Show seria STORY TORY F A FOOL FOR F LOVE I 1 0 O r by y FRANCIS RANCIS ly LYNDE au hor hr of the th grafters etc w copyright 1905 boj P lipp CHAPTER II 11 continued mrs carteret wa propped ar among arong ong the cushions of a divan with a book her daughter occupied the undivided halt half of a tete a tete chair with a blonde athlete in a clerical coat and a re versed collar miss virginia was sit ting alon alone at a window but she rose and came to greet the visitor how good of you ou to take pity on us she cald giving him her hand then she put him at one with the others aunt martha you have met also cousin bessie let me present you to mr calvert cousin billy this is mr adams who Is responsible in J a R way for many of my boston learned gaucheries aunt martha closed the book on her finger my dear virginia she pro tested in mild deprecation and adams 1 laughed and shook bands hands with rev william calvert and made virginia Virgin las s peace all in the same breath don t apologize for miss virginia mrs carteret we were very good friends in boston chiefly I 1 th think ink be t cause I 1 neer neier objected when she want ed to er to take a rise out of me y then to virginia I 1 hope I 1 don t in k 0 trudea not in the least didn dian t 11 I 1 just say you were good to comee come 9 uncle somer ville tells us we are passing through j the famous golden belt whatever that i may be and recommends an easy chair and a window but I 1 haven t seen anything but stubble fields dis mally wet stubble fields at that won t you sit down and help me watch them go 90 by bya adams placed a chair tor for her and found one for himself uncle somerville am I 1 to have the pleasure of meeting mr somer fille darrahl miss virginia virginias s look was non corn com initial quien abe 9 she queried airing her one before she was fair ly IY an a the longitude of it uncle som erville is a law unto himself afif he lie had a lot of telegrams and things at kan sas city and he is locked in his den with mr jastrow dictating answers by the dozen I 1 suppose A oh these industry colonels said i adams don t their tol bollings lings make you ache in sheer sympathy some no indeed was the prompt re joinder I 1 envy them it must be t fine to have large things to do and j to be able to do them degenerate scion of a noble race j f jested adams what ancient carteret of them all would have compromised with the necessities by becoming a captain of industry 7 she broke him with a mocking laugh you were born a good many cen luries too late mr adams you would have fitted so beautifully into de cadent rome no thanks twentieth century america with the commercial frenzy taken out of it is good enough for me I 1 was telling winton a little while ago your friend of the kansas city sta tion 7 9 she interrupted lightn t you introduce us a little less informally T 9 beg pardon rm sure yours and jacks jack s mr john winton of new york and the world at large familiarly famil larl 1 known to his intimates and they are precious few as jack W As I 1 was about to say but she seemed to find a malicious satisfaction in breaking in upon him mr john winton it its s a pretty name as names go but it isn t as strong as he Is he Is an industry colonel isn t hea he looks it the 11 avenged himself for the interruption at winton s expense so much for your woman s ingui tion he laughed speaking of idlers I 1 there is your man to the dotting of the I 1 i a dilettante raised to the nth power r misa miss carteret Cart erets s short upper lip curled in undisguised scorn I 1 like men who do things she as exerted with pointed emphasis where upon the talk drifted eastward to bos ton and winton was ignored until virginia having exhausted the rem Ini scent acin ein said you are going on through to denver to denver aad and beyond was the reply winton has a notion of hi berna be mating ting in the mountains fancy it in the dead of and he has persuaded me to go along he sketches a little you know oh so he be is an artista said vir ginia ginta with interest newly aroused no said adams gloomily he isn t an artist isn t much ot of anything I 1 m sorry to say worse than all he know his grandfathers middle name to d me so himself that is inexcusable in a ailet tante said miss virginia mockingly don dont t aoi a i think soa it la Is ir excusable in anyone said the rising to take his leave then as a parting word does the rosemary set its own table 9 or do you dine dizie in the dining cara in the dining car if wo have one olle uncle somerville lets us dodge the rosemary s cook whenever we can was the answer and with this bit ot of information adams went his way to the deival sleeper finding winton in his section por ing over a blue print map and mak ing in g notes thereon after the manner of a man hard at work adams turned back to the smoking compartment now tor for mr morton P adams the salt ot of life was t joke harmless or otherwise as the tree might fall so during the long afternoon which he wore out in solitude there grew up ir him a keen desire to see what would befall it if these two whom he had so grotesquely protes quely misrepresented each to the other should come together in the pathway ot acquaintanceship but how tol bobring to bring them together was a problem which refused to be solved until chance pointed the way since the limited had lost another hour during the day there was a rush tor for the dining car as soon as the announce ment of ito it taking on had gone through the train adams and winton were of this rush and so were the mem bers hers of mr somerville darrah s party in in the seating the party was sepa rated as room at the crowded tables could be found and misa miss Vir virginias gintas fate gave her the unoccupied seat at one of the duet tables opposite a young man with steadfast gray eyes and a van dyck beard winton was equal to the emergency or thought he was adams was still within call and he ae beckoned him meaning to propose propose an exchange af seats but the bostonian Bost onlan mi sunder stood willfully most happy I 1 in sure he said coming int instantly antly to the rescue miss carteret my friend signals his di dl lemma may I 1 present him virginia smiled and gave the re quiren permission in a word but for winton self possession flew shrieking ah er I 1 hope you know mr adams well enough to make allow ances an ces tor for his for bis his he broke down domn piteously and she had to come to his assistance for his imagination 7 9 she suggest ed I 1 do indeed we are quite old friends here was well enough but wll wil ton was a man and could not let it alone I 1 should be very sorry to have you for a moment that I 1 would er so 90 far forget myself he went on fatuously what I 1 had in mind was an exchange of seats with him 1 I thought it would be pleasanter tor for you that Is I 1 mean pleasanter for he stopped short seeing nothing but a more hopeless involvement ahead also beca ibe he saw signs of distress 0 or of mirth flying in the brown eyes oh please she protested in mod humility do leave leane my vanity just the tiniest little cranny to creep out of mr winton III promise to be good and not bore you too desperately but let lets s ignore mr adams she went on sweetly I 1 am much more interested in this touching toi to ching the bill of fare will y ou order tor for me please I 1 like when she had finished the list list ol 01 her likings winton was able to smile at his lapse into the primitive and gan gaie e the dinner order tor for two with a fair degree of coherence after that they got on better winton knew boston and next to the weather bos ton was the safest and most fruitful of the commonplaces nevertheless it was no immortal and winton wa just beginning to cist about tor for some other sate safe riding road for the shallop of small tall when miss carteret sent it adrift with mith malice aforethought it haq somewhere between the en trees and the fr friet ait and the point ol 01 departure was boston art speaking of art mr winton will you tell me how you came to think of sketching in the mountains of colo rado at this time of yeara I 1 should thinh think the cold would be positively pro hibi tive of anything like that winton stared open mouthed it is to be feared I 1 1 I beg your pardon he stam with the inflection which takes ita LU pitch from blank bewilderment virginia was happy dilettante ha he might te be and an man of the world as w 11 but to use rev arend billys billy s phrase she could make aim him sit up I 1 beg yours I 1 rn sure she said de aurely I 1 dida did t know it was a craft lecert winton looked across the aisle to the table where the wa waa sitting opposite a square shouldered ruddy faced gentleman with fiery eyes and fierce white mustache and shoot a figurative fist I 1 d ilka lika to know what adams lias tas been telling you he said sketch ing in the mountains in midwinter that would be decidedly original to sav the least of it and I 1 think I 1 have near done an original thing in all my life for a single instant the brown eyes looked their pity tor for him generic pit pity it was mas of the kind that mounting souls bestow upon the stagnant but the subconscious lover in winton made it personal to him and it was the lover who spoke when he went on that Is a damaging admission la 13 it not I 1 am sorry to have to make it to have to confirm your poor opinion of me did I 1 say anything like thata she protested not in words but eyes said it and I 1 know you have been feink ing it all along don t ask me how I 1 know it I 1 couldn coulden t explain it if I 1 should try but you have been pity ing me in a way you know you have the brown eyes downcast frank and free hearted after here hei heiking kind as she was virginia carteret waa wax finding it a new and singular expert ence to have a man tell her baldly at their thel r first meeting that he had read her inmost thought of him yet she would not flinch or go back there i so much to be done in vie world and so few to do the work she pleaded in extenuation and adams has told you that I 1 am not one of the fews it is true enough to hurt she looked him fairly in the eyes what Is lacking mr winton the spur J possibly he rejoined there is no r af R ad V J A WINTON FOUND MISS CARTERET HOLDING HIS OVERCOAT one near enough to care or to say well done f how can you tell she questioned musingly it is not always permitted to us to hear the plaudits or the hisses happily I 1 think yet there are always those standing by who art are ready to cry lo 10 triumph el and mean it when one approves himself a good soldier the coffee had been served ano winton sat thoughtfully stirring the lump of sugar in his cup miss car was not having a monopoly ol 01 0 the new experiences for instance it had never before happened to johr winton inton to have a woman young charming harming and altogether lovable read him a lesson out of the book of th the over comers he smiled inwardly and wondered what she would mould say if it she could kanom to ahat ft hat battle field the drumming wheels of the limited were speeding h in would she be loyal to her men jor filp and tell him he must win ai al whatever the cost to mr somerville an darrah and his business associates 4 or would she woman like be hei uncle uncle a partisan and write one john winton down in her blackest book foi foe daring to oppose the rajah he ile assured himsel it would make no jot of difference it if he knew he had a thing to do and he was pur posed to do it strenuously inflexibly yet in the inmost chamber ot of his heart where the barb barbarous arois js ego stands unabashed and isolate and recklessly contemptuous of the moralities minor and major he saw the birth of an in fluence which must henceforth be des pera tely reckoned with given a name this new born factor was love love barely awakened and yet n more than a masterful desire to stand well in the eye of one worn wom TO BE CONTINUED CONTINUE DJ |