Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-02

brown out from the IRE, set the roast
ed wild turkey on the table, pushed
back a flying lock OF hair from her
flushed face, and reused her father
from his book. 1t was her happiest
birthday feast in the new land.
In the evening the old gentleman
logged OF on horseback to General
Harrison's farm, to pay his respects
and be served with a glass of Ma
deira. Toinette preferred to remain
at home-Mr. Blackford would call,
perhaps David as well. She finished
her work and sat down to amuse her
self with some embroidery, a candle
made of the wax of the myrtle berry
throwing its light upon her flying fin
gers. The summer dusk fell rapidly
around her. The night closed in,
heavy, warm, full of sleepy sounds Of
bird and insect. Someone's feet at
the doorstep. a hand raped at the
door. Toinette lifted the latchpin. 1t
was David.
She swept him a curtsy.
One of the functions of woman's
dress is to snatch a man out of his
dull shuf1ings upon earth and show
him a world glorifed. That function
was performed in this case. David
saw Madame Recamier Che had heard
of such a person. curtsying to him in
the house of Patrice O'Bannon. Ma
dame Recamier spoke, and 10 1t was
Toinette:
"Why don't you say how you like
it,"
1t was evidently the gown of cob
webs that was meant.
Exceedingly well. . . Excuse
my asking, but is that all of it?"
'Imbecilel The latest from Paris!
It's too bad to waste it on you"
swell, wellw David pretended q
dry Indifference.
Toinette turned up her nose. "Why
weren't you at the weddings?"
Couldn't. / was off on a hunt"
~Lucky?
"No-only a couple of deer"
1.-THE brides were sweet"
She sat down at her needlework
once more and David, seated in the
dimly lighted room, his high linen
collarband cleaning palely between
his dark face and the somber blacks
of his cravat and his coat, watched
her in silence. When he spoke it was
to introduce a new subject:
Congress has voted to increase the
army by twenty-five thousand men,
he said abruptly, "and has provided
for the enlistment of fifty thousand
volunteers in addition"
She let her hands fall to her lap.
"Does that mean war is sure?"
mot yet. But they talk of it freely.
England will yield to zone of our re-
quests"
She smiled proudly to herself at his
use Of the word "our." He went on
with his news:
"Mr. Clay wants a stronger navy.
Curious = isn't TIT that Kentucky
should be in harmony with the sea-
board states in this"
"Yes-they called us the wild men
on the Ohio last winter"
He smiled at her flash of resent
ment. "Are you still as eager for
war as you were once?"
Toinette %shuddered. 1t was unnec-
essary to reply to the thrust.
David went on evenly:
swell, the whole time of the con-
gress is taken up with the debates.
Things are at a breaking point. The
president seems likely to get what his
message asked for in the way Of TIM
Der for shipbuild-Toinette look at
mel"
She looked up, startled at the
change in his voice, and saw what she
had feared-and vaguely longed for
was about to come. David had risen
to his feet. The room seemed sud-
denly filled with a tremendous tensity.
Her heart beat uncontrollably; she
calmly threaded a needle anew.
"Do you know what failure isl" he
flung at her. The torrent of his heart
rushed out with the words. 81 have
struggled" he said harshly, "but l
give up now. l work from daylight
to dark, I read at night at the law, l
weary myself with arguing with Ike
Blackford. These things ought to