The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-07-31

"Alwaysg"
Always! no matter whom was
engaged to-"
dared even to glance In Marjorie's d.
rection. somehow thought he saw a
straw of self-defense. You we're en-
gagged to three or four others when
was at West Point"
Il may have been engaged to the
Others" said Kathleen, moon.eyeing
him, but always liked you best,
Clifford-er, Tommy mean Harry"
You got me at last"
Kathleen fenced back at this:
We'll, I've no doubt you have had a
dozen affairs since"
"Oh, mol My heart has only known
one real love-" He threw this over
her head at Marjorie, but Kathleen
seized IL. to his greater confusion:
"Oh, Harry, how sweet OF you to say
1t. II makes Inc feel positively faint"
and she swooned his way, but he
showed a chair forward and let her
collapse into that. Thinking and hop
ing that she was unconscious, he
made ready to escape, but she caught
him by the coat, and moaned: Where
am II" and he growled back:
I'm the Observation Carl"
Kathleen's life and enthusiasm re-
turned without delay: Fancy meet
ing you again! could just scream"
so could l."
You must come up in our car and
see mamma"
rs Ma-mamma with your" NAL
lory stammered, on the verge OF i'm
becility.
"Oh, yes, indeed, we're going
around the world"
Don't let me detain you"
Papa is going round the world
also"
rs papa on this train, too?"
At last something seemed to en-
barrass her a trife: mo, papa went
on ahead. Mamma hopes to overtake
him. But papa is very good trav-
eler."
Then she changed the subject. do
come and meet mamma. 1t would
cheer her up so. She is 80 fond OF
you. Only this morning she was say
ing, OF all the boys you were ever
engaged to, Kathleen, the one l like
most of all was Edgar mean Clar-
ence-er-Harry Mallory"
"Awfully kind of her."
You must come and see her-she's
some stouter now!"
"Oh, is she? Well, that's good"
Mallory was too angry to be sane,
and too helpless to take advantage of
his anger. He wondered how he could
ever have cared for this molasses
and mucilage girl. He remembered
now that she had always had these
same cloying ways. She had always
paved him and. like everybody but
the PAYERS, he hated paving.
1t would have been bad enough at
any time to have Kathleen hanging
on his coat, Strengthening his tie,
leaning close, smiling up in his eyes,
losing him his balance, recapturing
him every time he edged away. But
with Marjorie as the grim witness it
was maddening
He loathed and abominated Kath-
leen Llewellyn, and If she had only
been a man, he could cheerfully have
beaten her to a pulp and chucked her
out of the window. But because she
was a helpless little baggage ne had
to be as polite as he could while she
sat and tore his plans to pieces, en-
Filtered Marjorie's heart against him,
and either ended all hopes of their
marriage, or furnished an everlasting
rancor to be recalled in every quar-
rel to their dying day. oh, etiquette
what injustices are endured in thy
name!
So there he sat, sweating his souls
blood, and able only to spar for time
and wonder when the gong would
ring. And now she was off on a new
tack:
And where are you bound for,
Harry, dear?"
The Philippines" he said, and for
the first time there was something
beautiful in their remoteness.
TtIudpS we pnuii ClOSo Inc dCihC
on the same boat"
The first sincere smile he had ex-
perienced came to him: II go on an
army transport, fortu-unfortunately
''Oh, | just love soldiers. Couldn't
mamma and | go on the transport?
Mamma is very fond OF soldiers, too"
I'm afraid it couldn't be arranged"
TOO bad. but perhaps We can stop
off and pay you visit. Just love
army posts. So does mamma"
"Oh, do"
"What will be your address?"
"Just the Philippines-just the Phil
ippines."
but aren't there quite few OF
them?"
"Only about two thousand"
(which one will you be on?"
I'll be on the third from the left"
said Mallory, who neither knew nor
cared what he was saying. Marjorie
had andurad all that sha could stand