Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-04-07
ITS GRANDMOTHER
Almost Was AIuy ReconciIed to
the Ancient Institution Of
Matrimony.

recall we had been "nuts" together
Nothing had happened to him
and so much-so awfully much-t'
me. To put a big tragedy in few
words, he was still nut was {
married man.
"You knowP" / asked, in a hollow
voice.
Emotion choked him, but he
bowed his head in assent.
81 could not help it," pleaded.
Tit simply happened. l just
shut my eyes and it was all over in a
minute"
"a fellow should learn to help it,"
retorted Algernon. "Of course, you
repented at once"
Naturally" l owned.
"Ah ! They all do. But
it's TOO late then"
"Too late indeed !" l moaned tear
fully. GAS you are going my way,
come and lunch with u.s."
"You lunch at homer he gasped.
"Ifs come to that already. Where
DO you dine?"
"At the same place, and in-er-
the same company" l faltered.
"Shockin'l What trainin' for
'eml And it seems only the other
day that"
at seems much longer than the
other day to me-" l walled; "but
come along. Here we are. This is
my prison."
As we went up the stairs I remem-
bered the Lady's mother was spend
ing the day with us.
''YOu don't mind grandmothers,
do your" l asked carelessly. "Nice,
coy old things, amt they9 We've
got one just now"
"She makes you keep her old
grandmother! Good Lord, man, you
have fallen into itp'
Gust Bit" owned. GAS a mat
ter of fact, the grandmother is Its,
you know"
He stared at me with his mouth
open. "And who the dickens is 1t?
Does she make you keep . menag-
erie, man?"
ut is-er-well, it's It. you see,"
| stammered.
suppose l may as well explain
that the Lady's mother is exactly
eighteen years older than the Lady.
who is nineteen. Nineteen is not
very old for the responsible position
occupied by the Lady, but fortu-
nately she married a man many years
her senior (nearly four, to be exact),
no brought ballast, knowledge and
experience of the world, and SO on.
" the luenage.
As for the Lady's mother, she has
the good taste to be extremely like
the Lady, who isn't so bad. She is
considered a beauty, am told am
now referring to the Lady's mother
and looks about twenty.
Algy greeted the Lady's mother
with warmth, and the Lady's mother
cast down her wonderful blue ewes
and smiled so that her dimple flashed
out, and cooed that he was too kind.
and she was, oh, so fattered. And
it was all up with poor old Algy
there and then.
Then we went in to luncheon, and
the Lady's mother made him sit by
her and completed the conquest she
had begun; and the Lady whispered
TO me, "There's the mater going it
again! That calf-thing is quite done
forp
When we sat smoking together
later, Algy watched the door and
spoke with some bitterness of those
whom the gods have blessed.
"Io mind comm home! TO want
to lunch an dine out p he exclaimed.
"Shockin'! Who was the other gel (?
Not bad in her way, but not a patch
on the other one. l suppose you
keep the old granny upstairs? Is
she the bedridden kind? To have
woman like that to come home top
"Oh, she isn't often here" l said
carelessly; "prefers Paris, you know.
She just drops in on RE now and
then, and make her Welcome
that's all there is to it,"
do ! II