The evening world. Newspaper, September 19, 1916, Page 15

A Story of Hom tral By LOUIS TRACY we and Mystery, the Cen Vigure a Girl Who Has Ft Storm Swept Island Where She Lives Alone 5 ay hen aie relents ahd ase wings hile ome wet tl shel” Bene Men’ Ted CHAPTER WV. (Continued | VIDS gore re came He re Old friende a Pentiand edi tion of Btevenson, a set of & and the “Ceatw bbe tionary, but among some am try he caught sight of a thin, loathe bound volume which evoked curio because an intelligent man an hardly become the owner of @ biblio phile’s library w hing some taint of the tors manta said David, “it te im hout ta” imponsibility, he joors and drew forth opened the the tome, And there, on the tite- page he found: “Virgilli Opera, Apud Dlseverios . Le He gould scarcely believe his eyes, ¢ #@ he turned to the exquisitely tooled cover, where the “solitary” device of Bonaventure and Abraham &! otared at him, T could be no menner of doubt ag to the genuine- nema of the work, The mark—an elm tree, 4 fruitful vine, and @ man, with the motto "Non aolus"—bespoke @ Veritable product of the most fa- mous partners of @ famous family of Dutch printers; in the elegance of design, “face” and regularity of type, and quality of paper, each page was eloquent of a great period in the his- tory of printing. Almost by accident, so absorbed was he in the typography, he glanced at the flyleaf. It bore a name, “Joha _* Forbes," and a date, twenty- five years old, underdeath the words, “Harvard Univ." So this precious volume had crossed the Atiantic twice, to nestle at last in a hiding- place on remote Lunga. His communing was broken in on by the click of the sneck. The door « creaked, und a rush of wind shook the house, solid though it was, Mira- bel had returned. Her cheeks, browned by the salt air of Lunga, were russet ngw, not only from the whip of the gale, but be- cause of the exertion of carrying two zinc buckets filled with water from the well, which was fully 400 yards distant and separated from the house by very rough ground. “While 1 am one of the population of Lunga, I shal! take care that you fetch no more water,” Lindsay prom- ised. jave you no nearer supply?” “Donald dug a sort of trough at the mouth of the cave in the Dorlin—a deep trench that rune across the island a few yards southward of this house—but a@ silly bullock fell fram neck quite close to it-—the trough, I mean. The birds are eating him, and it dreadfully over the feast, so the whole place is in a litter. I don't like to go too near until—until the bones are nicely picked.” While hei she was filling a kettle and cutting bacon and gener- ally bustling around like an expert- enced housewife. “May I help?" he asked, while ehe was throwing some emall wood en the tire to create a blaae. “Can you make toast?’ she de- mianded, “Like @™irst rate parlor-matd.” “Then you will find a loaf in the pantry. at door there’——and she nointed, "The tonating fork is here, haaging on a nail.” ate ‘was stooping near him now, holding a long-handled frying-pan and deftly turning rashers of bacon, “By the way, is your name Forbes he inquired politely, “No, it ig not, You know my name, my Christian name, at any rate. Will not that suffice?” “Permit me to explain. I am not ' being rude intentionally, A few min-~ utes ago I happened to notice a book in the room, to my very great surprise, found that it was @ rare and beautiful Elsevir, name wae written in it, and a date, and, as tl was Forbes, I al- lowed my to fancy that your father owned it, I envy him, I as- sure you, though it is seMoiently Virgil that is worth—at least “computation, twp hundred and fifty to three bundred”-—— Now, David, kneeling before the fire, was attending to hie duties with roper zest, and when he looked up ' i astounded to find the girl's ey! ffused with tears, while the corners of hi mouth drooped pitt- . was on his feet in an in- stant, and had snatched the frying- pan from her hands, te f dear young lady,” he pro- ree 5 “{ would not on any account said anything to hurt your feel- What a blundering fool I must But do credit me when I @ay ing the enthusiasm olutely in @ corner of her apron, and took the Ran from him. “If we go on at this rate, we shall have frizzled bacon for lunch and no ‘ankfast at all!” ahe exclaimed, with @ queer little catch in her voice that , Was half @ sob and half a nervous laugh. . . . “There! ‘The kettle is boiling! Do you mind lifting It off? Take the duster, oF you may. scald your fingers. . . . it you fll the coffee-pot? It isa crude way to make coffee, but I have no cafetiere—not here. David obeyed in silence, and she turned aside to dish up the bacon. lirabel pointed to @ chair. “I think we can make a start now,” flo glad thot the ein bi 4," r ri 5 tak rs ) . the rocks the other day and broke his, 4 ms, ‘ ing the plate she offered tat etudiously at the but was well aware that she had Forb hin one of thom eoulpie the utenel! from « corner of hearth “het substitute ue porridge tor 1 believe that «ly im many Uppered to be a hygient . blunder ta begin @ dinner with soup Why should tf tw r porridge take pregedence “We aticklers for old habit in the Highianda,” she aatd ‘How well f know it! During the advance on the Modder Kiver, when we to crawl like Hazards to dodge the hail of Qullets, two lanky Boots petrified the Hoer dropping their stand-up fwht. And think the row wag a Macgregor and the nd the M doubt as wor wa soriously her was a Gr il you every family ne lam sure the Mac in her iat." studied Highland gen “Have y alogy?" David, with some aw: "A little, Lean recognize eagh tar- tan at not the tailors’ patterns you see in Edinburgh sb but the real thing.” “What a solace for the weary you, would have nm during the advance on Kimberly “Why? Were you in a Highland | regiment?" | “No. 1 was @ mere worm, an Im- | perial Yeoman, but my knowledge of | the taal secured me a ataft appoint. ment, and my name was @ passport) to the inner circle.” Yet David in his heart guessed that she had not a drop of Highland blood | in her yelns, or, if that assumptior | was wide of the mark, her ancestry was undoubtedly of that Scottish- French strain which sprang into bo- ing during tha seventeenth and eight. eenth centuries. Pride of race gave no wure test. He was acquainted with families of clear Bnglish descent whose Soottish domicile confernad both accent and lineage, Moreover, there were strong hints in thie delightful girl's manner and speech wnich spoke of widely dit- ferent parentage. That : Virgil, “Harvard Univ. to with Harvard, and the Elsivir is the exeavation was choked with bowl- the @o he startled his co: supply @ faint clue. Her Christian heirloom. Naturally, the daumht dera, but David's trained eye soon dis- lon out of @ gray reverie by mentlo name tog was oddly at variance wita would retain @ few slight American- covered that every niche and crevice ing them. Incidentally, he garnered her environment. isms acquired by the mother, who held some rare plant, while go many one of those shy, inquisitive glances Notwithatanding hia takes, David felt now that he must put a pertinent qi “I have no wish affairs,” he said, folly on my part to pretend that your presence in this desolate spot is & natural and probable circumstance, 1 gather fram what you have told me that your relatives, your friends, live here during the summer, Why are you alone now?" “Because I choose,” she said de- flantly. ; “That ie a woman's reason,” “It te the only one I shall give.” "I ked you for the last time, Misa M| It is no business of mine, and I am profoundly grateful for all that you have done for me. And naw, after we have tackled our porridge a la mode Lunga, may I invite you to come with me on a tour of inspection? On board the Firefly there age odds and ends of eatables and drifkables which should gladden your hospitable heart, And we ought to discuss ways and means. A hungry man is a formidable addition to your household, even for a brief visit.” “This is the equinoctial period,” said she calmly, "so, as I said last night, you can make up your mind to enjoy life on Lunga for a fortnight, at least, or it may be much lot ” “Linger longer Langa, in fac laughed. “Yes, Donald is weather-wise, and when he left for—for Mull—four days af he sald I might not see him again till the middle of next month; but he ‘will come at the first opportunity, and then you can sall away.” CHAPTER V. AVID took for granted a tacit compact that they should have their meals in company while he re- mained on the island, so he insisted on doing the washing-up. Behind the exterior door of the porch was @ barometer. He had not noticed it on entering the house the previous day, because hig mind was ‘Dent then on the essential feature of his quest—was the place tenanted? Now it stared at him, challenged his observation, The mercury had risen since last the pointer was set, but it wi not anxiety as to weather prospects that stayed David's feet. A neat card nailed on the wall showed that Mira- bel had taken a record that morning: the prior readings went back twice dally for five days; then came a gap; between Sept. 2 and Oct. 11 the at- mospheric vagaries of Lunga passed unheeded. David filled his pipe, Strive against undue analysis of the facts as he might, his brain persisted in fitting into their position on the chessboard of events the pieces of this i id problem. The gli jemed to have no hesitation in king about her father; why then, was she moved to tears by that unhappy reference to the Elzevir? And “all the time,” while sufficiently good English of the famillar sort, struck him as having eryssed the Atlantic with the Virgil. Suddenly David rapped his head with clenched knuokles. “Idiot!"" was the best he could say of himself, “Her mother's name was es—some Scots family connected 4 Dail ee ssine, Tuesds 100 ts ~~ % yes strictiy / Se Worn | ——_ HAND Ky » rat Del's tongui her speech. When the girl reappeared she was dressed exactly as when first he saw her. Carlo barked joyously, evident- the Tam o' Shanter cap asa sign of a prolonged prowl among crannies. Lind- say experienced anew a whiff of that wit! ly regardin, the island's nooks an surprise which had assailed hi the unheralded vision of crossing the chasm, Mere man miss the glories of a Paris gown, but he ig a connoisseur of a womal sporting get-up, and this young lad: leather-bound skirt were faultless in style and cut; deny it coat and who may, beauty unadorned ts when ‘she employs @ good tailor, “It I were a budding artist | would paint your portrait in that costume,” he blurted out. “J can see that picture in my mind's “IT would entitle it eye.” he added ‘A Highland Chieftatnoss’ "—— She took an alpenstock from @ eor- esterday was not to lashed an amused ner—the gun of be seen—and glance at him, “T think you are payne eo! ments—a sinful wast time. you credit it?—I have never so much AS set eyes on @ photograph of my- “Sut, for all that, [ am an ignor- parry! doy a elt.” amus,’ There are other things than punt Phe momory angered himt “ut why? You have not lived al- the mere gabbling of languages, I HC wv he said, almost wave on Tonen® can't talk about theatres, because Tiong ty way quivering. with ad dislikes photographs, eape- have never been In one, though I have Peevintiact of the man to chide the clally of peo) I have sometimes read a great many plays, I bave Wet loves when she willfully ox- envied nice pictures of other gipla in never heard an o} though I can biog It te me peril from which #¢n¢ windows, but sing most of them, I know Baling P2#08 herself to some py “i let me try my skill. “Oh, that would be delightful! you please tak island? I o spots, barren ai it seems.” Then they faced the gale, and con- nected talk became too difficult. David ead for the yacht, but the girl led the way straight to few yards of 8 Ov rocky on the brink of the Dorlin, that natural hollow whicn cut a broad trench from east to west, slightly above high-wates mark, and the low level gave instant shelter from the fancied they would the gouth, and, aft: up-and-down ‘proj ground, they st Mirabel had spoken of. It wale, Carlo dashed after a rabbit, Mirabel laughed, my “He tries so hard, poor fello never catches one," she Bal want to change the menu and dish up I have to shoot in, Jo me passe Her French stewed bunny, and I hate doing it; de lapin en fricasses accent was perfect. ‘A little beyond the opposite they came to the lip of a curious de- pression, which looked as though some wlant had used a scoop in that place. On the west and southwest it fell in a jagged wall, but, throughout thirds of its area, ward in easy grade, rock was pierced by a natural nel; near its mouth lay the skeleton of the too enterprising bullock, whose remains a number of cormor- ants and other birds rose In @ flurry when the two figures showed the ekytine, ® a at \ Ext pos 4 have been born in the States. I er like the lilt of them on Mira- They add piquancy to Mirabel me compll- & camera on the yacht. As soon as the aun peeps out again a few pictures of the iow you some beauty it shelved down- The face of the At fret it ‘seemed that LAUNDRY. HAND WORK ONLY or 2 LAUNDRY HAND WORK ONLY varieties of lichen covered the rocks that & botanical specialist would need to exercise bis brains to catalogue them. “Thia la the e! translate Dun Cruit my father’s hobby!" cried Anglo: the Eth, bringing her mouth close to say's eal Lin for the combined tu- been Intended for Harp. - claed Davtd. ne weather you can walk through (1009. look? the cave to a atrip of sand—a lovely bathing-place—and the sun !s alwi Siaring in at one @ is viaib! *“Bute i is only twelve ledge to ledge.” “It sounds little enough who can jump eighteen. 've read the whol read aloud while my father smokes and nls ot Vie wise y pointing act scene of her labora, and David repressed a gasp of amazement 1 Interested solely in Harp Rock, ahd row chasm. fect deep, with walls sheer or overhanging. churned into @ mai it raged through the “When I was quite small I knew the names of most things in Latin, Greek, French and German, and I have enough Italian to sing intelligi- bly, It is entirely a matter of system, Dad says that whole years are frit- tered away in schools.” “So I perceive,” said David grimly, girl by his side should have cros: from A to Z, but have never visited ", fain would protect her. Regent Street, Oxford Street, or the Strand, except in a closed carriage, I could walk blindfolded about Lung the upper valley of the Pailion, or the village of\Faido in the Canton Ticino, but T have\never visited the National Gallery, the British Museum or the Louvre, Although we lived many ed for to somo extent Will winters within six miles of Monte po ce they ‘ate! Carlo, T never saw the Casino, We Drach, 8nd. ance they had sighted the had plenty of books, but never @ shielded them a little from th magazine or pertodical, So you will which had veered more to the south observe that there are wide gaps in frere, then, It was possible to walk my education,” abreast and talk without shouting. They passed the house, picking up the jackdaw at the corner of the gar- den. He greeted them cheerily. “Fine day!" he said, preening his one wing and a “One of the swered David. “Mr. Hawley," said the bird, pro- nouncing the name with remarkable distinctness and giving it a curiously clear note of disdain “No,” sald David, “make it Lindsay, a the bird, but ped the rock near jo vehemently that he skipped gut of range with a croak of alarm, vid felt er than saw that the blood had ebbed away from the girl's face, “Jack Ri ‘8 up names easily,” she said, with @ precise utterance that was eloquent of effort, “A man, a Mr. Hawjey, tame here in August I-! siaiked him intensely, and Jack heard me speak of him, just like that. T wish he would forgot it,” After that, Mirabel was silent until! they reached the raynded shoulder of furiously here?” the alpenstock, and nodde wo pray int it's Gaalic which Well, Fhtachlaeh, That and bu Rock.’ away t the Mermaid's Hous front of us—our Stai calls tt we wo twin, the Eagle’. crest the names are beautiful. In into dreams of the old d free race Hved on thea thera were real castle teres parched on these heights, two- tun- from Cruachan, from which the mighty means the grass covered rocks, Ba- rook, Dun Cruit, had apparently been tween them and the nearer reef ts the sheared off by one of Jove's thunder- sea pool we call the Lagoon, You above bolts. Lindsay remembered the ean hardly imagine, to look at ne ee By Maurice Ketten which thrilled his heart with a spect of rapture. Hut’ Mirabel was aware of rt's revelations, #o she morel observed that Donald had falled to imo adequate xon, #0 she had christened ft the “Harp Rock,” because Dun , meant Fort and Cruit might have “It isn't much like @ harp,” crttl- “May I Indulge in @ “Why not? We can cross the rock it you ‘J “What! Hy means of the plank?” feet from for one Bull, Wi take your word for the hgputies of thi nain on unnoticed. Mirabel did net choose fo, oneer bee Gree! " They were standing now at the apex opetee ome K, C007" Re Asked. ey ee aeanate formed by the nar. It was fully a hundred as of white froth as assage far be- neath, And to think that thie slender sed you shall nee them in other ratment eyebrows went up. that devil's cauldron twice on @ single plank, in a gale, while her arms were Tindsay, with an effort, shook off the nightmare terrors of the Harp Rook precipice. He was stung to a tense pitch whally inexplicable at that mo- ment fn one of his steady nerve: but the time was near at hand when its malignant influence would be account- They regained the faintly-marked track leading to the han wind, “Do you sea that reef out there: that on which the sea is breaking ao straight to the east from He followed the line indicated by “I recognize it quite well; I have bserved tt from a different point of square reef ‘Tigh-oa, the island in dad is Sgelr a’ Chaistell, or the Castle Rock, and that Iittle dot up near Fladda ta Sgelr-na-h-lolaire, or Rock. Kven in English the Gaelle they seem to Garang to lull one ys, when & islands, and and monaa- “Those two little hummocks be- tween us 4nd Fladfda are the Cow and Calf—my name for them—prop- erly they are Sgeir an Fheotr, which names, because they were marked on now, what a wumderful place it tw ns * it seemed to iavid that wl bed be plennad « of the ines that Would be bet hentan 1 Crewe Ue tondon at achieved’ What « well stored of mode bat win te had cultivated in @ perfapt body! Wut why seclude euch @ girl from a aorial cirele which would enen arn to prige her at her true worth? Ae that ever maddening question David with vtetows Inatet. island Ave daye age | “Mave 4, wt 1 eomeathing a locker nd than ne down on | eyetn Confess, now | you were w athering | "Well yes w tt nun ! In that thay cabin Dawid could not y and look her sayare la the ton the opposite looker for the sake af away when the twill become not th ireelt, | in mortality #t | play In the valle Instance, ¥ J of that akele trudged 4 erta where bones marked the carayen routes for hundreds of jut supp had slipped aturdy . and, even if you os caped death—probably he did not die {at once—had to He where you fell, with a broken lew or dislocated hip! Why, blood curdies at the very Mirabel rove, She had met his im- passioned gage without fiinghing and @ delicious little sintle curved her lips when he made an end, From under | her bent head her eyes poered nt him amusedly. “When dad ia here he has a lam| every night In his study—the sitting , room, you know. He site up tes habit of his student days—but T go to | bed and rise. with the sun—almoat, | not quite—or I would hardly sleep @ |wink tn June. My luncheon and hi breakfast coincide, 80 all in well, ani the arrangement suits me, because— Promise you will not breathe a word to any one but Donald—I have a boat hidden In a cave at the very soute en a@ eyniit day when the sea is of the island.” smooth. The water is not blue, but ny $ that is a netural thing to turquetee green. int possess here—a boat?" sometimes present in a “Dad wouldn't permit tt if he knew, stones, You find it, my father tells He likes to feel himaelf utterly cut me, in the y off from the rest of Great Britain coral reef. The water is #0 olear h while we are on Lunga. Donald in the north that in some lights you smuggled a fat little tub of a craft ce gee the crabs and lobsters siding across from Mull one day, years ago; about among the rocks and note the every morning in fine weatha: | dodge very shadows cast by darting fishes. about among the other in! {have It is #0 interesting to watch the a second hiding place on the Caste crabs. I know where one very fine Rock, but when the ark 10" Eupagurua pbernhardus lives. He there T have to conal carries about a huge shell of a cas- high water, because the cai teropod mollusk, which 1s his house, impassable then.” nd he can fight anything — It wan delightful for David to real- fze that she was taking him into her nfidence, He thought he might risa a aimple query. “Am there only the two of you here when Donald has gone?” he asked. The etrangest element in this hed hed and gathered up her strange conversation wai rabel's Packa sea ea rermelouaness’ Of Roving “Do you think 1 do all the house- uttered @ word out of the common Work, then? Wo bring Plerre and his run of young ladles’ speech. wife, Celestine, of course, Th “This 1# the Corran,” she paid, 69 cheerfully to ohatke, pointing to the shelving beach whore took them. He says their names sult the Firefly lay high and dry, ‘The the tsland—Plerre for stone and Ce- lovely bagaitie columns on which we lestine for happiness. Have I told the hour of way is we eat is and the Americans eat Callinectes stand, were ones mowing lava, yet you the name of our house?” surely Ll are not dead in their = ‘No. present solid beauty, To-day they ‘Argo fare wrapped in their gray cloak, but Lindsay looked blank, and Mirabel's “T thought everybody whe had been that you have never before seen such to school would know something glorious colors. about the Greeks, at least. Argos David tortured himself with useless was a centre of civilization in @ rocky apeculation anent the reasons which land and it contained the Heraeum, led this truly remarkable girl to make the most noted sanctuary for women her convent, the burial-place in Greece. Its chief temple stood in a of her ardent youth and rare int nook—juat Ike our house. a “The style of your modern A! ie wit 414 it all mean? What mys- more Scottish than Dorie, and the tery lay behind it? She roamed thin butlding has no sign of an attic.” the sun ehines, and you will say . September 19, 1916 NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL THE TREASURE VAULT By ARTHUR B. REEVE \nother “Craig Kennedy” gory, This time Kennedy, hy sclentif~ic methoda, brings to beak a cleus criminal whose ability to master “burglar- proof” vaults creates @ baffling mystery. HEGINS IN NEXT MONDAY'S EVENING WORLD hy did whe reture alone to the ™ housed ¢), ‘There! ity and jam. peth with the eur Beat, and fev ee callin h ‘arte! The hours in koowledae of ne lt peo Violen self, The jackdaw joined them when near the house, ond hopped inside as moon ae ihe the doors were opened ie mprank to his favorite perch, the of @ hiah biteheg ohalr oo hed hie head on one side Inquirioaly and cl te David “Mr. Hawley The wealth of contempt and loat? jng whieh (he bird contrived Wo pur In those (bree syllables was remark but sll more noteworthy wag bel'y sudden anger, Depomting preclous stor the table, she farted at the offender, caught bia snd beat him soundly before drop ving bim on the hearthrag David wae gure that the sou “Mr Hawley's” obnosious iWentity w> clyared up the quickly would Mirabel bie aboy the so he tried to provoke an pation, “Lave and hate are closer ak you may believe, he waid, “vey ekdaw knows that in his fee! like wringing his neck cried, raking the embers of the fire vigorously ‘ouldn't you feel better if you told me why you dislike this admit ted scoundrel?——-No, 1 won't name dim—oall him X." "Tl tell you thia much, if you Fomine never to mention the erea ure again, I dislike him because | fear him, I realise now that he has cast some spell On my father, hypno- tized him into folly, Yes, and that is why I am here, and I have no more to say. You are @ perfect note asked art.” jerrogation, Have I solitary question about , once you explained ence?’ “I want to determine one difficulty, and I have done, ain what you have ly H your. your pres- the searchers come, or way? Punch Ne spectously or what?’ Ha) girl turned and looked at bim 00. do not tnow.* ahe aal4 dowly “I have orled m: eleep with thinking, but—Heaven jp me!—I have no wd Ro resource be: some deep burrow like those poor rab- bits when Carlo chases them.” “Ah!" gald David. “Rather hopeless, tent #?’ she murmured, with the merest hint of a break in her voice. ES Ne the least. The discussion ts first possible momen: “Exactly. The gituation is up to me. . . sony, I must be more in- telitetbie. Don't you eee, there are two of us now on » One ie a en who really $ be bothered by Trane Rialog tallow who just lovee a Lad @ fret rate row for a owe sake. Leave it at thas.” ‘And that erent. ‘It means thie—if any one lands om this island with set Intent to annoy or harass you, there will be trouble, horrible trouble—for the iatruder.” “I care for no one, 60 as my father does net lend Ais support to "ren tire ing, te sar—ta a hal has r father treated yeu rightly in thie matter?” “In what matter?” “It seems to me that the position te clear, A man, @ person of gome at- tainments and undoubted intelll- gence, wins way into Mr. Looks- ley’s good opt if 90 usefl, or establ: Cininy that he is invited te visit your island Paradise. He creeps, and in- there he es te ind with the fearless steps “That's the best thing you ha’ 4 ay M By: She was wiser than any yet, though I have tried you on many ¢h, jy gees Pes ay pa imple a one topies. What do you talk about when i am not blaming Tea for it you mix with clever people im Thus far, his pui might be trans- t certainly be alive, or she would yondon?" 5 not qu teaching and opinions “ny arently honest. At rete, I Sad not quote is “One discusses the weather, the ont Probable winner of the next big race, and the latest cause celebre. But you, even here on Lunga, must know te eo, yet she was 66 arat m him and dreaded an en- forced return to the Talniand with depth of loathing and rebeliton that she didnot healtnte to hide on sor mere than T about the news 8 ‘k or carry a gun for n for captors, two years, and during all that time I pe hardly saw half a dozen newspapers.” CHAPTER VI. Mirabel shook her head “L never see A newspaper at atl,” NCE aboard the lugwer, and she gaid. “My father ly dogmatic on the girl became a very that point. He holds that people who womanly Mirabel tumed [ead mewspapers read nothing else, Netther newspaper nor magazine ever loone ina shop. Satlors are comes to Langa, or enters our house notably fond of sweets, so David at Ealing Sometimes, in our chalet Knew eeactly where to put hie hand ! Laghet, I have found a page of the Matin or L'Kelaireur de Nice, on several ting of jam and two boxe® which had wrapied a parcel, but dad of mixed biscults, made me put it away, and now I have There were fresh eggs, tinned dell- got into the habit of disregarding the ; a tai coffee "CWS The other day in the—in the opcien of , Yarine SEM. Ue ‘inal, trin—I bought some papers, but they dida’t interest me, Everything wa, it well within the bounds of a man's ambition, But how does he set about attaining hie wish? Most probably, being your very antithesis, he affects & swaggering air, says, in effect, ‘Women find me irresistible; you, Miss Mirabel Locksley, can prove no ex- ception to the rule,’ as cal resuit—a result which some shal low natures can never foresee—you eordially detest him. Does ho, like an honeat fellow, vow t he will never love another, and himself off to Australia or the Far West? Not he, By fair means or foul, he means to win his way, so he per- suades the girl's father that it is es- sential to his daughter's happiness that ghe ghould be forced to wed where she refuses to give her heart, The daughter, if she is the girl [ have in mind, is tortured between af. fection and respect for her father and the liveliest hatred for the pros- pective bridegroom"—— bottles of champagne, some clarety wings and bizarre to “ r dozens of beer, a bottle of Mqueur fy), and my @ Mr. Haw! croaked the jackdaw aur gorene @ large quantity of potted reere RY as ; haar ced i nary in net sleepily, from inside the fender, meat and ship's biscuits, which latter ghd what do you think it dealt wit ell, let 4 at that, Diogenes,” Pe ae ie erriod ta fun Level, Not the all-absorbing Ideal gaid David bulk, tome’ ‘wentimental make-ueliove "in g,Mirabel lifted her eyes for an tn Lilithely unaware of the problem which two peuple talked twaddie to stant: they were meualy, brient that was distracting her companion, fach other. I am sure the woman's Goal Mirabel wondered at his unusual lack was powdered, and that she wore of words. He pretended to be inveas- false hulr, while the man must have tigating a box of clothing and boots, resembled a barber'g doll, Can one but that was no reason why sho jmagi Helen talking twaddle to should not talk Hector?” Assuredly, that half-blind philolo- — "No, ind She would talk the gist and ecientific thinker, her father, purest Greek had reared in this lovely girl one who “This woman talked nonsense and would be more completely out of bad English. It surprised of Itself, place tn a society drawing-room than and made me laugh, though I was not moorland heather in a garden of ex- in laughing mood ‘et the moment. said, with a content t in the girl's ears. “I didn’t Thad It #0 well developed, tr of Langa is stimulating? Now, Mirabe|—may I cal) you Mira, Ooi MD Lancs BNR reese *