The evening world. Newspaper, September 22, 1908, Page 15

Daily Magazine, OOM Founded on “Wiidfiire,’ a ra nedy George Broadhurst and George V. Hobart, now running at the [ibe Theatre (Copyrizht, 1908, by the Pre Company, New York World) SYNOPSIS OF PR) Henrietta Barrington widow, Inherits her hu Under’ the name of vately con! @ trainer, running Tomer sister, Myrtle ne ni, ts CHAPTER II. Who Owns the Duffy Stable? TDLEGRAM for you, sir.” “A Ralph crumpled the tele- gram in his hand, frowning fas he did 90, Myrtle, quick to observe an; change in his countenal asked bin: “No pad news, Is it, Ralph?" | Still confused, he replied: “No, In-) @eed.” “Am dere any reply, sir?" broke In Hortense Hortense.” To ve the tension, @ change the subject of cor “What a jolly crowd your 5 Atsidiag her." she ( “I think Its about th . party she ever had.” Myrtle replied. “think that M. msworth ts one wef the dearest men Hor encomfums of ef a noble house were never fl tas slie spied a visitor crossing the lawn. Evidently he was from the track, as| és outer apparel was of a cut and pat- tern more striking than modish, Ad-| f@ressing Ralph he sald: | “T moseyed over this way thinkin’ T| wmicht find Mrs. Barrington.” “My sister 1s out at present but will Be back very soon," explained Myrtle. | Janet sought ation. r has served. Donovan walted until the gftris had griered the house. Then turning to Re Ip! T gave it to you straight about Bxigper yesterday, Did you keep oft| ban?” | Ytalh held up his hand with a gesture @f warning. ‘Bsh! Ssh!' “I'm wise, But did you keep or! Pant’ | "No, John Duffy told me he was Bure to win.’ “Take {t frum me, that guy couldn't Dlok a necktie.” “Then why do you train for him?" ‘ don't, I train for the John Dufty | tidle— {Doesn't he own the stable” "Did he ever tell you that he aid?” wrled Donovan, "Not in so many wonls, anc I heard sstory to the effect that he didn't. 15 true Further discussion of the ownership the John Duffy Stable, or Ralph's ventures in the betting ring, was in- ;trupted by the return of the girls trom the house, accompanted by Bertie Almsworth, Bertie was talking as he trossed the lawn. Bertie talked a great deal. Underneath his seeming den Ress was a veln of shrewdness, He was @lways in good humor, “Fine morning. I say, when one! DMdges until 4 in the morning one @oosn't feel like getting up hetore'’— At this point he first spied Donovan. | “Beg pardon," he chattered. “Didn't know there were tradespeople here." | Donovan bristled up like a puppy at the sight of a wandering cat, POX FODIOOHOS: Lillian Russell s Racing Wildfire of THERE'S THE BELL! Q| WILL YOU 40, DEAR ? ' 8 | 1 DON'T WANT to Made Into a Serial Story tor The Evening World | SEE ANYONE | ee @ | NUL TELL ‘ f HEM You'Re by John flurray ON rere COOOO. OOODIDHOOG le Sa QODDOODOS COUT O00000000 1 Conmaraaee The Comedy PH 100 With OOOOUOOU! t conclusion he reached ag all ho repiled carefully, Wh | was not express } was: Really!” H Yos, really!” mocked Donovan, who J caught to a nicety the accent of | the whudding spmout of lish no- bility, "Really!" gasped Bertie, who was un- J to being answered back. Grinning at Bertle fn the most ag- x fashion, Donovan turned to saying My | “As the lady aln’t on the premises) and since a certain party cut In I has no desire to linger. | einen. See?" | “Lead pipe-really!" repeated Bertie. Yes, really, And It goes as {t lays,” “Fancy,” answered Bertie, | “Yes, reall y Tapping Donovan on the shoulder + with his light etick, Bartle interjected: | “I said fancy, I think I rather caught That's a lead pipe BABY PLEASE you that time, old chap.” | “By golly! You're a cut up,” laughed KEEP QUIET Donovan, before turning to Myrtle to FoR PAPA'S say: “WIM you tell Mrs. Barrington | SAKE ! when she comes back to the stable’— 5 table!" interrupted Myrtle. “I mean, when she gets back home jhand her the information that Mr. Don- ovan called and will call later.” “Certainly,” replied the girl. “Much obliged. Good morning, ladies.” Bowing elaborately to Bertie, he con- tinued: “Tradespeople, huh? Say, Lord | Blitheringharg, I don't mind telling you te a tegiNar stampede with me." ally!"’ was Bertie's only comment. Donovan passed through the gate and nee |down the road without looking back. His shoulders shook with suppress‘)! merriment at the thought of his mee.- | ing with Bertle and his own repartee. What an extraordinary person,” ex- taimed Bertle. ho ts he, Ralph?” asked Myrtle. “His name {ts Donovan, That's about all I know of him.” Wee seemed to know yo! plied, “Lots of people round here know This has been my summer home ever since I was born, remember.” | " Myrtle re- OHIO OLOTOSSSMTOGANE 6 Newlyweds-:- Their Baby “George McManus’ POCOOOADOGIN POADADIDAVOODSHOVWY MAAN IANOOOA: Tuesday, NO SiR! He JUST WENT OUT With BABY! wHAT 13 THAT ? A PoneG Anes) WHY ~ER— Y-I-YES | | o By & af] FO OOO OOOO OOOO COO 00000 COOO0OT 19 mR Vip Z | NEWLY WED Ws wa | f A, | In ? | CHAPTER III. 4 x The Man From the West. rot: 8,2 gommiasioned by my passage of the antt-betting bill in the at ‘brother to buy a horse for him to win, Albany Legislature, HI had been the Derby with.’ in the strictest fashion, If the OR a moment the four young pe0- | “Rather a motest order, isn't tn) Darel inthe strictest fashion Tf tne ple were alone; that 1s, they |@#ed JarTleoM. ie to fll tt What wo Of, lus son's fiancee waa the owner of a " - Hy vould y if could pair off without the pres-| you think of that horse “Wildflre’ in| Ane stable he would never consent to ence of a third party to make a crowd. Mader) Dufty ea cs} © question sobered Garrison and he To begin the small talk Hertle made) sia eee sarnesiiy: “l cunk go much the comment: [of her phat I intend to buy her if 4 The stable was now on a paying basis and the widow could Indulge In the love of h finery as !s dear to the heart a ery woman “What a ripping party we had last | can Claspii vrtie in her erm, she night. Don't you think #0?” | noo come, 4, Pad sTe eaten sete kissed het fonuiye sayings "T Uked that automobile chap Sander. | grined, b eh Mp house is simply lovely, my er “Then we're both after her. I'm not FA son tmmensely | qninien We're doth atte ber. I'm not’ “Sanderson, and Garrison both seized He isa nice man," chimed in Myrtle, !though until T see what she does in the S42" for,her and placed them side by “Speaking of nice men, what's the Ocean Stakes to-morro him with a smile and the accept- matter with John Garrison?” Iauaeahatescen? Bet toot Tsay You ance of the particular rloce of lawn othing that I can see,” agreed | You think Wildfire whl win?” HADEN Ga tire Janet. “He was born and educated in enna mystery about that Dufty the apparent rivalry of the two men and the east, but mining lured him west |" 'arrsyry os dernieon looked up with [2,S20™ no discriminaton—tnok another soon after he got out of coliege. He! eurprise. ‘ ta et pre URE Gee! i 4 ie ae 7 re lerson Ww t struggled along for several years in| ‘Yes As I understand it, Duffy has| automobiles The sport for him was ai; all sorts of camps, then struck it rich, | been about the track for only two a mania. Being a man of great years or eo and the John Duffy stable Was in existence a year before he came | It Leaning over Mrs, Barrington's on the scene. houlder, he sald, looking at, Garrison, Garrison and Duffy had met before. who stood on the opposite side of the the entrance of John Garrison, who | They had eoene one another ue the | chalr: fers serra hy i " - | West, when both were struggling to| ‘The ride back—well, I guess was ered them with a cordial "Good. | wring . fortunes Mother” Earth,|bad! ‘Talk about your horses.” 8: Duffy had vowed vengeance when de-| ‘I'm for horses every time,” chal- Myrtle arose from her seat at the/feated. This was the first time they | enced Garrison. i table and shook his hand heartily, bad come In TY HO | Te ate, mete felaaaly A Ralph i a @ Paucous Sound of an automobile | asked: ‘“AVhich do you prefer?” How do you do, Mr. Garrison?” was|horn broke the peaceful silence of the | “From where I sit {t looks lke a dead her frank greeting, morning, het,” was her answer. "I'm well, thank you,” he replied, Mat peclalniia 4 Undaunted, Garrison returned with Pleased with the girl's evident pleasure |ganderson. nT eton and Mr. | the question: on, « country road in meeting him. Nodding to the others,| At anouncemem the rest of the|in the cool of a summer afternoon and he continued: ‘It's rather early for a | €TOUp Joined Janet at the gate to greet two really good horses—could anything arty call, I admit, but I thou; Mrs. Barrington, who, rising in the be better than that?” party catl, ft Dut 1 thought Ti tonneau, eried: "Good morniig, every:| tively chatter held the eroun, when would walk over from the house and—~ | body.” """""\Hortense announced to Mrs. Barring- and"— Is Mrs. Barrington about?" Mra Barrington was an attractive |t0n! Janet smiled without making any | Woman just entering the thirties.) _,A man am come who ch he de- comment, but Myrtle explained. “she | Heaven had not only favored her with Jue berchscia MOATINaIR, Gotten went for a ride with Mr, Sanderson this | Sir) 00s Dut blessed her as well morning in his automobile.” “With Mr. Sanderson, eh?” Garrison mused, and came back to enjoy his money In a civilized community.” Their tete-a-tetes were interrupted by = » he could ride his hobby to its with an abundance of sound common ...He wants to see me. I'm to choose y OW! jors, You'll excuse me, sense. She had faced the loss of her|@Y OW? colors. | |fortune with equanimity, Without ts | won't you?” begged Myrtle, entering nper she had faced the world and| ‘*e,pase. HE gored skirt I that is reHeved ot severity by some arrangement of plalts at front and back {8 among the very latest to have ap- peared, ‘This ono $s charmingly graceful yet simpleand |s adapt- ed both to the house and to street wear, ‘The princess style will be a favorite a long thine to come and ts mueh to be commended wherever it ta found becoming, but there are figures to which a skirt of regulation kind ts better sulted, and this one can be cut off at the waist ine and finished with uw belt if desirable. The quantity of ma- terial required for the medium size fe 12 yards U4, 10% yards 2 or & yards # Inches wide yen material has figure or nap; % yards 4, 74 yards & or 4 yards 44 Inches wide when material hes neither figure nor Huttern No. 6089 is it in sizes for a , 8 and 30 In the great French poet of the gone ti September 22, 1! 908. WOOsS2e@ Trance No. 8, EORGIE DO- D HAN, the Fourth of July ind Washington's tirthday and Dec- ration Day and] ‘ankee Doodle and he - old - flag -and- he-dough come- lian, whose close vatterning after v Aristophanes and i juripides and Brian CLARENCEA CULLEN for and the other Greek dramatista has endeared him to the more scholarly students of the stage the world over, Indulges in some singular but charac- teristic fancies In connection with his Mterary and musical writing. As the world well knows, Mr, Dohan does the bulk of the more profound and subtle work of his play and song writing in the wee sma’ hours of the morning, after most of the places that are any good are closed. One very large and carefully guarded room of hls magnificent hotel suite~ which comprises the entire hotel floor, one city block In area—ts reserved for Mr. Dohan's play and song writing activities. Here, after he has watched the gradual extinguishment of the lights and the heaping up of the tables at most of the places that are worth while, Mr, Dohan Ilves Ina little world of his own—a world peopled by the crowding friendly spirits of the cameo- clear chareeteriaations which ve caused Mr, Dohan to be ranged second only to Ibsen and George Hobart, Mr. yohan, Ike Alfred Musset de finds it impossible to adaress himself to Iterary work uniess fully clad in evening clothes, even to the white gloves and the crush hat, Mr. Dohan | was seen in this garb in Broadway | 7 of the clock a few mornings | about 7 ago, which caused him to be somewhat bantered by his friends, who professed | to believe (only by way of chaffing, of | course) that Mr. Dohan been out jall night, when, as a matter of fact, he} nd merely wandered, quite unconscious. ly, while absorbed in the writing of! tle ditty to he called Ja i i | | | The Garb of Uncle Sam. Go Roll Y'r Hoop,” from his study in | | the hotel to the street. While engaged in writing his i }can-flag-ana-the-coln-forever plays, Mr. Dohan, whose patriotism, as everybody knows, amounts almost to an obsexston or a disease, always wears the gart, in satin, of Uncie Sam, even to the chin | whiskers (whiskees furnished by Hep- er), and, to further ‘ tensity the pa- te atmosphere of wis study. Mr. BODO D00000000000000 0000000000 0000U0000. Pipe Trances OF THE Press Agents | discourse selections like “It’s a Grand Old Rag,” and other inspiring patriotic compositions written by Mr. Dohan himself, Mr. Dohan, by th ‘ay, {s thinking of purchasing Mount Vernon, the old home of George Washington in Vir~ ginia, and converting the place Into a manufactory of american flags for use in his own productions, The matter is {n abeyance, however, until it {8 ascer- tained {f there be enough room on the large Mount Vernon estate for tue erec- tion of a plant of sufficlent size to per- mit of enough .ags being made there to meet Mr. Dohan's enormous require ments in this respect. —_—_—~—.—___ Trance No. 9. DNFIDENTIAL, to Dramatic Ed- itors: Miss Anna Jeld, whose season is about to open, desires. the press to know that this year she will do none of the following things Lose her diamonds or figd anybody else's, Take giraffes’ milk baths. y “well-known clubman” to A Corsage Ornament, sh a Johnnie for her at the stage entrance, Dine exclusively on persimmons for the attainment of a Cupid smile. Refuse to live at the Chicago hotel that declines to receive her nine pet hippopotaml, Win $sit .53 on the curb market in a little pyramid play on the advice of “a world-renowned financier.” Wear a hooded cobra as @ corsage | | ornament, Minister nobly unto the wounded and ing when she gets .nto a railroad wreck. er that she ts descended from de Bouillon, the Crusader, Drop through a coal hole the $9,000,000 emera’’, containing on its surface forty engraved verses fvom the Koran, given to her by the Bhiff-Bhaff of Beet-Itt. Almost fall fror the rear platform of her private car into a Rocky Mountain gorge 7,000 feet deep. &e, &eo, &e, &e, & te, &e, &e, Miss Jeld, however, mi vossibly figs ure in other exelv designs, are by the undersigned, of which you will receiy » due notice In advance, (Sianed) DIG UP NEWUNS, Publicity-Plugger-in-Chief for Miss Jeld, Cea Drew Distinction, once a boy of twelve, and H and his sister was about to be muce ried, and the wedding breakfast as to be served by a caterer, an ene tirely new experience for the brother. In his anxiety Inst he shouldn't get his ranged “Behave! Behave! I ain't no trades- made ends meet for herself and her| f&iph Joined her at the door Eloht-@ Skir ; Hentocdl , vn the share of the good things, he asked his ie ; au or herself and her| | tb ight-Gored Skirt Watst’ measure, Dolan occasionally tosses down the pen People. Don't pull nothin’ ike that on mEey Lene look at—our—new | ttle sister without telling any one of] neg tOy wm interested in this.” 4 @ (© throw magic lantern slides of the|SSter about it, and she, of course, as- mie, because when T go up agninat the Nome.” explained Myrtle, who took up| her tiie’ Ty ve, her Mile aise” al Mra Hartington nodded to the young gag t Callor send by mall toTHE EVENING WORLD MAY MAN: { jjoston ‘Tea Party and the Bad Winter sured lim that he could have all he forelgn element I'm a cold propositio COE a Cet alling with im-| had been competied to practise the| fir tvecsen thom, ill yen wear nely (4 TON FASHION BUREAU, No. 12 Wast Twenty-third street, st Valley Forge and Washington Cross. {Wanted to eat, After she returned home SOT ee a ee ee ee RaTange, arose: and tapping his leg sirictast golf-deniai. The ownership of “Take my advice, Have the body a $ optain $ York Send 10 cents in coin or stamps for each pattsrn ordered. } ing the Delaware and the Surronder of | she asked him how he fared, and If he troubled waters by telling Bertie, “This With his stick, announced: ‘'ve got the stable she had kept a secret, only'| deep red with maroon wheels and have MPO a pam a Corn ‘ : had eaten all he wanted, Hoe replled: eataee tetas ae een my eye on a horse T want to buy." | her trainer, Donovan, sharing !t with|the bonnet harmonize with the ton-, ¢ Thee mer panei’ Tour pene eter Saunt ae Pumagt 2s envy, CormWalle one screen at the iar end | Nedieaten She.) pe rant? ne to see my aster (LAE, Fou going’ in ‘for racing?” | her. Mivrtie's hitive fatherciteiaw was] Nea.” laughed Sanderson | {Patterns $ ways specify size wanted. of the study, while nine phonographs| "I didn't eat all I wanted, but I ate Bertie looked Donovan over very! ‘No, indeed. Don't care for horses | at ther very semen eres tee ee (To Be Continued.) 'e 4 (phonographs furnished by Sol Bioom) lal! I could."~Chicago Journal. $94$0O6300 89999009999 $44649909450909609900904-4000600-06409$000-0690$-00500.9-60000H6-060.0406.O000-0: D9O9F-9.9O9FHHVODIGDHHE-GODOD 2G:959F-90090O9-409098G00G-55-0940G069-996-09-H99OHOOH:DTD (Copyright, 1901, by Robert W. Chambers.) GYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INSTALMENTS, | Capt, Philp Selwyn, of an old New York family, has resigned from the army because bis wife, Allxe, divorced him to marry Jack Ruther, @ cotillion leader. Returning to New York, Selwyn frequently meets the Ruthvena, Alixe attl! secrotly loves him, Ruthven te luring young Gerald Erol to gamble at his house, Selwyn begs Allxe to Drevent this, for the sake of Gerald's sister, Eileen, Eileen 8 the ward of Selwyn's brother-in-law, Austin Gerant. Gerald. against Selwyn's advice, has been losing heavily gambling at Ruthven's house, Sel: ‘wyn, worried over a doubtful land dea! (pro- posed by Noergard, his business pai ghidren’ Selwyn and Blleen talk, apart from the others, after dinner, CHAPTER IV. fl (Continued) Mid-Lent. ELICATE luminous shadow banded D her eyes; her hair, partly in shadow, too, became a sombre mystery in rose gold. “Whatever are you staring at?” she laughed. “Me? I don't believe it! Never have you so honored me with your fixed attention, Capt. Selwyn. You really glare at me as though I were interesting. And I know you don't consider me that; do you?" “How old are you, anyway?’ he asked curiously. ‘Thank you, I'll be delighted to in- form you when I'm twenty,” “You look end twenty-five to-night,” he said de-) Nberately; “and the answer is more and Yeas than nineteen,” web A Revelation of New York Society like a mixture of fifteen! “And you,"” she sald, “talk Ike @| minutes, Eileen? Besides, I haven't told) to exact—sithout exacting—his para- frivolous sage, and your wisdom 1s as|hiin about Jesse Orchil's part: | mount consideration and interest? Welghty ag the years you carry. And) “Drina, dear, you know I can't let) Was there no common level of mental | What ts the answer to that? Do you you, say good night, now—it you watt| equality where they could meet?~ |know, Captain Selwyn, that when you) yr, Lansing and your Uncle Philip to’ whera termination of Interviews might | talk to me this way you look about @8/ come to another party.” | be mutual—might be falrer to her? inexperienced as Gerald?” | | Now he went away, utterly detached | hisper one more confidence} ment came over her—at what, she dld not _know. Was It because in his con- pletely altered faee she realized day aftet you may confess to me your my approbation of one more feature—only “Are you going “Yes; T have several'— one, remember!—just one more agreo- the} «stay with me," she said in a low able feature. In that way I shall be| (stant and casy detachment from her-| voice, | Jable to hold out for quite a while, you | eH; and what ¢oncerned her?—was}] por a moment the words meant | see—counting my fingers as soparate| !t because other people, ike Mr. Lan- nothing; then blank surprise silenced | Was she never to gtow old enough, or wise enough, or etperienced enough being so funny about the war in Sa- ingly, “what is It, Elleen?” mar, Couldn't I gtay up—Just five more ‘otbing. I theught—Dut “Ni Please go, Captain Selwyn,’ “No, T shall not until what troubles you.” “r “Try, Elleen.” can't.’ you tell me “Why, it is nothing; truly {t Is not Ing. ¢ © © Only J was— —only a quarter paste He stood t down at her, striving to “pat ts 3 td, flush trifle; “I can't read and I can't+sew and there's noboly here, * ° ¢ I don't mean to dott R id," he exclaimed, me to stay Yor,” she said; He walked swift side and looked dow he called in “['m not going home yet for me at the 0x." “All right," returned cheerfully. For an hour ho sat there telling her e gayest stories and talking ther nonsense, alternating with incisions nohanted | delightful interesting jects which tt sect under his confident guidance. Alert, intelligent, all aq | “And do you know,” he said, ‘that 1 she sald to Boots, He In-| from her and what concerned her--to |feel as tnexpertenced—when I talk to) clined his head; she placed both hands! seck other Snterests of which she knew you this way?” lon his shoulders, Kneeling on the| nothing; absorbed in them to her utter She nodded, “It's probably good for| sofa, laid her lips close to his ear, exclusion, leaving her here with the| us both; I age, you renew the frivolous) Kileen and Selwyn walted, |long evening before her and nothing to fays of youth when you were young! When the entld had ended and had| d0—because her eyes were not yet enough to notice the color of a gitl’>|taken leave of all, Boots also took his|StTong enough to use for reading | hair and eyes, Besides, I'm very grate-|jcaye; and Selwyn rose, too, a troubled,| Lansing was saying: “I'll drive as far {ul to you, Hereafter you won't dare /careworn expression replacing the care-| 8 the club with you, and t ju can sit about and cross your knees and] jess gayety which had made him seem) atop me and come back later look Ike the pleture ofjan tnattentive|.4 yo in Mig@ Erroll's “Right, my son; “Til fintsh a letter! young man by Gébson, You've admitted | ayes, and then come back"—~ that you like two of my features, and| 70), hija aT ! “Can't you write It at the club? I shall expoct you to notice and admit], URS ate An re 1 mm #0lng | et tual elton" he renitediin a lon that you notice the rest,” deianly: g NaseceetaT ie we Bae voice; and, turning to Eileen, sintied his “E admit it now,” he sald, Inughing: |yiag you are well again.” Ylabsent, detached smile, offering his “You musn't; I won't let you. Two! , if hand. kinds of dessert are sufficient at a| CoOd-msht,” she satd, looking up at! put ghe lay back, looking «(ralght up, back Into the library time. But to-morrow—or perhaps tho| "im. The faintest sense of disappoint-| a+ him Into a Don't wa Mr. se h ding out- low yolce, Lansing A moment later the front | door closed below. Then Selwyn came rious er to da er between Jaughter and absorption, she had sat CE her sple among her weight on ald hange in his the subject and to her share 1s old self again! more welcome? “Now,” he sa'd, too kindly, too sooth- | pleasant eyes, |features! Oh, you've given me a taste | Mns—other interests—like those which] him, followed by curlosity, | jof It; {t's your own fault, Capt. Selwyn, | 8° Plainly, In his face, betrayed his] “Is there something you wished to and now I desire more {f you please—in | Preozeupation—had so easily replaced|tell me?’ he asked, semt-weekly lingering dos an Intimacy which had seemed to grow] “N-no."’ A perfect gale of laughter from tne | "eer aud more delightful with every| THis perplexity and surprise grew. |detect and follow sefa cut her short. meeting’ “Walt a eat Boots," he sald; and ‘Drina!" she exclaimed; “it's after; WV mee wee tt ie: thet he. found Poneatian bt wane “aoa the ht'~and 1 completely forgot.” | More Interesting, more important, airway. ‘Oh, dear!” protested the child, “he's | {heir friendship, ther companion young eyes not care, of that gray aloofne I don't care, now young he was after all! stiken expression person in tt What could be Not one shadow In } a trace of pallor, of roun fixed ded on him to nterpret ¢ sub- -- THE YOUNGER SET -- laughed y digcussed, or or mentioned and dismissed with a ges-! to discuss with you, thousand matters of oommon| better go.” tue & Interest {n that swift hour—incredibly ewift, unless the hall clock's deadened| | chimes were mocking Time Itself with| mischtevous effrontery. She heard them, the enchantment 1 in her eyes; he nodded, listening, meeting her gaze with his smile un- disturbed When the last chime had sounded she lay back among her cush- | fons. “Thank you for staying,” she sald ‘do you want| How Jolly, | quite happily. “Am I to g0 Smilingly thoughtful she consideed him from her pillows: “Where were you going when I lei !t all? For you were going here—out there’—with a gest the darkness outside—"some- toward where where men go to have the good ways seem to have, * * * ur c.ub? What do men do it very gay at men's clubs? be Interesting to go! ve such jolly times— men gather to talk that myster- where vOL fous man-talk which we #0 often won-| éomething more nearly your own age. ¥° der at—and pretend we are Indifferent. But we are very curlous, nevertheless— even about the boys of Gerald's age— whom we laugh at and torment; and we can't help wondering how they talk to each other—what they say that is x teresting; for they somehow man- n y that Impression to us— will, * * © It‘ you have done with chat nat our Ingy knee 0 other, and your ayes laughing at me through your clgar-smoke, about @ mil. leisur y draped over the Fighting Jon ideas flash up in me which I desire) #9 © So you had} “I am happler here," he said, watch- ing her, ° “Really?” | “Really | “"Then—then—am I, also, one of the | ‘good times’ a man can have?—when he | 1 at Iberty to reflect and choose as he Jidles over his coffee?” A man Is fortunate ff you permit that choice,” “Are you serious? I mean a man, not! r: |e boy—not a dance or dinner partner, or | | ome of the men one meets about—eve where from pillar to post. Do you think me Interesting to real men?—llke you | and Boots?” "Yes," he said deliberately, “I do. 1 don't know how Interesting, decause—l | never quite realized how—how you had | matured, © © * That was my stupidity,” | “Capt, Selwyn!" In confused triumph; | “you never gave me a chance; I mean, you always were nice in—in the same |way you‘are to Drina, © * * I liked | t-ton't please misunderstand—only | knew there was something else to me—| | It was jolly to know you were really! | fond of me—but youthful sisters grow | faster than you Imagine. * * * And now, when you come, I shall venture| to belleve it is not wholly to do me kindness—but—a little—to do yourself) one, too. Is that not the basis friends! hatte ¢ 0) “Community and equality of inter- | ests?—ten't itt” “Ami—in which the-the charity of} | qumesior experianan meh toe inattention | By Robert W. Chambers, Author of ‘'The Firing Line” and “A Chance.’”’ of intellectual preoccupation and the amused concession to ignorance must steadily, {f gradually, disappear? Is that It, too?” Astonishment and clagrin at his mis reption of her gave place to Oute t laughter at his own expense. "Where on earth did you-I meen that I am quite overwhelmed unger cutting ment of me. Old | duffers of my age”’— “Don't say that,” she said; ‘‘that is guilty to the indictment and » the old footing, I shall not permit you to go back. ra want to, Elle - “T am wondering,” she sald alrtly, bout that ‘Eileen,’ I’m not sure but that easy and fluent ‘Eileen’ fs part of the Indictment. 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