The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-09-16
Points of Niew

run away"
"Yes, with that poor young Morti-
mer. l wondered how soon it Woulc
come and who it would be-"
Young scoundrel."
You wouldn't say so if you really
knew" said Lady Charlwood. She
was born to run away and do things
like that He's merely. another vic
tim, poor boy-such nice boy, too.
L was quite fond of him."
81 suppose he persuaded her. A
woman doesn't do that sort of thing
lightly"
my dear man." said Lady Charl-
wood sweetly, 81 knew Jenny Beau
champ quite well. She wasn't the sort
that needed any persuading. or
course, Beaucnamp's a brute. Every
one knows that; but l can see ex-
actly what happened. Poor young
Mortimer sympathized. She took him
literally-fell in his arms and wept,
and then he felt bOund-in honor to
go further It's thousand pities. Nice
boys like that ought to have chaper-
ones when they go among married
women"
perhaps he loves her." said Grim
wood, thoughtfully. There are al
ways certain excuses fO ra man who
really loves a woman, married or un-
married"
you're such an incorrigible ideal
ist," said Lady Charlwood. mo one
who knows Jenny Beauchamp would
doubt that she was clever enough to
make him think he loved her; but
she's dabbled at the game too long
TO convince any one but very inno-
cent boy"
Strolling home through the park,
Grimwood chanced against Jimmy Ca
rev. Mortimer's best intimate friend.
81 suppose all London's talking
about it," said Carew, morosely.
"Pretty much, | gather"
The Internal scoundreL" said Ca
rev. "You know I feel it pretty bad
Iv; I introduced him to the Beau
champs, and | never suspected any
thing until l got a wire yesterday
sent off from Verona"
eWas she unhappy at homer
"NO. Not more so, at any rate,
than any woman likes to think she is.
Of course, they all have their ups ano
downs, that's how they get interest
out of life-by fancyiEg they're un-
happy one day and the next day reVel-
ing in the reaction when they realize
that they're quite happy after all. one
of the best little women going, really,
and then that young blackguard must
have come along and talked poetry
for sympathy or platOnics.
ITS always rather difficult in these
cases." said Grimwood, "to under
stand quite what were the underlying
motives"
"It's plain enough to see what hap
pened here said Carew." A younSster
with nothing to do, ingratlates him
self with a pretty woman, who, out OF
mistaken kindness is civil to MIN.
Their he tells her he loves her, and
compares his great passion with her
husbands matter of fact afectlon-
Won know. the Bernard Shaw busl-
ness-he needs her most and SO on
and so to save him from doing any
thing desperate, she pities him ana
goes off with him."
"What does Beauchamp say
go nothing. He never talks.
Tn the club Bulstrode, OF the engl"
neers, just home from lnd'a' put
down the paper as Grimwood came H.
.It's a pretty awkward business this
about Mortimer"
"You know the Beauchamps?
"Fairly we'll. was under niin'
Won know. never noticed her
much"
GLOW does he take it?''
"Reauchamp's one of those devils
who never talk, but he's hard nit.
fancy he was wrapped up IN her;
more than he knew. may be wrong,
brt II always seems to me tnat IL
needs a clever woman to be the wife
Of a man who doesn't talk. Funny
think how women depend on CONVEX
sation. Always imagine people are
not considering them if they're not
continually explaining-well' explain
ing that they are
WAS she a MEMBER" said MISS
1saacs to Mrs. Baker-Smith in the
smokeroom of the Elysian club. ~
often saw her here, but l thought she
was only brought in, perhaps.
80. yes, but she wasn't popular
,,;a,o mon liked her"
.I suppose one ought not to env.
her" said Miss Isaacs wistfully. but
II always seems little unfair that
woman who has shown that she Is not
quite good should not only have
home and a husband, but should still
nonopolize all the men, while other
women are never noticed. There are
so few men, and those there are don't
want to marry, but l suppose half
dozen would have run away with Mrs:
Beauchamp II she'd looked at them:
"shell come to a bad end' said
Mrs, Baker-Smith, primly.
"But even bad end might be more
more interesting than this, SAID
Miss Isaacs wearily.
In a hotel at Verona Mrs. Beau