Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-02-04
ELIZABETH IN AN UNDERToNE WHICH
AROUSED THAT YOUNG PERSONS
UNBOUNDED MIRTH.

evening; we are going to have some
Christmas music at the church, said
Thankful, observant of her brothers.
A SUDDEN, eager, joyful flash in Stan
Iey's eyes; a bright, happy look
Of anticipation in Scots.
"I wonder if they will be rivals"
thought the mother, her heart sinking as
she noted the looks of them and handed
Dudley the cake-basket.
"Stanley loves her and Scott will, "
thought Thankful.
She came; Scott was deeply smitten and
more infamed by her placid Indifference
to his efforts to enslave than he would
have been by the most open coquetry.
She sang with Thankful and Scott,
and decided that he was much handsomer
than Stanley.
"Stanley is more virile and manly
she thought to herself.
Stanley builded better than he knew
when he sat by the fire and looked at
linen picture books with his baby; her
great blue eyes were cherubic as she
looked up in her fathers face and tried
to say her alphabet.
&C is for cat and for cup" said
Stanley, faithfully going over the fifth
time the gorgeous but ill-treated letters
of the linen book.
elbow is the Gordon case coming on
StanleyR' said his father, lighting hi
big meerschaum pipe and sitting down BY
him.
"Mrs. Gordon gets decree of absolut,
divorce because Gordon must serve a tern
of years for forgery" There was a sud
den discord in the music; Scott noticed
a sudden contraction of Mrs. Soule' s lips
as Stanley's words came to them dis
tinctly, then she smiled kindly at Scott
~ got on the wrong key-a stupic
~blunder," she said.
"The skeleton ratified a little" sal,
Thankful to herself. Stanley arose an,
took his baby upstairs.
"There's an idiosyncrasy!" sal
Scott. "What do you think, Mrs. Soult
Of a man in the front rank of his profes
sion who will put a baby to bed7"
81 think it is sweet and lovely" sh
replied, her eyes shining.
"Humph!" grunted Scott. "May
see you home, Mrs. Soule2"
"Thank you; Mr.. Redfeld will d
that"
"Dad has his slippers on"
"Oh no, not your father"
"There are two others, Tan and bud
if it's bud, I'll crowd him out; Ia
will hardly stand that, 1 am afraid
which is it,"
"Tan,' she said shyly, and was ful
ious that she could not say ''Tan" a
boldly as "Dudley."
"Why wouldn't he stand it7' she ash
ed quickly, to say something.
"Well, you see, he is bigger than I an
and I have a vivid remembrance of ceI
tain fraternal arguments in the pas
Tan is quiet, but not to be trifled with.
"No, I should think not,' she sal
glancing at Stanley as he came in til
aoorway-tall, handsome, and distinguish
cd.
"What q handsome moustache vol
brother hasl quite the handsomest I ev,
saw
Scot flashed a sharp look in her ey,
and she blushed painfully.
eyes; but a man must be old to hay
a heavy one; they will not, as q rul
grow heavily on young men," said Il
son of Mars, earnestly.
she 10 laot much older than you,
he7',
"Checkl said Dudley, who was pla
ing a duel to the death ut chess wi
Elizabeth.
Aileen put on her shawl, tenderly {
sisted by Scott.
Stanley stood waiting for her, MAXI
no movement whatever. Then she sa
good night.
"'The unconsolable wilder o. Deac