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Sr ie ad Li dict Oo F with The Centurion a length or 80 be- horses in the race. Kiss for Good Night made the running, hind. Audrey watched eagerly through the glasses Preslow had lent her, They came down the slope and round the bend to the straight, and Kiss for Good Night was loosed. She shot forward like a machine, The Centurion picked her up at once. And then Audrey gasped. The dit tance between Kiss for Good Night and The Centurion was increasing. ‘The big horse was dropping back. Kiss for Good Night thundered past the post with three lengths to spare, and The Centurion beat Gee Whiz for second place by a neck, with the black travelling the faster. Presiow lowered his glasses. “You found the winner all right, he said. ‘‘The bookies haven't done so badly over this race. Harkness is a clever-chap, He can pick his horses, and, better still, pick his jockeys. I shall remember The Centurion on Derby Day.” ‘ “What do Audrey. Preslow looked straight into her eyes. “In my opinion The Centurion could have beaten Kiss for Good Night. I think the race was lost de- Uberately.”” ‘It's dishonest!" gasped Audrey. Presiow shrugged his shoulders. “Let us find a good one for the next race,"’ he said. But Audrey had lost a great deal of her enthusiasm. She was shocked by the {dea that Harkness might have deliberately run his horse to lose. She told herself that she would go to him, cost what it might. The numbers went up after the last race, and Preslow drove Audrey away from the course. They turned to the right on the Edenbridge Road and missed the great volume of traffic which surged toward Croydon and London. “Shall we have tea somewhere?" asked Preslow; ‘and go for a long ride around? Or are you tired?" “I should like a ride,’ said Audrey. They had tea, and the yellow car swung off on her long run. The twi light had settled when they topped Polhill. The road was deserted and Preslow swung the car in to the right hand hedge and pulled up. With the stopping of the engine's beat a great silence came down on them. “Isn't it wonderful?” said Preslow softly. Audrey looked to her right. From the road’s edge the hillside dropped clean away green and sheer, The car and its occupants seemed perched above a world at rest “You have enjoyed yourself day?" murmured Preslow. ‘Audrey nodded. It seemed a sacri- léke to speak. Preslow's fingers closed over her hand “Audrey,"' whispered Preslow, “I have known you only a little while, but during that time I have learned to love you—to prize you above all else. May I hope that one day you will grow to love me? Tt was then that Audrey thought of Harkness, Behind Preslow she seem- ed to see his lean, dark face hovering, watching her. “What is wrong?’ asked Preslow. Nothing. I was thinking.”’ Preslow knew that her thoughts had been of Harkness. He felt a mo- mentary anger—almost incredulous. Surely that saturnine adventurer could not possibly be regarded as serious rival? He suppressed the thought and spoke softly. “You have not answered, Audr 1 love you, deur. Can't you tell me that you love me?" Audrey wavered “T hardly know, Preslow followed hot on his advan tage you mean?’ asked to- ou must, dear," he urged. ‘Don't tell me T have hoped in vain."’ His face was very close to ‘hers it her decision sw “One nswer,"’ she fal tered, A lit. tle pain showed in Preslow’s eyes. She added: “But L think—I shail try 1 think that £ shall love you—one day,"* y dear!" whispered Preslow, drew her to him and she sub- mitted to his embrace, unresisting and Ient. Yet when Ie Kissed her her 18 were cold—like ice. CHAPTER XIV, AMMA, I have something to toll you it after was “the moraing had been fo Lingfield races with Preslow, and she and her alone. “Yes?” Audrey mother were breaktasting Audrey thought in her Constance looked old, af and at weariness Mr Pres evening," velce was a low proposed to me last Constance ke a piece of toast with methodical left it on her plate. “Proposed dully. precision, and then to you?” she echoed sald Audrey, with some tone. She had sufficient vanity to hope that her mother would not appear in ment. Constance edulous of ber state ipped at her coffee, She AU LOI LORD drey happ. quietly. Last night I thought I might grow to love him, about it, him if I never saw him again.” ings. she repeated. ELLA, who favors Audrey’ iven to ambiing and racin DENBIGH an actress, who Audrey. teen years before the story opens. marriage with Audrey, with reservations. juarrel_betweer Harkness and MAJOR STADVATOS, a gambler for “AUDREY, | HAVE LEARNED TO LOVE You.” wanted a few seconds in which to think, dre to realize that he could not love Au- drey, It was a sure way out of any difficulty which might confront him it Audrey ever returned to her father. Preslow had proposed to Au- She knew Preslow well enough “What did you say to him, she asked. Audrey hesitated. “I am very un- mamma,” she answered “[ hardly knew what to say. Au- But now I just feel cold I hardly think I should miss Constance studied her. She could realize something of Audrey's feel- “What did you say to him?” “I told him to wait. That one day I might care for him, He kissed me." Constance bit her lip. She knew better than Audrey how far the sur- render had gone. “Audrey, before you finally say yes, come and see me. Will you promise to do that?” , “Yes, mamma,” They were silent for some time. At Tast Audrey said: “Can you tell *. Harkness's address?” y do you want it?"’ Constance's tone was cold, and her eyes suddenly very alert, “I want to call on him," Audrey's manner had none of its previous hesitation, but was sure and steady. “I will write him to-day," she sald. Arlington Mansions was a great block of flats of the highest class, and Audrey found Harkness living on the first floor, He was waiting for her. The room in which he received her was evidently his favorite apartment The walls were panelled and relieved by only three pictures. One of these pictures was a photograph of The Centurion. Harkness reached his hand to the helf and took down a box of ottes do you mind if I smoke?" should prefer it." Audrey fal- tered, then said: “I have come to talk very serlously to you." Harkness looked at her over the iighted match he 8 holding to Tis cigarette. "Yes He was gtill standing, but now he sat down jt the other big chair, so that he faced her Before I go any further’—Audrey found herself warming slightly to her task—"I want to assure you that- that—in spite of what has occurred between us, I do not bear malice.” Audrey leaned forward. “I have said all this, because I think Lois Denbigh loves you. [ have watched her. Are you aware of that? Are you—going to—treat her as you did me?" Harkness did not reply at once to Audrey's question. “You think I am playing with Lois?” said Harkness at last Audrey's face set, “One can only judge by experience."”" “I know Lois cares for me," said Harkness simply. “Does she think you care for her?"" Harkness turned toward Audrey, His eyes were very hard. ‘That is my business," The brutality of the rebuff stagger- he does not love her and she, for the moment, encourages the attentions of SIR RICHARD PRESLOW, nephew of Connington, who, knowing his uncle's desire to recltim his daughter, plots with ‘i Constance decides to uudrey visits the Eros (‘THE EVENIN T don't know, She did not tell m Constance bent over the roses “This matter of Audrey, Is aot easy," she sald at length. “I shall see Connington again and ask him if I can see her often, and added—"'He will not agree.”’ Constance wrote a letter, reply came by return of post. and a It serious. It"—— Audrey was righ eously indignant. ‘It was cheating! Harkness got to his feet. For a moment his gaze rested on the photo- graph of the big horse, and then he looked down at Audrey. Then he sald; “Is there anything else?’’ "Audrey stood up. “You are a waste: Audrey spoke very deliberately, “You waste your life, your money, your deceney. Can you ever turn and say, ‘I am going here,’ or ‘I am doing this?’ You rise in the morning and you wander round till night-time, And your life Is like each of your days. A dishonored “Mr. cheque! That ts what your existence/ steadily, is. A dishonored cheque! A useless Lois eyed her curiously for a mo- scrawl of writing on a useless plece/ ment and then said: of paper. Why don't you work? Why| to lunch with me?" don’t you go to your father and help him? He must need you!” Audrey paused for breath, Her eyes were slightly, pitiful when she continued. “Won't you try? There>there—are people who would like to see you worthy.” Harkness groped for the mantel- shelf. Audrey put out her hand as though to touch his arm, but drew back In ti eat club in London. cated on the Continent, him at the time suggested by her- train at Charing Cros 8 Harkness sad said, music !n the comedy was being re- Harkness, to protect Audrey, tells her for rehearsals. is mother to bring about a Brent,"' she sald. ive Audrey up to her father, Jub and there witnesses a Harkness,’ big stakes, who is caught cheating, question,’ smiled Audrey. She felt very much at home, appealed to her tremendously, for un- derneath It she detected the golden seriousness of thought which was the foundation of the girl’s true chaj ter. Also, she had not forgotten that handclasp in the Hros when all her life's illusions were shattered. ‘ou come with me," said Lots. “We'll go to Latour's In Piccadilly Circus, Did you enjoy the racing on Saturday?" “I lked it immensely. I've never been before, The course was very pretty."” Lois changed quickly and was soo: ready for walking, and five minutes later Audrey found herself in La- tour's, It was a bright, care-free place without a band. “T get fed up with bands," ex- plained Lois naively. ‘They can't help you to eat, either.” She pointed out several stagé celebrities. Their food was brought, and while they ate Lois kept up her rattle of light conversation, All the time she was wondering ‘why Audrey had come to her, and how it was that Harkness had sent-her i And Audrey began to feel nervous. The coffee was brought and Lois lit a cigarette. 3 “Well?” she said, ‘Did you win a lot of money on Saturday?" “A little,” answered Audrey. 160" —the name “Ferris” has meant just one thing: that par excel- lence in Ham and Bacon flavor which can come only from natural, old-fashioned deep curing. If your butcher can’t supply you, ask us who can. F. A. Ferris & Co., Inc., New York FERRIS HAMS 8 BACON Will you try she murmured, “Will you tell Lois everything?" “I repeat that it is none of your business." Harkness's voice was low but very steady. Audrey flamed. “I shall make it my business. I shall see Lois myself. You have no right’’—— The anger died from her voice, ‘Don't make me do this.’* A knock sounded on the door, and Harkness roused himself. “Excuse me,’’ he said, and called, ‘Come in!"’ His man entered, ‘A telegram, sir.”* Harkness ripped open the envelope. “No answer,"’ he snapped. “Is it bad news?” Audrey's anxiety was patent in her face. Harkness stared at her, then said laconically: ‘‘Nothing important.”’ Harkness, with the coming of the telegram, seemed to have completely recovered himself. “Miss Denbigh is usually to be found at the Arcadian about this time, if you care to go around there. Shall I have a taxi called?"" Audrey winced, “You are sending me away!" she said In a low voice. “IL am sorry,"" ahswered Harkness gravely. Audrey went. Out in St. James's she hailed a taxi, and told the man to drive her to the Arcadian. Harkness stood very still for some minutes after Audrey had. gone. He cursed himself and cursed the pride which had sent her away un- answered, He thought of the telegram then and took it from his pocket. It had been handed in at Sheffield, and was very short. erously ill, ed Audrey for the moment, but she quickly recovered. A thrill of anger pulses. “I am going to talk plainly to you," she said, ‘Because I believe that no- body has ever done so before.” The hardness slipped trom Hark- ness’s eyes, Almost it seemed that an Ironic laughter showed there. “You don’t care," she said swiftly. quickened her Come at Hilary, was his father's private sec- retary. He took up an A B C and turned to the train for Sheffleld. CHAPTER XV. “You just go on and on, and think : « only of yourself. You are selfish to HE pain morning, after A little hi, her the core, and brutal. I mean tt! Audrey had left for town, ‘ Peas, There was that horse’"—she flung her Constance wandered alone in price UT! hand in the direction of the photo- into the garden. She attended to some rose trees for Aunt Ella came to hei Where is Audrey?" she asked. “Gone to town to see Harkness,’ answered Constance, Aunt Ella looked at does that mean?" Constance shrugged her graph of The Centurion. ‘He should have won, and you know it. It is a typical instance of your conduct." “You are, of ccurse, an expert in matters connected with the turf.” There was the old suave sarcasm in Harkness's voice. “T know nothing about ft, and just because of that the matter is more a while, and POMPEIAN OLIVE OIL Sold Everywhere Her, ‘*What shoulders ZZ Served in the best places-- simply because it i¢ the best Anheuser-Busch ANHEUSER-BUSCH, INC., ST. LOUIS Anheuser-Busch Ice & C. 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ROM the start of the Bouthern] CONSTANCE BRENT, divorced; proprietor of a Stakes, there were only two} AUDKEY BRENT, her daughter, who has been e cenit ot her mother’s life and business and chaperoned by suitor, met at Monte Carlo, tim HARKNESS. son of a steel magnate, but a philandering ne‘er-do-well, His closest woman friend is teally loves him but respects his love for Audrey does not know that she is the daughter of INNINGTON, British statesman, who had divorced her mother six- if he agrees I shall surrender her to him," “All right,” sald Aunt Filla, after SYNDICArT & moment of silence. ‘She almost said that Lord Connington would be pleased if Mra, Brent would call on self, and that his car would meet her Audrey found Lots at the Arcadian, Some of the vised and Lois was forced to attend “I'm awfully glad you came, Miss “Who told you answered Audrey “Will you come “I was going to ask you the same Lois's raciness 1922, ra backed some wififiers. Night was one of them.” it 1 the Centurion. But Lois merely ob- served that Kiss for Good Night was a smart filly, Audrey began to wish she had not come. She felt more than a friendli- hess for Lois, and strove to discover the reason, ‘They both loved the same man, and tnstead of its creating a gulf of Jealousy between them it was drawing them together, So you backed Kise for Night,” Lois said slowly. a lucky hit. Centurion of my hard-earned cash," “Yes,” said Audrey quietly. Neve he should have won."* Good “That was “T be smoke from her cigafette, “It was a beastly shame, that race," she observed, “It wus @ scandal," answered Au- drey candal?"” Lole's eyes were laugh - Ing. "But you backed the winner.” Audrey leaned forward. “I mean the Centurton should have won'—— ette. ‘It was the jockey. altogether. the papers."" least, not the sporting section.” Audrey faltered the admission, had made a ghastly mistake! must tirade against his methods on turf? 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