The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26
The EDening Story
Peggy Makes a Visit.
(By Louise Oliver.)

| like a wedding cake ana give a piece
to each of the relatives and still have
enough left for state police barracks.
L and my little trunk arrived safely
yesterday. How different from Gaby
with her hundred eight-seven. But
when l showed Aunt Margaret my
| Burgundy velvet for afternoons and
my blue tulle for evenings, with the
white to change off with, she quite
approved, and the green suit we work.
ed so hard over she admitted was quite
good looking. She said, however, that
L needed new furs.
Enough about clothes! This morn
! ing, after breakfast, 1 was wandering
| over the house-Aunt Margaret had
some charities to attend to, she's on
about million boards--when 1 came
upon a sort of office which opened out
| of the conservatory. l thought, per-
| haps it was like the greenhouse in the
| park at home, where you go to get
| permission to boil yourself in the hot
atmosphere OF the tropical gardens So,
| urged by curiosity, went in. And there
l saw the grandest looking man you
ever gazed upon.
! Oh, Silly, if you could have seen
him! But still I'm glad you didn't
| for if you had been there he never
would have looked at me, you perfect
classical beauty with that stately
poiSe of yours.
I'd been playing with a Boston pup
and we'd been rolling over rugs and
camel bags (Aunt Margaret has them
for footstoolS in the Turkish room)
and having a glorious romp, so you
can imagine the condition of my hair.
| A net doesn't hold it any more than
a mosquito netting could hold back
Niagara, so of course it was seventy
ways for Sunday.
When l saw the man 1 started to
retreat, but he didn't give me time.
He was beside me in instant, hold
ing out his hand and saying: You
sa1- 18Th in xrnII 7
gave him my hand and while he
shook it 1 said: Yes, I'm Peggy
/ Holdship. Who are you ?" Bright of
me, wasn't it? But he was just the
L was too busy wondering how he had
IEgot the scar at the corner of his
,ipouth Git doesn't spoil him a biD to
think what 1 was saying. IT m the
private secretary he explained, and
Mrs. Harworth asked me to show
up in about five minutes I've been
up to my ears in work
so you add figuresi' 1 exclaimed.
81 should think you'd be out there in
the center Of that fountain holding
a basin or something on your head"
Meaning, 1 gather. that you think
my skull would be of more use than
my brains. Madam, you are not en-
tirely wrong. 1 played tackle en- the
varsity team and my thick Uranium
has served its country WE'LL
So that was where he got the scarf
F., OF course, didn't bother telling him
| that l though he might be more or
! namental than useful. Really it wasn't
quite what [ meant anyway, so L
started to talk about Miggs, the pup,
and soon we were gCssiping a though
we had known each other Q thousand
years He showed me all over the
house and grounds and really, Silly,
I'm going to see that you get to come
next time. It's all so grand.
! 1 must stop now and dress for dim
ner. Aunt Margaret and 1 went rid
ing this afternoon. There is to be
company tonight. I'm sure it's to be
somebody important, but it seems to
| be secret. Anyway, Louise q for
get to tell you 1 have a maid) was
told to fix me up. The Queen OF
| Sheba going tc meet Solomon. ] sup
/ pose I'm sure it's a man! I'll tell
| you in my next letter.
Lovingly, Peggy.
/ = I. =
Friday, November l.
Dear Silly: 1t was man, and who
| do YOU suppose it was? You'll never
guess. Bernard Portman! 1 knew
MIN the instant l saw him. de looks
! just like the magazine pictures. And
so rich, Aunt Margaret says, he could
almost buy out Rockefeller His wife
| died last year, you remember Well,
he's looking for another, hear Do
you know, Silly, I'm beginning to feel
/
and so on makes me suspicious about
her intentions. And she's ordering
me more clothes, and today we're go
ing shopping to a jewelers..
L think it's sort of a game with
Aunt Margaret She's full of sporting
blood and as all the mammas in the
city are out setting traps, she decided
not to be outdone and is going to use
me as bait. That's why she sent for
me- but why not you, you magnificent
old S111v7 believe she has fully
made up her mind tC get the Portn1an
millions for our family. I'm going
to tell her that she's wasting time for
three people-herself, myself, and
the ugly old gentleman. He's forty,
anyway.
| i saw Adonis-I mean Jack Roland
for ten minutes this morning We
were talking in the hall when auntie
came along In plain English, she
was mad and sent him away on Some
errand. He is grand, Silly. | wish l
could see more of him. He has lun-
cheon with US, but that's all, and
from what I gather, with all the fes-
tiv.tics being planned ahead, we Will
be homo SO seldom there Will be 40
chance of seeing him even then He is
awfully smart, too; seems to know
everything and says he prepared for
law. He's certainly hiding his light
under a bushcl here. 1 don't take as
much interest in all the excitement as
1 did at first. If auntie only didn't
fuss so. I'd much prefer to improve
nv time by talking to the secretary.
He knows SO many people every
where, the best people, too, If you
please. 1 must stop
Hastily,
Sunday, November IS.
Dear Sister: Such whirl as it has
been since wrote last. From ? NJ