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Show THE LEW RUN. LEW. UTAH fry MARGARET TURNBULL Illustration by IRWIN MYERS Opyrlrht r rgart Turnbnlt THE STORY Returning to London, practl. cally pennileis, after an unsuc-censful unsuc-censful buslneea trip, Sir George Sandlson takes dinner with hi widowed etepmother, hla old nurse, "Aeey." He did not approve ap-prove of her marriage to his fa-father, fa-father, but her explanation sat-iRfles sat-iRfles blm. Little Is left of the estate, and Lady Sandlson proposes pro-poses that they go to the United States to visit her brother, Robert Rob-ert MacBelh, wealthy contractor. Sir George agrees. MacBeth lives on An Island estate with hla daughter, Roberta, who longs for city life. t CHAPTERR II Continued ITe heard then, although It was one of the most beautiful spots In a Justly famous county, that It was In Roberta's opinion a "dead end." Her opinion of her father's financial shrewdness and ability seemed to have suffered a blow since he had sunk so much of his ; money In the Island. lie looked about him. His Island was a mile long and from a quarter to 'half a mile wide. It held all a man might want, a long stretch of garden, a farm and woodland, a beach and fishing rights. It rose, to a considerable consider-able height above the water level, lovely green and fair, with the remodeled re-modeled old Pennsylvania, farmhouse standing on the southwestern end. There was a long terraced sweep down to a little beach where his boats were moored and a tiny suspension bridge connected with the mainland. .! He had first seen this Island some years ago, and had longed to share It with Roberta then, but there were difficulties In the way of acquiring It, and he had decided If he could buy It, ;lt would -be a delightful surprise to bring her there when she left school. This was his reward! ! With a tremendous effort, Robert llacEeth had controlled his temper. ;IIe had kept back the profane words that rose to his lips, and said decidedly : f "I didn't know you smoked at that rate and I don't like It. Clear out now and let me think. I'll tell you this much, I have wanted this Island for a long time and now that I've got It, I'm going to keep it." ' t "You won't keep me here long," Roberta declared surprised and angry. an-gry. "I give you fair warning that I can't stand the place and I don't Intend to. It bores me."" I "Does It so?" her father said, without with-out looking at her. - "Then maybe you'll get from between me and my view of the Delaware. I'm an 111 man and I need the air-and a little peace." Then he had done the most effective thing he could do though It will never be known whether he did It by design or accident He leaned back in his chair and closed nis eyes, f "Well, I'm off where the company's more congenial," Roberta announced nnd abruptly she had left him, although al-though that meant leaving undiscussed and unsettled ail those domestic problems prob-lems about which she had come to consult with him. Life, Roberta felt at that moment, was an extremely turbulent and difficult diffi-cult thing at eighteen plus, despite the fact that one's elders and the poets constantly acclaim it the only perfect time, the springtide of youth. There ns so much to be met for the first time, however sophisticated one might Mrive to appear.' Other people, especially espe-cially older people, were so difficult to understand, and failed so signally to understand one. They Insisted on begin reckoned with, on thrusting their standards and wishes upon youth. Instead In-stead of stepping gracefully nnd quiet-sly quiet-sly into the background, and acting as reek chorus only when needed, f As soon as Roberta had taken her .departure the immediate domestic problems, two robest black women, without consulting the owner of the island, left also and in the station car 'ith the coffee-colored chauffeur JThey gigged a great deal, when the island and Mr. MacBeth were a safe distance behind them. I "'At high-flyin' Miss Roberta's gon-. gon-. Jia git quite some su'prise, quite some," the cook told the waitress. "Wen 'at baby comes back, and see no one round 'cepting the oY man, setting reproachful re-proachful in his chair, whut she saying nen?" They laughed gaily. . I "Ma week's up today, and I hears lier telling 'e ol" man she getting rid ft us for some white pussons today or tomorrow. I makes it today." the waitress added. i "'Ahtn Ieavln' this heah station can fit 'e station." the chauffeur assured them. " 'At red-headed baby used terms to me this mawuing. Terms !" I T1)ey langhed all the way to the next roadside refreshment stand, where .they all alighted to fortify themselves ith sausages and rolls and Ice cream In cones. I While they ate, Roberta slackened the speed of her car, and knowing nothing of their departure, looked back 'from the highway at her father's Inland. What a place! Lovely enough; w e had to admit, lying long and green, fcigfi aboT-e th river, its tree tops showing ft iitti below the road that, ell above both canal and river, ran 1 along the foot of a rocky elope that walled it In on the land side. It was a charming road, and everywhere every-where Roberta stopped to look it seemed to grow more beautiful. At one side of the road rhododendron, laurel and tall trees climbed high above on the rocky slope. On the other side, the white painted posts marking the highway protected one from a sheer drop of thirty or forty feet to the canal. Retween the canal and river was a broad flat space, green and sunny, and then the Delaware, rushing swiftly along, broad and shallow. Where the Island stood In Its way, the river separated Into two smaller, deeper and more turbulent streams. On the Islnnd, gleaming white and gray against the green and bluewas the lovely old house her father had remodeled, re-modeled, and without doubt, thought Roberta angrily, paid a great deal too much for. If she had only been able to stop him and divert the golden stream, it might have paid for an apartment in New York, on Park avenue, with a summer place at Bar Harbor or even Watch Hill, where she knew some of the younger crowd. That represented Roberta's idea of a fit and worthy establishment and background for herself. her-self. If her father persisted In staying Iiv these United States. AH her school dreams of Monte Carlo, the Riviera, the Lido, floated through her careless little red head. Why had father been so stupid as to select this place? Ye gods! Nothing but a lot of artists and writers, who did not apparently know or care what life looked like outside their hedges. What was the use of having money If that was. the way her father meant to spend it, and to tie her down? Her car swerved and she heard a sharp cry in an agitated foreign voice. She pulled at her emergency brake, for the road was narrow here. It looked for a moment as though she could not avoid a collision between her car and the heavy limousine that Joe Llgorl, the station hackman, was driving. Before Be-fore she shut off her engine, Roberta, quick, calm and cool, as her father's daughter would be in a crisis, swerved her car a little toward the land side of the road. The Impact when It came was slight. She saw one of Joe's fenders crumple, and she heard a gasp of relief from the excitable Joe as he called: ' 5 "Hey, Mees Macabeeth! Why you not looka where you going, eh? You wanta keel me with thesa people I breenga to your house, eh? You breaka my car In two at the same-a time!" "Sorry, Joe," Roberta called. In the honeyed voice that made men forgive her anything. She lit a cigarette with trembling fingers. "Send the bill to father If I've hurt your old machine any, and for Heaven's sake look where you're going next time." "Me looka! That a gooda Joke," Joe said, laughing. On the rear seat of Joe's car Roberta saw a dumpy little woman and a tall man. She could not .see the man's face plainly because the woman was leaning forward and looking look-ing at her intently. There was something some-thing oddly familiar about this woman's wom-an's face, and yet Roberta did not believe be-lieve she knew her. The woman's clothes, and the quaint British look of the traveling bag she clutched, made Roberta Instantly revert to the beginning begin-ning of her quarrel with her father this morning the servant question. "Oh," she exclaimed. "The new cook-housekeeper and the butler! I expected you tomorrow. Well, I can't go, back Just now. Take them to the island. Joe. My father's- at home." She smiled Impishly, as she thought of her father's annoyance when actually actual-ly confronted with the domestic problems prob-lems he had So lightly disregarded this morning. The woman, Roberta had seen, put a band out quickly and touched the sleeve of the man beside her to prevent pre-vent his speaking. "Aye." she said, "that will be best On your way, my man." There was something so authoritative authorita-tive In that voice that Joe stopped smiling at Miss MacBeth, whom he W. N. U. Service. admired Inordinately, and started his car. Roberta shot another oulck dance K them. The next moment, blank turyizement on her face, she had turned about and was gazing after the rapidly disappearing car. Well ! Handsome Is as handsome does, she told ierself, but think of having that for a butler! "I wonder If the heavy dame Is his mother or his wife." She looked bark again and hesitated, but Joe's car was well on its way toward the Islan 1. , Scotties both I Roberta thought bitterly. bit-terly. Just my luck! Now dad will fraternize with them, and I'll be lucky If she can cook anything but oatmeal. Disgusted, she increased speed. She must hurry If she was. to meet the young man froul Philadelphia, whose coming was the Immediate cause of Roberta's discontent and, though she did not know It, her father's towering rage. Lady Sandlson turned and regarded her stepson. Damsels, as Lady Sandlson Sandl-son had been pleased to note, had fallen down and worshiped his beauty to an extent that must gratify the most exacting of stepmothers, yet he remained re-mained unmoved. And now this this , rude red-headed lass was the wonderful niece whose praises she had sung discreetly. She glanced again at her stepson. Aware of it he slowly turned to her. "Well?" asked Aggy. "Well?" Sir George returned smll ing. "This is a lovely spot, but I had hoped we'd find your brother in New York, or Chicago, by preference. must say all I've read or heard of Chicago decidedly intrigues me. One of those western towns, Aggy, where they shoot at the drop of the hat. This Is delightful country, Aggy, but I'm shot if it looks any more exciting than Sandisbrae." "You never can tell," Aggy hastened to assure him. "It's maybe no Jist like Chicago where you were wanting to go, but wait and see. Judging from thon lassie of Rob's it's none too peaceful." "Oh, girls!" Sir George's voice wa weary. "I'm sick of girls 1" CHAPTER III Robert MacBeth had finally made up his mind. He would put matters plainly to Roberta on her return and then, If she would not do as he wished he corrected himself If she would not take the sensible course he pointed out to her, and remain contenedly on the island for a year, then she should feel the heavy hand of authority. Yet somehow that did not quite satisfy him either his conscience or his arthritis gave him a twinge. Not being by any means the "back-number" "back-number" Roberta thought him, he knew that the heavy hand of authority was considerably out of date. He must be very careful not to make himself him-self ridiculous. Once put himself ia the "heavy father" position with Roberta, and he lost all chance of In fiuencing her, or gaining his point He thought regretfully , of the good days of his own youth, when a parent's word was law. Then he smiled, for he remembered how little heed he had paid to that law. The moment he was eighteen and knew his trade, he had fled from the overcrowded MacBeth household and struck out for himself. While he had been at home he had bowed clown perforce to his father, and a fine, tyrannical, old blackguard and humbug that parent had been. Robert never wanted his daughter to think of him In Just that way. Yet how was he to make her see the error of her ways? MacBeth knew that girls of eighteen, however Intelligent and sophisticated, were scarcely to be trusted to navigate their own little boats on life's crowded river. He had seen a few shipwrecked in his time and he meant to pilot his girl. He looked up and saw Joe Llgori'g car coming down the road toward the island. He. rang with impatience, and also rapped loudly with his stick on the floor of the terrace. Then he remembered re-membered seeing the chauffeur and the maids leave the Island. It dawned on him that he was quite alone. (TO BE CONTINUED.) 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