Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 20, 1913, Page 2

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CHAPTER II. “l am afraid I have been a long time,” he said apologetically, as he closed the door of the carriage, after giving Mrs, Parker Bowman's ad- dress to the driver. In the uncertain light of the distant arc-lamp, the girl looked small and appealing. He felt a strong desire to lift her burdens and carry them on his own broad shoulders. “I've brought some things that I thought might help,” he said. “Would you like to put on this coat? It may not be just what you would have se- lected, but it was the best I could find that would not be recognized. The air is growing chilly.” He shook out the coat and threw it around her, “Oh, thank you,” she murmured gratefully, slipping her arms into the sleeves. “And this box has some kind of a hat, I hope,” he went on. “I ought to have looked, but there really wasn't time.” He unknotted the strings and produced a large picture hat with long black plumes. He was relieved to find it black. While he untied'the strings, there had been a growing uneasiness lest the hat be one of those wild, queer combinations of color that Cornelia frequently pur- chased and called “artistic,” The girl received the hat with a grateful relief that was entirely sat- isfactory to the young man, “And now,” sald he, as he pulled out the gloves and laid them gravely in her lap, “we're invited out to din- ner.” “Invited out to dinner!” gasped the girl. “Yes. It's rather a providential thing to have happened, I think. The telephone was ringing as I opened the door, and Mrs. Parker Bowman, to whose house I was invited, was ask- ing for my eister to fill the place of an absent guest. My sister is away, and I tried to beg off. I told her I had accidentally met—I hope you will pardon me—I called you & friend.” “Oh!” she said. “That was kind of you.” “l maid you were a stranger in town, and as I was your only ao quaintance, I felt that I should show you the courtesy of taking you to a hotel, and assisting to get you off on the night train; and 1 asked her to excuse me, as that would give her an even number. But it seems she had ! invited some one especially to meet | me, and was greatly distressed not to have her full quota of guests, so she sent you a most cordial invitation to come to her at once, promising to | take dinner with you some time it you would help her out now. Some- how, she gathered from my talk that you were traveling, had just returned from abroad, and were temporarily separated from your friends. She is: also sure that you are musical, and means to ask you to help her out in that way this evening. I told her I was not sure whether you could be . posure, “a stranger—" be prepared for urse I didn’t tell her all 20, 1918. s * Hifl Lutz pe L g 7cA) WALTRS Sver the ‘'phone. But perbape you would better give me a few pointers, for I've never tried acting & part, nm'i’ ‘ can’t be sure how well I shall do it. ' The girl had been silent from as- tonishment while the man talked. «But I cannot possibly 80 there to dinner” she gasped, her hand going to her throat again, as if to pluck ‘away the delicate lace about it and give more room for breathing. ‘1 must get away somewhere at once. I cannot trouble you in this way. I, Dave already imposed upon your kind- ness, With this hat and coat and gloves, 1 shall be able to mnnu: quite well, and I thank you €0 much! I will return them to you as soon as possible.” The cab began to go slowly, and Tryon Dunham noticed that another carriage, just ahead of theirs, was stopping before Mrs. Bowman's house. There was no time for halting deci- sion. 0 “My friend,” he said earnestly, “I cannot leave you alone, and I do " not see a better way than for you to €0 in here with me for a little while, till I am free to go with you. No one can follow you here, or suspect that you had gone out to dinner at & stranger's house. Bellieve me, it 18 the very safest thing you could do. This is the house. Will you go in with me? If not, I must tell the driver to take us somewhere else.” “But what will she think of me,” she said in trepidation, “and how can I do such a thing as to steal into a woman’s house to a dinner in this way! Besides, I am not dressed for 8 formal occasion.” The carriage stopped before the door now, and the driver was getting down from his seat. “Indeed, she will think nothing | about it,” Dunham assured her, “ex- | cept to be glad that she has the right number of guests. Her dinners are delightful affairs usually, and you have nothing to do but talk about im- | personal matters for a little while: and be entertaining. She was most | insistent that you take no thought | about the matter of dress. She sald it would be perfectly understood that you were traveling, and that the invi- tation was unexpected. You can say that your trunk has not come, or has gone ahead. Will you come?” Then the driver opened the car riage door. In an instant the girl assumed the self-contained manner she had worn when she had first spoken to him.' Bhe stepped quietly from the car riage, and only anewered in a low | voice, “I suppose I'd better, if you wish it.” Dunham paused for a moment to give the driver a direction about car- i rying the great pasteboard box to his club. This idea had come as a' sudden Iinspiration. He had not | thought of the necessity of getting rid iot that box before, “If it becomes necessary, where shall I say you are going thie evening?” he asked in a low tone, as they turned ! |to 80 up the eteps. She summoned | & faint, flickering smile. | “When people have been traveling abroad and are stopping over in the | | elty, they often go to Washington, do | they not?” she asked halt shyly, | The door swung open before they could say another word, and the young man remembered that he' must introduce his new friend. As there was no further opportunity to ask her about her name, he must| trust to luck. The girl obeyed the motion of the servant and slipped up to the dress- ilu-room as if ehe were a frequent | guest in the house, but it was in some impldatlon that Tryon Dunham re- | moved his overcoat and arranged his i necktie. He had caught a passing | glimpse of the assembled company, (and knew that Mr. Bowman was growing impatient for his dinner. His | heart almost failed him now that the girl was out of sight. What if she should not prove to be accustomed to soclety, after all, and should show it? Hew embarrassing that would be! He had seen her only in a halfdight a8 yet. How had he dared? But 1t was too late now, for he was dear Miss Remington, it is so of you to help me out! I ean e first glance that it is going %o be a privilege to know you. I ean't you enough for ttiea” waiving formal- lwlth a kind of proprietary pride as ' fs covered with “o that she was very young and ;:':“m:l. He was watching her oved forward to be introduced ::.th': other guests, when he saw her sweep one quick glance around the room, and for just an {nstant hulute draw back. Her face grew white; and she con- n, with a supreme effort, tt::lled her teeling:, ntnd :v:nt with perfect ea he;mp:;t Judge Blackwell was {ntro- duced to the girl, he looked at her with what seemed to Dunham to be more than a passing interest; but the keen eyes were almost immediately transferred to his own face, and the young man had no turther time to | watch his protegee, aé dinner . was ediately announced. mhr:ln Relyfilngton was seated next to Dunham at the table, with the Judge on her other side. The young man was pleased with the arrange- ment, and sat furtively studying the delicate tinting of her face, the dainty line of cheek and chin and ear, the sweep of her dark lashes, and the ripple of her brown hair, as he tried to converse easily with her, as an old friend might. At length the Judge turned to the girl and said: “Miss Remington, you remind me strongly of a young woman who was in my office this afternoon.” The delicate color flickered out of ' the girl's face entirely, leaving even her lips white, but she lifted her dark eyes bravely to the kindly blue ones, and with sweet dignity baffled the questioned recognition in his look. “Yes, you are so much like her | that I would think you were—her sis- ter perhaps, if it were not for the name,” Judge Blackwell went on. “She was a most interesting and beautiful young lady.” The old gen- tleman bestowed upon the girl & look that was like a benediction. “Excuse me for speaking of it, but her dress was something soft and beautiful, like Miss Remington Was Seated Next to Dunham, yours, and seemed to suit her face. I was deeply interested in her, al though until this afternoon she was & stranger. She came to me for a small matter of business, and after it was attended to, and before she received the papers, she disappeared! She had removed her hat and gloves, as she was obliged to wait some time for certain matters to be looked up, and these she left behind her. The hat long, handsome plumes of the color of rich cream in coffee.” Young Dunham glanced down at the cloth of the girl's gown, and was startled to find the same rich creamy- coffee tint in its silky folds; yet she d:d not show by so much as a flicker of an eyelash that she was under the keenest inspection. B “Why should ehe want to disap- pear?” The question was asked coolly and with as much interest as a lu-'l.nger would be likely to show. “I cannot imagine,” sald the old man speculatively. “She apparently had health and happiness, if one may Judge from her appearance, and she came to me of her own free will on a matter of business. Immediately after her disappearance, two well dressed men entered my office and inquired for her. One had an intel- lectual head, but looked hard and cruel; the other was very handsome— and disagreeable, When he could not find the young lady, he laid claim to her hat, but I had it locked away. How could I know that man was Iu; friend or her relative? 1 intend to keep that hat unti] the young woman :;’r:clt t:;lnlml it. I bave not had any- . ’:m‘gpen that has s0 upset me “You don't think ap harm eo:o to her?” qunflon«’l the girl - cannot think what harm could, and yet—it is very l::nu. She was about the age of my dear daughter when she died, and | eannot get her out of her mind. When you first ap- "‘"ll'wlonbotmu..k“ me,"” said the girl, with perfect com- “Don't speak of it, dear. Mr. Dun- hn’l&hndnmnotlmmlu- I merely kept still SUre you. Tryonm, didn't you tell her inferred them. Your name, ay,is Miss Remington—Mary . She was greatly elated ment when she thought you t be Carolyn Remington—who- may be. I suppose she will The name was the first :!" 1t nbpon in the tele you object to bearing evening, it is easy to ses ! My o aame could e misypderstood | how long we have known each | I shall feel quite hurt o never mentioned me to her, Now, come, for my cook is in the last stages of despair over the dinner. | Miss Remington, how do you manage :ohoknhuhndhulyumr. ong -sea voyage?! You must ”;;.m_ tell me young man looked down at girl and saw that her dress vual: it you have spge friend like you,” 8irl, and there wag nomen,h‘ul’: :: eyes that were Taised to hig that made the Judge’ admiration, 648 beart glow with d of you. But pen baps she has foung N "Orouumnm.“ ™ on her » right, 0% #fve WHtention; Blackwell was telling, n what be had hearq, The ladies noy left ty though this was tp, ,ham bad counteq oy quaintance with tne IM. might hold a futyr ., N power, he could not py might follow them t g ¥ He felt entire conndenc: friend's ability to U the end, but he wanteq, to study her ang undeo p:r:hlnce he might goly, that was ever grow; ot b, g As she left the oy . lowed her. His_hogtsy,, (Continued op Pagy 900 | otes The Diieed Sctablished {n Juy i tooms 14 and 16 Katu Paenes: Ofice 180; OR. C. C. WILEOX— PHYBSICIAN AND 803 tpecial Attention Gvent £ Women and Chid Jeen-Bryant Bldg., Sults) Phone 367, BLANTON & LaVLE- &8 ATTORNEYS-ATU( Lakeland SR SARAX I VI OBYEOPATH PETH) Sesms §, 6 and 7, By Lakeland, 7 g Jee Phone 378 Bl touge Phong 378 Bl . J. Mauwanel Reem & Doea & B Archite 8 lflflmhm veys, examinatios, ™ Blueprintis 3. 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