The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-05
xcopyright, 1910. by Associated Lit


After all. man chooses" finished
DR.. Everett Transom. "and II he
chooses to ruin his career by marry
4 ing some yellow headed little moth
Ing whom common sense would show
II him was quite the wrong woman, the
x failure of the marriage is purely his
q own fault I've no patience with
snch men. l; is Just as easy 10 love
- balanced. dlgnified woman with
brains. whose mental and social train
4 ting would be help 10 him. as to let
4 himself be lured to the altar by
rosy cheek and a dimple or two--like
poor old Trafton. for instance"
He spoke with the settled assurance
Of extreme youth and inexperience.
Mrs Jimmie. really, II amusedly, In
/ fefested. listened TO her guest in wide
+ ayed politeness Then she said she
Y simply must dress for dinner and
xaised eff
@ Once in the hall. she fairly ran up
stairs TO the guest-roou, where her
pretty pink checked cousin vas max
ing herself unnecessarily lovely.
- don't want TO be late at my own
table Rose, but ! must tell you that
Jimmie has brought home an Eastern
college friend. and he's to take you in
Z 70 dinner. He deserves anything you
may do to him, though heaven forbid
Z that / put YOU UP TO any worse mis-
-Chtet- than your oIsE fertile ssa!ssd sag
gasts. You won't believe 1t. but he
has just finished telling me exactly
/ what sort of girl he intends not to
marry"
sDces the description, by chance,
& nj little Rosie ?" asked the girl, de-
1nurely wicked
.For a rnpnen. ] thought he must
have been trailed by you somewhere
Hhea YOU were East last summer and
was revenging himself But no, he
WIS quite serious,
ANY man who Is quite serious de-
neryes--anything, is he worth while?
Epsc tilted her yellow head to catch
The n1rrorcd effect of rose In her
hair sIf he's---worth---'
Ties all that himself and his dot
1rC widowed mother think him, ~
Z me family. good looking, with brains
and manners carefully cultivated here
I and abroad. and with money. But
sTtrs-~-young IL seems that his mother
INTENDS to have Him wed Miss
Minerva Farleigh, or Boston. He is
nut here for rest before beginning
Iii the faIl the big practice his father
I1eft him He--weli~-I must dress.
sxxosA--dcsf'f be outrageous~but he
docs need q lesson
Dinner went off conventlonally
aennEgh, Rose tried the sweet, FEM
mime. dependent role she usually
p.ayed till she decided on what the
eane was to be! She drew DR.. Trap
SOM out about himself, and he WIS.
naturally. deeply interested. her
questions about his work and plans
we're, In fact. so intelligent that the
sxoung man twisted his broad shout
xferx. and turned his fine brown eyes
an his neigh Dor in some surprise
gie didn't look like much but fran
..amything--he especially disapproVeu
of yellow curis. And in the cheek
nearest him he marked deep anu
4 rnsslsss dimple Her hands were 1T
40 and delicate She was very slen-
#t;ar He wondered II she knew now
"a take care OF her health probably
%Y,yst He was sure OF 1t when, In the
sSr.rawtng room after dinner, he noted
s9s,e scandalous height of her small
heels. He determined to advise her
That was the beginning
Isr Transom played the piano Wei
INDUCED by Jimmie. who knew al
1 his friends PAGES. he played some
Heafhoven, some Bache--than little
II M a,sffa-e-theYlatter because he thought
Atsss Rose Thorne might care TOR
aawffer music She sat where ne
could see her by side glance She
Was not amused, evidently. t1naliV
she saunfered over to him and asked;
Cant you play something lively
gypsy dance, or some ragumt
Her .ses were innocent. and he stared
II faar in dismay. But Jimmie Rever-
! ton krinneu and pushed him from the
I Atxst1f
.I.ll play" he laughed, You're
200 solemn Pull UP a rug or two
there, Jimmie Now, Rosie, give us
i step or two.
To the young doctors scandalized
Fascination the girl rose, and to the
Wild time OF the hosts gypsy music
hegan a whiriing dance. He could
not take his eyes from the pretty
witch In her gauzy blue dress. At
I laS<. half exhausted, she stopped sud
denly and came painting to sit beside
him. lie thought angrtfy that the
exers4se was bad for her heart: that
some one should look after the girl,
snnd that he would try to coax her to
( wear common-sense shoes-he would
DO that much good during his stay
u and she was little more than a child,
He wondered at Jimmie's letting the
girl do so unfit a thing. on the
strength 81 his concern for her un-
protected situation he asked her TO
drive with him next day.
Tn doctor had been coaxed to stay
on month at the Riverton place.
"a and Rose began trailing him TO the
4 best OF her practiced ability. while he
cold himself that he WAS looking after
her properly. She rode and walked
4 md drove with him. He found she
sAnld do most things that he could.
and many that he could not; the in
4eiiigence of her sympathy surprised
him. and he always intended 10 speak
10 her about the folly Of her ways.
She delighted him when she did what
he least approved of---even to wear
Ing high heels and dancing.
Sc he forgot his career. Miss Mi
] 5nerva. Boston. his mother. and the
nniverse. And, finally. he forgot
n himself At least that was the opin-
Ion Of his famiiy-before they really
knew Rose.
One Of the signs Of the doctors
& Allment was that ne began TO forget
10 write home. and had already
4 lengthened his proposed stay 10 Ii
week past It's supposed bounds.
Back In the East his mother went
80 call on Minerva. No. Miss Far
3Aagh had not heard from him for
some time. Minerva had long been
tncftiy considered a daughter in the
sfatuily. Not that Everett had made
Hove TO her--he did not know. In fact !
what love was. nor how 10 make t.
1 NOT until he mot Rose. And now tina.
y nm had met her. he did NOT know that
he WAS making love. nor was he
NAWare that he had learned one of
5teyess FIRST lessons--blindness to the
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