Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-01-11
LADY KITTY.
BY MILDRED WHITE.
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20 1870, Western Newspaper union !

come of Kitty Cavendisb whom ba
tather died, and perhaps old Olive
Cavendish wondered, too,
And this anxiety upon his part ma,
nave been accountable for the reoues
that MS beloved daughter bring to 6
satisfactory climax the filtration,
game she had been playing with hel
TWO eligible admirers. With almos,
lovers idolatry, Cavendish wor.
shipped the Lady Kitty, as he called
MS girl and only a certainty of his
own approaching end could have per.
suaded him TO place her in anothers
care.
"hen ne reasoned gently concerning
the accessibility of her choice between
TWO men who so eagerly waited her
pleasure, Lady Kitty, endeavoring to
laugh the affair off, paused before the
SAD determination of her fathers face.
/ but dearest" she objected, "wbv
SHOULD marry without love, and If
ioVe were here, would there not he
sign?
Arthur Is a happy companion-I
love MIN in just that way, and Rob-
err is my 'obedient servant-I use
MIN just that way. But to settle nv
coatented heart upon either one as a
Observation-Disclosures has got into Won
rather to ask such a thingY"
JaVendiSh turned aside impatiently.
do very much ask it, Rather
me- ne said, take walk and think
II over"
Nonderlngly, she wrapped the gers-
mum wool scarf about her shouIders
ana started for the woodland path.
t would soon be time to close
up Elsmere and go back to. the civ
apartment with it's marble surround |
inss. Sometimes she PLAYED here an |
otner game, which since childhood
never lost its charm, a secret game
never shared,
AT these times she was q evnsy
hi.ty free as the winds, gathering
NUS with her little hands that must
oe caferuiy creamed afterward, dig
glng robbery plants from benestb
their beds Of leaves, or swinging ont
upon a bolgh, with the little cnr
Darn dog parking beneath her-the
yelloW cur dog was with her now. as
she hurried down the woodland path
TO THINK OFT her problem Her mo.
dish coiffup had been much disar-
ranged by entangling branches, rim
ping loosely and charmingly about
her small lead. She was going to sit
down upol fallen log to dispense
the troubling question of her future
state whS the cur dogs bark again
lured her ". He was leaping before
the ehtfa11e to a log cabin house
ana as kly followed a mans voice
called from within. |
Ioihe IN whoever you are" called
the man. need help"
Pain trerbled in the voice Ki+tu
went In. r lay there on a cot bed.
iohg slefer figure, with an arm 4
neipiess an red stained at his side:
'ne lace tuned toward her was fine
Ot feature "a pale beneath its tan.
quick, begged the man. "get a -
oahuage' ne bleeding is making me :
[ant-theT is no one else to helm" l
The faint I'D come !
Lady Kty worked quickly ss he i
lad askedher' A fiounce from her
white petcoat was just the thing,
mere wa water near to wash the
Jagged GU and antiseptic on the
Nooueh user; water, too, to battle
us toreheE The brown eyes opened
II last 10 lok up at her gratefully.
lEled py best-tO tie the thing an
'p' tne Ylng man murmured, but ma
NerEtiihe ne Weakness-got me. 1t
vas an az on the ground | STUN Gil
leu ana u against it some way sio
heh-"hel tried to get back here w,
to the -" we
"All rigR' LADY Kitty said choor ho'
nliy' "donbother talking. l will"
Her eyesoving about the room fell cou
pom a snl cupboard. VIII
. VIII you something to eat. sug
men Whegou feel stronger I'll 90 Cir
nj send { a doctor" sor
Out 'ne oblem of her future and loat
lie PRONE OF the wounded arm, ~.
ere as no ng in this new problem ~
cookery Everything in tha crn- nal'
GARD seen TO he contained IN oons regl
lie hurrle one can labeled "soup" prov
} the cot the
How asked interestedly, "do sugl
~ get atm who
inc you man WINGED with pain was,
ne Altered to show her. r,
oh' manage she assured e,,,.
m win Ahdence she was far
ON leeiif But when one ham ;,
ereu XII into the tin, one made pun
| opening1fficlent to release tho proc
up and WI one put two sticks in p
e little Sc with some paper and there
atcheS Deth' why it actually sorry
ade nrfAnd when one carried case.
70 U uor St a a 'nalikIui young man, light
10 neVertess accepted It matter s+o,d
factly-V, one felt glowing s'aiio
accomplishment. iiieh'
And whe oliver Cavendisb tho. there
entng wehed home his daughter "coml
consterTDn at her smudged and ennes
'heveled sarance was promptly plea 1
ieved by radiance of her smile
No" l int decided to marry