The Huttig news., 1916-10-21
BY CONSENT By FLORA A. MONTY.

Eloise did not dress to suit her type. She suited her type to her dress, and thereby kept her friends guessing as to her moods and manners.
 In the days of her small girlhood the Shelbys had lived next door to her at Yorktown, and had later moved to Norfolk. Now Eloise was making her first visit in many years to Miriam Shelby, and instead of being enter tained, owing to the piquancy of her ways and dress, she was herself the 1 entertainer.
 Big, breezy, of-the-world Tim Darcy invited her to be his guest at the races within half an hour after he met her. Miriam's brother, Dick, told her about hearing Darcy remark to Edgar Herdon that he was going to have ''some locker" at the races to- morrow. Drop around to the box and meet her"
 In answer to the invitation Herdon dropped around'' during a Hull in the activities, and found big Tim. for once ] in his life, i'll at ease and obviously ] anxious. The girl v9lo was his guest was ''some looker," round-eyed, ador- able, timidly endeavoring not to ap- i pear shocked at the dreadful spec tacle of horse races and betting. Dick Shelby, who had made it a point to be there, realized that she was having the time of her life in playing the unsephisticated, sheltered damsel that she appeared today.
 Herdon, who, although a close friend of Darcy, was, strangely enough. man of the old-sehool type, and his heast warmed to the quaint maiden he had just met. She refreshed his soul, and he promptly begged her to attend studio tea that he was giving on Sat urday to group of dignifed friends of his mother and his stately married sister.
 On Saturday the older guests assem- bled early, and to them Herdon boast cd of his find, a dainty, fragile blos- som of girl, absolutely foreign to the usual type of society butterfly, and all innocence and unworldliness.
 
 for golden, glittering siren glided in, strikingly arrayed in next seasons style. Her dress was of shimmering golden silk, smartly short Around the ankles of her silken hose were em- hroidered tiny green serpents, and her left wrist was inclosed by bracelet wrought in the semblanee of a ser pent. Her hat was the last word in Paris style, and accentuated the dark ness of her alluring eyes.
 The bored, indifferent male members of the party nearly annihlated each other in the effort to devote them selves to her, in spite of the frigid manner of the ladies present. Dick Shelby kept in the background and made no effort to talk to her. But when she arose to go, he, with quiet assurance, presented himself as her escort. For moment she hesitated, and then, lowing accepted his arm.
 Now look here, Eloise! You are sumner, and you kIpw it, and you've got everyone up in the air about YOU, but there is no sense in making people think you a regular Lorelei, and that's the impression you gave them today. A joke is all right, but I'm not going to have that kind of no- tion spread about you. If you're do- ing 1t for excitement, let me provide you with some of the real kind for to- morrow"
 "All right, Dick! What time shall 1t be, and what shall we do?"
 Good v was the response so fervent that 1t startled her. ''Ten, sharp. in the morning. As to what-that is the excitement. You are not to know until the time comes.'
 Promptly at ten Dick swung his run about around to the veranda, and was pleased to find Eloise already there. trim, quiet and more entrancing than ever, in a simple tailored suit that made her look like a seventeen-year- old schoolgirl.
 Dicks satisfied gaze enyeloped her like caress. Eloise felt herself yield- Ing to the insistence of it. As the car sped away, and along cool country road, she tried to recover her boise by monopolizing the conversation.
 Suddenly he stopped the car. They were near the entrance to a lane that led to country church.
 "Im glad you are fttingly dressed for the trip. Eloise."
 "The trip?" she questioned, puzzled.
 Our wedding trip" he explained.
 Our what.' Her eloquence failed her.
 We're going to be married. YOU know. I've arranged everything. The minister is up there at the church now, and after he's said the words we'll jaunt along to our cottage at the Dells."
 "Dick Shelby, you despieabe crea- ture :! Her wrath blazed white. "So this is your boasted excitement! A cheap kind, I call it. I'll never marry you, and 1 want you to take me back, instantly,' Her anger beat against him as fruitlessly as wind against rock.
 EloiSe jumped from the car "I'Il