Putnam patriot., 1910-07-29
By GWENDoLIN ADAMS

uould be the heroine. There wouidu't be any hero: that is. unless Roscoe would be considered such. but he isn't. Hes= simply an objective point like the King in chess. A character the theater .,eople would call the heavy woman 1be woman who makes all the trouble * Kate Carpenter. The reason she bs. made all the trouble Is that she wants rhe same man want. We both want Roscoe.
 There. think I have stated the ease jus, as it is.
 Roscoe is intellectual. He stood high ip his class in college and took lot of bonors-whatever that may he-but i aonf love him for his learning I love him for himself That is, don't exartfy know what love him for. ouix knnw that I love him.
 Kate Carpenter is a college graduate too. She's the only girl I am afraid ot When we three are together. Ros- zoe and Kate and l. she always intro duee< subjects l don't knew anything ahaut That's way she has of uak He me take back seat. Roscoe doesn't like te talk .booky." as he failS ft. and tries 10 stop her. but she won't be stopped Not that she pre- fers Io talk becky; she only wants 10 sbuw 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 fo a subject of which she is ignorant she keeps mum. II occurred ID me to listen when they were talk ing. notice the subjects she avoids. mske list of them and study them. And 50 l did. I found out that history doesn't interest her. Nor does science. She smdfters over social questions. professes herself theoretically Social ist and all that.
 During the spring months devoted myself 10 study. All the members of this play. as 1 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 studied up 10 the last min ute before leaving town. and when reached Marston. our place. tell you knew a lot I'd read whole volume of the history of England
 didn't Jet on what l knew. l 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. l Rolling in the ham, mock. Kate got on to votes for wom- en and cited certain conditions away back in Gneeoe or Egypt or some other benighted country in support of the position she took.
 I've always considered" I butted in Lady Jane Grey to be the legiti- mate sovereign of England"
 Both Roscoe and Kate looked at me. astonished. tben glanced at each other. Then Kate went on about the women of other tito@s Notwithstanding her eontemptuous glance l was not to be put down
 Why don't they include Oliver Cromwell in the list of British sov- ereigns:" l remarked casually. He WAS king really. if not in name. At ans rate. he was ruler"
 Tau should have seen the amazed sheer Kate gave me. But this time she saeigned 10 notice what l said.
 Cromwell was a regieide.
 That .sceoped me didn't know what .regicide was any more than what camel or leopard feeds on. Kut didn't let on how ignorant was. just looked as if 1 knew all about IL. Kate took up her old subject again. td I did some thinking. She seemed la know more than did about Crom well and regicides and all that. How would it dc for me 10 invent char aeter? concluded to try it
 Do You think" l asked. that me hanging of Graginore al Tyburn was just and proper thing to de:'
 That caased both Roscoe and Kate 70 sit up ahd take notice. They looked q: each otber for moment sort of quizzieally. then Kate said to Roscoe.
 .OHe of JeffFies' victims. wasn't he:
 Never heard of him Roscoe re piled.
 T think he was Monmouth con spirator." Kate protested. She weuie not deigp to ask me about him. shs had 100 great contempt for my ls Rerance and too high an opinion Of hei 0MB Knowledge.
 iao was be. Lalu2" asked Roscoe
 I'm suEprised," 1 said. that hate deesHt know who tc was.
 She was the maddest girl you evei saw. Rer face was red as beef- ahe she made her fingers fly al her work.
 I'm na< here erammiEg for an ex 6 niinsfion.~ she snapped.
 was 70 encouraged by tine suecess of my srh~me rhat thought I'd z on little further.
 Well. l doa't mind telling you wne Cragn,ore WAS. since you dont snoN. ] said good safurediy- 'pne cant re member ali the minor characters. was interested ip him because he wal one of the men who helped Lord Darn ley. husband of Mary. queen of scots 10 murder her lover Rizxio af Hoiy- rood palace.
 If Crzgrnere was . surprise. this con necting him with thai assassination was the bursting of bomb hadn read about rhis Darnley- Rhzio Doss- ness ar all. When we were ID Scos-