The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-01-08

3A2es4sSS JeaE.iful exalted, romantc
ASdg,&Z spirit 81 isaely ihcentde Ven
None i tie other girls At tnc irc-and-tcn
cent store where Nllly fthc body worked
suspected The existence a this Lady NIiliqcnl
(thc souD. AS for that mater il wes some
tine before even Miliy herself WIS absolutely
sure. True, she never Hippontly referred to
tie floorwalker as Mr.. Five q the Five & Ter
Cest Store as the otlcr girls always dnl, ana
once, when she Lad nothing else 70 odo for
nearly eight minutes, shc had tried 10 think d
i:im AZ Lord Harold. But that was amly hc
,pcr.ing Of the spirit upon its earthy shell,
Il Her real lie romance was born ono saturca;
evening in the humble shop oi "a Italian
c1bk.eT.
rLisly went there to get ,le shoes she has
left on Wednesday 70 be h,,ls sole,l, Freneh
heeled and patched Tony thc co5bi2r was
engaged with Il ta.l, broad-shoui !crcd mar
wacn she entered
Are my shoes done demanded Mills in
Tie decisive tones of the modern business
woman
The tall man quickly stepped aside and
with sweeping bow. made room ior her
And such i man His dara dreamy eyes
bis great wavy mous..che the very lone Of
romance, his strong manly jaw Aiilly's eyes
1 dropped, and the pale spaces between her
! hscxies became sulfuscd with 4 niaidenly
blush
! After glance al her check Tony iished her
llinasy, feminine shoes out from 1 pile on the
floor AMI plansed them down on his bench
alongside i pair of heavy, masculine ones
Thea. taking down the remaining pages OF 4
cheap periodical from a pile oi old papers, he
separated tlem and deity did the shoes up
into two neat bundles. Though the shoes
she carried under her arm NAY have been the
shoes Of MAly Devery, il was Lady Milieert
de Veri VINO swept out into the street while
the dark-eyed, ayy-noustached strange.
held the door.
Buoycd up By a strange sense OF excitement
! she hurried through the streets, tripped up the
front steps and lightly mounted The three
fights to her SxIo home" in the rear Of the
house. When she had lighted the gas she
paused in the middle Of the floor TO give her
humping heart chance to resume its norn1l
jog. Suddenly she snatched the bundle up
from the cot where she had thrown it and
nervously removed its wrapping She held
the shoes at arms length and critically syr-
veyed them They really weren't bad look
ing now that they had been repaired aud
rubbed up bit She heayed sigh OF relief.
Wasn't it lucky that he had seen them when
she had called for them instead Of when she
had brought them in2 And wasn't ne just
grand
Then came the reaction. Snc flung the
shoes into corner and threw herself upon her
cot Who was she that she should permit
herself to be put all a-fiutter at the sigh, o.
"handsor1e dark completed stranger
Her body Suddenly became tired with the
fatigue Of long hours Of selling can-opcncrs
ladies' hosiery, gas tips, toy trumpcts and Q
thousand and one similarly dissir,ilar odd.
and ends But the mind oi Lady hiliceni
kept up constant chatter that put sleep fol
the tired body Of plain Alilly Dcycry out o
the question. She reached ior the paper tha
had wrapped her shoes and glanced languidll
at it,
II was the center pages Of one OF thos,
startlingly illustrated iireside weeklies" tha
were more common a couple Of decades agi
than now The first chapters were missing
but she was able to gather that S'r Charles
the Lord Mayor, was making his annua
inspection Of the factory where Mildred
worked Mote the similarity Of names
Mildred Micent Milly noticed it r;gh
away.
As the superintendent led the way pas
the spindle where Mildred was working, th
Lord Mayor suddenly stopped and gave
slight start He regarded the fair girl be
fore him with curious, puzzled expression
And then, realizing that his searching gaz
might give oifense, he mumbled an apology
and, with b sweeping bow, passed on
Miily recalled the sweeping bow OF in
handsome stranger at the cobbler's)
A moment later She heard his Tordshil
ask the superintendent: san CT who j
that beautiful young lady al The third spin
die? She Is strangely familiar seem {
have seen chat face before 2
The superintendent glowered darkly an
rnuttered somtthlng about New hands
cant keep track of them all-hundreds c
en- look just alike. "
You Who have read that sort Of story ju:
To see what il is ike will not be surprised |
learn that al soon as Sir Charles, the Lor
Mayor, was out Of the factory, the yillainou
superintendent summoned Mildred 70 hi
once and asked her to become bis bride
Mildred kindly but firmly declined, explain