Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-22

Vienna IN his sudden-deafh.cart for
"a hours; then he'll 60 south, he says.
He ran me UP to the hotel and
dropped me. dare say you heard
the toots. l thought saw Lady Maud
looking out Of the window Of your
room as got out"
YES" Margaret said. but how do
you know that is my Window"
I'm the first place, I've counted the
windows. I felt sort of interest in
knowing which was yours And then.
l often see your maid opening the
shutters In the morning"
"Oh!" Margaret smiled. Ibid you
notice anything unusual about Lady
Maud when you saw herr" she asked.
for she knew that he had good eyes.
"Since you mention It, thought she
looked as If she didn't feel quite up to
the mark-pale. thought she was"
eyes," Margaret said. She felt
Ill for a moment. and 1 thought she
was going to faint. But it passed al.
most directly. and she insisted on 20
ing for walk"
"oh," mused Mr.. Van Torp, "is that
so? Well, dare say it was the best
thing she could do. was telling you
about Kralinsky. He's not Levi Long.
legs after all, and I'm not sure he was
ever in the vest
II thought it sounded unlikely"
Margaret said.
Il asked him. Just like that in .
friendly way. and he thought mo-
nent and made an effort to recollect,
and then he seemed quite pleased to
remainder that I'd been Fanny and
he'd been Levi Longlegs, and that he
used to whistle things out of 'Parsifal'
by the FIRE OF an evening""
WeH-but in that case Marga-
ret stopped with an inQuiring look.
Just so" continued Van Torp, nod
ding. did you ever attend trial
and hear a witness being cross-ex-
anined by lawyer who wants him to
remember something, and he wants to
remember it himself, but can't be-
cause he never heard of it before in
has life? It's quite funny. The law
yer makes steps for him and puts his
feet into them SO that he gets along
nicely. unless the Judge happens to
wake up and kick. and then the little
game stops right there, and somebody
laughs. Well, my talk with Krahnsky
was like thai, only there was no
Judge, 80 he went away happy; and
were old friends now, and punched
COWS on the same ranch, and he's
coming on my yacht. only wonder
Why he was so anxious to remember
al that. and why he thought it would
be kind OF friendly If / called him
Levi Longiegs again. and he called
me Fanny Cook. wonderi He says
he's still very fond Of tParsifal,' and
came on purpose to hear it, but that
he's completely forgotten how to whis-
tie. That's funny, too. just thought
I'd tell you. because IL you come on
my yacht and he comes, too, you're
liable to see quite a good deal of one
another"
Did you tell him that Mrs. Rush
more and I would Gomez Margaret
asked. And Lady Maud?"
Why, no. You've not promised yet,
NNS AAoAO IadA you ulu laSL O1Slt
when we talked about 1t. so how
could I? forgot to mention Lady
Maud to him, or else I thought I
Wouldn't forget which. It doesn't
matter"
NO" Margaret smiled. "Not lit
tie bit!"
you seem amused" observed Mr.
Van Torp.
"By your way of putting it and
your pretending to forget such a
thing"
ut wasn't quite true that I forgot.
but wanted to, so didn't say any
thing about her. That's why l put it
In that way. don't choose to leave
you any doubt about what 1 say. or
mean, even in the smallest things
The moment you feel the least doubt
about the perfect accuracy of any
thing tell you, even if it's not at all
a downright lie or anything resem.
bling one. you won't trust me at all,
IN anything. Because, If you trust
me. you'll end by liking me, and IL