Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-08-04
THE OTHER GIRL
BY SUSAN z. cLAGETT.

One of the two men sitting near
the window of the Metropolitan club
leaned forward, looking after a figure
walking leisurely down the street.
Il did not know Marshall had re-
turned" he said, as he flicked the
ash from his cigar. 1.-THE last l heard
Of him the yacht was at Alexandria.
Must have been a pretty gay crowd
on board, judging from what l have
heard"
Eyes. To those who knew him it has
always seemed odd that Jim should
have accepted the position. With all
their money, the Fieldings are still
deemed much to be desired in the way
of breeding.
Have you ever met the father! He
was born just outside of Washington
of most ordinary neutrality-suspicious.
ly uneducated. But he had a keen
business head and could make $1,000
do the work of three. Went West and
made fortune, then came back here.
Money and highly-educated, pretty
daughters took them into the social
whirl. The daughters. you may have
heard, married into the British peer
age, and the son? Well, the less said
of him the better.
1T seems he took a fancy to Jim
when he was at Johns Hopkins for
treatment and offered him a large
salary II he would go as his physician
on this trip around the world"
Wasn't there some sort of a love
affair? have faint memory of
something of the kind"
Ever since he was a student at
the University of Virginia he has been
interested in girl in Charlottesville.
One day he did the asinine thing-took
Grahame to see her. He is a hand
some fellow, and good looks will
count with a girl against every ster-
ling quality. Jim, as you know, pos
sesses the qualities, but is not much
for looks.
THE outcome was she threw him
over. Then, actuated by the devils
she insisted that he should be an
usher at the wedding.
lin took his medicine like a man.
He is that kind of a fellow, and
walked down the aisle with as dainty
a vision of womanhood as a mans
eyes could rest upon-a younger sis
ter of Mary Houghton's, and, from my
point of view, the more attractive of
the two. / have often wondered IL
she would not get him in the rebound,
but of late there has been more or
less talk of Fielding's sister-in-law"
Jim Marshall paused as he reached
the avenue and looked across at the
stream of cars and pedestrians enter
ing the White House gates.
The man heaved a sigh of enjoy
ment. 1T is good to be home" he
thought, as he swung across the street,
narrowly missing a little car coming
slowly toward him.
The driver, a woman, called to him.
He had not seen her, and as he
went up to the car he wondered at
the change in the girl he had walked
with down the aisle of a country
church twelve months before
Surely you have grown up" he said
with smile, as he took her hand into
warm, close grasp. Your voice
brought back memory. else might
not have known you"
Had you really forgotten me, Doc
tor Marshall?"' she asked simply. Il
knew you at once"
Il said might, did not?" he laughed.
mo. l could not forget such a COM
panion as you proved yourself that
night a year ago. / was merely I'M
prepared for the bewildering change
from girlhood to womanhood. All!
seem fated to be run down today"
AS a limousine brushed by him he lift
ed his hat.
The girl in the big car leaned for
ward, looking straight into his eyes,
then raised her glance to the fresh,
young face in the little car.
rs that Miss Howard?" the girl be-
side him asked. "She is very hand
some, and, hear, very rich" A slight
flush crept into her face. dying out
as quickly as it had come. Il under
stand your friends should extend con-
gratulations"
$50 you have heard that rumor," he
replied shortly. well, there isn't a
word of truth in it. Ordinarily 1 do
not take the trouble to deny it, but 1
want you to know"
"And why me?" she asked lightly.
You have older friends who have q
prior claim, although / doubt IL they
would feel more interest"
He hesitated long before replying.
This is not the time or place would
choose to tell you," he answered at
last, turning his back fully upon the
passing crowd. but Mrs. Grundy is a
persistent old lady and makes a great
deal of trouble. Ever since landed
that rumor has followed me. But I
want to tell you what Mrs. Grundy
cannot know. I was safeguarded by
the vision of little girl in a big
picture hat and a yellow gown, with
a bunch of snapdragons in her arms
little country girl living near Char
lottesville."
The girl leaned forward. eyes shin
ing. lips parted. do you really mean
me, Doctor Marshall?" Then more
slowly, 81 had thought Mary"
Think of what / have told YOU
of nothing else" he replied somewhat
peremptorily. II did care for Mary.
but for IL months / have remembered