The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1909-03-26

up her French with one of Bentzons
novels.
Afterward she said grimly to him:
II think you must have been convert
ed out in the Philippines; you never
SO much as WINGED, that last handi
no, you sat there smiling over your
ruin as sweetly as If you enjoyed it"
The colonel smiled again. "Ah, but,
YOU see, did enjoy it; didn't you no.
tice the hand? No? Well, it was
worth watching 1t was the rubber
game; they were "a and we were 26,
and we were on the seventh round;
Miss Smith had made it hearts. She
sat on my left, dummy on my right.
Millicent had the lead. She had four
little spades, a little club, the queen OF
hearts and a trey; dummy had the
queen, the ten and the nine of spades,
it had the king of hearts and three
clubs with the jack at the top. l had
a lovely diamond suit which l hadn't
had chance to touch, top sequence,
ace, king, queen; / had the jack of
trumps and the jack of spades; and
the queen and a little club. / hadn't
lead, you understand; Millicent had
taken five tricks and they had taken
one; they needed six to win the game,
we needed two; see? Well, Millicent
hadn't any diamonds to lead me, and
unhappily she didn't think to lead
trumps through dummy, which would
have made world of difference. She
led club; dummy put on the jack.
/ knew Miss Smith had the ace and
one low heart; no clubs, lot of low
diamonds, and she might or might not
i have a spade. figured that she had
the ace and little one; If she would
trump in with the little one, as ninety
| nine out of a hundred women would
have done, her ace and her partners
king would fall together; or, at worst,
he would have to trump her diamond
lead, after she had led out her king
of spades, and lead spades, which l
could trump and bring in all my dia-
monds. Do you take in the situation?"
| "You mean that Janet had the king
of spades alone, the ace and the little
trump and four worthless diamonds?
| see. 1t is a chance for the grand
coup; / reckon she played it."
"She did" cried the colonel with
JUNCTION. "She slapped that ace on the
trick, she modestly led her king Of
spades, gathered in my jack, then she
stole my child away my little jack OF
trumps; it fell on dummys king, and
dummy led out his spades and had
to see that whole diamond suit slaugh-
tered. They made their six tricks. the
game and the rubber; and / wanted
to clap my hands over the neatness OF
| It,"
"She is good player" agreed Aunt
Rebecca, and very pleasant person.
You remember the epitaph, don't you,
BERTHE? she was SO pleasant Yet
Janet has had heap of trouble; but.
after all, happiness is not condition
but a temperament; suppose Janet
has the temperament. She's good
loser, too; and she never takes advan-
tage Of the rules"
"She certainly loves a straight
game" reflected the colonel. Il con-
fess / don't like the kind of woman
that is always grabbing trick If some
one plays out of the wrong hand"
He said something of the kind to
Millicent, obtaining but scant sympa-
thy in that quarter. shes deep,
BERTHE; I told you that was the only
reply, sbut I'm watching. / have rea-
son for my feeling
Maybe you have been misinformed, |"
yentured her brother-in-law with prop
er meekness.
HNot at all" retorted she, sharply.
II happen to know that she worked
against me with the Daughters