Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-08-01

world and it's people, as she might
have done in another way by pursuing
the time-honored and rather ,cowardly
plan of entering a convent, she was
soon to discover that success in the
undertaking brought deeper sense OF
exile than she could have imagined
herself able to endure at the outset
She found herself more utterly alone
and friendless than at any time In her
life The chance companions she
formed at nterleken-despite we'll
meant reserve served only to in
crease her feeling of loneliness and de-
spair. The very natural attentions OF
men, young and old, depressed her, in
stead of encouraging that essentially
feminine thing called vanity. She
lived as one without an aim, without
single purpose except to close one day
that she might begin the next
After a time, she went on to Luz
cerne. Here the life on the surface
was gayer, and she was reused from
her state of lethargy in spite of her
self Once, from her little balcony in
the National, she saw two of her old
acquaintances in the chorus at the
| Gaiety. They were wearing many
pearls. Another time. she met them in
| the street. She was rather quietly
dressed. They did not notice her. But
the prosperous Hebraic gentlemen who
attended them were not SO careless.
| One day a card was brought to her
rooms. For the next two weeks she
had a true and unavoidable friend in
Lucerne. 1t would appear that Mrs
Rowe-Martin had not been apprised oil
the rift in the Wrandall lutte. She
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sive Miss Castleton as anything but
the most desirable of companions. Mrs
| Rowe-Martin was not long in finding
out Though how she did it, heaven
knows, that Lord Murgatroyd's grand
niece was no longer the Intimate OF
that impossible person, Sara Gooch
She couldn't think of Sara without
thinking of Gooch.
But at last Mrs. Rowe-Martin depart
ed, much to Hetty's secret relief. but
not before she had increased the girls
burthens by introducing her into {
cold-nosed cosmopolitan set from
which there were but three ways of es
| cape. She refused to marry one o.
them, denied another the privilege o.
making love to her, and declined tt
play auction bridge with all of them
They were not long in dropping her, al
though it must be said there was rea
regret among the men,
From Mrs. Rowe-Martin and other,
she heard that Mrs. Redmond Wran
dali and Vivian were to be in Scotland
in October. for somebody-or-other'
christening, and that Leslie had beer
doing some really wonderful flying a
Pau
II am so glad. my dear" said Mrs
Rowe-Martin. that you refused t.
marry Leslie. He rs a cad Besides
lyou would have been in perpetua
state of nerves over his flying.
OF Sara, there was no news, as nigh
have been expected. Mrs. Rowe-MaI
tin made it very clear that Sara wa
respectable person-but heavensi
The chill days of autumn came an
the crowd began to dwindle- Hett
made preparations to join in the Ell
odus- AS the days grew short an
bleak, she found herself thinking NOR
and more of the happy hearted. syn
|. bolic dicky- bird on a PARKWAY windo,
: ledge His life was neither trayest
, nor a tragedy; hers was both of thes<
Something told her too that Brando
Booth had wormed the truth out {
Sara, and that she would never Sc
him again 1t hurt her to think ths
: while Sara believed in her, the ma