Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-07

tions is Roscoe CurtisS. If 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. i character the theater
people would call the heavy woman-
is Kate Carpenter. The reason she
has made all the trouble is that she
wants the same man want. We both
want Roscoe.
There! think I have stated the
case just ia il is
Roscoe is intellectual. He stood high
in his class in college and took lot
of honorS-whateve that may be-but
l don't love him for his learning. I
love him for himself. That is. ! don't
exactly know what love him for. 1
only know that love him.
Kate Carpenter is Il college graduate
too. She's the only girl | am afraid
of. When we three are together. RoS-
cOe and Kate and l. she always intro
duces subjects l don't know anything
about. That's n way she has of MAX
ing me take back seat. Roscoe
doesn't like &c talk "booky." as he
calls it. 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 Il fool but that can
sec that Kate always turns the CON
something about. and when Roscoe
gets on 10 Il subject of which she is
ignorant she keeps mum. II occurred
to me TO listen when they were talk
ing. notice the subjects She avoids.
make n list of them and study them.
And so I did. l found out that history
doesn't interest her. Nor does science.
She SmattcrS over social questions,
processes herself theoretically a Social
list and all that
During the spring months I 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 ut the summer cottage
of one or the other for Il house party.
This year we are ut our country home.
~ -'i''A - -Ap' ~ -'AsAN s'bsi - hliN SUN
ed myself like Christmas turkey with
history. l studied up to the last min
ute before leaving town. and when 1
reached Marston. our place, l tell you
1 knew lot. I'd read n whole volume
of the history of England.
l didn't let on what / 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 loilng in the ham
mock. Kate got on TO votes for wOm-
en- ard cited certain conditions away
back in Greece or Egypt or some other
benighted country in support of the
position she took.
I've always considered" I butted
in, Lady Jane Grey 10 be the legiti-
mate sovereign OF England"
Both Roscoe and Kate looked at me-
astonished. then glanced Mt 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 ruler"
You should have seen the amazed
sheer Kate gave me. But this time
she deigned to notice what I said.
Cromwell was regicide"
That scooped me. l didn't know |
what n regicide was any more than
what a camel or leopard feeds on. |
But didn't let on how ignorant was. |
just looked as if l knew all about it. |
Kate took up her old subject again. |
and did some thinking. She seemed |
to know more than did about Crom-
we'll and regicides and nil that. How |
would it do for me to invent char
acter? l concluded to try ii.
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 |
n each other for a moment sort of
then Kate said to Roscoe:
''Ona of.Iefries' victims WaSn,tsha3''