Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 256, 13 October 1906 — Page 7

The Richmond Palladium, Saturday, October 13, 1906.

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'A -By AGNES and jKtithorj ttf "The COPYRI C H T. 1006. "Ha, har saia mr jasper, witn a niaeous laugh. "No, sir; I have no doubt you were not prepared for this. Fure, ha! unsuspecting this is pleasant! lie silent, madam; these jfroans, these crocodile tears, hare no effect upon me, ,Come, my lord bishop; yourinctiJ woniou3 airs cannot take meii. Have I not read your letter? Oh, 30U have jrot a very fine head of hair, but I know there is a curl missing. Ha, Julia, you should take better care of your love tokens!" ' "I row," said Dr. Thurlow majestically, "that your behavior, your words, are quite beyond my poor comprehension. . Madam, I pity you from my heart! Sir Jasper, sir," folding his arms fiercely, "your servant. I wish you good morning." He strode to the door, his fine-legs quivering with Indignation' beneath their purple silk meshes. "No!" said Sir Jasper, and seized him roughly by the skirts. ' "No, you do not escane me thus!" "How now!" cried the ' bishop, the . 3 v- : . r V, ,1 niifnn. the nostrils of his handsome" Roman nose dilating. "Would you lay hands upon the lord's anointed? Let go my coat. Sir Jasper!" He struck at Sir Jasper's retaining hand) with his own plump fist clinched In n fashion suggestive of pulpit eloquence. IIa! You would, would you?" ex- ' 'claimed Sir JaspeY, and leaped at the episcopal throat. The next instant, to his Intense astonishment. Sir Jasper found himself In an iron grip, lifted into the air with an ease against which all his resistance was as that of a puppet, shaken till his teeth rattled and deposited on the flat of his back upon the floor. "Oh, help, help, help!" screamed Lady Standish. "Iteally," said the bishop, "I don't know when I have been so insulted In my life. 'Tis the whole church, sir, the Church of England, the state Itself, 4Knf f ah hnro ft ciua 11 1 1 a1 In m TcTirir He stood glaring down on the prostrate foe, breathing heavy rebuke through his high, dignified nose. "You have committed blasphemy simony, . sacrilege, rank sacrilege," thundered Dr. Thurlow. Sir Jasper gathered liimself together like n panther and sprang to his feet; like a panther, too, he took two or three stealthy steps and, half crouching, measured the muscular bishop with bloodshot eyes, selecting the most vulnerable portion of anatomy. He panted and foamed. The air was thick with flying powder. Lady Standish flung herself between them. "In mercy, my lord," she cried, "leave us, leave us!" Here the door opened and butler and delighted footmen burst Into the room. , The bishop turned slowly. The grace of his vocation prevailed over the mere man. "May heaven pardon you," ho said. "May heaven pardon you, sir, and help you to chasten this gross violence of temper. And you, madam," said he, turning witheriugly upon the unfortunate and long suffering lady, "may you learn womanly decorum and circumspection!" "You shall hear from me again," growled Sir Jasper murderously. "Toombs," cried he to the butler, with a snarl, "show the bishop the door!" The bishop smiled. He wheeled upon them all a stately back, and with short deliberate steps withdrew, taking his cane from the footman with a. glassy look that petrified Thomas and refus ing Mr. Toombs proffered ministra .tions as he might have waved aside a cup of poison. "Vade retro Satanas,1 he seemed to say; and so departed, leaving his pastoral curse voicelessly ' behind turn. CHAPTER NIL I OW beautiful you 'are!" said H Lord Verney. He was sitting on a stool at Mistress Beiiairs feet. She had abandoned to him one plump taper fingered hand. The gay little parlor of the Queen square house was full of sunshine and of the screeching ecstasy of Mistress Kitty's canary bird. "How beautiful you are!" said he. It was for the fourth time within the half hour. Conversation between them had languished somehow. Kitty Beiiairs flung a sidelong wistful glance upon her lover's countenance. His eyes, gazing upon her, devoured ber beauty with the selfsame expression that she had found so entrancing earlier in the day. "Deep wells of passion." she had told herself then. Now a chill shade of misgiving crept upon her. "His eyes are like a calf's," she said to herself suddenly. -- -i. - "How beautiful" T JSe began to murmur once again, when '-his mistress little hand, twitching impatient ly from his grasp, surprised him into silence. "Ob. dear! A calf in very truth," thought she. "Baah, baah, ooh! What can I have seen in him ? 'Twaa a sudden pastoral yearning!" "May I not hold your hand?" said be, shifting himself to his silken knees And pressing against her. Yet he was a pretty boy and there was a charm undoubted in the freshness ef this innocence and youth awakening to a first glimmer of man's passion. ' "Delightful task" she quoted under her breath, and once more vouchsafed him, with a sweep like the poise tf a dove, her gentle hand. As it lay in his brown fingers she Contemplated It with artistic satisfaction and .played her little digits up and down, admiring the shape and rolor of the nails, the delicate dimples th kQt'ckla. - But-Lord VerneT's

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EGERTON CASTLE Pride of Jennico" BY EGERTON CASTLE great boy's paw engulfed ffiem an too quickly, and his brown eye: never wavered from their devout contemplation of her countenance. "How" Mistress Kitty sprang to her feet. "I vow," she cried, " 'tis my hour for the waters, and I had clean forgot them!" She called upon her maid: "Lydia, child, my hat! Lord Verney, if it please you, sir, your arm as far as the pump room." (At least," she thought to herself, "all Bath shall know of ray latest conquest."r She tied her hat ribbons under her chin. "How like you the mode?" said she. And, charmed into smiles again by the rosy vision under the black plumes, she flashed round upon him from the! mirror. "Is It not, perhaps, a thought flyaway? Yet 'tis the latest. What says my Verney?" The poor youth vainly endeavored to discriminate and criticise. "It is indeed a very fine hat," said he, "and there seems to be a vast number. of feathers upon it." He hesitated, stammered. "Oh, - what care I for I modes! 'Tis you, you" . "What are you staring at, girl?' cried Mistress Beiiairs sharply to her ablgall. "Out with you!" Well. my Verney?" said she. "Mercy, how you look, man! Is any tiling wrong with my face?" She tilted that lovely little piece of Derishable bloom innocently toward him as she spoke. And the kiss she had read In his eyes landed with un precedented success upon her lips. "Why, who knows?" thought she. with a little satisfied smile as she straightened her modish hat. "There may be stuff in the lad, after all!" She took his arm. Dazed by his own audacity, he suffered her to lead him from the room. They jostled together down the narrow stairs."How beautiful you are!" said he. and kissed her again as they reached the Homber dark paneled vestibule. "Fie!" said she, with a shade of testiness, and pushed him back as her little black page ran to open the door. The kiss, like his talk, lacked any heightening of tone and what of a lover's kiss that shows no new ardor, what of a vow of love that has no new color, no fresh imagery? But the trees in Queen square were lightly leafed with pale, golden green. The sunshine was white gold, the breeze fresh and laughing; the old gray town was decked as with garlands of young love. "He is but new to it," she argued against her fleeting doubts, "and he is, sure, the prettiest youth in all Bath." Love and spring danced In Mistress Kitty's light heart and light heels as she tripped forth. And love and spring gathered and strove and sought outlet in Verney's soul as inevitably and irresistibly and almost as unconsciously as the sap in the young shoots that swayed under the caress of the breeze and amorously unfurled themselves to the sunlight. The pump room was cool and dim after the gray stone street upon which the young year's sunshine beat as fierce as its youth knew how. The water droned its little song as it welled up, faintly steaming. "Listen to It," quoth Mistress Kitty. "How innocent it sounds, how clear it looks!" With a smile she took the glass transferred to her by Verney, and "Ugh!"' she said, "how monstrous hor rid it tastes, to be sure! 'Tis, I fear," she said, again casting a glance of some anxiety at her new lover's countenance, "a symbol of life." let, said he, "these waters are said to be vastly wholesome." "Wholesome!" cried Mistress Kitty, sipping again and again curling her nose upward and the corners of her lips -downward in an irresistibly fas cinating grimace. "Wholesome, my lord! Heaven defend us! And .what is that but the last drop to complete their odiousness? Wholesome, sir? I would have you know 'tis not for wholesomeness I drink." She put down her glass, undiminished save by the value of a bird's draft. "Do I look like a woman who needs to drink wa ters for 'wholesomeness?'" "Indeed, no," floundered he in his bewildered way. "There are social obligations," said she sententiously. "A widow, sir, alone and unprotected, must conform to common usage. 'And, then, I, have another reason, one of pure sentiment." She cocked her head and fixed her mocking eye upon him. "My ioor Beiiairs!" said she. "How oft has It not been my pleasure and my duty to fill such a glass as this and convey it to his lips! In his last years, poor angel, he had quite lost the use of his limbs." . 7 Lord Verney had no answer appropriate to these tender reminiscences, and Mistress Kitty, having, it seemed, sufficiently conformed to the usage of Bath as well as sacrificed to the manes of the departed, turned briskly round and, leaning against a pilaster, began to survey the room. v "La, how empty!" quoth she. "TL your fault if I am so' late, my lord. Nobody, I swear, but that Flyte woman, your odious Spicer, sir ha, and old General Tllney. Verily; I believe these dreadful springs have the power of keeping such mummies in life long after their proper time. 'Tis hardly fair on the rest of the world. Why, the poor thing has scarce a sense or a wit left, and yet it walks! Heaven preserve us why, it runs !" she cried suddenly, with a little chirp, as the unfortunate veteran of Dettingen, escaping from the guiding hands of his chairman, started for the door with the uncontrolled trot of semiparalytic senilitv. .

"And that ' reminds ' me," said Mistress KittjjV "that Sir George Is most particular that I should walk five min

utes between every glass. Here comes your estimable aunt. Lady Maria, and her ear trumpet, and the unfortunate Miss Selina. I protest, with that yel low feather she !s more like my dear dead Toto t'aan ever.' "Was that your pet name for your husband?" murmured Lord Vernev in a strangled whisper. "Fie, sir!" cried the widow. "Mv cockatoo. I referred to my cockatoo.' She sighed profoundly. "I l3ved him,' she said. He looked at her, uneertaui to which of the lamented bipeds she referred. "fceliua, cried Lady Maria in the strident tones of the deaf woman iersuaded Tt her own consequence the voice of your shy deaf one loses all sound In her terror of being loud "Selina, bow often must I tell vou that you mint dip in my glass yourself Who's that over there? Where are m eyeglasses? Who's that, did you say Mistress Beiiairs? Humph! And who's she got with her in tow now? Who did you say? Louder, child! Louder! What makes you mumble so? Who? Verney? I.ord Verney? Whj', that's my nevvy. Tell him to come to me this minute. Do you hear. Selina? Tl:s minute! I won't have him fail Into the net of Widow Beiiairs!" The cockatoo tepknot nodded vehe mently. Toor Miss Seljna, agitnted between consciousness liratr the whole pump took was echoing to Lady Ma"And when did you scfi dtatht" my lord. rla's Bentiments and terror of her patroness, took two steps upon her errand and halted fluttering. Lord Verney had flushed darkly purple. Mistress Kitty hung with yet more affectionate weight upon his arm and smiled with sweet unconsciousness. For the moment she was as deaf as Lady Maria. The latter's clawlike hand had now disengaged a long stemmed eyeglass from her laces. " 'Tis. indeed." she pronounced in her cchnmanding bass, "my nevvy Verney with that vile Beiiairs! Nevvy! Here, I say! Selina, fool, have you gone to sleep?" An echo as of titters began to circle round the pump room. The painted face of Lady Flyte was wreathed into a smile of peculiar significance as she whispered over her glass to her particular friend of the moment, Captain Spicer. This gentleman's pallid visage was illumined with a radiance ofgratified spite. His lips were pursed as though upon a plum of superdelicious gossip. He began to whisper and mouth. Young Squire Green approached the couple with an eager ear and an innocent noddy face that strove to look vastly wise. "I assure you," mouthed the captain. "Was I not there?" "In his bedroom?" cried Lady Flyte, with a shrill laugh. Lady Maria s cockatoo crest rose more fiercely. It seemed to Kitty Bellairs as if she heard the old lady's jaws rattle. It was certain that in her wrath she squawked louder than even the late lamented. Toto. Then Mistress Kitty, who,, to say i the truth. began to find the scene a little beyond J enjoyment, felt the young arm uponfwhich she leaned stiffen, the young figure beside her rear itself with a new manliness. I'ray, Mistress Beiiairs, said my Lord Verney he spoke loudly and, to her surprise, with perfect facility, even " dignity "will you .. allow., me - to intro duce you to my aunt. Lady Maria Prideaux? Aunt Maria," said he, and his voice rang out finely, imposing a gen eral silence, "let me present Mistress Beiiairs. This lady has graciously con descended to accept ine as her future husband. I am the happiest and most honored of men." The last sentence he cried out still more emphatically than the rest and then repeated it with his eye on Kitty's suddenly flushed cheek, almost in a whisper and with a quiver of strong emotion. The astounded Mistress Kitty rose from her deep courtesy with a swelling heart. "The dear lad," she said to herself. "The dear, innocent, chivalrous lad!" There was almost a dimness in her brilliant black eye. Her emotion was of a kind she had never known before; it was almost maternal. Under stress of sudden genuine emotion the wit of intrigue in the cleverest woman falls in abeyance. Mistress Beiiairs found no word out of the new situation. Lady Maria's deafness had increased to an alarming extent. "Gratified. I'm sure," she mumbled, stuck out her dry hand and withdrew it before Mistress Beiiairs had had time to touch it. "My future wife!" bawled the budfling peer in his aged relative's ear. It was curious to note how old Lady Maria seemed suddenly to have become. Huddled in herself, she nodded vacantly at her nephew."Thank ye for asking, child," said she, "but the waters try me a good deal." Lord Verney attempted . another shout in. vajn. "So Sir George says," remarked my lady. " Tis the very eye of my poor dear Toto." thought Mistress Beiiairs. Lord Verney looked round in do spair. Miss Selina 'thought him monstrous handsome and gallant, and Ler o'-J maid's JMCUlwarsQcd-to the

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lover i.i . ..R'.;.-.i irfiuy Maria and g'stuiy Ui ti 1 Ler trumpet. Lady Maria, glad enough of diversion, applied It to her ear with unwonted affability. . "What is it, my dear? Any sign of the duchess?" - "Your nephew," said Miss Selina in modest accents, fyour nephew, my Lord Verney, wishes to inform you that he is about to contract a matrimonial alliance with the lady he has just introduced to you." Miss Selina blushed behind the mouthpiece as she made this announcement. Then she cried "Oh!" with an accent of suffering, for Lady Maria had rapped her over the knuckles with the instrument. "Matrimonial fidd!esticl;sr said Lord Verney's aunt. "Seiiua, you're a perfect fool! Madam," remarked the wraith of the departed cockatoo, incliniot her crest with much dignity toward the Moving Kitty, "I wish you good morn i.icr."

CHAPTER XIII. HERE r.u:st have been a curious mayio ia the words, "My futuie wife." for no sooner had he prcaoi:nccd thorn than T Lord Verney LecH'.ae several Inches taller, a distinct span broader and qtiite u;iroi?c.::i ?.;': older. In fact, from boyhood ho had stepped to man's estate. ' He looked down protcctingly at the little woman hanging on his arm. The seriousness of responsibility settled r.p:i his brow. "Ah. Verney," quoth Mr. Stafford, flicking a Lot brow as tie dashed in out of the sunshine, powdered with white dust from his walk and still bubbling with laughter. "Ah, Verney. playing butterfly r.i the golden hours while other fcliows toil In the sweat of their brow! Jingo, lad. but you've lit on the very rose of the garden. Mistress Kitty Beiiairs, I kiss your hand." At this Mistress Kitly felt her fu ture lord's arm , press her. fing?rs to his ribs, while he straigntened his youthful back., '; ' Mr. StaffcrJ," began he in solemn tones, "fills iJVJyi-':.;.': v-' But she rkaaVias. what was coming. interrupted 'raPll&ssiy. c. . "And pray, Mr. btard,'' quota sue. cocking her head at;.h:m J with those birdlike airs and graces that were ? natural to her as to "aay nining(dove Mistress Kitty - b.erag of those that begin by making eyes in their nurses arms before th?y can speak and end In a modish lace nightcap for the benefit of the doctor "atrd'wSjepce may yor. come so late andthxjs heated?" "Whence?" cried Mr. Stafford, and overcome by the humor of his recollcc tions roused the solemn echoes of tht pump room by his jovial lar.gh. "Ah. you may well ask! From the c.errJest meeting it lias ever been my fate to attend. Oh. the face of him in his chair, between his gout and his temper! And fire eating Jasper all for bullets, and cli Frm'ks' teeth ready to dron out of '. ' '' I t;n ;:Mcorcn.91 0-.

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figure were a p tended for his f : ' r tpwijlly 5s. 1 oil. iuadsI could make yc-i larh had I ta: breath left for it." "Indeed." cried Mistress Kitty plunging in aga.".:. m it becmne cvidecto her that Lord Verney. with t!o gou tie obstinacy . that was part of hi character, was ouce more preparing l make h's nuptial statement. "Mr. St:i! ford, please speak, t":n. for in soo: It seems to me a vastly long time sine I have laugbed." "You actually make me curious." pin Mr. Stafford's prop. "Oh, dear. oh. dear!" sighed Mr. -ta: ford in a. freshest. "Ha, ha tJy thi way, Verney, weren't you also to have walked with the jealous husband this morning? Ah, by the suwac token, and you, too. Spicer? I'm d you didn't. for if either cf you rjt lead in him st joke of the I'd have missed the season. IT-r t rhn-H ho. ho!" (To Be inued.) Artificial gas, the 20th Centurj fuel. 10-tf Letter List. Ladies' List. Mrs. Clara Aring, Mrs. T. A. Brand, Mrs. Geo. M. Brown, Mrs. Daisy Durham, Miss Joy Johnson, Mrs. Will Lohman, Hattie Parker, Mrs. Gertie Taylor 2, Mrs. Mary Tontrup. Gentlemen's List. Frank Archibald, Paul Arbenz. R. L. Beatty, Wilmer Brown, Harry E. Bailey, Russell Cave, Dr. A. B. Collins, R. L. Gaines, J. S. Grubbs, J. H. Handy, M. Hudson, Lawrence, 102 X. 9th, C. M. Miller, William Molley, James Overton, John Richardson, C. S. Rolph, Erie Threlkeld, S. Stone. Harry Tidrick, Lee Townsend, Mr. Trylyne. Dr. Elmer Vincent, Rev. E. Winter, J. S. Wendell. ; Drops. Mrs. F. O. Hulbert. I J. A. SPEKENHIER, P. M. 'Phone or write a card to the Palladium of the little piece of news your neighbor told you and get your name In the news "tip" contest for this week. Miss Tizard of Muncie will spend Sunday with Miss Ada Ebenbach, of South 12th street. CASTOR I A Fc" T. Jiiits and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bough! Bears the Signature of

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