Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-03-20

WAS like heiu2 i'm Jail fact, think
Jail would bc preferable Hut I'm glad
| spent that one day there They dis
penScd with my company because | re-
marked to one OF the silly girls who
are making the A>uiaudo their lifewcrk
that thought the English pre- Ra
phaeltes had carried the dish face
rather too tar The sir, t. whom Ut
tered this hcrc~y was - shaykcd she
dropped a travup-Nou know how brit
tie everything i in there aud | came
home Yen were realty the only al
venture | wi ont Of my day there
And didn't find yon entirely Sati~fac
tory"
"Thank YOU, Francesca, for these
condolences Ana having lost your pc
Sitjou YOU are DOW tree Ia roam the
hills and dream GA orchard walls
Your scheme of life is to my liking
can see with half an eve that yOn were
born for ;hp open and that the walls
of no prison house can ever hold You
again -"
She nodded dreamy acaurSencs
Then she turned two very brown eyes
full upon me and dcmandcd:
What is Your name plcase?"
| mcntio0cd it,
And you doctor chjmneys? That
sounds very amusing"
I'm glad YOU like It, Most people
think il absurd
"What are you doing here? There's
not chimney in sight"
"Oh, have a commission in the
neighhorhood Hopchrld Manor. You
may have heard OF Miss HOLSTERS
place"
"Of course, every one knows OF her"
And now that think of it. it was
she about whom you asked in the Asc-
lando that afternoon You wanted to
know what she said about the tea
room"
II remember perfectly"
She was quiet for moment, then
She threw back her head and laughed
that rare laugh of hers You might
let me into the joke"
at wouldn't mean anything to you
have lot of private jokes that are
for my own consumption
Your way of laughing is adorable
! hope to hear more of it. In the ASo
lando You repulscd me in n manner
that won my admiration but venture
to say now that, if YOU roam these
pastures, | am the grass beneath your
feet and if youdcr tunpfuI water be
sacred to YOU | sit beside the brook to
learn its song"
You talk well. sir, but from your
tone ! fear you can't forget that we
met first in the ASolando. That day
of my life is past. and ! am by no
means what You might call an Asolan,
ded don't seem 10 impress you with
that fact I'm Il human being, not to
be picked like Il red apple, or trampled
upon like grass, or listened to as though
l were a foolish little brook. I'm great
ly given to the highway, and prefer
macadam. | like asphalt pavementS.
too, for the matter of that should
love motor but lacking the coin
pedal bicycle My wheel lies down
there in the bushes You see. Mr.
Chimney Man, | am plain spoken
person and have no intention of decciv
ing you My name was Francesca for
one day only. 1t may interest you to
know that my real name is IcZckiah."
"Hezekah. Then you are Cecilia's
sister and Miss HOLSTERS nece?"
Guilty"
"And you live
GOvor tbora romowbora hnuopd
ridge" And she waved her hand
vaguely toward the village and laugh
ed again,
Pray tell me what this particular
joke is 1t must be immensely fun
ny" | urged, struggling with these new
facts
"Oh. it's Aunt Octavia, She will be
the death of me yet You know the
girl who waited on Aunt Octavia that
afternoon took all that artistic non
sense as seriously as funeral, and she
told me after you left with the great
est horror, that Aunt Octavia had
asked for cocktail" That laugh rip
pied off again to carry JOY along the
planet trails above us. But you
know" she resumed, that Aunt Oc-
tavia never drank n cocktail in her life
and wouldn't. She doesn't know n
cocktail from soothing sirup. She pines
for adventures. She is just like
boarding school girl who has read her
first romance of the young American
engineer in IA South American repub-
lie shooting the insurgents full OF
tortilas and marrying the presidents
dark eyed daughter Sh" reads pirate
books and is crazy about buried chests
and pieces of eight And they say I'm
just like her She is the most perfect
~ killing person in the world Heze-
kiah laughed again.
To be Continued
~ f,sn