The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-04-24
A PLAN OF
CAMP AIGN

in the more meditative moments.
These are her thoughts.)
1T 10 simply atrocious and unforgiv-
able! I've considered the subject very
carefully. very carefully indeed. from
all sides, because believe In always
being just, even when you are the IN
tured person. Why, I've considered 1t
fully Is minutes and l believe my
head aches from the intensity with
which I've devoted myself to 1t, and
headaches make wrinkles and I'm not
going to be such a goose as to start
wrinkles In my face because of a man
like winchester Henderson! Not l.
'Tm not going to give him the sat
isfacticn of knowing that anything ne
could do would affect me in the least
That's the trouble-how to show
proper resentment that will be notice.
able even to a stupid person like him.
self without giving him ground to nat
ter himself that he has disturbed me.
Men are SO frightfully conceited.
They think all they have to do is look
at a girl and she is simply overcome
with gratitude at being noticed. Ana
winchester is as bad as. the rest, even
II he does cover up with that air or
retiring modesty 1t really Is deceit
full when you come to think about 1T.
IF he thinks for one minute that
I'm going to stand his forgetting an
engagement with me he is very much
mistaken! What IL the head OF his
Arm did come to town and keep him
and what II his sister did telephone
| that the baby had the measles and her
| husband was away and she was scared
to death? Little things Ike that
| shouldn't entirely upset his mental
| processes. wonder that he dared put
such feeble excuses on paper!
II suppose he fancies that when he
calls tonight. as he says he will, III
receive him as sweetly as usual. Well.
| I'll fool him!
1T won't do, however, to go In with
a tragedy queen air. I think on the
| whole I'll be downstairs when he
comes, and reading. A person can be
| almost insultingly rude and absent
minded looking up from a book with
an instant's PARKWAY stare as though
she couldn't quite place the caller who
had just entered. Her subsequent
| elaborate sweetness doesn't remove
the shock he has of feeling there was
even an instant's time when she could
forget him. But then I'd have, to con-
tinue being sweet and that wouldn't
DO!
1T might be better to come down
stairs with my chin not up in the air,
but perfectly level, greet him with
elaborate politeness and keep the con-
versation on the most perfunctory so
ciety plane just as though he was
some one / didn't in the least care
about, but was going to be courteous
to If died for 1t. And be so nice to
him that he wouldn't have single
thing to get offended at and yet keep
a regular stone wall between us! It
would take clever handling. but I
could manage that kind of situation
very nicely. There's nothing that Will
30 bafiie and infuriate a man as that!
ION the whole. that's too much eff
fort to waste on Winchester. 1t doesn't
matter sufficiently to cause me to ex-
ert myself as much as that. l might
act Just plain bored, reply absent
mindedly and when he tried to repeat
his excuses say carelessly, almost as
though were amused at his thinking
anything he did affected me. that 1t
| didn't matter in the least, that other
| things which were more important
had quite swept It from my mind.
II could say, oh. did we have an en-
gagement that nightT and then laugh
kind Of helplessly and murmur some
thing about how shockingly / forget
things. That would beat into his brain
the novel idea that maybe he wasn't
so important after all!
'Td just Ike to stir him up bit
i and make him humble and apologize
i suppose he's too devoured by conceit
20 have anything like that affect him.
though. He knows there are plenty
more girls on earth besides me-silly
ones, too, who would be only too glad
to have him come to see them.
II aYou really can't blame the mer
when Girls are SO foolish. Annette
Billings, now would simply break hel
neck IL she thought there was
: chance to get Winchester away from
me, and goodness knows when CIR
like that starts in 1t is all up 80 IA
= as any other girl Is concerned. Mel
are such idiots that way-they always
run after a girl who flatters ant
cajoles them and takes such an inter
= est in them and their careers' Ouch
MY, how pulled my hair!
II expect the real clever. subtl'
,. person would let even her desire 10
!: revenge 60 II she wanted to outwit
# rival who was lying in wait. 1t woul'
:. be my cue to receive Winchester a