calls tonight, as he says he will, III
receive him as sweetly as usual. Well,
I'll fool him!
ut won't do, however, to go In with
a tragedy queen air. I think on the
whole I'll be downstairs when he
comes, and reading. A person can be
almost insultingly rude and absent
minded looking up from book with
an instant's faraway stare as though
she couldn't quite place the caller WHO
had just entered. Her subsequent
elaborate sweetness doesn't remove
the shock he has Of feeling thefe was
even an instant's time when she could
forget him. But then I'd have to con-
tinue being sweet and that wouldn't
do! --sHA--a-. ----8sN--s-<'' -
1T might be better to come down
stairs with my chin not up in the air,
but perfectly level, greet him with
elaborate politeness and keep the con-
versation on the most perfunctory So
ciety plane just ~ though he was
some one didn't in the least care
about, but was going 70 be cougtseus
to II / died Tor It, And be 30 nice to
him that he wouldn't have single
thing to get offended at and yet keep
a regular. stone wall between usl It
would take clever handling, but !
could manage that kiAd Of situation
very nicely. There's nothing that will
So bafae and fnfuriate a man as that!
ron the whole, that's too much ef-
fort to waste on winchester. 1t doesn't
matter sufficiently TO cause nae to ex-
ert myself a. much as that / might
act Just plain bored, reply absent
mindediy and WheA he tried 70 repeat
his excuses say earelessly, almost az
though were amused at his thinking
anything he did affected me, that II
didn't matter In the least. that other
things which were more important
had quite swept it from my mind.
81 could say, oh, did we have an en-
Eagement that nightT and then laugh
kind OF helplessly and murmur some
thing about how shockingly ! forget
things. That would beat into his brain
the novel idea that maybe he wasn't
SO important after all!
It'd Just like to stir him up a bit
and make him humble and apologize
suppose he's too devoured 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 wopld be only too glad
TO have him come TO SEQ them.
''You really can't blame the men
when girls are so foolish. Annette
Billings, now would simply break her
neck If she thought there was
chance to get Winchester away from
me, and goodness knows when girl
like that starts In IT IL all up 80 far
as any other girl 10 concerned. Men
are such idiots that way-they always
run after a girl who hattsrs and
eajoles them and takes suoA N inter
es; in them and their tareersl ouehl
MY, how l pulled my hairl
Il expect the real clever, subtle
person would let even her desire for
revenge 90 II she wanted to out"it
rival who was lying in wait II would
be my cue to receive Winchester ~
usual, listen ,SVsstly, and forgive with
generous maEnanimity. thus putting
him IN my debt. He'd be entranced
with my lovely nature. because he
really crawls in that note. He did
seem 10 be dreadfully ashamed Of