The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1909-10-21

CHATTER /.

Across the brilliant ~parquette. from
the bishops box. Miss Winstanley
openly beekOned me with her little
white blackdotted fan. Henrietta
Winstaniey IS the bishops sister. a.
lady more like her own fan than any
thing I can think Of at the moment
TO compare her with: a small hutter-
Ing thing, constantly IN motion. Great
ing a pleasant stir wherever she hap
pens TO be, smelling deliciously Of
orris root or lavender. her black eyes
sparkling like the ~iridescents on the
fan
There were beside her IN the box
the bishop. Barbara Hemingway. her
brother Dan-the most popular young
rascal IN town-Ankony. acting presi
dent Of the Central Savings Company.
and. for the rest a part OF the Forlorn
Hope. as Miss Winstanley calls the
ardent band of B~arbara's followers,
whom she has always stoutly declared
Barbara would have none Of. / wish
I had been as sure Of f.
The bishop looked the bishop. OF he
would probably have been DR.. Win
stanley. as his father had been before
him, or winstanley. attorney-atlaw,
following the way his maternal I'M
cles had taken, or merely WinEtaniey.
dealer In loans and real estate. ~ he
nee told me his prediction unde
uiabiy tended. But he looked the
bishop, and his sister. who was much
older than he, vowed that he should
become what nature so evidently in
tended No one ever understood cleaz-
Iy just how she contrived T. but that
she had tFiumphantly arrived with
him none could contradict, Indeed,
whatever Miss Henrietta Winsiauley
undertakes she Is pretty certain TO
accomplish.
She had declared TO me often. and
with warmth. that II she could help
n Ankony should not marry Barbara
Hemingway. as he very evidently pro-
posed 10 do. n possible. Therefore /
was not surprised az the summons
which beckoBed me as her aJdede-
camp. for Ankony had been making
the nos unmisthkable love TO Bar
bara ever since the curtain had gone
up and that part Of the Foriorn Hope
represented IN the box had yielded
itself 70 what was going on over the
footiights.
There's ingratitndo for you" Whis
pered she, as I bent over her.
1t looks more ike devotion" I re-
marked dvyly.
Il launched that man socially. He.
had been very nice about ing chart
ties. and u must make some return.
you know; besides, he isn't altogether
a bad sort But he must not think
he a marry Barbara Hemingway"
Does bog"
She made D comprehensive gesture
"You can see for yourself. Such an.
daciousness ! never knowl He seems
20 forget tho gulf between thom.
"Tho gulf Of blood. chr said l.
Exactly. What is there harder 20
set aroundg don't mind q
eelf.made man--iH the third genera.
ton: but Ankony 10 IN the FIRST, and
proud OF e. And he imagines that
because Dan o. In hts employ be can
force his attention on Barbara when
and as he likes"
"fBnt Il possible that be may not
meot with quite the diacouragemcnt
you Think / suggested. With q smile
that was mere bragsadocio
"Nonscnsei You don't believe any
such thing as that DO you suppose
for a minute that Barbara would re-
coive him-or his impossible ~aistor.in.
Law either. for the matter OF that
n ahe didn't feel that she had toe
She sighed and hurried ons zone has
10 DO 90 many awkward and unploas
ant things when one Is poor. and they
are 90 poor DO you know it's q fact
that they have 10 depend entirely
nowadays on Dan'a saiary9 And so
YOU see, quite naturally. they must
be decent 60 Mr.. Ankony"
"How they manage 90 get on 1 don't
know. I obsedved graVcly.
Miss Winstanley shook her brisk llt.
ue head no @ do I. Dan isn't
economical. you know-how can we
expect him 60 be, with his bringing
ups les such a pity their father
should have made that last unfor
mnate investment Just before he died
u must be f%rlghtfully hard on them
both; but the brunt OF q falls on Bar
bara. az Is natural perhaps You've
noticed. haven't you that when a
man and woman practice economy 20
Eethcr It's always the woman who
somehow. seems 20 got Ia the most
exercisof Pm sure nan Is as consid
crate and careful az be knows how 90
he. but he Is 20 generous you know
perhaps he's q bll TOO gonerou
she nodded That's a. precisely
New. thoao are Ne aoveFa thet me