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Show .,..' Thursday, Deccmhrr THE LEH1 SUN. LE1H. UTAH .ggte PAGE TWO THe Recluse of Fifth Avenue CHAPTER X Continued 19 "That's the right spirit," said Me-Klmber. Me-Klmber. Ills son looked at him mazed. . "A man who let another dictate about whom he a to marry Is a weakling and a coward. I didn't. The Grahams, all except old William, hated m. I wasn't well born or educated. edu-cated. I was a machinist and my hands were thlck-flngered, and I hadn't any parlor tricks. I married your mother In spite of their lies and plot to separate us." "Do you mean to say you approve of Miss Brown?" "That' what I'm trying to tell you. 1 suppose you are wanting to know why I have changed. Robbie, don't ask me. There are things that happen hap-pen in a man's life that change him Instantly. It may be the ghost of old follies which' rises to remind him of what he had forgotten. No, don't ask me, Robbie, but just bring the girl to your mother and me. She shall never want for love where we are." He walked heavily from the room. UIs son could not comprehend this astounding as-tounding change. There was a stricken strick-en look in his father's face. Not since Robin was a boy had he been called "Robbie." But his speculation on the cause of the change was lost In joy at what It meant to him. Agatha told him she would be back at about ten. He looked at the clock. It was past . two. Eight weary hours before he could see her 1 At seven he was on the golf links playlnga few holes. Three hours to wait At eight o'clock he saw her coming com-ing slowly in his direction. x I didn't think you were going to return so early," he said, smiling. "Agatha, how lovely you look," "I feel miserable," she said soberly. "Darling," he whispered, "how can jou feel miserable on this bright, glorious morning?" Nothing could depress htm now. There' was-a look In her eyes that told hlra what be wanted to know. "You know, Robin, one Isn't always free to do as one likes. J think If I hud foreseen this week I should no have had courage enough to endure It. Klln, we must both of us forget It." "Forget the only week I have lived," he cried. "Never." Her air of dejection de-jection communicated itself to him. "Tell me why I should?" "There are so many things," she said slowly. "One Is your father's' objection. ob-jection. I like him because he sets such store by you, but I'm not going lo come between you and him." Robin laughed joyously. "Don't worry about him. lie's tor you now just as strongly as mother Is. lie thinks you are just the girl to look after me for life. You've conquered Mm. He just had to give !n, so what more Is there to say?" Looking at hlra It seemed to the girl - that the task she had set herself was bevond her strength. ' Why, she asked herself, had she kept heart-whole all her life to find In Robin McKImber the only man she could love? How could tell him that she must choose between be-tween her sworn loyalty to her father and his comrades and her love for Mm? She was associated with men who had determined ti get from Kax-on's Kax-on's safe the documents which Incriminated In-criminated John McKImber and made the realization of his ambitions Impossible. Im-possible. She saw, very clearly, what course Peter Milman would pursue, and how In the carrying out of his plans of revenge he would have no consideration for the McKimbers. "There Is more to sny," she told Mm, her voice trembling a little. "Sly dear. It Is the hardest thing to sny. Robin. It's good by." fJood-by," he repeated. "Agatha, what do you mean?" That I am leaving here today and ahall not see you again. Don't ask me to explain. I can't tell you anything any-thing except that there Is something which make all the things ( hoped Impossible." She coulQ see the gray under his tanned skin She knew she had wounded him bitterly. There was i terrible quietness In his distinct, clear voice. "Then you never really loved me? -I did." she said simply ; "that's what makes it so hard." "If you love me," he cried, "nothing can come between us." "Something has come between us. I do love you. Robin, and I shall never care for anyone else; but there is someone who needs me more than you do." "I'm not going to say go-by," he said gently. -But you must," she Insisted. "It is all over. Robin. One little week of happiness and years and years of regret" re-gret" Suddenly she turned from him and walked away. He followed with r-teeching r-teeching gestures until he saw that D Gulllain was approaching. It seemed to him that Agatha almost ran to the elder man. "What have yto been dolne on this lovely morning?" Malet asked. "Breskiug my heart I think." she ,0RtrPr, -riease walk back to the souse wtm me. I don't want to have tA m.er u anyone." KdlM wis not 4etTt4 by the smlls with which she tried to hide her suffering. suf-fering. He wished he had words to help her. He walked to the big house. ihlg heart aching because she was hurt. He wondered what it was about Of course. It had to do with young Robin McKImber. He felt he hated the tall, handsome lad who had the power so to wound this lovely daughter of his friend. Vague desires to administer chastisement swept over him and departed. de-parted. What right had he to Interfere? Inter-fere? And what but harm does one do who attempts to adjust lovers' quarrels? After breakfast Mrs. Raxon sent for her social secretary.' "Your month is pp today," she said. "I do not think you need remain. I shall pay you for another month In lieu of notice." Why are you sending me away?" Miss Brown asked quietly. "You ought to know," Gertrude Raxon cried. "We've watched you trying to get Robin McKImber as If you were one of our friends Instead of being hired to help." Miss Brown could even smile. "I am quite sure," she said sweetly, "that nobody who knows me would ever suspect me of being your friend." "And you needn't apply to us for recommendations," shouted the girl. "I shall not," said Miss Brown calmly. calm-ly. She gave a little smile and bow and left them. Mrs. Raxon wished she could walk like that She was filled with a sudden sud-den sense of having acted badly. She had never let her daughters know how much she admired her social sec- "Please Walk Pck to the House With Me. I Don't Want to Have to Speak to Anyone." retary. The girl had made no vulgar scene, as Mrs. Raxon had dreaded. She had not raised her voice; nor had she begged for another chance. She was calm, aloof, superior. Mrs. Raxou looked at her own daughter a little sourly, , "How Tm to arrange the menus and see the servants do their work I'm sure I don't know." , "Hire someone else," said Gertrude, "and let me see her first" Half an hour later a taxi came to the front door and Miss Agatha Brown left Great Rock. Taul Raxon did not learn of it until later. lie only hoped the household efficiency would not be Impaired. Miss Brown had had her uses. He had learned a great deal from the criticism of one used to the homes of the great. And, he mused. It might be better for him In the long run that she was replaced by someone some-one of rather less physical attractions. He had been thinking too much about her. "My dears," she had said to her footmen, "you must stay on If you can until Uncle Peter has read what I "Champion Crank" Had Qualities as Leader Styling himself "Champion Crank." George Francis Train "led a life that places him among the foremost of American eccentric figures, yet his career ca-reer shows him to have been a leader and creator of distinction. He made a trlR around the world In SO days as his most notable bid for public notice, but this was preceded and followed by many other unusual accomplishments. The Columbian exposition at Chicago in 1S93 did not start off very well and Train announced his purpose to "save" the show. He organized a grand march to (he grounds, leading It with a popular belle of the time ou his arm. aud aroused the West to Interest In the enterprise. While the Call-tornia Call-tornia gold boom was on he created a fleet of 40 sailing ships for the trade. He went to Australia when jtold was discovered there and the miners In a revolution attempted to make Train the president of their republic," but he declined and went to Eurore, where he Introduced street railways. During the Civil war U t 1 WYNDHAM &.pTff ht la the Units WNUSenles have written. He may have othei uses for you here." The blond footman dropped his Cockney accent and the lackey's manner man-ner as he kissed her. "Shan't be very long here, I expect," he said. "I'm getting tired of It. - Just as I open a bottle of wine and light a good cigar some d d nobody rings for Ice water, or the fire needs logs, or there's a mouse Id a bedroom and I'm elected to slay it." "But, ' daddy," she reproved him, "you are here on duty, and a very great deal more may depend on you than you think. I've been awfully proud of the way you carried it off." Neeland Barnes went about his work with greater spirit "When I think of a 'man of your genius doing this sort of thing," she said to Fleming Bradney as she shook hands, "I can't admire you enough.' She left them, smiling brilliantly. They felt she had the secret of success suc-cess with her. Yet, alone In the taxi-cab, taxi-cab, she cried unrestrainedly. Robin McKImber did not find out she was gone until luncheon. The Raxon girls had not forgiven him. He was so obviously In love with the despised de-spised Agatha that they admitted collective col-lective and Individual failure. Robin chafed that his parents seemed to have decided to stay a few more days. He did not like to leave at once ; he feared people would think he had pursued Miss Brown. All day long his father was with Raxon in bis distant suite. The delay seemed Intolerable. More than anything else, Robin wanted to find where Agatha had gone. His appeal to Sneed brought no results. Then he thought of De Guillaln. Robin had not hitherto liked this man. He had been jealous of all who seemed Intimate with the girl. But he decided to make a clean breast of It. 1 . ... "I have asked Miss Brown to marry me," he snH quietly. "Yesterday It seemed as though she loved me. This morning, out on the links, she said she had to go, and something had happened hap-pened which made everything Impossible. Impos-sible. Perhaps she has heard things about me that I could explain. Can't you help me to find her?"' -1f Malet did not answer Immediately. His first Impulse whs to help young McKImber. But he remembered In time that he was engaged in a conspiracy con-spiracy in which the elder McKImber might be Involved. For the time the two must be kept apart. It would npt do to let him suspect he knew her present address. "Alas, that I cannot help you," he returned. "Madame la Duchesse de Fromage-Verte, at whose chateau la the Department of the Loire I first met Miss Brown, is now traveling in Tuscany. Ferhaps a cablegram addressed ad-dressed to her might bring results." "How do you 6pell her name?" Robin demanded. A few minutes later he came face to fate with Mrs. Raxon and asked her bluntly how it was she had engaged en-gaged an Inefficient person. "She had references from the countess coun-tess of Horsham, at Horsham In England, and Mrs. Hamilton Buxton of Westbury Old Manor." it was her daughters who pointed out later that he had obtained the addresses he sought by a ruse They were very bitter. Mrs. Hamilton Buxton would probably prob-ably not have received a stranger had she not seen him coming up the drive in his fast car. She was a lady of many loves, and she had oucescen him at Piping Rock, although her own set did not stoop to Intimacy with that in which the McKimbers moved. She liked handsome young men. "But, my dear Mr. McKImber," she cried, "I have never even heard of a Miss Xgatba Brown. If she used references refer-ences signed by me, she forged them." Her experienced eyes had shown her that this beau garcon was in love, and probably with an adventuress. (TO EE CONTINUED.) took tho platform In England for the Union cause and did much to keep that " country from recognizing the Confederacy. The war over, he projected proj-ected the Union Pacific railway, organized or-ganized the Credit Mobilier to finance It tnd founded Omaha, where he owned five thousand lots, reckoned later to be worth 50.000, though ht lost title to them through litigation. In which he was declared insane. He died intNew York when he was se-enty-six years old. Don C Seita m "Uncommon Americana." Began Great Library The first university library ii Ox ford was founded in 132U by Thomn Cobham, bishop of Worcester. In 13y Sir Thomas Bodley took upon him self the cost of making the uclverslrj library "fitte & haudsmo with eie 4, shelves 4 deskes, ar-d all that mi be needed . . . being thoroughly per scaded that I could sot b a myseJ to better purpo What's the Questions No. 23 1 What was "Stonewall" Jackson's first name? 2 What American general captured the Filipino leader Agulnalilo?. 5 What is mechanics? , 4 Who is the lightweight champiou pugilist? 6 Of what nationality Is 1he celebrated cele-brated pianist Joseph Uofinnn? 6 Which Is the principal river of New York state? 7 What five American cities havs the largest public libraries? 8 What is a volcano? ft How are the Justices of the Supreme Su-preme court chosen and by whom? 10 What is the difference in tbe ineanhig of the words "astronomy" r.rid astrology"? 11 Wnen was the Emancipation Proclamation issued? 12 How many signers of the Declaration Dec-laration of Independence were there? 13 What is roology? 14 Who Is the champion 220 yards runner? 15 What movie of the past few years received the critical acualm of being aimost artistically perfect? 16 What canal connects the Great Lakes with the ocean by way of the Hudson river? 17 Who was the only woman to win the Nobel prize for literature? 18 What is a vulture and where does it thrive? 19 Who is the present secretary of war? '.--': 20 What la the "hunter's and bar-rest bar-rest moon." Answers No. 22 1 It is a genus of plants belonging to the Vervain family and several Ew-ropean Ew-ropean specimens have become exceedingly ex-ceedingly troublesome In the United States. v 2 Idaho. . . - 6 The "Marseillaise." Claude Joseph Jo-seph Rouget de Lisle, 4 William nenry Harrison, 5 General Wlnrield Scott , 6 A modern, trend of thought that makes reason the chief source o knowledge. 7 It was a tie, 21-21. 8 Frances Hodgson Burnett 9 Nine. ' 10 In 1908. 11 Mary Roberts Rinehart 12 Northwest Wyoming. 13 John Singer Sargent, 14 Bob O'Farrel, manager of th St. Louis Cardinals. 15 In 1825. 16 Eleven : South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Geor-gia, Arkansas, Tennessee. 17 That branchy of - science that deals with the fundamental laws of the universe. . 18 It is a family of very small Insect-eating birds. , 19 Fifteen thousand dollars, ; 20 On the civil day of the same date at noon. Few Years of Poverty in Victor Hugo's Life Unlike many great writers, Victor Hugo had a happy childhood; was a brilliant pupil, and when he fell In love, at an early age, he did not become dreamy and impractical... but worked harder than ever to achieve success. . - His first experience of real tragedy came with the death of his mother. His relatlonsldp with her had been unusually Intimate and tender. For several years the mother had been estranged from her husband, which bad resulted In drawing her closer to her youngest son. Soon after his mothers death his father married the woman who had caused the estrangement estrange-ment The elder Hugo had no sympathy with his son's desire to write. He offered him a sufficien allowance If he would give up authorship and devote de-vote himself to a career that promised a large income. Hugo Indignantly refused, re-fused, and shared a Paris attic with i his cousin. Here he gained the knowl edge of poverty thtt he revealed In "Lea Mlserables." But he was not as poor as many yonjig geniuses have been, nor did he know poverty for any great length of time. In 1S22 he married the girl with whom he had fallen in love when he was seventeen, seven-teen, and this brought a reconciliation reconcilia-tion with his father. Kansas City Times. The Bum An American visitor to London, In his reverence for Francis Thompson's poems, made a pilgrimage recently to the Skiddaw Arms Kilburn, the "pub" where the author of the "Hound of Heaven" used to sit and dream by tho fire in the saloon bar. The pilgrim recalled re-called Its Francis Thompson's associations associa-tions to the landlord of the inn, who had never heard of him. Toetl" said Boniface decisively; "that sort of a customer hanging ibout doesn't do a bouse any good," Shoes of Alexander Pumas Musum Exhibit At Vllllers-Cotterets, to France, Is a Dumas museum raised to the memory mem-ory of the celebrated author, who was born there. Among the exhibits la a pair of boots, and these have a history. When Duraas was a parliamentary parlia-mentary candidate and had to address ad-dress a public meeting at Sens, he noticed that his boots were down at heel and shabby. "I can't possibly address the electors elec-tors in boots like these," he said to his companion, Alphonse BllleDault de Cbaffault, "and there Isn't time to buy another pair. You must lend me your boots, and I will lend you mine." ' The change was effected. The novelist nov-elist stuck to his friend's boots and wore them out His own boots, which would 6tand no more wear, were thrown away in a lumber room, and ultimately Inherited by Count Georges de Chaffault, who, In response to an advertisement for relics of the illustrious illus-trious writer, presented them to the Vllllers Cotterets museum. Two Things Combined to Spoil Lafe's Swap "Whilst I was In Torpidity tuther day I come mighty nigh swapping for a dog," related Lafe Lagg of Booger Holler. "In front cf the New York store I met a feller that bantered me for a trade. His dg did look right good and I was examining of him and running him down In my talk when a feller on tuther side of the street jerked out his gun and blazed away In our direction. "'Say, looky yur!" says I to the dogman, 1 don't reckon I want to swap with you for no dog. I hain't no-ways shore that the gent over across the street hain't one that you've swapped with before.'" "Then the gent let slam with his gun ag'in and another gent came tumbling out of the winder and fell on the sidewalk in front of me. The dog lit out around the corner. "TV ell,' says I. 'I'm durn' shore I don't want to swap. There goes yore dog, skeered to death."' Kansas City Star. His Preference A farmer took his wife to a concert, con-cert, and after listening with apparent appar-ent joy the pair suddenly became Interested In-terested In one of the choruses : "AH we, like sheep, have gone astray." First a sharp soprano voice exclaimed: ex-claimed: "Ail we, like sheep"; next a deep voice uttered In a mort earnest earn-est tone: "AH we, like sheep." Then all the singers at once asserted: "All we, like sheep." "Well, I don't I" exclaimed the farmer farm-er to his wife. "I like beef and bacon, ba-con, but I can't bear mutton." Defined What appears (to a woman, at least) one of the brightest lines of recent days was spoken the other day by a professor who Is visiting at Western West-ern Reserve university. He said: "According to my wife, psychology is a subject which men study In order to learn the things that women know Intuitively." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Honesty Best Policy Jane and her mother were going down into the city. A neighbor called and Jane put her fc'at on to answer the door. "Are you going somewhere?'' asked the neighbor. "Yes, if we can get off early before company comes," replied the honest four-year-old. 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