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Gr Ev The The Office What Will People Say? 4 Romance of New York Society and —: of a “Poor Man's” aavenare: ane By Rupert Hughes 1014, by Harper & Brothen,) or ior alae ee OmArTans, way from Meal fs sha Path eres oy at abe rode in the bridle path, but he feared’ t tore tat 2 fey a it ry rae. er laughed again, bees ves She set her foot in the stirrup, flu: 4 leg across the saddle and wi arnod m away. While Willie got one foot in the atirryp and went nope hither and yon in pursuit of it ah the other, Persis was getting ac- quainted with her own mount, humor- ing him in hie schoolboy hilarity and Saply repressing any malicious mis- The moment Willie was aboard the two horses whirled and charged down the winding road in a mad gallopade And Forbes's heart galloped in his breast as he wondered if he should ever see her alive again. He had felt me Miss Cabot? Couldn't Shit setae fear for her that first day you possibly?” he pleaded, forward idly, "He was always and she whispered, with « fecling afraid tore "" SIvay® a wad sweetness: yn an © *& eould—all too easily, Mr. Forbes, watching the mead idee coltered. Tam afraid to love. I thought I ghould love anybody really. And CHAPTER VII, (Continued.) you possibly love eck descent, now hidden, now revealed re by @ swerve "ot the Toad, @ jut of hillside, or a group of that I know I might it is 00 ter- trees, _ awakening that I—I'm afraid The car reached its destination without encountering Persis or Willie, The clubhouse was y “Dest be afraid,” he implored. Pheve me. Let yourself love me.” » “Pm afraid, Mr. Forbes.” "Phen if you're afraid to love, it's you don’t, because you— The servants were in li e of them already in summer white, with dark collars and lapels—“to distin- guish them from the members,” said Ten Eyck, Ten Eyck and Winifred offered Forbes a racquet in their tennis game but he preferred to be alone with hi loneliness. He accepted Ten Eyc' ae however, that he might to go round the links, and Ten fyck procured him a bag of clubs and a caddy, promising him ample time for at least nine holes before Persis could arrive. With the usual luck of beginners re-beginners at a game, Forbes did y Ey 2 best work at the start. As he worked his way up a steep ridge, green and vast as the back of @ tidal wave, he saw at the top of the height a bunker thrusting out into the aky like the comb on the top of @ Spanish woman's head. Thinking the pathway clear, Forbes mumbled “Fore,” and picking the ball 32 neatly in his iron, sent it over the of the bunker with a hurdiler’s economy of gap. And just as it escaped the top a s head arose, followed 9 Bhte hurt her pride. Her heart was 90 wollen with this new power that jong) ‘would not be denied elther by her- or bin. “Yes, I could! Oh, I could! But I gavetn't—I mustn't let myself love you * e@et now—not 60 soon.” ©) “Then I must wait,” he sighed, and ‘no more. And she sat in @ silence, there was a great noise of te in her breast and in her and ear an to shiver with the night yand with her excitement. She wanted ‘to may that they must start back, but her tongue stumbled thickly against ‘her chattering teeth. The world was “Witter cold—so far from him. In his atms would be warmth and comfort “84 @t @ fireplace. She was lonely, gumendurably lonely and wistful. Finally he took his eyes from the wmvon and bent bis gase on her. He Seaw bow her shoulders quaked. “You're cold, you poor, sweet chila— (Bov're cold. I'm dying to take you in gy arms, but I promised—I prom- » nea.” * Bhe was afraid to surrender, 4 ‘Afraid to defy the will of the n Whe chill shook her wit. vio! @gain and again till she felt the “Weoking, the stone wall wav, is eed leaned toward bi * red; ie ae me!” Be could hardly believe thi meard, but he caught bah to be it her lips with ae was afraid aise again as the preciousness of her mouth him, writhed and struggled and ad her Weed hid it in bis breast. he fought’ her with great took her cold ct 2ks in holding her face tal! ir and her ‘Don’ peat hi take, Harvey. Don't let a pretty face and a fas- body blind you to a bad, it. inte ere fine enough it road, just as beautiful. If jy" He paused, looked at Harvey, who was looking everywhere buc at the Senator. Tait followed the line of Forbes’s gaze and made out @ man and @& woman on horseback turning in at the gate marked bee at a by @ pair of shoulders. facto I'm worrled because—because—well, ran fan with all his might to intercept porate HOE eas deen ice ‘the I'm too fat around the heart, and my the plun; monster, who came snort of pain and rage from the man, eck is too thick, and the doctor tells £ teat Mery is a rene. fiagieg » bis spoge hoes shoulder blade stopped the ball. 4a son to leave her ing the white saliva from ile As Forbes ran forward with abject ad @ son e saliva i fis mouth, apologies a glaring face peered over With, Harvey; then I'd feel better, ker and roared out: but my only boy—well, he married CHAPTE: “curse it, man! Where. do you the wrong woman, and she drove him TER Vil. think you—— Why, it's you! Harvey, ¢ Sn Ceam anally hes hee to RSIS met equine wrath with ™Ygonitor Tait!" Forbes cried, dart- ai p Deryptie ae dyn dter “Senator " For! cried, tag for one corner of the bunker as peels hey gic Senator Tait dashed for the other. ett iy They paused, turned back and made not but feel a thrill at the feotat ee oq ae. spose, ocr wild beauty of the Cael Lat ee ore einened tance Sven tee leaner hair flowed and writhed smokily, her y clasped hands over the ledge. a shame that we've Jost eight face was the more Cpemimegaeid of each’ other,” declared the Senator, beautiful for the very merciless hate “We musn't any more. Life's too that fired it; her girlish body in her Gert varies Bet Ces boyish costume was strangely alive we love. must say, 4 Her thighs gripped the horse's sides t look! aoe ae Mire Nett Shas just told visibly like arches of steel. All this me you've(been in town nearly a hoes Ane ae lis y PS beauty Forbes saw also, and more, for wee busy,” Forbes t he saw with the eyes of idolatry; and mii ee ee gang Tat. yet more again, for his beloved waa in ‘you's red again tal . He ran in a frenzy o' lesa you're goit hungry. let's mgaid Forbes, absontly. fear and dereriaination, As he and the horses met on their converging paths Perais ahrieked to him: “Keep away! Keep away!” less he leaped for the bridle the caddies back and have a but strode on ep slope that all means,” Forbes agreed; and ty evens he cast his glance about in Tat had to, take his arm for sup port and to hold him back. 0 tI pressed the first great search of his caddy he looked farther You're visiting at the Enslees’, Fs Oy hands flung out. But she to see If Persis were not visible some- ” : th "bo . on fer’ ps. They fled from him Aa hte s holcht He Mrs. Neff tells me,” the old man would not let him endanger himself. She threw all the power of both her arms and her weight on. tee Weigh? 4 bridle, dragging the horse's head aside till he swerved out of Forbe: Forbes sprawled on the turf; but least he had not been struck by t! hoofs or knees of the horse. And then the horse came down in turn, thrown out of his stride and with his head brought round so sharply that ho came down on bis shoulder and al- most broke his neck. Porsis went through the was fond of the old man, but he loved ee the young woman. the Senator fa and then she sighed: faust —we ‘nd now tell me,” to, but ty Pre cand 6) @aid. “Did you see my feushier Mie 0 What ‘-ouldn't they dred at the club house?” $ 9 if they saw us?” it be Goa ve Shing 2. i Sontt apes ~ Be Persis oes ciiflbed pose no} -Ahe winding OR eny, and cette § tike in short skirta when I saw her - of hallowed Brigg ad last.” hia Renan naoecenniak “Bled ad Hip beautifut wort, ola mald—tanatio on. charities —fine trade with a guilty Molen. the almost daylight Bad —arent heart. Good Lord, Har- but I bet she isn’t worth it— she trails with the Lnsiee And ‘then, not heeding the connota- tion, he exclaimed, as Persis emerged from the eclipsing shrubbery: ir ike a -swept lawn. They what that child knows! Her where's only one woman can ride pinwheel, and those wno witnessed the. door ith o'imnocent, mother to her Gying day never Heard jixe th the affair gave her up and the horwe of halt the things that young spin- ared again, and now he made for dead. But she clung to the bridle, of good fal: mouated the” stairway with ‘arms about each other's bodies, ‘ia the hall above they kissed and “Good-night! Good-night! -might!” and tiptoed in opposite ‘At their remote doors they paused iscusses, and has never nso far aa I know, Bu wonderful, Harvey. I'm afraid her, but I do admire and love her. ‘Women like her make these mad tango trotters look pretty cheap.” “Alice says that her mother ia try, to marry her off to you.” her out. Instantly with the exultance one feels over a secret some one else lets slip, ba y ia that's the woman who keeps here? Mra. Neff hinted at 4 but. t wouldn't believe it till I had it from you.” His gloating sank again to pleaded and got up on all fours. For on Persis was awkwara, She and Forbes met and stared lik itomatje rec Persie was overtaken by a wave of terror she had had no time to feel. fatherly solicitude as throw kisses into the black dark fait's ‘eyes popped and his mouth Sarnestly: “For heaven's sale, boy, mT taward each otber’s invisible pres- ,.. up! pidiy, then he srr with Gon't love her! Of all women,’ don’t Her Siete tare wai -varned the knob of bis door fener and biurted out: OU love Perals Cabot! She's the most nd. that old haridan of @ Cor- ” nein ‘New ap ‘gone mad enough heartless of them all. to—— Why, Alice is younger than Mildred! Well, Til be double-— Te peaptlfull Altce in on the game, too?” “Ob, no; Alice is crazy to marry grou! aeneter Tait came up with dit- ficulty, forgetting that he had been, ‘haps, ‘er death on that green ation, a Ry Bos ee rat tnare was st ato ule Oe als wh just closing bis door after “Look at her, Senator! She's so I can't let Enslee have Look at him! He's as afraid pact! of his horse as his horse is ashamed ¢, of him, What's he up to now? Rein wan He heard Forbes wailing, us fe heard somewhere 1D th® gtowe Webb.” him 4 ou fool! 4 driv gathered Persis into his arms and eS soft thud of nother door “Poor old Jim Webb's boy, eh?” nobby Horke into hysterics, And now Seen Be ome weak kiees Hick of another lock, | His heart Forbes nodded. “Well, why dosen't he's sent Persia’ horse in the air! een | aad ae te et ee hed bean io the S80? the matter with him? Why "*Perus opened her eyes with Some one else ha 4 28 in ne “He has no money.” éosan't fi cI enerels open oy a with @ Gash. ‘In the deep black there was no soy Tho riders crashed through the poe, Pegan to realize that abe had Frmone coor it was, EUs 90 “He hasn't even a job. cedars and rhododendrons and prea ead’ tat what's worse nn had been in the bail ning , “He hasn't w job, eh? Well, Yu got lunged across the iawn to the cloar $ot BGs GaAd, Bhs Wate Norah Toy matter the breakfast ne et him one. I'll pay that old lady in her space of the golf links, Forbes saw a down. T must be a sight! An MPorbes sought an opportunity for a the demon look in the white eyes of MY breeches are torn. | Ob, why ¢ owncoin, Make a fool out of me, will she? Well, we'll see what an old poll- 6 ficlen, can do to countermine an ¢!d ‘@feret word with Persis, He caugh' ‘at the foot of tl tal oa him with e ges the news t " Sikhout ration ‘st night when we were saying i night some one else was in the Persis’ horse, He had seen mustangs in that humor shake off their tor- mentore and tear them wolfishly with the bit fn his teeth!" he ‘I kill her! She can't ve got to get him some- your backs at once. feel as if I were on the Metropolitan Opera House. ‘The horse got roluraslly to his feet, all battle knocked out of him, and fol- lowed weakly till she handed him over to @ groom, Eager to escape the stares that met her and the sympathy and felicitations that greeted her, she walked so rapidly th Senator dropped back. She found herself alone with Forbes, and a ' ut she murmured: ° “Speaking of politics,” said Forbes, “the papers are full of the possibility of your being an ambassador some- where. Is there anything in it?” n “Well, my old friend the President has written me a few letters and whis- pered it in my ear, but I don’t want to go. I'm too old. I like my own country and my own slippers. For- eign languages and foreign cooking and all that would play the devil witb me. I don't want to go.” “Then why are you gol “How did you know I was? “Because you you didn’t want only say ‘I don't want to’ we're just about to." ell, I'll tell you, Harvey. ‘There's just one reason—I'm worried about ilured. She's getting in too deep with her crusades and causes. Now I can't pry Mildred loose from her » No marrying ear hi gasp of terror, ted In aH gly: “How do you 1s whitene ‘tee she whisper rd herr him. 0 was it?” bi ore ‘t know. I can’t even guess,” bled. >, orbes baa poped 'y be Invited to ith and had put on @ of Mitten riding. yo ae and army puttees, But he wi the rogramme for t! a by Enslee, who d would ride He had a fierce impulse to meet the horse, leon ss at Dime catch him by the bridle id smother him toa standstitt.” ‘But Tait had seen a policeman killed trying to sto; nd he flung his arms al m “You Al he groaned, “You can't stop hin your life t me go! “No, I don't want you ever to risk anything for me, Harvey, But I'm just as grateful—and more than that. If there weren't so many People looking on o.7e0 know what I'd say?" “what?” Let me go!" to him, seized him anew wrenched bis hand loose; to knees, but still held ie and was dragged along, moaning: "My boy, I love you like a aon. You shan't risk your life—not for her Then suddenly his clutch relaxed; in ;, He checked himself in time, and his fingers opened; he rolled to forward fo fe Bis face, is white hair Suttering mee ak tate tre Taras Be om quietest roads they could the rest were to motor would all have luncheon return in the same way. f t f mine doesn't break th eames he added. “Kiss me." ‘The words came #0 un- expectedly that he forgot their sub- junctive mode. He took them to be in the imperativé, and came near obey- the bowler hat ‘was wearing the ner , each ott “You were wonderful to try to save Ea ening World ‘Daily Magazine. ‘Wednesday: 1 Nove Seekers © « cert i ‘York Kalitigcs, vorid,) Bhe breathed deeply and caressed him with @ delicious smile, and mur- mured: “It js mine, too.” And then Ten Eyck and Winifred and Mra, Neff and Alice, and othera @ By Robert Minor| oer Be Rdg ‘ , am et ee en cet ee ri Nest Weeh’s Complete Nowel in THE EVENING WORLD, The Paternoster Ruby . By Charles Edmonds Walk Tote Book on the Stands Wil Coat You 91.25. Yoo Oot It for 6 Coats. ort more thas that. Well, let falking is healthier. It would eave the chau rat a too, And Re don't know wi Nichette would” eay. fog og a jet ba | fo Tat Cyy @o but x © clasped her arms round ‘hi him, and he clutched her tight; but his was like a farewell. would ys “Pretty badly.” See Are oh oe ave ype id 90." cars and the horses—my car, too?" “Looks like it.” “Then I needn't Ryn (Anse ry? Aa 10 be; Im ‘awfully vorry 7 for fat! though. an you—did you tell him anythi a nd him we were on vd mood was an elegy. boy, I'm afraid all bets Forbes had been recruiting ny ad to tell her that he released her; ghe anticipated him by jilting him firet—and in sporting terms. He tered said, dod bless her!’ the tears fasstog Gown ta her hears, Yr faint, but 7 think that's awhat be Ho heard h We deat to the “You didn’t agree to marry a beg- » but 7 coe ted ia the Uttle ‘pords a want to m: uu—Just you,” “You're pretty poor, aren't your” pended. ‘othe wacagemont. via “You're terribly polite, Samenetty relieved. He His forehead was drenched with rea >! shame at such comment from her, She could see how she had hurt his —"cs,fon charity::, " pride, and she put on the solemnity can't get along without you. You he expected her to wear, couldn't get alo Without a lot of “Oh, don't misunderstand me, Har- money, ye Be ry) set ite vey! I implore you! 1 love you all mroney, fer tand rn ct your Ta on his feet again. I—I'll do anys the more for leet | Just your glorious self. You've paid me the greatest thin, honor I ever had—or shall have. You hink what people would say. It asked me to be your wife, and you too @o hideously mercenary on my are willing to divide up your pitiful ParWe can Prove that y in 0 ered, But {t wouldn't work out. Everybody. will & true love match tnatered But it wouldn't work out, & lother was ri ‘People can do Please, please, Perales! pretty, please!” ann resigned hi if to all the love easier than without money. ahe {i , and sighed: “Not people with hearts like yours,” once oreahe i 4 aig! “a from him and bering he ventured at last to put in as @ broke down Lys) steps. He overtook Rants objection. “Oh, I'm afraid of this heart of wate By amy announce our a ie a ag a a aehn a we were en- ie thing Benen aden, @ to confess mine,” she answered. “If it ha ay sense it wouldn't have Bee ni with you—you of al » 1 knew you weren't really terribly rich, but T didn’t think you were 60 pitifully, ,,N°.now.' sue pleaded: aot perel’ cruelly poor: chuckling. “He had a great “Oh, Persia, don’t tell me that you idea are merconary—a Woman with a big heart like yours.” “I'm not mercenary exactly; I loathe ney, as money, but I like nice th! ve them. I'm On the homew: way the motor party had passed a shop where diske were kept, and had bought up tie entire visible. supply of latter-day tunes to sepiace on Pod of ioe 3 it thi nee time acne: ment that it was Nf trot Agni. ish oot “I'll run the machine,” said Wini- 1 1 bik | after dinner that evening. tia tr I didn't choose my aa wen elven me, van iy it me, Pepe rt, Ny uy Gi gok Raia fate Heater punta heen ch aa I didn't know you. 1 didn't dream { Toud,aivorme me ine year’ in Otterwiae 1 hy aa Sanseenee a cell ake Rs! rain inUemen, #0 to speak”—he should ever pane anybody who would Would = thril! Me Pig the only our own ite! ea big ly in store for you, Persie, un- word—as you a "t ". of ‘her ‘acquaintance, crowded round, imagine that Twoulaasce f Haida ET os ioceared With ¢tatusion oleared ed hit thence find ran his agers facldent, AX ‘length “some yone. ex oa 128 prt tS, A it ates ter ci: Sout, tomer inake en hrc giaee claim 3 one I loved. And 1 ne. Tomnnge that she grow Tory, Nard. 4, apgesh cm frat and oaly.” ed; (But where's pede hae “Good Lord,” Persia gasped, “I for- got all about him.” By the time Persia bad reached the clubhouse and had undergone the min- iatrations of a maid, who was also a seamstress, Willie came limping up on the terrace, where Persis Was seated with the others. ‘The riding spirit yc jeite knocked out of pene wo h i Basented to. Pera she and Forbes ride the’ Sorses dome, that afternoon. And now at last they were free, Forbes and Persia, cantering along a plushy road, lovers’ lane mounted up and up till they the height to give the breath, By and by they came to a grass- matted road that lost itself in ferns and undergrowth. Forbes looked Persis, Her eyes consented. He laid his ‘ bridle hand on the left horse's mane and shifted a trifle. And bi horse shouldered 6 horses mounted with cautious hoofs till the ferns were begening their saddle girth: mniy # brovk was visible rush- and there through the woods and making noises that were rapture just to hear. And with that music of water and woods and that multi- tudinous beauty about them, they gazed only Into each other's eyes, in- clined together and locked arms and breasts and lips in close embrace. They clung together till the soulless horses, pivbliag here and there, sun- dered t! And (or ‘they slid from the saddles and, slipping the bridles to their el- bows, walked on with arma about ‘8 bodies and eyes so mutu- ally engaged that they stumbled like blind folk. At last Persis sank to the ground at the edge of the brook, and ‘he, instead of helping her up, dropped down at her side. He took her into his ons again and kissed her and laughed at her. She knelt above the wi ter glans, and he bent over to gaze. He saw he looking up at him, and his own image looking up close to hers. They smiled and made fa: like children, And when he rubbed his cheek against he ness. “Bee, ing “he they're mocking us.” she cried, A little breeze wrinkled the mirror, and she cried: ‘They're frown- They want us to be sensible! home.’ “At home?" he echoed, reprovingty, “At Willie's, I mean,” she corrected, And then she put his hands away and spoke earnestly, “It came mighty near being home to me. I have @ con- fession to make, I ought to have made it before, I have been amazed not telling you, for tak- when I had no right to.” at her in terror, and she smiled with pride at his fear and babbled on almost incoherently, ‘t be afraid—though I’m glad But I hope you won't despise But I couldn't seem to help my- me. self. You're really to blame for being so terribly overwhelming. You see, I've told you how often Willie well, one Enalee proposed to me, and day—that very day you saw me in my old hat—the first time, you know— well, I had just bad a talk with my father, and the poor old boy was all cut up about his—his money matters. He's too nice and sweet to be much of @ financier, you know, and—well, I scared to death, and I thought the world was coming to an end, and I'd better—better get aboard the ark, you know—and I hadn't met you then, you know, and Willie proposed again, and I—I accepted him. 4 “You promised to be bis wife!" . t pool; It's all smooth and clear again.” the images imitated the foolish- ;, “Hear! “Some an Ma ‘#0 lo ton, nine ee Miss Cabot, who you all Know. cid toe the & pay my bills and 1—it seemed so hateful éven to ment 7 than It would have been shaboy. att te growing late; we (ier vuspeskuble, homer of consent- must pushed a rook “An abrupt ight be broke over her tace, Siawles. Circumstances rendered it— splashed and curdied od the Iittis mech’ she tot Beye (Sty rather set Honiton ot the ejorious—ar—as nema 80 “That's the effect his name would uals tas Britt % ee ey aa te ante in, business as a British ‘0 8 night given me—er—permission bee sthounee ral “e ial we not!" rm 5 Wille pet up his ae i. “Order in the co sect An now you know the worst. You behi in me the happiest man on—er— Thero was a round of appla Ton Eyck proposed “three lusty chane and 4 tigress for the—er—bride and— Sr porbes tried t ‘orbes tri 10 amile, but hi \- Cles seemed unable to support Me pe heard much noise, yet * ed nothing till “he ecomed juddenly at finding Willie ‘Das: “Fou haven'e conprat n't con, | (Wahi ar Per congre ulated me, Mr, forbes seized a tinaloe's amall hand and wrung it, and sald in fitted to condolenc aha hee eee “I do congratulate you 4 Mins Cabo! os I—I congratulate her.” ‘And now let's—er—dance,' Willie, t will dance with the bi ing bride, it on don't mind. Le! yor toe ecco 4 For secon: lance Forbes manded Frais, and she granted i the privilego with some terror; have had on our moonk, couldn’t tell you then. W! 4 yon fore give me, or do you think I'm @ hope- Joss rotter and a sneak?’ He smiled at her mixed vocabul: and gathered her into his arms, “ay tove! My Persis! But you'll tell bis now, won't you?” “Oh, now, yes!" she cried, ecatatic as a comforted child. “You are glor- jous to forgive me so easily, and not be nasty and lecture-y, And see the ee iy me and led this eountry—and ge! husband. He could ‘ive ough for us both to live on com- Hrsckon T ongid. |jhardly soce reckon ardly jt that ai nigement Forbes eald, 14 i ‘You pect me to murder my pride and a copt poverty, but you won't accept wealth because you must keep your pride. You couldn't object to having se money to spend on mysell, could you? se y; could hardly object to that,” sald. sapny then, if everything goes with my father’s plans we'll have ses else and money and all. It will be wo ride the dear old brutes, wouldn't it?” derful—heaven on earth! Kiss me: It would, indeed!" he sald. She put up her lips and he pistee ‘Let's buy them from Willle, Hé them and found them bitte would acll them for a song.” Eventually they reached the Ensies en, honey; you've got a wrong ‘o—the mountain that was Ens- of my situation. I'm to blame with the stately pleasure dome for It, I reckon. I've been meaning he had decreed there. ‘I'he majesty to speak about but I didn't—for of it belittied rbes still more. The Just th ason that Lm agit sd beauty of it He looked and held back the con- fession he waa about to make in his turn. The mention of his pov- erty would be pushing another rock into the pool. And he wondered if the mirror would clear after that. ‘We ought to. keep those horses as @ souvenir of our engagement. It would be a pity to let any one quiet about Enslee. I'm not he would have put out her han’ look Roney, I didn't. tell anybody I was to comfort bim, but she saw above "Why eo etord t iad ha rich, but the idea got star from across the groaned as they danced. “Why didn’t Ten Eyck’s fool joke about seeing me coming out of a big bank. I told him the truth, and now I must tell you. You'll hate me, but you've to know some time. I'm not rich, honey,” lifted her horse into you warn me? The last I knew was ai that you and I were to be married. Ang suddenly that man apeaks up claims you, ‘t deny “We got off the main road, it What does” it mean? baie said, as she climbed the seape, “fal “You intended to marry him, and “What of it, dear?” she said, creep- lowed by Forbes, “and the horses you let ki ing toward bim. “I love you for wore tired and” —— fimply’ making a foal of mess 7 was awfully anxious, I was “No, Harve: ! th A y, no! T lov 5 anaus be etart & to LY —4 fr yew rs that were makin; a tool of tae ps occas! anx- [can explain, it I don't think you jesldes, your father telephonea Would understand. By the way, ft was Willie whose room door you rant father! Ie he back in New heard click last night. But he don’t anew it was a 08 and I who were out 'No; ,he telephoned from Chici er.” He was Just leaving on the twenty: Never mind that. Tel me"—- He couldn't wait till you “Jf you only had a little more never thought you were willte. I gave up all that m what you would call—a I have only my ough? How much ts ay, if you don’t mind fg ‘Ae firat Heutenant I get @ little hour train, over two thousand. money. For I hat “Two thousand a week? Why, “ae ‘did he have to say?” any, F My. fatner can’ ttre ass He laughed aloud, and she correctea yn” changine “eos” daver can wet enough for us beth it T take Willie, “It's horrible talk, Harvey, a business, It’s for your sake’ a widen as mine. If I married you I'd drive you mad. I'd ratner have you hate lovingly, as you do now, thas have you hate me loathingly, as you would If T became @ millstone round your neck. You'd be faithful an@ work hard and try to love me, but I'd be simply unendurable. I'm horribly tempted just to fling everything to the winds and run away with you, I'm starving for your love. My heart heraelf. ‘Oh, two thousand a month, That's about twenty-five thousand a year: Tt Isn't much, is it. But we could skimp and scrape, and we'd have each other. Sho had given him his death blow unwittingly. Ho smiled dismally and groaned “Two thousand a year with forage. Sho stared at him fn unbelief, “Two thousand a year with forage! We couldn't eat the forage, could we? They you a pittance ike that Forbes said, with uncomfortable h. ‘You'd better be cooking the din- Willle said. “Winifred 1s count- ing on your poldierly experience to help her out.’ So Forbes went to the kitchen to salute and report for dut; she e tered the hou looked back to CHAPTER IX. for, belng officer and a gentleman 8 she mounted the steps with _Put love before everything “The hero business ia, the worat Willie, Persis said something bey your heart!” Forbes broke bald of all. Look at the Areme of Forbes's regret. She was in, at last, She shook her head, y dear, two thousand t day the whole pasty fetura ew York, There they separat r going to his hotel. He pal hie bill at the hotel—with further erosion of the bank account—and took the subway and the ferry to Gove ernor’s Island, The second day brought his com- mission as Captain, He glanced over it listlessly and tossed it aside, AR . hour later, Senator Talt called Bim up, asking him to lunch anne day at the Metropolitan Club, to disc matter of & slave on the block, and the man she wanted for owner was crowded from the mart, “What did father have to say?” she asked in @ dull tone, already despair- and my father's secrotary—every body wets more than that.” She put out her hand and caressed his brow. "Poor boy, it's cruel, It's hateful. Willie Enalee with all that money and you with two thousand a year! And no prospects for more?" “Well, I hope to be promoted cap- tain very . shortly—any day now I should get my commission. nat car- ries with it twenty-four hundred a Gho sighed, “The little car I wanted you see, your poor gover- “Has lost all his mo “Well, yeo—in a way. “It'a getting te be rather a habit with the poor old boy, isn't it? Is he smashed up badly?"