Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-07-21
SANDRA is ANNOYED BECAUSE
OF HER CoLORING.
CHAPTER XIV.


I never had been so bored in my
: life as | was at that dinner. In the
first place l didn't understand half
the man next to me said. | suppose
| might have done better if | had
paid attention. But Everett and that
woman at the other end of the table
were talking so intimately all the
time that kept stealing a glance
at them. Everett caught me once
and smiled reassuringly. But the
next time he caught me looking at
them he scowled.
"Mr. Graham is awfully fond of
red-headed women" l started. The
stage whisper of the woman opposite
me had reached me distinctly.
Mr.. Leveridge, the heavy man next
me whose name suited him so well,
laughed little before he remarked:
"You heard thatp'
81 hadn't thought of it, but you are
exactly the coloring of the first Mrs.
Graham. She had just such hair as
you have"
The first Mrs. Graham! l suppose
they spoke of me as ''the second
Mrs. Grahamp' How fiattering to be
a mans second choice! l felt like
screaming! 1 hated them all, every
single one of these old friends of
Everett's who knew ''the first Mrs.
Graham" but / especially hated the
man next to me and the handsome
woman with whom Everett was talk
ing.
Mr.. Leveridge looked at me, then
chuckled. l hated him still more
when he chuckled.
"Never mind. You are young. He
won't get chance to make it three
of kind"
l suppose he imagined himself clev-
erly facetious. But l thought him
stupid fool, and pretended not to
hear that or anything else he said
to me. l suppose it was childish in
me to do so, as l heard him chuckle
to himself each time that l ignored
him.
That dinner was one long drawn
out agony. What people could see
in sitting 50 long, eating and drink
ing and talking I couldn't see. /
hoped they would dance or some
thing afterward. If l had to listen
to some other old man or old woman
talk l should be wild. That / might
also be an uninteresting companion
never entered my head-not then.
To my disgust there was no dane
ing afterward. The women all got
up from the table and left the men
drinking liquors and smoking. At
home the men and women always
left the table at the same time. /
thought it awfully foolish for the
women to go trailing off into the
drawing room alone; and was fright
ened when l thought l should have
to talk to them.
what beautiful hair you have,
Mrs. Graham" Mrs. Garry, the wo-
man whose speech l had overheard
at the table said to me. at is just
like the first Mrs. Graham's hair.
She was lovely woman"
81 heard you remark on my hair
at dinner" I said coldly; thinking
she would be chagrined. But she
only laughed.
at is very unusual that a man
marries two women of the same col
oring, therefore noticeable. You
wear sapphire, too. Another point of
similarity. She wore great deal of
that color, and had the most gorge
Gus jewels; sapphires to wear with
it."
Just then some women came up
and spoke to her, and she said no
more. Perhaps she would have asked
me if l had sapphires also; it was
dreadful to have the first Mrs. Ora
ham" constantly thrust at me: And
l could say nothing to Everett about
it because he had forbidden me to
mention her. l wished he would for
bid also his friends to mention her.
By and by the men came strolling
in. Then cards were brought out
and two tables made up. The rest