Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-01-08


Gillespie were not already cast for it.
t-Gillespie?" she said, wonderingly;
then added at once, as though memory
had prompted her: ITO be sure there
is Gillespie
There is certainly Gillespie. Per
haps you would liefer call him Or
lando?" 1 ventured.
Let me see," she pondered, bending
her head; then: 20, that's a brave
man, He writes brave verses, speaks
brave words, swears brave oaths and
breaks them bravely quite traverse,
athwart the heart of his lover; as
puisny litter, that spurs his horse but
on one side, breaks his staff like a
noble goose: but ais brave that youth
mounts and folly guides
THAT is Celia's speech, but well
rendered. Let us consider that you
are Rosalind, Celia, Viola and Ariel
all in one And l shall be those i'm
mortal villains of old tragedy-first
second and third murtherer; or, if it
suit you better, let me be Iago for
honesty; Othello for great adventures;
Hamlet for gloom; Shylock for relent-
lessness, and Romeo for love-sick-
ness"
Again she bent her head; then draw
hands, she quoted: Come, WOO me,
WOO me; for now 1 am in a holiday
humour and like enough to consent.
What would you say to me now, an
/ were your very, very Rosalind p
l stammered moment, dimiv re-
calling Orlando's reply in the play.
l did not know whether she were dar-
ing me; and this was certainly not the
girls mood as we had met at ST. Aga
tha's. My heart leaped and the blood
| tiGgled in my finger-tips as memory
searched out the long-forgotten scene
and suddenly / threw at her the line:
How if the kiss be denied?'''
She shrugged her shoulders
The rehearsal has gone far enough.
| Let us come back to earth again.
But this, somehow. was not so easy.
Far across the lake a heavy train
rumbled. and it's engine blew a long
| blast for Annandale. / felt at that in
slant the unreality of the days events,
with their elimination in this strange
| interview on the height above the
lake. Never, 1 thought, had man par
| leyed with woman on SO extraordinary
a business. In the brief silence, while
| the whistles echoes rang round the
| shore, 1 drew away from the bench
| that had stood like barricade be
tween us and walked toward her. j
did not believe in her; she had
1 Haunted her shameful trickery in my
! face; and yet felt her spell upon me
| as through the dusk 1 realized anew
her splendid height, the faint dis
closure of her noble head and felt the
| glory of her dark eyes. She did not
draw away, but stood quietly, with her
head uplifted, light scarf caught
about her shoulders, and on her head
a round sailors cap, tipped away from
her face
| You must go back; 1 must see you
safely to St Agatha's,' said.
She turned, drawing the scarf close
under her throat with a quick gesture
| as though about to go. She laughed
with more honest glee than / had
known in her before, and forgot her
duplicity. forgot the bold game she
| was playing, and the consequences tc
| which it must lead; my pulses. bounded
when a bit of her scarf touched my
hand as she flung loose end over he1
| shoulder.
My dear Mr. Donovan, you propose
the impossible. We are foes. yor
must remember, and 1 cannot accept
| your escort"
But have a guard about the house
you are likely to get into trouble ii
lyou try 10 pass through must ash