Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-02-10
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won't take you arounl the course"
.Gasping. Isabel let him reach the
French windows Of the drawing
room before recovering herself.
Then she rushed in pursuit. tripping
impatiently over her long chiffon
skirts.
'Corrie-wait! Corrie!" r.
He turned sullenly, secretly aghast
at his own temerity. But Isabel laid
her hand on his sleeve without anger:
thought" she breathed. I always
liked you better than. anyone else.
anyhow. Corrie, IL you'd take me
around the course, early in the MORN
ing when no one here knew, ! believe
you'd be almost grown up enough to
lobe engaged"
Isabel" he cried; FIRE kindling in
He seized her. boy -clpmsily. and
boy-like layished his ampetuous
"You'n get anything" he promised,
h~alf-choked by excitement. "And
everything. oh. Isabel!"
hF1avta's delicate music flowed on
and y. Before Mr.. Rose had fn-
ished his discussion, Corrie and Isa-
bel entered the room. and the eve
ming ended without any possibility Of
lGerard's resuming the theme COM
menced, in the fountain arcade.
When the group separated for the
night, Corrie detained his sister at
the foot Of the wide, cleaning stairs.
Don't rise early in the morning to
give me my coffee, Other Fellow"
he said. Il shan't be starting for the
working pretty steAdiiy and5I need
to rest for the race itself. day after
tomorrow"
She leaned across the bannister to
him; the two young faces framed in
young ripples of bright hair resem-
bled each other very strongly in their
twin moods of exaltation and radiant.
half-incredulous happiness.
You do not feel unwell. dear'
Not a bit. But I'm sleepy" he
caught q. frond Of a till Madeirau
fern that was placed in its ~jardiniare
on the step opposite him. winding
the satin-green strip over his finger,
honestly. all in with s~leepiness. and
I'm going to sleep tonight as IL it was
the last quiet nights sleep I'd ever
get See you tomorrow. kid sister,"
Goodnight, dearest"
So, since she was not to give Cor
RE his morning coffee. she would not
give Gerard's to him or zee him I'm.
til his return from the race course,
As a matter OF courz It was not ia
be contemplated that she should rise
at dawn for q tete-a-tete breakfast
with the guest. at this period when
all the fine elements that composed
their relation hesitated at the point
of capitalization. But she scarcely
regretted the postponed interview. II
would be better to meet each 0the,
differently, at more leisure. He
would come aga1nsto the fountain ar.
.cade. where she watched for Corrie'a
return.
When Flavia reached her owr
room. there stood on her dressing
table a long silver-papor aud fligree
box. Wondering, she raised the lid
to be met with q gust Of exquisite
perfume and confronted with q mas
oe fratl yellow roses, lovely with the
iquaint. virginia. beauty Of suggestion
THAT separates them from ali theil
o~ther-colored kin. Across the giis.
teninS petals lay a cover cut from q
pocket dictionary, bearing written
upon It one sentence: 'Dednttdon o,
the meantng OF F1aviA Rose
She laiA her head beside thu doW.
ers. gold upon gold. She, also, thu
fancy caSna 70 her. had placad thii
DAY In the vaSe Of A-Mansor. Blu,
1.-The day to como outshone It. -
roy pearl one merely white.
'TomoETQw." she whigpsreA - hsg.
eelf. Tomorrow"