The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-08-09

1--WE Won't Urge You II You'd Really
Rather Not"
.-,thout silly children like you having
to make to-do about it? I've just
been in your mothers room suggest
ing that she might give a little dinner
for them
''For whO?"
''For whom, George! For Mr..
Morgan and his daughter"
Look herev George said quickly.
"Don't do that Mother mustn't do
that. It wouldn't look we'll"
Wouldn't look well ?" Fanny
Knocked him. and her suppressed We
hemence betrayed a surprising acerb
ity. "See here, George Minafer, |
suggest that you just march straight
on into your room and finish your
dressing Sometimes you say things
that show YOU have a pretty mean
little mindw
George was so astOunded by this
outburst that his Indignation was de.
I layed by his curiosity. "Why, what
upsets you this way?" Ire inquired.
81 know what you mean" she said,
her voice still lowered, but not de-
creasing in sharpness. you're trying
to insinuate that I'd get your mother
to invite Eugene Morgan here on my
account because he's a widOwer"
81 ann" George gasped, nonplused.
SIN trying to insinuate that you're
setting your cap at him and getting
mother to help you? Is that what you
meanT
Beyond a doubt that was what Miss
Fanny meant. She gave him white
hot look. "YOu attend to your own
affairs I" she whispered fiercely, and
swept away.
George, dumfounded, returned to
his room for meditation.
He had lived for years in the same
house with his Aunt Fanny, and II
now appeared that during all those
years he had been thus intimately as
sOciating with total stranger Never
before had he met the passionate
lady with whom he had just held a
conversation inthe hall. SO she want
b ed to get married And wanted
Georges mother to help her with this
notwithstanding widOwerl
"Well, | will be shot !" he muttered
aloud. 81 WE'LL certainly will be
shot" And he began to laugh
= Lord 'lmightyw
. But presently, at the thought Of the
;, horseless-carriage widower's daugh
ter, his grimness returned and he re
solved upon a line Of conduct for the
! evening. He would nod to her care
: lessly when he first saw her; and
: after that he would notice her nc
more: he would not dance with her
he would not favor her in the cotil'
liOn-he would not go near her
He descended to dinner upon
the third urgent summons Of the col
ored butler, having spent two hours
:, dressing-and rehearsing.
The Hon. George Anderson was q
If congressman who led cotlllions-the
h sort of congressman an Anderson
would be. He did 1t negligently to-
night, yet with infallible dexterity'
now and then glancing humorously al
n the spectators, people Of his own age
IL George had carried out his re
e. hearsed projects with precision. HI
', had given Miss Morgan nod studied
IT into perfection during his lengthy toi
IS let before dinner. ooh, yes. dc
d seem to remember that curious little
70 outsider" this nod seemed to say
Thereafter all cognizance Of her evap
Grated: the curious little outsider wal
permitted no further existence wortl
- the struggle. Nevertheless she flashed
In the corner of his eyes too often
. She seemed to be having wonder
y full timer
a An unbearable soreness accumulat
- ed in his chest: his dislike of the CIR
- and her conduct increased until h
.. thought of leaving this sickening AS
-, sembIy and going home to bed. Tha
i, would show herl But just then h
~ heard her laughing and decided tina
IT wouldn't show her. So he remained
Of When the young couples seate
N. themselves in chairs against the wall
81 round three sides of the room for tn
or cotillion George joined brazen-face
i'd group clustering about the doorway
youths with no partners, yet eligibl
20 to be "called out" and favored. b
" marked that his uncle placed the IL
fernal Kinney and Miss Morgan, a
bo the leading couple, in the first chair
~ ~. at the head of the line upon the Leaf
Un er's right; and this disloyalty on tn
part of Uncle George was inexcusabl
;, for in the family circle the nephe
had often expressed bis opinion {
nu Fred Kinney. In bis bitterness GeorR
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