Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1925, Page 78

9 7, 1925—PART MONTE By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM SYNOPSIS, | country _gentle calis on a famous London and s told he more than or eight months the ‘hiow standing. and de th his plans for the Winteo h nothing had happened. Feeling an urge 1o give a 11 to some poOF creature. he experiments on those bntact with gntil he finds one w of help. This proves to be manicur (Continued from Yesterday' | | indeed ¢ INSTALLMENT VIL | Taking a Risk. T was curious, but even riosity could not prevail his hunger. Violet him. pretending not to notice, but she knew. and own resolution every moment be- | er. The lack of food to a | aften seems to her nothing | nvenience; to a man she | a tragedy. She found oc \ transter & little of her own his plate—they had overserved him. She ordered further supply of rolls | Then the beef appeared, and she leaned forward Robert,” she hezan, “what 1 am | to tell you sounds incredible. but | helieve it exactly as I tell | You may wonder and spec- | her b esteems it she assured must 1 15t as 1 do, but you must please believe that everythinz happened ex actly as 1 tell it £he knew him so well n their ery, grudging jealous even her the | m THE YOUNG MAN MOISTENED HIS DRY OUT THE LAST DROP O hing o upon en there,” she time hefore n com < he whom 1 it who gives hert remarked r've alwayvs said he he 1zh suspi ou searcely existed helieve what I'm she repeated to hecause it's the tr Today 1 depres talked to me He spoke ah upon Riviera who could was hurryvinz away from this awfu told him several of the ing. and I suppose he seeing how I felt about it “So_he asked you to zo with him eh?” Robert demanded, with a sudden evil twist to his mouth. *A nice nerve vou've got to come and tell me ahout it! Are vou going Fou promised to listen without in * she reminded him quietly My story is ou under. od tle more than usual the <unshine down and how every one off there to we enough to make sftand without your starti wrong ideas. Now, I tell know whether this just like all the others. or or simply the hest hearted per » world. He has no personal n e h; ver even held the other m vet he m: N and he made it in a way that no one could take exception to. You must believe that, Robert.” she added, watching his morose expres ®ion, “or T shall not finish what I have to tell you." “Well, g0 on,” he conceded. ““He h. a villa at Monte Carlo, and he told if I could find a| hrother sister to zo with me, he would us down on Thursday week two months, all our ex-| penses to be paid. and he would bhe responsible for our situations when we returned Well,” he =aid, “I suppose there are plenty of that sort of men in the West End.” Violet looked steadily her com. panion across the table There w a delightful and hecoming firmness her expression, the whole dignity a scrupulously clean mind “There is one thing. Robert, which you may not say to me."” she reminded him, “nor may vou hint at it This man is a gentleman, as my father was, and I should trust him in the same way. Shall T go on or shall we con sider the subject closed? “Yes, go on.” he invited, ashamed of himself. “It isn doubting., and anyway brothe sister.” 2 assented, work at of little vou I'm you haven't a or “but you He stared at her in amazement. slightly in her cheeks ."" she sald horrible vears. as vou know, and dur ing the whole of the struggle 1've kept my end up. 1 haven't even told a fih. I've gone just as straight as any human being ‘could. 1I've had the chances as other girls, and 1 haven't considered them. But I'm human in deed, Robert. I hate misery and ugli ness and poverty. I loathe my day by day life. A few more years of would be the end of me. 1 have made up my mind. if you are willing, to take thie chance. “If T am willing?"" ‘Tc be my brother,” she explained “That is what I propose. You see how quickly I must have made up my mind without knowing it. My firs impulse was to tell him 1 hadn't brother. T didn't do it. My silence suggested that I had."” “You mean me to go to Monte Carlo, t00?" he muttered, in a bewil- dered tone. ‘That is precisely what I do mean,"” acknowledged calmly. “Now, go g vith your dinner, please, before it zets cold, and think for a minute or two. We'll talk agaln later.” He cheyed, and by degrees the The gasped. <h I have! “I've had two | it CARLO Reg. U.8. Patent Offce. began to form itself in his mind. He came of middle-class people, comfort- ably enough placed before the war. The idea of luxury warmed his blood, filled him with all manner of sensuons inticipations. Yet at the same time there was underneath a morbid sense of jealousy. He drank another half glass of wine. Who is this man?" tone a little thick “His name is Wendever,” she con fided ir Hargrave Wendever He is a baronet. and I believe very rich, He lives in the country but to town for a night most he asked, his comes weeks." “How old Is he?" ““I should think from 38 to 40. You will be able to judge for vourself later on, hecause I am taking you to see him." “What—tonight?"" ““Tonight You see, ot to accept.” Rut we'll be found out.” “We're going to risk it.” “Why not tell him the truth? Why not tell him you're engaged to me?" he demanded suspiciousl: “1 want to be quite frank with you, Robert,”” she said. “I'm perfectly cer man is honest 1 am per. rertain he has no personal feel ing for me at all. except one of pity. and yet underneath you know men are all so much alike in the small things I can fancy his being generous to me and to a brother of mine. 1 may be wronging him. he might feel exactly the same toward me and a fiance, but I'm not sure—I wasn't sure then—and 1 dared not risk it. 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It is for vour sake as much as mine that T hesitated If you say so. we'll o to him tonight ind 'l admit | have no brother or sister. hut that I'm engaged to vou and I'll ask him if he'll take us hoth It he says no—well, we've our chance. that's all.” How long was it for?” he relevantly. “And what about clothes. Two months,” she answered. “and as for clothes, he mentioned that him self. He has promised to arrange ft | all. Think what it would mean, Roh ert. We should leave here next week, | and 24 hours after we left Victoria there would be the sunshine and the | music and the sea, no work, nothing | to do but to wander about and enjoy | ours We should leave hehind | the taste of the fog in our throats and | the sound of the rain pattering upon the window panes, the 5 o'clock hammer at the door. the cup of weak tea with black things floating | round in it, and the gray skies, the sray hours, the gray days." The younz man moistened his dry | lips feverishly, poured out the last| dror. of wine and drank it. When were we to see him?" he de- manded hoarsely. “Tonight. Any time. in Berkeley square.” (Copyrizht. 1925, by E. Phillips Openheim.) lost asked ir NEs At his house (Continued tomorrow.) Dayg I,e;gth Varics. HE earth is getting out of step With the music of the spheres, ac. | cording to Dr. Innes, director of the | Unlon Observatory of South Africa, | who announces the result of a series | of investigations which appear to | prove that the rate of the earth’s rota- | tion and consequently the length of | | the day is alternately diminishing and | increasing slightly. This irregularity | puts ail clocks wrong and incidentally explains the old enigma of irregular- ities of the moon’'s motion. 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