Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-09

feet by wearing that American Beaut,
rose, watched you coming tOwarC
me and thought you-perfect, save fol
that one Earring note
Faith Carter laughed quick, ner
vous little laugh and glanced down al
the one thick stemmed rose that she
had thrust among the soft tea roses
of her corsage bouquet.
! Rogers realized that he was waiting
with great expectancy for her answer
The rose seemed suddenly to have as.
sumed enormous proportions in his
eyes.
Faith touched the rose with deli.
cate fingers. Since my flower has
disturbed your peace of mind and
Jared your sense of harmony perhaps
| | had better tell you it's history"
Jimmy Rogers had definite hopes
now and he led his yellow vision into
| a secluded corner that other mascu-
! line Iowans might not take her from
, him.
This rose" said Faith, when he had
seated himself beside her on the wide
divan, found its way very mysterious
! ly into my limousine while was lis
| tening to Caruso in Rigoletto this af-
ternoon. When Jules called for me af-
ter the opera | found this rose, fresh
from the florists, in the vase in my
car" She glanced again at the bud
lying against the chiffon at her breast
and laughed an embarrassed little
laugh. 81 don't know whether a sense
Of romance made me wear it or faint
hope that / might unravel the mys-
terry
"What-what did Jules-have to
say?" Jimmy was torn between a de-
sire to shield Jules from possible dis
charge and longing to tell this glo-
ious creature that the rose had been
put there by his own hand.
Faith looked up at Jimmy and found
the dull red that had come into his
face to be rather becoming. She also
wondered at his hating speech.
II must confess she continued,
that Jules acted bit strange. He
at first denied any knowledge of the
flower, and then remembered sudden
ly that a man who was either insane
or florists advertiser came along
and put an American Beauty in all
the cars waiting at the curb. The
romance, but since it was not unlikely
l
if there was a florists card attached
but there was none. You see,' Faith
laughed, mockingly, there Is still
hope that have an unknown admir-
err
II doubt If he remains long un-
known Jimmy Rogers said, with so
wonderful ring in his voice that
Faith trembled and dragged the rose
from its resting place that she might
cool her face in it's soft petals.
Jimmy watched the flower with in.
creasing jealousy.
"Oh! Here you two are!" Amy Wade
and her husband came up to break the
silence. 81 have looked everywhere
for you She cast a triumphant
glance at her husband which said
plainly, II told YOU So
II say. Jimmy put in Dick Wade,
by way of making conversation, the
next time you buy roses for my wife
see that you get full measure. There
was one shy in the box and American
Beauties count. That one Faith is toy
ing with just reminded me-"
Faith turned her eyes so suddenly
aud forcefully on Jimmy Rogers that
schoolboy. Then he heard her draw
in quick breath, and he waited for
her next words. But she remained
silent while the glance she sent
straight into Jimmy's eyes were
fraught with understanding. Then, be-
cause Amy Wade and her husband
were near, Faith laughed mockingly at
him. "You look guilty, Mr.. Rogers;
believe the twelfth rose has gone
astray."
81 will confess Jimmy told her I'm.
der his breath, that l myself would
stray thousand times If, in the end,
I might find so wondrous nest"
Faith glanced at him from beneath
her lashes.
Perhaps one straying, in your case,
would do" she remarked