The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-08-02


The central figure in these complica-
lions is Roscoe Curtiss. II this were
play the heroine would be-well,
would be the heroine. There wouldn't
be any hero; that is, unless Roscoe
would be considered such. but he isn't
He's simply an objective point like the
king In chess. A character the theater
people would call the heavy woman
the woman who makes all the trouble
lis Kate Carpenter. The reason she
has made all the trouble Is that she
wants the same man want We both
want Roscoe.
There. ! think have stated the
case just as 1t is.
Roscoe is intellectual. He stood high
in his class in college and took a 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 college graduate
too. She's the only girl | am afraid
of. When we three are together. Ros-
coe and Kate and |. she always intro
duces subjects l don't know anything
about. That's way she has of max
ing me take a back seat Roscoe
doesn't like to talk "booky." as he
calls 1t, and tries to stop her, but she
won't be stopped Not that she pre-
fers to talk booky; she only wants to
show her superiority over me.
I'm not such fool but that I can
see that Kate always turns the con-
versation on to subjects she knows
something about. and when Roscoe
gets on to subject of which she is
ignorant she keeps mum. 1t 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 Social
list and all that.
During the spring months devoted
myself to study All the members of
this play, as l call it, are friends-at
least the families are-and we meet
every season at the summer cottage
of one or the other for a house party.
This year we are at our country home.
In March, April. May and June stuff
ed myself like Christmas turkey with
history. l studied up to the last min
ute before leaving town. and when l
reached Marston. our place. l tell you
l knew lot. I'd 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.
1--we always considered" / butted
in. Lady Jane Grey to be the legiti-
mate sovereign of England"
Both Roscoe and Kate looked at me,
astonished, then glanced at each other.
Then Kate went on about the women
of other times. Notwithstanding her
contemptuous glance l was not to be
put down.
why don't they include Oliver
Cromwell in the list Of British SOW
ereigns" l remarked casually. HE
was king really. If 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 l said
Cromwell was regicide."
That scooped me. | didn't know
what a regicide was any more than
what a camel or leopard feeds on.
But didn't let on how ignorant was.
/ just looked as If knew all about it.
Kate took up her old subject again,
and | did some thinking She seemed
to 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" l asked. that the
hanging of Cragmore at Tyburn was
a just and proper thing to do?'
That caused both Roscoe and Kate
to sit up and take notice. They looked
at each other for moment sort Of
quizzically; then Kate said to Roscoe:
Zone Of Jeffries victims, wasn't her
Never heard of him." Roscoe re-
piled.
Il think he was Monmouth con
spirator." Kate protested. She would
not delgn TO ask me about him. Shs