Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-09-27
eEoRolA's RIVAL.

mine and am yours.
GEoRolA's RIVAL.
BY Stacy e. Baker.
Copyright, 1910. by Associated Liter
airy Press.)
ttShe's hussy," declared pretty
Georgia NMainon. Tears dimmed the
blue OF her eyes as she spoke.
Stilwell F. Stilwell, rance OF
the girl now tuning before him and
skilled in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. per-
ceptibly and summoned his crossest
frown.
"You don't know what you are say
ing asserted John F., his dark eyes
flashing and his form drawn erect.
81 do" declared the vehement Geor-
gia. Under the stress Of her excite
ment two cur1s broke from the yellow
hair mass coiled above her brow.
"She's a--a flirt! She knows we are
engaged, and yet she hangs around
after you"
''It's false" Numbered John F. In
voice that had made juries quail be-
fore his young eloquence and won
cases from the very Jaws OF defeat
"It's false, I tell you-she doesn't care
for me in that way"
"Only yesterday" continued Georgia
a disdahlful curve to her lips, she
had the sublime nerve to call me up
by prone ms, In my own house-and
ask IL you were here. I'll told her"
Z !, '.ssYou told her many things. Inter
rupted John F., that you wouldn't
have told her If you understood. You
are like all Of your sex. You jump to
mad conclusions. :"
s'You can't marry us both" said the
girl tartly. and ignoring the sarcasm
OF the youth. IT you are OF mormon On
istic, tendencies you should move to
Utah, you know You havs sighted
me shamefully since since that adj
ventures came to town. ] don't pro-
pose to stsnd it q day longer. y
.tShe Is no adventures, I tell YOU
growled Stilwell. 50 Il have great deal
OF respect for her Err y l3si s.
.sss.JI Suppose YOU intend to confess to
me-; me- that you love herr fs -
y ell-and what II dor
a.You-you brute" Georgi: Mainon
fairly screamed in her rage. How
dare you stand there before me and
and ask that? release you from your
engagement, atsonce. + 5as
But Georgia" interrupted John =
frightened at the havoc he had
wroght. Listen dear, II only you un.
derstood-'
II understand we'll enough. On to
think that could be SO mistaken IN a
man! / shall never believe in Womanly
intuition any more. am shocked.
am hurt. Now, sir. go-leaye my house
at once"
But" IS.
'You have said you loved her That
4 didn't say that. IL only asked
a question"
aThen you do not love her?'
..Why, I--I----------
answer me! Don't evade! Do you
love herr
eyes dear, but
Don't you dare call me dear, and
now, If you don't leave the house Will
call papa"
..Well, I'll -daraed,' grasped Still.
well as the angry little maid fiounced
out of tho room, slamming the, door as
she did do Gee, i certainly have put
my foot in II this time.
Remorsefully, the young lawyer took
his hat and felt the house. From
there he went to the hotel and sent up
his card to the other woman.
The other woman was Mrs. Dorothy
Moreland pretty and vivacious widow
and pronounced burnette. She mad
come to Marchville several months be-
fore and hired the: most expensive
suit of rooms at the Windsor l..arch:
vile. although the county seat. is a
small town. People talk. Therefore,
when John F. Stilwell began promptly
to show the visitor marked attention
the gossips began to megaphone his
amour. or ..lleged amour, from the
housetops. SO to SPEAK, and all ma
It a point to keep the young attorneys
fiancee we'll. informed.
Since Stilwell had finished college
and come to Marchville to locate he
and the daughter of Judg Mainon had
become engaged. Long before their
engagement was announced, friends
demonstrated 1T, and now
q IlieOTRld MdlHOu, Al AASA - OOAAA, .SAASN
bitterly. This was an end to her ro-
nance, then. Fate was Q tricksy jade.
She felt that life. from now on, would
not be worth the living
a half hour after the fateful inter
view, John F., beside the other woman,
drove into the country, a smile on his
lips, and. seemingly, laugh in his
heart. His breaking up with his
fiancee did not spell ruin for him. John
F. was philosopher.
Several weeks elapsed. The lawyer
was still faithful satellite Of the
handsome Mrs. Dorothy, and gossips
continued the popular pastime Of
Marchville, with the youth and the
other woman as subject matter.
It was an indignant Georgia who re-
ceived the card o. her successful rival,
and she decended from her own cham
her to the reception room with wrath
in her heart.
Silently she pulled aside the heavy
draperies, and took one compreheIl-
siye look at the woman before she be-
came aware Of her presence.
"She is DID," ruminated the scornful