Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-10-12
Two at
Luncheon
By Catherine Coope \

Hello! lis that you heXI les
Rex-our table at the Tower has
been removed so / will be at the one
in the second alcove. And Rex, do
you mind if | make it one-thirty in
stead of one? / am in an awful
hurry this morning, so goodbyl Oh
Rex" Mildred's tone had assumed
a coaxing note, 81 have on my Law
ender frock today. Goodbyp
The girl hung up the receiver hur-
riedly, then glanced at her neat little
lavender clad figure in the long mir
ror and smiled. The finishing touch
would be the few well chosen flowers
she knew her brother would bring
to her. Rex was unusual for
brother and insisted on these little
extravagances for his sister.
Mildred reached up for the fluffy
lavender chiffon that hostsd over her
hat and let il drop down across hsr
face. Thus, with a wonderfully beau
tiful face partially concealed Mil
bred made her way to the shopping
districts.
The shops were attractive and
when Mildred finally dragged herself
away it was to find that she would
be perhaps ten minutes late for
luncheon with her brother.
Brothers are easily pacifed, !"
thought Mildred as she swung
through the door of the Tower.
She stood for moment while her
glance played full upon the group
of men standing about the entrance
hall. Covert, open and swift admi-
ration jumped into many pair of
eyes as she stood there apparently
unconscious of the picture she pre-
sented; the soft mist of her chiffon
veil only added a subtle touch to
her beauty.
"The one in the corner" was Mil
dred's inward decision, sis very
good looking"
AS she passed on into the smaller
luncheon room she threw a hurried
glance at the man in the corner who
bad half risen at her entrance.
Without another glance Mildred
went to her table.
Rex had arrived but had vanished
the fact of his having been there was
evidenced in an exquisite corsage
bouquet which lay on the table in
the alcove.
''Rex is extravagant today" MUIR
INJURED Mildred, picking up the flow
ers preparatory to pinning them on,
"Three beautiful orchids and my
favorite-lily of the valley" She
shifted at them and pinned them in
place. 81 suppose Rex has gone of
to have a smoke-since | was so
late, 'Nshe unused and glanced through
the menu.
Rex had come-she looked up.
No!
The man whom she had seen in
the hall was seating himself calmly
opposite her. She looked across al
him, frankly disturbed; her eyes
then encountered those Of the waiter
and indignation should have crushed
him, but there was on use trying to
explain to a man who scarcely UNI
derstood English that he had given
away a reserved seat. She looked
desperately around for Rex.
''You-like the flowers?"
The man opposite had spoken the
fateful words.
An icy chill swept over Mildred
leaving her strangely helpless.
She had assumed that the flower
were hers-that the table was hers
Instead of that she had stepped
into one of those terrible intrigues
Probably the man whose eyes sh'
found so disconcerting supposed
that she had answered some per
sonal in the newspapers.
Because, in her discontinue, sh'
had not found her voice, Mildred
unpinned the flowers from her dres
and put them on the table.
All through the performance tn
man opposite kept his eyes steadil,
upon her and a whimsical smile hat
dawned in his face.
A flush swept suddenly into Mil
dred's cheeks and irritation at it
onslaught made the eyes she turne'