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—— Serre ar a ice meee mee . es A aan heh PRPS 5 1 eyed PeMMRR RE par Spe eapiet orld Daily Megivine; ; . onday: November. ° A ee Not Entir ely $8 2 en, $e By Robert Minor} ses: weet's complete Neve! in THE EVENING WORLD. The Paternoster Ruby |. By Charles Edmonds Walk This Book on the Stands Will Cost You $1.25. You Get It for 6 Cents. What Will People Say? 4 Romance of New York Society and =: of a“*Poor Man's" Adventures = By Rupert Hughes Copyright, 1016, by Marper & Brothers, savings deposited somewhere before CHAPTER I. they had slipped through his fingers: probated,” answered Alice. ‘ance was immense, but his IHUTENANT FORBES watched the eurge of automobiles from the rg eee on the Impertant ate were Immenser, “Bo poor Stowe euperior beight of @ motor-bus. He had not seen Fifth avenue tion of @ Deak aad bed been, recon f some Iwo aide mind ‘are ; ouldn’ eines the pathetic old horse-conches were changed te the terrific mended to an Institution of fabulous Stowe, but mother te 90, paaraee t am i i strength. He found at the bank that 9) b? i} From ble swaying serie be roomed to be completely lost in a current of there wae a minimum, below which an fn: Site wealth. The throng, except for the chauffeurs, the policemen and a account was not welcome. His pain- | men whove trades evidently fetched them to this lane of pleasure—the ful self-denials had enabled him just T to clear that minimum with no more |# @ cavalier, and in the prime of throng wee almost altogetier women. As to Forbes's eye, unused te city ‘Ptasidards, almost all the women were princesses. interval than @ akiiful burdicr leaves Ponies spoke very solemnly: “ ‘At first, as bis glance fell on each radiant creature, his heart would Oe ar oar on ay eg 704 realy kad telite He felt poorer than ever for this re- im that tor Tait iis | There is one I could love! I never shall forget her beauty!” And before minder of his penury, and he almost "Ng for your meee? ‘ a \ the vow of eternal memory was finished it was forgotten for the next. : slunk from the bank. Just outside he “tt duaen'e Pound ike nee inate i: | ‘There was one woman, bowever, that he could mot forget, because he . Is 3 ‘aCe Des ae Wonataae who greeted ba 8 used to koow.' {9.0 i 2 Y enone im wi “ ki " (eould not find out what she was like. In the slow and fitful progress up the P “Do you bank here?” m with « quick hum walle that aia bet y } : ¥ ; “ee juat openin pea an be. ite conceal @ note of surprise. , #4. b ba jon, 10 = answeree wealth and familiarity with town ob : Jo fore,” ald Ten yc. esieen oewhat icy? bed that privilege, : Customs, it astounded him. 4 " 2 "Forbes had devoted stich passionate hounds Ge, Intact, ‘ons . “ ‘ang, though his documenta , He had not yet seen the face of 3 4 5 ; ‘ attention to the proper knotting Of (Ceitner when eather’ bene was young, iy tte woman of whom he had seen #0 Sr bis tle that he was hardly ready {peotner er 4 rf were scant. Her head was completely much else. She wus talking to a man Be when the room telephone announced Piensa” htm io deci Bootie ak . Budden trom his view by a hat that in the interior of the box. Her back Lean, Rex (hat Mr. ‘Ten Eyck was calling fF brought the body home to iy Mb was just exactly big enough to 8¢- “it never occurred to Forbes that it! : Bs} ‘ w Fjut tus paing had been wo well apent Bother. He wan very dear to us ai? t @omplish that work of spite. might be the @ back he had fol: ? 5 that Ten Kyck, meetihg bim in the — Persis looked what cemontng ion He grew eager and more eager to lowed up the avenue. How could he BG hed. Ay vs N lobby, lifted hie hat with mock ser. Could for such remote suffer py oa [eee what dower face was hidden vn. have Meets cui FS ake o Vilty’ again, and murinured: | lage os ie 10n, footlighte went uw; se) (, Senne ‘ dh, you miilionaire’ you . moved 4 Ger that overturned straw flower pot 11° curtain reat up The tones BEANE deign to have @ drink with « hick step closed t to ar, esis Gs A women a! meseclves in profile " q like me : then as the stage pushe1 along the rail as if they were Seated & ~ Forbes pleasantly requested him Suspices of Slurray Ten, Ten ta & whe a he Would be near enough to On Unseen horses. The men were — not to be a fool, but the flattery was SUaranteed him as an officer in the a make out the cunni chitecture of “ere silhouettes in the background, y hibap He bad demonstrated bis own 4 hited ote ceed And now, at last, Forbes saw the pi own party," Ten Eyck gene and magnetiem. And now jj the mystery’s left shoulder and th? face he had watched for with such % ‘but 1 have sud uews for family was sponsored by an ol ) eete of her left arm. Seen Impatience. It did not disappoint ‘ lyou; Little Willle isn't invited. He's friend _ with Senator Talt, @ very they fascinated bim Dim. At first she gave him only the 4 7 ing punished for being so naughty Warwick of Ameriean, royalty. profile; but that magic light of st. . last night.” Unconsciously Ten ch gave bim 1 craft Was upon it, and once she f % He acted as if he owned Miss Snother diploma also, though oe mo A Ané once when the traffic wassud- turned her head and c: ‘a slow, 7 ae is Cabot,” eaid Forbe: tive was rather one of. Pay to Pe arrested he was close enough to vague look ng the shadowy val- 4 os ait x ¢ “He usually does.” ols for her little tang of eurprise. oh f wildly tempted to bend down and !¢y of the audience. She could not Mabe) “Bat he doesn't, does he?” ‘You needn't raise your brows, Per ¥ have seen him, but he saw ber and ‘Opinions differ. fe'll probably !*, because Forbeey knows rte . 7a @natch off that irritating bat. He was ¢ound her eo beautiful, so bewitch- Kien oS get her eome dy, Unless her old man &nd things,” he said. ‘He’ 4 @ fearless soldier, but he was not 80 ingly beautiful and desirable that he A has @ change of juck.” erat, too. I caught him deponting ing % ‘a wy sali that. Still, he heard hur Caught his breath with a stitch of fe , ‘ Her ol million dollare in one of our best a iped to a momen- Pain, an ache of admiration, f ry Yes. Papa Cabot has always lived banks to-day. : nels bor who raised his hut in ® Forbes looked again to the bor to Pye a up to every he could make or in- ,,"A million dollars!” Forbes gasped. ring car held up abeam her own, see what manner of women this #5, hi ting mushy and los- “Is there that much money in'the Her voice did nut especially please woman went with. One of them 1 tog ip. The draught in Wall ba 5 a * Sam fim; it was almost shrill, and it had was tiny, but quite perfect. She had Lae Street is too strong for him. Persis ‘orbes had no desire to obtain the a the metallic glitter of the New York the fi of a debutante under toe “ will hold on as iong as she can, but reputation of money under false pre- 4 Her words too were a trifie white hair of a matron. If her age Little Willie ts walting right under tenses. Yet he could not delicately 3 and as unpoetic as bie. were Letrayed by her neck, the dog- {tn ht ith hie basket, ready disc his exact poverty. r 4 “We en @ rotten time,” she said. collar of pearls concealed the ravaxe. | ™ iret high wind. anybody at home? Mrs. Neft was bored stiff. You ought tohave She gat exceedingly erect and seemed ‘Bh yep awiul’ pill, bet Lees eu spoke test the banged Kory it she to cold and haughty till another advertise i edidier good restau: theat than maki r mentioned jt ung. Had material from ' * ‘And then she laughed a iittle at splurge of slang from the shoplifte: and's life saver and offered bim bis have solnethiig Dice, teste ere, Coat Tey Vallete Take Of ee ewooe, he been tried and discarded? His father left him @ pil had noticed her approach, and every S| malice implied, The policeman’s provoked her to @ laugh that was own chair next to Perals. drink, talk a while ana go Rous to to lytes to the new fanatisicm. Forbe He was up early aud went for a Suara mile high, and hie mother wil one was startled. To Forbes her sharp came as a rescue from incan- vi ntl blew and the cars lurched like « child's. She had answered his iow bow of bed. We thought we were very as awkward as an overgrown achvol- ramble in Central Park. As he stood that to do with And the stage lumbered ‘The other wom: homage with nothing more than a dovilish, and preachers railed at the boy, picked up a few ideas in spite on 4 bridge ubove the bridle path two cr. i like a green hippopotamus, taughed large eae vieetgd, $00, wren-like nod and half bint of @ wickedness of the late aypper orgies. of his reluetence. pie “horseback riders came toward hita. love the era of the modera ““"im mad and I'm hungry as the 3 feel a gnawing anx- beautiful, too, a Rubens ideal, drawn “nile. And now the eating place downstairs He sat down flushed with confu- He noted what he supposed to be an ices hed” ang 0VH—ob, pardon me! Ca oe 4 he a90 what was under that para- in liberal rotundities—cheeks, chin, , Te? Eyck threw Forbes into cop- 1s deserted.” sion, but determined to retrieve him- elderly man and his son. They were |, They reached the restai my angel child.” to Forbes: W throat, bust, bips. No cubist could fusion by saying: Only one thing worries me,” sald self. in a little while the music struck @reaned almont exactly alike. As they (Meine inne Lerma nad nat frived, “Mr. Forbes, would you mind q Bea ‘be returned to his hotel he have painted her, for she was like “Youll have to do better than that, Winifred, as ahe pealed off her gloves up once more. |pproached he raw tl stood on the sidewalk waiting for her. porting your grandmother around read Ae ae who has done too much old girl. Mr. Forbes not only rescued from ms and her ov, he air, the @ daughter. The vreeze blew buck the Many people coming up in taxt- room once or twice?” coe treat sanpipedvles. Her face ie from the depths, but he told me hands. "What will cowesext?’ Beck pact va begun again,” euld Ton Byok, skirts of her coat, and as far as arb cabs ne hue boy cook They He bowed low and smiled. “Noth ore br price of his room at the hotel png Were almost invisible, YOU. Were the most beautiful thing he this can't keep us interested much “Come on; Winifred!” Hob Fielding Wa conoerned she was as much a Were al et hrady to ee fae th ing would give me more prams, ‘on te prvaii ent Jed’ holiday eed 8 cutcoute in black and white,” ° Persie emailed a iiitle more cordially ne ope they play Hited Drs..Net-to her. feet and hal Bee ee m Pesaran nae coyee found watching somebody play fons Kyles ee oe oe ee ¥ 3S 32,4: moll carn ry next,” 4 Ms: A Pretended that he ase retire elreag Ww! and mur:nured: was all Perais said. “Tilile, calla For ent: nd Persia was left {0 Hie clutched the rail bard. The gir Pane jor then,” Ten By pom el was over end “Forbes : ” ‘orbes. ‘s night he wan- “That's very nico of him. [ialter and B6F him fo ask the‘orohes- _ “Don't you want to try itr she said us Persie, dimers, Yor the wird then he ean an Wmaginary oritlo, brougnt her back to her table, Are 4 around ie @ theatre. By the At the end of the act Forbes rose ‘tra to play a ta: with an irreniatible simplicity, There was a quuintly attractiv nd cl you all going to the Tuesday to- time he entered the first act was ul- retcueay ate but'Ten Eyck checked Bit “Hefore an anbwor could be mado "I'm afraid Id dlagrace you" iahineee about her Bow, aa wnaliae | Hece sue lel na eth ight?” f art Saished. Eyck, Forbes found him at last 1a "Ww fter the play’ {he orchestra étruck up & tune of exe Come along. Pitiered under, her hats her throat The traffic rules cumpelled It to «0 1 wasto have Rather than disturb the people al- the smoking room below stairs. “Nothing ee Day) truordinary flippance, Weal peices aerey wr diuaped by & white stock. Her beyond and come up with the eure 1 was to have taken Allos, but.Tim! seated he at the back, Me_emoking a ) Hoe isthe arte “Come on, Murray!" oried Persia, ,0he,was on her feet and he could Cituway cont was buttoned tightly On Ite Fight. As It passed Forbes KOIDE to put her to bed without : jag over the rail. Presently he nis Virginia pee seepage Pe We “Wille, order anything, | It doesn't He rose and she came into ¢) ‘manly bosom, and her waist caught a glimpse of three hate, One Mpper. I'l take Mr. 3 the susurrus ‘of robes and Muy Ten yeh? ore ee Her voloe trailed after her, his hot waapish, Her lege were of them ‘ad me Will you come?” Thate Hight. What «| turned to gee a small group of later les,” ead Ten Eyek—tmply that, “We're not nice people,” eaid Persia, for Thee was already backing off jnto ng and gripped the horse well. of Sbout the opera to-night? It's “Erie- ory Sy Ae rt mot “put we do.” the imuelstrom with her arms or He could hardly believe that the thom was a straw flower-pot with a ‘@" Sud Isolde’ with Bremetad. Sea- ta) Went something that "4 Peckontyou don't remember mer" “it's ail we do do,” said the lady of in Ten Eyck’s arms, boon famous dancer” of the old lusclously beautiful siren he had seen white feather like @ question mark StF Tait was to have taken us, but be @ woman, though all ‘Ten Eyck showed a hint of int the embonpoint, whose first naine by Bob Fielding, another man in the “8nces. with bare shoulders and bosom and stuck in it. His heart buszed with 2@ can't go; ao Alice won't care to saw was a towering peesdesen, “L seem to, but—well, I'm now he had gleaned as Winifre party, swept Winifred from her chair, | He felt extremely foolish as he cinging skirts the night before was reminiscent anxiety, He turned S% He sent me bis box, and I have heap of elaborately hall putrid at names and fa “Ive awful! People have gone and she went into the stroam like a Sided, dragging one foot after the this trimly buttoned-up youth in quickly and noted the number of the 4!! those empty ehaire to fill, Mr. i of mist, an i bably was it we met?” stark mad over it. The Mayor ought ship gliding from her launching chute, other. He trod on her toes and smote breaches and boots, Could an orchid car, “48160, N. ¥., 1013." Forbes oan fill one. You can, can’t guiatte o opera cloak shimmering “town “It was in Manila, You were"—— to stop it,” suid one of the men, @ Mrs, Neff looked invitingly at Willie, her with his knee caps, but she only gnq @ hollyhock be one and the same? he had followed up the a you?’ Forbes nodded helplesaly, ‘0 —well, I'll be—— Ofcourseit's _ “ e, don't be a prude,” sa: not stir "ve re she @ chauffeur turned a it it were carried on a pole and Forbes He was cordial enous cyte Persis, “You luow it's healthier than Forbes leaned over te explain to the Don't be afraid whan he rnonee Bp meee stopped, backed, and brought ese boy's first “It beeing. ot gee no semblanco of human clap) both hand: Forbes's playing bridge all day and all night." marooned matron: or atride inside it. But he judged OE ea “But how was T te know 's_wickening,” Willie insisted. “1 wish I could ask you to honor it ae ned @ personality, for it you all dolled up like this? I used to “It's unfit for a decent woman.” me; but I don't know how. nigovcourage like a bugle cul, A. salvo of Ereehing, leaped tate ee an insite a ewemars t a and wel otman ow and quite suddenly he got Lue tietore he could Mgt it whe Opened the door to Bob Fielding, Went to. Who elee can comet ae Ei ; : i i | Pauesd to ten to somethin: \- “Thanks! id Persis, with a tone She ainiled almost intol th of it. The music took a new ie if an- see you in uniform with m1 an! sald Persis, wi oat intolerantly and nifred Mather an Persis said that she was > | QtMer pile of fabrics sald to iy and bronze buttons and sword and huttecs, of sinc. sank back with a sigh just as a huge meaning, With @ deaperate mastor- red ten Ae hm, without recs, The answer to the auerycpluine aa Winitred’s, with, Willie, and ae from both came « snicker—or was {t You were a lieutenant then, I dare The little man made haste with elderly man of capitalistic appearance fulness he swept her from their s' Feralas, Forbes saw @ kind of myatio “He hates the opera, but if I eam ” enly « frou-frou of garments? In any say you're a colonel by now, what?” apoloi don't mean you, my dear, skidded acrosa the floor and bowed back-water solitude out Into the fuil oKnition, fe the Significance tn it. him along I'll come, And tf 1 [| \gage it aagered fhe part of the audi- Forbes shook his head, “No? Welt of course; you dance It quite harin- to her knees. She fairly bounded into current. He hurried to the other side of the “Winitred, aw she put out her hand I'l come anyway" t. you ought to be. You did my lessly enough; but—well, I don't like his arms, The two white polls mingled He was turkey trotting with Persis bride to catch her glan to him, turned te Purest! eiiniined saceetea Gor Bob Bisé \the side lite out in that God-forsaken ‘hele, t0.see you at it, that's ail.” , thetr locks, but their curvettings were Cabot! He wanted everybody to turned her head. But al fae You didn’t tell me our itt sojer Ten Kyck “had a dinner job oa,” but ; And now you're h ‘Well, ri be— _, “Then don’t come along, my dear,” remarkably coltish, Mrs. Neff, who know it, ‘This thought alone gave lok. She was talking to : < ry man was coming.” poomalged to dren te outs be ena a } = where he tood Forbes could, Let's have a drink?’ Persie answered, with a glint of had one in college and daughters of of him the braggadocio necessary to Pal at hee side, She was singing ou if wasn't ure we could get him,” The music and Forbes rose . e 1 J a age, was % : 5 ree oe atts orene They showed no anaicr, “Yes tna ow oul” He“hurried ,. Forbes did not like that “my dear.” amazing exhibition, She bac rj t Oe, and all too soon, the ..“Wake up, old boy; I'll beat you to Feral a geve Forbes her before Persie an old time Sere!" ay ‘to cai catch the the remainder of the act, but Forbes up the stairs, out into the Jt might mean nothing, but it might filled Ike a yacht muale stopped. The dancers applauded 9, next policeman. la hewea rdial word, ™y ay 1 Reve: the ” a gossiping while the frantic atreet, and into @ peacock-rivaling ™e®® everything. _ bucked and ducked ke « yacht in 8 hungrily, and the band took up the . The old boy put apure te Bie horse, ‘arrived a certa'n cou- , She was his again ip the brief * | } Waited, not Garing to reprimand cafe. With one foot on the rail, one squawl; she whirled lke a dervish, last strains) again: “Again Forbes ang they eee Iii'the tren at ple Whirled madly off the dancing dance. He astonished Persie and! ,'* them, yet dreading the noise of their elbow on the bar and one elbow CHAPTER II. slanting and ewogping; her lithe little caught Pi to him, and they re- ,, Forbes watched her til the treme at floor straight into the midst of Pere himnaeit by his Ore es j Sageraten. crooked upward, th sted each 4 tfelt closely about the Veiled tll the music repeated ita final the turn tn the bridle bath quelched sis's guests, with the ‘ha “Don't you ever sleep, Miss Cabot” atched one of the clothes- other in a hearty “Ho! Then, with HEN the final curtain came great curves; her little crash. her from his sight The Mant ees strike in a game of tenpins. She threw him a “f pegete stripped of its encumbrances, libations tossed inward, the old down like a guillotine on feet followed his big feet or retreated ‘phen they stood in mutual embrace Ut of added Wa not remembered ptt fit! under whose feet the floor “Do | look #0 jaded as all that : 4 somewhere in the chaos two friendship yas consecrated anew. the play there wae a gen- from them like two white nice pur- ¢or an instant that seemed a tong 10° ed at him and not rem till eddied, clung to Persis and mean: 1 left you this morning ° am | flong-gloved arms came up; they were Tell me,” said Ten yoke ‘are you aeal waning. & don of ae sued by two black cats. time to him. He ignored the other "in! Fy fs ic stared at her a seond, then gasped: at about 4 o'clock in one costume, j } ly shapely; they made motions #!one—or with somebody? iP Meanwhile Willie Enslee studied couples disperaing to their tables to From the telephone, when ins Cabot, ie it you? bs tert 4 and I saw you at 8 in another, Soe ewan Necks dipping into water- SWer if it will incrimin: Fo Panic to escape from thie the menu and gave his orders to the resume their interrupted fonsta, reac! his hotel room, came the A killed you. Can you ever _ “At eight this morning. | tt garland of fog came a’ , 'No b groaned Forbes. the Walter. Whi the sup 8 com- . voice of Ten Eyck, 1 was riding with my father, i way, bes. finished place and move on to the Talat, pases lifted his eyes to the ademas with & ftartied un; "«That you, Forbesy? Dia T wet you Persia patted her Band and turned you riding too? I didn't eee you. : dancers, shook his h hopelessly, he should be here with her! He had Ut of bed? Sorry! I have an invi- her round to Forbes: “You'd better | “Oh, yes, you did. I stood on the 4 ° Fp on & throat appeared, & fqn Castaway on this de- nxt event, aa I. loak slipped off ince _"Well, I'm the little rescuing party, Forbes heard people whisperin Atty “ and, reaching tation for you. You ma hit with ask Mr. Forbes, You gave him a Ddridge at daybreak. And you looked =” | Ghe taher's hands. And now, design How long are you here for?’ “Look! That's Persis Cabot, Th Forbes on the arm and dem: with Weslo, otaboaaan: And ot Mise Cabot last night, 1 know it, be. lovely black eye. at mo and out me dead.” a = woman stood revealed, q’! don't know. I was ordered to the Cabot girl you read eo much ,,"L0ok at ‘om! Just look noon of night he was already em- Little Willle te dingusted with | Tho irl acknowledged the intro. “Did I really? I must have beed ‘3 and throat were seen to be ore x ‘I don't have to aiout, she's got a slater who's a Cah You believe your own e@: bracing this wonderful one and she You. Winifred says luction with @ duck and « prayer of s#leeD.” Hs scroll of shoulders, and haves oF Ly I thought I'd Now I ask you, I ask you, if you can him, as If they were piighted lovers. RE erEy ING Tee eee vaieh ties WO rae i rar from it. Your eyes were as figure like a column rose from the "&Ve & look York.’ countess or marquise, or something.” seo how a white w8map could hold The floor grew #o rowdy that Forbes Nef says you can ni t ae—as"—— “Oh, Mr. Forbes, what a ghastl band if you will, Meanwhile, they 7, want you to have tea with ua some. Aru shamel Can you ever, ever Hs Meptrangely columnar it wae, ena Th t won't take you long. There's Then Forbes learned by roundabout herself so cheap as to mix with those would no longer take Persie out upon @0 elender that there was merely the nothing going on and nobody in the last name of Willie, and learned ™uCkers and forget her self-respect it. He did not ask her to dance again, te L, i T had to get up. It te Dad's only chance nowadays, , town. sy ; where, and more dancing, Wish T t inslope of waist, merely the * ao far? Even when she raiacd her eyebrows At hor mefoteamatio awfully busy in the Btreah and be's feat entasia at the hips. Forbes remembered the crowds he !t With alarm from two of the sharp- “11 way a weak voicing of Forbes's invitingly he pretended not to under- Could, ‘ak bt Mas eg i gle ‘It's nothing at All, Mise 80 worrled. And he needs the exer- ust then the costume was hardly 2@@ seen and smiled. “I saw three est whisperers: own repugnance, yet as soon as Willle stand. Pilots Tmet you, Mave tocmornow Mise—t never Itked this nosesany way. He won't take it unless I go er ‘of a disguise than the gold or YoY charming ladies in that party of “That's Willie Ensiee with her, 1 spoke Forbes began to disagree with ‘Then he spoke frankly: for ioe though’ eb? Til call for you ly wish you had hit it harder, ene powder smeared on by those ™ ‘Glad you Itke ‘em. Come and meet *UPPOsE.” Bin. we have another dance? this afternoon about 4, eh? Right-o! “Sha hat's very beautiful and self-sac- At any other time it would have _“! must say TI don't see anything Tre playing the tune that made ‘py! i ‘Miss Neff," Perain prompted. "You rineing of you. But how can you keep a 1o pose statues at the vaude- Tien. Inside their outer wraps Sei 4 wrong.” E. Lee famous.’ Hhe had not forgotten him! She met her mother last night. Were you UP, the pace? Gomen were rather wall-papering ,,£grhaps one of them ls your wife, amused Fores immensely to be called “ven though he told Willie Enelee matraid i'm too tir had been imprensed by him! It was expecting to meet your mother here ,,,7,cA0L,much longer. | Tim almost maeives thin draping thelr forms. “Ung yet. Not while I have so far out pf his name, he saw nothing wrong he sat gasping Forbes never dreamed that the small wonder that she had not known this afternoon, Alice ears . waa saner #0, and decenter too, health and stron ave mY But now he could only busy him@eif As at a turbulent pool of tniquity. — gaucherie of his excuse showed the him this morning, Had he not | "Good Lord, I should say not! “You must be made of iron,” he “I'm right glad to Nea tt with deductions: why did they assume _ Then gradually, in spite of him, the desperation of his mind and the strain thought her @ young man at first? Why? music began to invade his own feat, OM his feelings, and that while his Iip® Renides, she had had only a gla “I Just wondered, She ts to meet And yet Forbes stared at this ginning to feel afraid ¢ that any man who was with "Am I 90 heavy as all that? ‘woman as Adam must have stared at ma‘iod , Titan Ho felt a yearning in his ankles, The Were mumbilng It his eyes were cry- him, and he was not dreamed as she us hore.” “Oh, no, NO, YOU are—you are”— Bve when the scales were off his mae yen” pat Goud pag Pasgead ie he hasonite i, tune took on a kind of care-free 'MK: : had seen him first, “When? In heaven's name! When?" mut he could not ney anything with. yes. Even her hair was almost all jaughed, mean? The party piled into limou. ®Wasser, @ flip boastfulness, Don't stay hore any lonser, Foy “She ought to he here now." out saying too much, e added: er own, and it was coiled and parted == Who? Me? Me marry Persis Ca- sines and were whisked away. Pre Ten Fyck brought Persia back to {7° sired, zou 9 not elon bare i CHAPTER III. “Stowe! Stowe!" Alice exclaimed, "Didn't you wear this pad hat yes- with simple grace. Her headdress pot ently they dre up ut a restaurant, the table and the other women re- Pef YOU to be care! uF OF FONE GOs BOE A with a tragte fire that did not greatly terday?” as something bizarre—not a tlara of thathername? Well, why not? AN elevator took the determined turned. pag an oe Met ean nes ORBES had planned to visit alarm the young man at her side, Her head came up with a glare, monds, but a black crest with ® “T¢ you only knew her you wouldn't Persis nnd her cohort up to a The walter had meanwhile set re.” the Army and Navy Clad, | “She'll kill us if she finds us to- “Tsn't that @ ral catty remark for 1 or two studding it—the tri- ask why. I'm not a millionatr thror Ttlbule. cocktails about and deposited two sll- noes rary in which he held a member. Rether. Ian't there some other way t breast of a lyre-bird it was, " “sho doesn't look mercenary, Th hey entered was a mass Ver palla full of broken ice, from Pe nuieds telehe way out? \ ugh he did not know. A cord of “She's not. Money is nothing to her; of t mpacted around a cen- Which gold-necked bottles protruded. yyy ie Gay en Win ttrey peat tt and ship, but now he preferred 1 could go down the staira the to lunch alone—yet not alone, for he walters came up,” was entertaining a guest—the ghost how will you get hom tral e@ @y “ero |rofessional enter- And at each place there were slices id Stowe; “but e pearls was flung around her throat. she doesn’t know what it mi 4 ; 0 | on other women followed her, and just tonges It away. | she’ talners we disvlaying the latest of toust covered with the black shot Shohanged & wianes with tue. Nett, w will you get homer” ; e men them. ey seated them- yacht. You think it costs a ioe to fashions ‘in song and dance. of caviar. ratood tee! ‘ m " “Oh, mother will get me home al i Selves just as the curtain fell. And buy, but walt till you count the up- ‘The head waiter ted them to the . The dancers fell on the appetizers S°r4tood., The feeling qurprisd her in of Persie Cabot was nestling at B® signe never fear.” ald Alice. “Run n Fee benene tase, fn inks at how Forbes felt at liberty to goto his keep. Persia is a corker. She's a fine only empty table, whisked off the with the appetite of harvesters. Persis y+ Bia not resent Bis preaump- Gow Ane conspiring wi im to de- for your life, honey. I'll have my ‘hat way. ion and mileg at a seat, found an usher to pilot girl. But you must promise not to card “Reserved,” and turned tip thrilled Forbes with @ careless: she did Willie's equal anxiety, Vive ® still newer thing than the maid call you op the phone later.” follewed this hat? ney im down the aisle. A voice that marry her. over to a waiter, “It's too bad you don't trot, Mr. dancing tea or the tango luncheon—-a = The young man gave her one long er liked Forbes fo! ould have reminded him of the “I promise. While Wilile scanned the su Forbes.” B " 01 aktn ; nad look fairly reeking with desperate adaulet, but did 1 not, caught his ear ‘Fine! Come along. pher 1@ lost no time in huddling hin before breakfast one-step, In fancy could. Bot but erate 4 led hi tl card Mra. Neff, the elderly lady, lapred | “He's not too old to learn,” said are ‘away from th kisses and embraces, Then he van- = ble. He fussed v box. He was — Ten Eyck waived Forbes's acruples, into reminiscence. If was the only Ten Eyck. “It's really very simple, co he was now thridding the mase Dé isheq Into the orowd, Mer eee tes lata ernie dragged him to the box and presented sign she had given thus far that she once you get the hang of it And— *°pucsnem like a green collie Dub | twoen the tables with her. Persis shook her hoad and turned have been a shock te-you cting a deal of at- omen and two other men. had earned her white hair by age,and et up here @ minute and Til show hotel. It was just across the street. But he paid for only one luncheon. to Forbes: “Doean’t it sound old- when you aaw what was Teally WB@Me | 5 a ir) no y a bleach, ou." vi r hioned, irl id ery The loudness of their name. Even the last , Forbes was embarrassed complete- They ede Kins Sgocenlaht Greerily ‘The bill, However, shocked Bim into & parents?” THURS BL AETNIG: OF aI i ee could only know hot thelr laughter would sscaped both his mem- story of the last fow year 14. Wy when ‘Ten Byek made him stand Up Ho watched the car gilde away, and Fealisation that be could not long af- “Quite mediaeval," Forbes axreed. how you-how beauliful ou Row t Sins Se in a crowd of farm. ory and bie attent “A few Winters ago we thought it and embrace him. But the ple plized that he was ‘alone, ford such fodder as he had been buy- thous she ‘always liked Mr. wish you'd let me say it) « nt Ten Eyck gave Forbes @ glowing was amusing to go to supper at a around made no more gan of ne of them had aked im to call ing for himself. He @ecided to get his Web?” Pernt 9 caida. (Te Be Continued.) 7