Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-06-29
You're at the Pax. suppose. See you

You're at the Pax. suppose. See yo'
there"
Mr.. Minot moved on from the i'm
minence OF Mrs. Bruce. A momen
later the limousine sped by him. On
seat was generously filled by the wit
test hostess In San Marco. Seated
opposite her, Mr.. Paddock waved al
airy hand. Life had always been thu
gayest Of jokes to Mr.. Paddock.
| Life was at the moment quite the
opposite to Dick Minot. He devoted
the next hour to sad introspection II
the lobby. It was not until he wa'
on his way to dinner that he agar
saw Cynthia Meyrick. Then, just out
side the dining room door, he encoun
tered her, still all in white, loveliel
than ever, in her cheek flush of ex
citement no doubt put there by the
most important luncheon OF her life
He waited for her to recognize him
and he did not wait in vain.
"Ah, Mr."
"Minot."
"Of course. In the hurry of this
noon QuIlc OVCiiooAou Oh AAA'A o""~
ton. I am"
Miss Cynthia Meyrick. happen
to know because l met his lordship
in New York. May l ask-was the
luncheon"
quite without flaw. So you know
Lord Harrowby?"
slightly. May offer you my
very best wishes?"
80 good of YOU"
Formal. formal, formal Was that
how it must be between them here
after? Well, 1t was better So Miss
Meyrick presented her father and her
aunt and that did not tend to tighten
the formality. Icicles, both of them
though stocky putting icicles. Aunt in
ouired II Mr.. Minot was related TO
the Minots of Detroit, and when ne
failed to qualify, at once lost all IN
terest in him. Old Spencer Meyrick
did NOT accord him even that much
attention.
Yet-all was not formal as 1t hap
pened. For as Cynthia Meyrck NOV
ed away, she whispered: Il must see
you after dinner-on important pusl,
ness" And her smile as she said 1t
made Minot's own lonely dinner quite
CHEEKY. ~,
At seven in the evening the hotel
orchestra gathered in the lobby for Its
nightly concert, and after the way OF
orchestras. it was almost ready TO
begin when Minot left the dining room
at eight. Sitting primly In straight
backed chairs, an audience gathered
for the most part from the more IN
EXPENSIVE hostelries waited patiently
Presumably these people were tnere
for an hour with music, lovely maid
But it was the gowns OF more material
maids that interested the greater mum
Der of them, and many draD lttle
women sat making furtive mental
notes that should while away the
hours conversationally when they GOV
back to Okron or Terre Haute
Minot sat down In a veranda cnal1
and looked out at the courtyard. IA
the splendor of its evening colors, y
was indeed the setting for romance
In the midst of the green palms ano
blooming things splashed a fountain
which might we'll have been the one
old Ponce de Leon sought. ON three
sides the lighted towers and turrets
Of that huge hotel climbed toward the
bright. warm southern sky. A dazzling
moon shamed Mr. Edison's lamps, the
breeze came tepid from the sea, the
very latest in waltzes drifted out from
time gorgeous lobby. Here romance
Minot thought, must have been born
"Mr Minot-I've been looking every
where ~,
She was beside him now, slim
white figure in the dusk-lne one
thing lacking in that glltterlng PIC
tire, He leaped to meet her.
"sitting here dreaming, | reckon,
she whispered, "of somebody 1ar
no" He shook his head. Il leave
that to the newly engaged
She made no answer. He gave nel
his chair, and drcw up another lo o
mt Minot." she said, Il was ter.
r,hlv thoughtless this noon. But you
must forgive mel was so eNclteu
Mr.. Minot--I owe you- ~
She hesitated. Minot bit his ~
savaeely. Must he hear all thar
aaaIn9 How much she owed him foI
h;s service-for getting her to ina,
luncheon in time-that "onoeiiu
luncheon ,., .oP+
IT owe you finished the girl SOIL
~ athe charges on that taxi
II was something of shock TO NIL
IT Was she making game OF him!
~ .non,t" he answered. Hero IN the
moonlight, with that waltz playing
md The old palms whispering-is TINS
q time to talk OF taxi bills"
H.. ~ muat talk Of something