The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-05
THE EVENING STORY
A Di111ple or Two.
(By Joanna Single.)

(By Joanna Single.)
AFTER all, a man chooses" finished
DR.. Everett Transom, land If he
chooses to ruin his career by marrying
some yellow headed little nothing
whom common sense would show him
was quite the wrong woman, the fail
ure of the marriage Is purely his own
fault. I've no patience with such men.
1t is just as easy to love a balanced.
dignified woman with brains, whose
mental and Social training would be
help to him, as to let himself be
lured to the altar by a rosy cheek and
dimple or two-like poor old Traf-
ton. for instance"
He spoke with the settled assurance
of extreme youth and inexperience.
Mrs. Jimmie. really, If amusedly, in
terested. listened to her guest in wide
eyed politeness. Then she said she
simply must dress for dinner and
trailed of.
Once in the hall she fairly ran up
stairs to the guest room where her
pretty, pink checked cousin was MAX
ing herself unnecessarily lovely.
IT don't want to be late at my own
table, Rose, but I must tell you that
Jimmie has brought home an Eastern
college friend and he's to take you in
to dinner. He deserves anything you
may 10 10 ult11s lnOuSn A0AVcA 1OED1O
that I put you up to any worse mis-
chief than your own fertile mind sug-
gests. You won't believe 1t, but he
has just finished telling me exactly
what sort of girl he intends not to
marry
Does the description, by chance.
fit little Rosie % asked the girl, de-
murely wicked.
For a moment I thought he must
have been trailed by you somewhere
when you were East last summer and
was revenging himself. But no. he
was quite serious"
ANY man who is quite serious de-
serves-anythingl Is he worth while 20
Rose tilted her yellow head to catch
the mirrored effect of a rose in her
hair. eff he's-worth-'
Hes all that himself and his dot
ing widowed mother think him! OF
fine family, good looking, with brains
and manners carefully cultivated here
and abroad; and with money. But
very-young. It seems that his moth
er intends to have him wed a Miss
Minerva Farleigh of Boston. He is
out here for a rest before beginning
in the fall the big practice his father
left him. He-welL-I must dressi
Rose-don't be outrageous-but he
Dinner went off conventionally |
enough. Rose tried the sweet, femi- |
played until she decided on what the
game was to be! She drew DR.. Tran |
som out about himself, and he was.
naturally, deeply interested: Her
questions about his work and plans
were, in fact. SO intelligent that the
young man twisted his broad shoul- |
ders, and turned his fine brown eyes on
his neighbor in some surprise
she didn't look like much but frail
plaything-he especially disapproved
of yellow curls. And in the cheek
nearest him he marked a deep and |
restless dimple. Her hands were lit
tie and delicate. She was very slen-
der. He wondered If she knew how to |
take care of her health ? = probably |
not. He was sure of it when, in the |
drawing room after dinner, he noted |
heels. He determined to advise her.
That was the beginning
DR.. TransoE played the piano well. |
Induced by Jimmie, who knew all his
friends PAGES, he played some Bee
Chopin, the latter because he thought |
Miss Rose Thorne might care for
lighter music. She sat where he could |
see her by side glance. She was not
tered over to him and asked:
Cant you play something lively
a gypsy dance, or some ragtime p
at her in dismay. But Jimmie Rever-
ton grinned and pushed him from the
stool.
'.I'll play" he laughed. you're too
solemn. Pull up rug or two there.
Jimmie. Now, Rosie, give us a step
To the young DOCTORS scandalized
the girl rose, and to the
wild time of the hosts gypsy music
began a whirling dance. He could not
take his eyes from the pretty witch in
her gauzy blue dress. At last, half
exhausted, she stopped suddenly and
thought angrily that the exercise was
bad for her heart; that some one
should look after the girl, and that he
would try to coax her to wear common
sense shoes; ne would do that much
good during his stay; and she was lit
lie more than a child. He wondered
at Jimmie's letting the girl do SO UNIT
4 thing. On the strength of his con-
he asked her to drive with him the
: The doctor had been coaxed to stay !
IN a month at the Reverton place, and
Rose began trailing him to the best
IF her practiced ability, while he told
himself that he was looking after her I
properly. She rode and walked and
irove with him. He found she could ]
10 most things that he could, and
many that he could not; the intelli- ,
renee of her sympathy surprised him, ]
ind he always intended to speak to her !
about the folly of her ways She de- I
lighted him when she did what he least !
of-even to wearing high
1eels and dancing.
So he forgot his career, MISS MI .
lerva. Boston, his mother, and the J
Universe And, finally, he forgot
himself At least that was the opin-
on of his family-before they really
one of the signs of the doctors
lilment was that he began to forget
o write home, and had already
his proposed stay to
week past its supposed bounds.
Back in the East his mother went Z
o call on Minerva. No; Miss Far
eigh had not heard from him for