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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH her chair, smoking a cigarette through a long tube ; Pauline, her reputed niece, her coffee and tclgarette alike neglected, gazing fixedly seaward. Their Immediate environment suggested at once a taste for luxury and the means to gratify it. The linen and silver on the little table at which they had Just lunched was of the finest possible quality the former and adorned with a coronet. A bowl of pink roses occupied the center of the table. The coffee had been served In little cups of tlie finest Sevres china. In the background, a single servant was standing, dressed In plain black livery, a man and with lined face, but tall and. of powerful build. He possessed to the full the of feature of the trained immobility By English servant, but their was someE. Phillips Oppenheim thing entirely foreign in his sphinx-likattitude and expression. lie had the air of one who neither snw nor henrd save at his mistress orders. Copyright by Little, Brows end Co. I am weary of everything here except the sun, Pauline? declared deliberately. PAULINE The woman opposite knocked the ash from her cigarette. Hers was an SYNOPSIS. Fleeing from a aged and withered face, but her black brutal stepfather, an unhappy home, and a proposed husband eyes were still full of life and fire. she detests, young Myrtlle, Her long, thin hand, on which flashed French girl, stands In a country several strangely set rings, was sudroad on the verge of desperation. Halted by an exploded tire, two denly extended toward the waiting young Englishmen, Lord Gerald servant. lthout a word he bowed Dornbey and Christopher Bent, and disappeared. are attracted by the girl's dis"One must wait, Madame de She begs tracted appearance. Poniere declared. them to take her away from her misery. In a spirit of adventure For what? the girl asked lazily. they do so, conveying her to The older womans eyes glittered for Monte Carlo and leaving her with a moment. friends. Myrtlle speaks English, her mother having been an edu"For what will surely come, she Gerald sees a cated woman. declared. The portents are all there. beautiful young woman in the The Is no longer upon the fasciwriting Is gambling rooms, and wall It blazes to the sky. nated, but can only learn that she Is called Pauline de Poniere And Pauline murmeanwhile," and is with her aunt. He Is unsun mured. the shines, my heart able to secure an Introduction. beats in to I tune and all the feel decide it, Gerald and Christopher time the weariness of the days. Myrtlle shall not go back to her home. Lady Mary, Geralds sisIt Is the lnsurgence of youth," the ter, secretly In love with Chrisolder woman conceded indulgently. I topher, disapproves of the young men's guardianship of Myrtlle. suppose the greatest must feel it some day." She thrust another cigarette Into her CHAPTER IV --Continued tube and lit It, Inhaling with the long, regular breaths of the confirmed smokThere was a somewhat hectic silence er. Her delicately-shape- d but talonfor several moments. Madame Lenore like fingers were stained with nicotine. Zubin arrives this week," she ancould scarcely conceal her contempt for the crudeness of this puritanical nounced. Palline yawned. Englishman. Myrtlle herself felt as More mysteries, she murmured, though a dream of paradise were fading away. Gerald, because he was "more false hopes, more exaggerated good fellow enough at heart, felt stories. Nothing good will come of further Insistence Impossible. He was Zubins visit but the money he brings, quite content to drift Into danger; he unless by any chance he has news of was not casuist enough to evade a Stepan. Meanwhile, dear madame, I bore myself. I rather wish that I had plain warning. Well, I suppose we shall have to let been born an American." The woman showed no sign of anthis disagreeable fellow have his way," he declared. Take her along, madame, ger, yet somehow or other she seemed and see what you can do. You hear to diffuse an atmosphere of contempt my friends Idea plain blue serge butIt Is perhaps a pity, she admitted, toned up to the throat, cashmere "that you are descended from one of shoes." stockings and square-toe- d the greatest rulers the world has ever There will be a compromise, known. It is perhaps a pity." And for madame declared firmly. Give me something to rule over," the rest, little one, do not trouble too the girl declared, and I will be repentshe whispered, as she led ant the souls and liberties of a few much, I shall keep these million Myrtlle away. people, or the hearts of a few clothes JuSt as they are, until the oth- men. 1 am twenty-threyears old and er gentleman has made up his mind to the sun Is warm. And then there Is meddle no longer. Come to me when the music, our one resource when there you are ready. I can make you look Is no money to gamble with. What Is so that milord will take notice of no the use of music, madame, to one who other woman. lives behind the bars? It simply makes Myrtlles eyes were swimming with one pull at them a little harder. 1 am tears. as badly off as Stepan himself, who It was Just for him that I wanted loves me from behind the fortress I walls. Sometimes I wish that I were to keep these clothes, she said. wanted him to take me out and to feel there with him." that I looked like other girls. As for Madame de Poniere reached for an Monsieur Christopher, I detest him! stick and rose toriier feet In the showroom outside, neither of Almost as though by magic, from the two young men was particularly somewhere within the dim, cool red disposed for conversation. Christopher cesses of the room beyond, the felt a distinct return of his first appremanservant was by her side. hension concerning Geralds attitude She leaned upon his arm. towards Myrtlle, while Gerald himself We drive at four oclock, Pauline, was conscious of a vague sense of re-- , she said. Afterwards, we will watch sentment at his friends Interference, the play at the Sporting club. the more poignant, perhaps, because Pauline' shrugged her shoulders. It of Its wisdom. Anything In the na- was the same yesterday afternoon, and ture of an explanation between the every day behind. It would probably two was rendered Impossible by the be the same tomorrow. She looked Insmallness of the room and the pres- tently across the narrow gorge toward d ence of the shop assistants. So Ger- that other villa. A car ald contented himself with lighting a had turned in from the road and was cigarette, while Christopher studied a crawling up the winding avenue. She stretched out her hand for the field book of fashions. Presently Myrtlle came out to them glasses which lay on the table by her once more. The transformation was side. The figure of the young man at still amazing, but the blue serge cos- the wheel was familiar to her. Pauline rose to her feet. Almost tume was absolutely plain except for Its thick edging of braid, and the little as mysteriously as the manservant toque, with Its dark blue quill, abso- had appeared a few moments before, a d maid hastened toward her. lutely free from ornamentation. Yet It seemed almost Incredible that this Pauline shook her head. "This afternoon I do not wish to graceful girl who came towards them a little shyly but with perfect rest, she decided. "I shall walk In should Indeed be the peas- the gardens. ant child who had been under their Pauline descended the stone steps, care for rather less than twenty-fou- r crossed the drive and plunged Into a hours. narrow footpath which wound its way $ is Mademoiselle transformed, through a plantation of stunted but Madame I.enore declared. "She has pine trees, downward natural elegance. In the simplest toward the sea. The path was not an clothes I could give her, she would easy one, and Pauline's shoes were still create an Impression. I have scarcely designed for such an advendone my best,' milord and monsieur. I ture. Nevertheless, she persevered. trust that you are satisfied." At last she gained her end. She stood I am going to take Myrtlle to Ciros upon the little strip of sand, besprinto lunch. Come along, Christopher," kled with rocks, which bordered the sea. Only a few yards away the shimsaid Gerald. mering blue water rocked toward the She turned in little wavelets. land V Chapter and looked back. The villa from come seemed like a The two women sat on the terrace which she had doll's house shining out of Its sheltervilla of their wjstarla-covere- d More directly Madame de Ponlec hunched up In ing clump of cypresses. The Mystery- Road lace-border- gray-haire- d e e - ivory-toppe- d gray-haire- two-seate- black-robe- sweet-smellin- g above her now was the far more extensive residence of Lord Hlnterleys. She looked toward it searchlngly. There were several people upon the broad veranda, amongst them the slim figure of a young man av Its farther edge, gazing Intently In her direction. She smiled a little as she picked her steps across the yellow sand to the edge of the sea and clambered on to a rock. A queer fit of heedlessness was upou her. She stood upon the top cf the slippery rock, finding a strange pleasn ure In the air and the wind which brought a thousand ripples of light to the trembling blue sea, which blew her skirts about, and even brought disarrangement to her smoothly bound hair. This tempering of the sunshine brought a new Joy to its warmth. She stood there basking In a purely sensuous pleasure, forgetful for a moment of the depression of the The sound of tumbling morning. stones In the little gorge behind scarcely disturbed her. It was not until she heard footsteps upon the strip of beach that she turned her bead. Coming toward her, already only a few yards away, was a young man of personable appearance and determined expression. For once In his life Gerald had made up his mind. Although he was In reality brimful of confidence In all his relations with the other sex, Gerald had sometimes a not altogether unattractive appearance of shyness. He stood bareheaded for a moment, looking up at Pauline. I am sorry If I startled you," he I was looking for my sister. I said. know this is a favorite place of hers, and when I 6aw you standing there I rather Jumped to the conclusion that you must be she. Really?" Pauline replied. Are we so much alike, then?" Not In the least, he declared frankly. That seems to make your explanation a little insufficient, does It not? Pauline remarked. Gerald settled down to business. "I know that I ought to have turned back, he said, but, after all, wasnt It much more natural of me to come on? I have been trying, ever since I first saw you, to get someone to Introduce me we are, after all, as I have Just discovered, to my great delight, neighbors and this Is the Riviera, not Berkeley square. May I tell you that my name Is Gerald Dombey, that my father and sister have the villa up there, and that, from the moment I saw you, I have been anxious to make your acquaintance?" She looked at him In silence for a moment, half critically, half thoughtfully. There was nothing absolutely discouraging In her attitude, and yet Gerald somehow conceived the Idea that this might not, after all, be so easy an affair as he had hoped. "Are you used to enlarging your acquaintance in this manner? she asked. I very seldom feel the desire to do Dont be anso," he assured her. noyed, please. I am really quite a reI will call upon spectable person. your aunt. If she will give me permission." For the first time Pauline smiled. It was rather a cold smile, but the fact that It was a smile at all was encouraging. I fancy that you had better dismiss that suggestion from your mind altogether, she said. "My aunt does not receive here, and she certainly would not welcome you as a caller." Why not?" Gerald Inquired, a little n TIIE WORLD'S GREATEST BMSiBR a Is truly tfie worlds great est bakin' Q 22 powder salt-lade- It has Pure Feeds- - Because you are a young man," Pauline replied. There are two things which my aunt dreads more than anything else In life a bad throat for herself, and young men for me." I dont see how she can hope to keep young men away from you altoYou dont gether," Gerald declared. mind my saying, do you, that you are the sort of girl whom young men would want to know? She even Her smile returned. Better Bakings Sales tor over X1, third ono times ly perturbed. produced those ol a esn other 1 brand I BEST BY TEST oS any! tury He Knows Her Weakness Silage Gases Dangerous According to the United States Department of Agriculture the poisonous gases formed in a silo overnight while the silo Is In process of being filled are deadly to persons. Freshly cut silage n the purtlally filled silo Is the cause. When there Is no air circulation the gases remain In considerable volume; Immediate death may result from entering such a silo. To avert this danger, says the department, run the ensilage cutter for a few minutes before anyone enters the silo. 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