Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-10-12

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his guard, He was looking across her
shoulder straight down the dim vista
Of the room to the little blaze Of bor.
dering light. He was looking at Har.
ry. No, Harry was looking at him.
Harry was looking with a steady an
intent gaze, and Kerr meeting tit
might have been merely the blank
glare of his monocle-seemed. to
Flora, to meet 1t little insolently.
She fancied In the instant something
to pass between the two men. some
thing which, this time, she did not
mistake for jealousy-a shade too dim
aoa.,..s. ee Ut suspicion, oeep
.s.e y .na. struggled 70 piace solne'
e' oone one'
that curious scrutiny. It had broken
her little moment. It had shattered
the personal, almost intimate note
.nat nad peen sounded between them.
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sa ass anu .,s su.rea IN ner a'm 70.
esa,,.. .nA' ne coulo orop ~ al %
eas''
Shall we join the others" It was
the voice with which she had begun
with him, but her eyes were hot
through their light mist OF lashes, and
he threw her a compromising glance
OF amusement.
"Oh. no." he assured her, I'VE can't
help ourselves. They are going to
join us."
Ella Butler, in the van of her pro-
cession, was already descending upon
them. Her approach dissipated the
last remnant of their personal mo-
ment. Her presence always insisted
that there was nothing worth while
but instant participation in her gen
iality. and whatever subject 1t might
at the moment be taken up with.
This conviction Of Elias had been
wont to overawa Flora. and 1t still
overwhelmed her; 30 that now. as
she followed In the trail of Elias
marshaled force, che had guilty feel
Ing that there should be nothing in
her mind but normal desire for sup
per.
Yet all the way down the great
stair, 1.-THE Corridors of Time" where
the white owl glared his CLASSY wis.
dom on the passings and counter
passings, she was haunted with the
thought that Harry had seen the ex-
traordinary Kerr before; not shaken
hands with him. perhaps-perhaps not
even heard his name; but somewhere,
across some distance, once glimpsed
him, and had never quite shaken the
memory from his mind. For there
was something marked, notable, unfor.
getable in that lean distinctiveness.
Against the sleek form of the men
they met and shook hands with, he
flashed out-seemed in contrast fairly
electric. She saw him, just ahead OF
her where the crowd was thickening
In the door of the supper room, max
ing way for Clara through the press
with that exasperating solicitude of
his that was half ironic.
The room. hot. polished, faring re-
Elections of electric lights from its
glistening floor. announced itself the
heart OF high fastivity. through the
midst OF which their entrance made
an added ripple. The flushed faces
OF the women under their flowers, un-
der their paie.tlnted hats. with their
sminng recognitlons to Clara, to Flora.
49,. ~ o' :, sleu WIN snarpened IN
sSs ~ pai,neu 'na. Aerr was
80. ..sa,. anu M. ~ a circle Wnicn
;unau..t ,oe aaa,.a s.aie LOT iacK OF
Anno' a''uus' . uesiraDie one
Apparently tne dominant note of