Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-14

toilet bottles, q fresh handkerchief, a
hand mirror and brush, which she ar
ranged in the empty seat. The silver
trinkets glowed brightly against the
blue upholstery.
THANK you, Aunt Phoebe, I'm feel
ing much better. Just let me alone
now, please"
The girl pust aside the white rose
for a moment and breathed deeply of
the vinaigrette, whose keen pungent
odor stole across the aisle to Girls
woll. She bent forward, took up the
hand mirror, and brushed the hair
away from her forehead with half a
dozen light strokes. She touched her
handkerchief to the cologne flask,
passed 1t across her eyes, and then
took up the rose again and settled
back with little sigh of relief In
her new upright position her gaze
rested upon Griswold's newspapers,
which he had flung down on the empty
half of his section. One of them had
fallen open and lay with its outer
page staring with the bold grin of
display type.
TWO GOVERNORS AT WAR!
What Did the Governor of North Caro-
lima Say to the Governor of
South Carolina.
The color deepened in the girls
smooth forehead: then she called the
al NJ l,,;.> e-I
lowed between them. In a moment
Griswold was addressed in tone and
manner at once condescending and
deferential.
"If you please, sub, would yo' all
low my mistus t. look as you news
papahs?"
Certainly. Take them along"
And Griswold, recalled from pas
sage in his lecture that dealt with con-
traband munitions of war, handed
over the newspapers, and saw. them
pass into the hands of his fellow-pas-
senger. He had read the newspapers
pretty thoroughly and knew the dis
tribution Of their contents, SO that he
noted with surprise the girls immed-
late absorption in the kilograms from
New Orleans relating TO the difficulty
between the two governors.
AS she read she lost, he thought.
something of her splendid color, and
at one point in her reading her face
| went white for a moment. and Girls
void saw the paper wrinkle under the
Tightening grasp of her hands. The
| tidings from New Orleans had un.
doubtedly aroused her Indignation
which expressed itself further in the
rigid lines of her figure as she read
and in the gradual lifting of her head
as though with some new resolution
| She seemed to lose account of her sur
roundings, and several times Griswold
was quite sure that he heard her hall
exclaim, "Preposterous! Infamous!"
When she had finished the New Or
leans kilograms she cast the offending
newspapers from her, then, recalling
herself, summoned the black woman
and returned them to GrisWold, thu
duslky agent expressing the elaborate
thanks of her race for his courtesy
The girl had utterly ignored Griswold
and she now pulled down the curtain
at her elbow with a snap and turnet
} her face away from him. q.
Professor Griswold's eye wandere,
I repeatedly from his manuscript t,
the car ceiling, then furtively to th,
uncompromisingl averted sboulde
and head of the young lady, then bacl
to his lecture notes, until he wa
weary of the process. He wished Ard
J more were at hand, for his frien,
, would find here case that promise,
7 much better than the pursuit t
which he had addressed himself. TIL
girl in this instance was at least
self-respecting lady, not given to flirts
! lions with chance travellers, and th
brown eyes, of which Griswold ha
! caught one or two fleeting glimpses
: were clearly not of the winking sor
The attendance of the black MANN
!. distinguished the girl as a person c
quality, whose travels were stampe
r with an austere propriety
Her silver toilet articles testified t
! an acquaintance with the comforts
t not Injuries Of life. The alligator-hid
suitcase thrust under the seat Dor
9 the familiar label of a Swiss hott
| where Griswold had once spent
? week, and spoke of the girls acquain
ance with an ampler world. Whe
3 Phoebe had brought it forth th
: initials "B. O." in small black letter
$ suggested Baltimore and Ohio in Gri
4 worlds lazy speculations, where-upo
g he reflected that while Baltimore wa
4 plausible, the black servant eliminate
Ohio; and as every Virginian know
: every other Virginian, he tried
/ identify her with Old Dominion famil
n names beginning with O, but witho,
1 result. He finally concluded tina
d while her name might be Beatrice {
j Barbara, it could not be Bessie, an