The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1910-08-18
BY GwENpoLIN ADAMS

lions " roscoe 1urtSN, III this Wers
I q play the heroine would bc--well.
/ would be the heroine There wouidn'i
I be any hero; that Is, unless Roscoe
would be considered such, but be isn't
He's simply an objective point like the
king 10 chess A character the theateI
/ people would call the heavy woman
the woman WHO makes all the trouble
lis Kate Carpenter The reason she
has made all the trouble IL that she
wants the same man want We both
want Roscoe,
There, think | have stated tho
case just as II Is.
Roscoe IN intellectual He stood high
In his class In college and took lot
Of honors- whatever that may be--but
! don't love him for his learning !
love him for himself That is, don't
exactly know what love him for. |
only know that love him,
Kate Carpenter is a college graduate
too She's the only girl | am afraid
ot When we three are together, Ros.
coe and Kate aud |, she always intro.
duees subjects | don't know anything
about That's a way she has of max.
lug me take back seat Roscoe
doesn't like to talk ''booty," as he
calls ii, and tries to stop her but she
won't be stopped Not that she pre-.
fers 10 talk booky; she only wants TO
show her superiority over me
I'm not such a fool but that | can
see that Kate always turns the con.
yersation on to subjects she knows
something about, and when Roscoe
gets on 10 a subject OF which she is
ignorant she keeps mum. II occurred
TO me to listen when they were talk
ing. notice the subjects she avoids,
make list of them and study them
And so did | found out that history
doesn't interest her Nor does science.
She smatters over social questions,
processes herself theoretically a Social
ist and all that
During the spring months devoted
myself to study, All the members of
this play, as ! call It, are friends--at
least the families are-and we meet
every season at the summer cottage
of one or the other for house party.
This year we are at our country home.
10 March. April, May and June | stuff.
ed myself like Christmas turkey with
history | studied up D. the last min.
ute before leaving town, and when
reached Marston. our place, | tell you
| knew a lot. ia read whole volume
of the history of England
didn't let on what | knew. | just
laid low for Kate when she got on her
high horse before Roscoe. didn't
have TO wait long The day after we
all arrived we three were sitting on
the porch, Roscoe smoking, Kate do
ing fancy work, lolling In the ham
mock Kate got on to votes for wom-
en- and cited certain conditions away
back in Greece or Egypt or some other
benighted country in support of the
position she took.
"Tve always considered" butted
in Lady Jane Grey to be the legiti-
mate sovereign Of England"
Both Roscoe and Kate looked at me,
astonshed. then glanced at each other.
Then Kate went on about the women
Of other times Notwithstanding her
contemptuous glance ! was not to be
put down
why don't they include Oliver
Cromwell in the list Of British SOW
ereigns" remarked casually. "He
was king really, il not In name At
any rate. he was a ruler"
You should have seen the amazed
sneer Kate gave me. But this time
she deigned to notice what said.
Cromwell was a reglelde."
That scooped me. | didn't know
what a regicide was any more than
what camel or leopard feeds on
But | didn't let on how ignorant was
just looked as If knew all about 1t
Kate took up her old subject again.
f1d | did some thinking. She seemed |
70 know more than | did about Crom-
well and regicides and all that How |
would 1t do for me TO invent char |
acter? concluded to try IT,
DO you think" | asked, that the |
hanging Of Cragmore at Tyburn was
a just and proper thing to doY
That caused both Roscoe and Kate |
to sit up and take notice, They looked
a. each other for a moment sort Of |
then Kate said to Roscoe:
'One Of Jeffries victims. wasn't heY
Never heard Of him. Roscoe re
Piled
Il think he was a Monmouth con
spirator." Kate protested She would
not deign TO ask me about him Sht
had too great contempt for my liz
norance and too high an opinion Of hei
own knowledge
"Who was be. Lulu" asked Roscoe.
I'm surprised" | said, that Kate
doesn't know who he was.
She was the maddest girl you even
saw. Her face was red nv beet. and
she made her fingers fly at her work.
I'm not here cramming for an ex
amination.' she snapped.
! was so encouraged by the success
of my scheme that | thought I'd 20
1n a little further
We'll, don't mind telling you who
rragmore was, since you don't know
said good naturedly "one can't re
member all The minor characters.
was interested In him because he was
me Of the men who helped Lord Darn.
ey, husband Of Mary, queen Of Scots
o murder her lover Rizzio at Holy.
God palace"
III Cragfnore was d surprise, this con
leetlng him With that assassination
vas the bursting Of bomb. hadn't
cad about this Darnley Rizzio busi.
less at all When We were in Scot.
and last year ] went through Holy.
ood palace and heard the story from
guide.
think that by this time Roscoe had
.oi on 10 what | WIS about At any
ate. saw the corner of bis mouth
Iuirk up, and be was looking far out
u the landscape with his bat pulled