The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-11-24

Among the spectators beside there was man with
the seat beside her and ladies being Ia Cripple
Creek he gaxed often at her and with evident enjoy
e e him
The other spectators glancing pncidly at the empty
seat merely said It's too bad lady should have
'Then you think national saying this subject
is man S or put d1 on =. lay %
tested, laughing. There are too many women. It
would be awful to kill on good extra man. Let
them stare ut II they want to-"
The duke appeared quite satisfied at my little out
burst. and. with smile hs lips and a shade Of
sarcasm in his meodious voice, he said. as he took
..No that doesn't sum up your way Of loving Your
door, love dies out at the window Seriously Sig.
norma, which would you rather be- the little Neapoli
tan heroine Or the girl the Cripple creekT'
isn't true. The things does for your don't
stir you. You take them for granted. Your father
way. You doubt that mans sort Of love-that Is,
until he stops loving you. The demanding sort no
for you for his sake, "a nedp0Noine, then you
sure he cares for you. You can't help believing
It. paradoxical as It may SEEM. suppose that's tho
man doesn't demand anything. He just keeps on
giving.
spread around that It was the duke himself who had
asked US to Mrs Leghton's party people have been
Congress whose wives have always pretended they
didn't know us have all left cards, ana Mrs Leighton
has brought 20 many Of her swell friends to see "
that mamma. has taken day, and. final triumph.
going to entertain Duke Falconi at dinner
Monday night. I've made up my mind this time to b
WASHINGTON, Monday. midnight--The dinner was
q bowling success we had three ambassadors ana
There were twenty in ALL and everybody was some
body. Papa kept looking first around the table and
then at me. as much as to say: "she did It"
here vaa a h1SGin ma q IN nh
except papa.
When dinner was over We had some music, and more
tirey to me- and willing. happy. and
didn't mind letting him it, which the greatest
lots OF things and / actually told him that had
changed my mind and would rather prefer being loved
. ID neapolifcinc to q Cripple Greek. From tho
moment said this he changed toward Some
thing new came into his manner. shade Of tender
nese, je sois qaoi which made me feel though
at last he going to have his way instead Of letting
me have mine. That gentle sort OF mastery was 4
sensation novel and delightful enjoyed it in guilty
way, knowing that any real American girl would
disapprove Of me-or pretend to.
All evening the duke never left my side.
wAsHIECToN January 21stLThere's been the deuce
than the tempests on the worst ocean crossings Ana
now there Is calm dead calm. more unbearable than
1t all happened after that unfortunate and enchant
Ing dinner. The next day papa began by making an
The duke. attention: were % marked that everyone
began to say must be engaged The report reached
thousand Of brick. He maligned the duke because
he was 4 nobleman and did nothing" He said the
nobility were anything but noble; that they We're
and didn't know what honor meant.
It was terrible! Especially az tried TO answer
him. said things ought not to have safd When
he declared that Falconi was probably gambler
cried:
-And Sam? Your own son? I'd like to know what
he ISL Haven't got him out Of scrapc after scrape
with my own pocket money!"
Papa looked twenty years older when said that.
kfu OknA no
didn't know anything about Sans gambllns, and
suppose It dsloyal Of to tell him; but girl
cant oe LOYAL TO two men q %nce ~+...d .~.1 !.
night long thinking, and this morning I've sent
letter to the duke; . farewell letter. telling him
can never see him again would rather. suppose.
break my own heart than break papa's. I'm his only
girl. and the duke probably has Others.
III. Ever since that discussion with papa and the
letter wrote Faconi I've been sick The duke left
washington Immediately and took to my bed. There
IL nothing -organc the matter with the doctors
say. but papa Is smarter than the doctors He's
my room He sat down beside my bed and took my
thin white hand in his broad. steady raln
Cynthia he said -how would you like to take
stance; to Rome for Eastern
-oh, papa r cried. my cheeks flaming, do you
1--WE been thinking things over he replied. Then
there long pause during which he stroked my
nann Lovingly. oen. want LEY s,r = Is gnn1is,
pose I'm too old-fashioned."
~lou mean because you Fate foreigners so!
asked.
4 can't stand EN-" papa grunted; @horrid Latin
fortune-hunters-
But. papa" said 1.-THE who works all his
life fer money 10 fortune hunter too
We'll at he tolls for his moRey- whereas these
worthless foreigners expect to get everything for
nothing"
.You can't quite call II nothing" I said. Titles
don't simply drop down ready-made from the sky any
more than fortunes to. An nlusnious name MEANS
- 1M1aDnnootznoun