The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-26

rising, aud Offering her hand which
- How are you. Jem7''
Jemima, ''Takc seat. We've had fne
weather lately, If it was alweys iike
this, plotting a cruiser would b5 abont
as easy as leading an old cow 20 water
with halter around her neck -
''It ain t always fine weathe.', ra.
piled Dick, seating himself and TAX
ing up. the fashion magazine 81 see
these short wasted gowns are coming in
fashion. It's mighty queer how the
women wear the same fashions all over
the, world and get them so quick, too. y
Have You got the, printed chart Of
: ours Yesterday, It's Just as well FOR
you to learn it. | know it backward
already. said Jemima briskly.
No replied Mcleod 'sI don ~
like the way these feathers hang down
behind on the women's hats Now.
when .yoq3 get your wedding hat l hope
IT. fLn Wl'I H., be something sticking up in
Mcleod pointed to n picture of bot
which Was ornamented with wreaths of
roses AMI large and aggressive rib
bon bow.
II iko feathers Just as we'll as i
ever din, Dick replied Jemima, "but
You dJn't know how convenient that
sweater and the divided skirt and the
t6lck woollen stockings are. It's a
| pleasant change, YOU know, from long
skirts and shirt waists. But then. il e
nice TO get back into long skirts and
shirt waists again. Jemima said. Dick
lald the magazine down.
When are you going TO give up
that license. ,Jemima?"
Never, Richard,'' answered Jemi-
| IY,,o l,,,l,. a.
.'Well, them said Mcleod. ~the
only thing is to lay the facts about
your taking the cruiser up before You
had the license before the pilot board
and get you suspended.
81 think replied Jcmima, Hyou
may get me fined, but I don't believe
you can get me suspended. I had
passed AL examination, and my pa
pers, they said, were better than Dad 's.
and his are the best going, you know y
Mcleod turned perplexed face to.
ward the window. where the bright sea
Glinted IN tho morning light
Let me see.' mused Jemima. "rt
would take you month to get to
Kobe and make tho charges. and it
will take another month to investigate
them, and by the time the thing is
settled I will be Mrs. Mcleod and you
VIII have to pay the fne.'
| This was n new aspect of the case
which had not occurred TO Mcleod He
was Scotchman and did not like TO
pay out good money for nothing. but
he meant TO stick to his word.
I fDo You Know continued Jemima,
rising and turning over the leaves of
the magazine and pointing to couple
OF illustrations of large and impos-
ing bridal party. "there was big in
ternational wedding last week in Shang-
hal between a Scotchman and an Amer
lean girl, with lashings of money on
both sides. 1t read mighty pretty, but
some way I have my doubts about these
international marriages. The duchesses
and countesses don't appear to get on
so well with the dukes and carls.''
''but in this case there is neither rank
nor money, my dear; only true love. !"
Jemima had been standing up with
| fire In her eye. but there was some.
thing in the way Mcleod said, "my
dear, - that quenched her glare.
''You see, Jemima:" said Mcleod,
rising, too. "I'd be the laughing stock
plotting. They'd find it out Mt all the
treaty ports. You don't suppose Cap.
tain Fortescue is going to keep it all
to himself when he's dining with a
couple Of admirals and The stories 90
ing around. I I'm afraid I'll be laughed
out Of the service anyhow, as it
is
| Women are cunning creatures, and
when driven into Il corner will often
show a surprising degree of ingenuity,
far greater than one would expect from
their supply of gray matter. So it was
| with Jemima.
'fI'n tell You what. Dick, she said,
softly, laying her head on his shoulder,
"II keep the Incense, but I won It do
any more plotting. Will that suit you?"
eyes replied Dick, giving her
loud and resounding smack III the midst
of the dimple which was showing as
Jemima smiled and there were other
smacks, but it's no good telling about
] that