| Show the hu mystery M ast y road by E PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM at bf by tattle drewa co 1 I LOVE GERALD grieving from a boutu ai stepfather an unhappy hour home nd ft a proposed hus halil she ih detest myrtll young french kirl girl stands in lit a country rod road on an the tb vrr ot of desperation lay y an exploded tire clr two young englishmen lord lard gerald bomboy and christopher dent are r attracted by the th girls dis tractor appearance she hh bago them to tike take her away frota froin hr bar misery 1 in a spirit of adventure they do m 0 o conveying hr her to mont monte carlo and leaving 1 hr her with rand criddl rl nd myrtll speake english Enel lh br bar mothr mother having been an du bated women garald sees i ft a baUt lut ua roun young woman in the th tf room rooms and to I 1 1 bated but can only learn that she ih Is called pauline do d and is t with hr her aunt its in until able to secure in introduction carl s and gerald decide myrtll myrtile shall not go bick back to hr her born home lady mry mary gerald m sistr sister il erttle er etly in lov love with chris r disapproves of the th youna men anni a of martli e lord domby dombey makes akk the th aa of paulene ile II 11 is puzzled by the th air cf of mystery and condescension conduce nilon surrounding hr her CHAPTER V continued 1 I dont know that I 1 am very differ rot rut from the others he laid sall fell tay mj what Is your nationality aby should I 1 tell you about myself the she asked a little coldly it app appeared ared to me ahat hat it might I 1 er ethelp help our acquaintance have I 1 the acquaint well you are talking to inc me anyhow he pointed out with a R slight twinkle in bis his eyes 1 I 1 scarcely see bow I 1 could help it the she replied it if you are really curious about my nationality I 1 aill tell you that I 1 have some french blood in my at veins reins france however Is not my na no tire country and you live where Now nowhere bere eh she ansu answered ered a little adly madly at present v e are wanderers wan derera 4 what you call in england adventurers N gerald raised his eyebrows that Is I 1 scarcely the word he murmured 14 my aunt has a curious 01 objection to meeting people upon our travel pauline continued 1 I myself find and her tier 18 1 aloofness sometimes a little tedious ul that in III why by I 1 am misbehaving to the extent ot of letting you talk to me a matter of propriety jou you certainly it ought to leave me at ome once om e As a mat ti ter or tact fact I 1 was about to propose re something elee else W let mo me hear bear it at t any rate he insisted 1 I watched you drive up to your fathers father a villa in your car will you take me a little way in itt I rather tather I 1 he assented eagerly 4 where shall I 1 pick you up outside the villa ettes the she replied hm em uy my aunt Is 1 absolutely certain HS to sleep steep for two hours it is 1 the only liberty I 1 have during the day please co go at once and fetch the car A she dismissed him with ith an impera the tive wave of the hand bond As saon as he was out of eight she jumped down from the rock crossed the little trip strip j of sand and commenced her lel leisurely surelY 14 accent to the ta villa JIL once or jnice ehe she it laughed softly to herself it wa a an excursion bich gerald MI pondered on many times afterward pauline had settled down don in the low bucket beat sent by his bin tide side and leaned id back with an air of absolute content she had la in fact the appearance of Ts i one enjoying a rare pleasure ait A soon to gerald slackened speed however 1 gt with the idea of entering into conver if lation ehe she became curt and almost it nide rude and his hi that they lit might take the higher oad and have 21 ten at kice nice the promptly AL hen after ah ob absence of about an Is hour and a half they drew up at the it rate rates of the villa she left him with ith lag he the merest nod of farewell you will come for another ride soon loon perhaps tomorrow hr be asked IRAN anxiously III she hook her head bead A 1 I 1 can cau maice make no plans the he replied IN L 1 I should think it very improbable I 1 IN thank you so 0 o much for your kindness ad your car Is to quite wonderful 02 she walked au a ay with a iab the air of one 0 YAW ho has cief erred a great favor ger 0 ald id drove slowly bock back to the villu d acacia and joined his sister cu D th the e III terrace do yon you kno anything about the two women at the next villa mary be he asked one never knows ones one neighbors it bere hem she the answered 1 I MW saw them bl the other day daya strange rp 0 looking old lady and a very good look ook rac ing garl tsat iset there something om ething queer bout about then or Is it my fancer is there Is Mim mm ething unusual ger 0 ald ld replied they seem curiously in 0 disposed to forming acquaint acquaintance anem 0 which to t odd in to a it place like thin thia I 1 p happened to be talking to the younger 0 woman for a few minu tee she ore 01 me the impression somehow that they 0 were people of greater consequence be their manner of bivins here would indicate 11 1 I expect I 1 im am mary refu rv fu aa ais idaly with sa friend friends who ho take takes a rather beautiful young woman about with her to public place places doe does certainly invite comment duent dotan I 1 the tell me about your little pro we lunched with her chris and V I 1 gerald replied goodness crac louil where at caroa we bought her some clothe clothes at lenoree lenores this hit morning mornin gM lady mary lit a cigarette and threw down her book 1 I am not the guardian of your mor ale ats gerald gerato she he observed dryly a girl days has nil all ulie she run ran do to look efter after her tier own on but I 1 honestly think you ought to lend send that child buk to her tier people ie oile tio tim brutal he replied they wanted to murry her to some horrible old man whatever Wh nUTer the position wn your interference utis most uncalled for bli his titter stater declared ae As for chris I 1 om am really surprised nt at him I 1 think yoo you two young men ought to be thoroughly ashamed of ourselves 1 for nhat aou ou ore are doing ind and I 1 hall shall jut just look forward to an opportunity of tell ing christopher to gerald lanced glanced at his littere tit tere profile protte and chuckled good old chris christ he murmured III just let him know hats coming to him I 1 chapter VI myrtile was suddenly tired she seated herself upon the trunk of a tree and christopher followed her example below them stretched the motley pan oraina orama of monte carlo the wide bay and find the glittering sea do you know the he that I 1 hare bare not teen seen Mons montleur leur gerald for three dayer lie ile has been butr christopher an shortly I 1 lle ile play plays golf and tennis every day then his father and titter sister take up a good deal of hie his time you always find time to come and see me every aery morning she said bides aldes it aa not his lister sister with whoa I 1 saw him motoring yesterday christopher braced for an effort Myr myrttle he besan began bes an you know that I 1 am fond of you you have been very kind the she an tiered listlessly because Re caute I 1 want to be kind I 1 am going to say things that may sound harsh he went on you are a very foolish girl to wate watte your time think A t 9 12 we W lunched with her airis ana and 1 I 1 gerald replied ing and dres dreaming mIng of pf gerald gerold you should only let your thoughts thou elit dwell upon one man continually alivn there Is some chance in the end that that man may become your hils husband bund tier aneel sed she settled down to the object ter ier louly lowdy bu but monsieur christopher leaned 0 operand er and laid hie big band upon hem myrttle dear will you listen to mer he begged look at me for a 0 nio ment I 1 ani am twenty alx lx 01 old d 1 I have thed in cities ae as well as the country in londen I 1 em am what you call an avocet k I 1 have to line pile MY brains every day I 1 nare hare to understand my fellow creature creatures U III you get that into your heade it Is I 1 not diff difficult cult the h textured him ith a little emile smile 1 I think you are very clever and you jou know many many thana and aa as for yon you christopher tent bent on or when one win tainui its of your it ie Is to real lie ize how much you h tte read bow how much you know but listen to roe me nothing that one reads can teach tesch one what hat life lift ie Is like yon you spent mant boure hours rift othet hat ft as a at the he wd d of the tile rond road you think now you tune piped er the th ua thit you are there them my dear yoa you are not eren even at the beginning of the way she brie plucked rae me grames ang twined thera round her fingers go oa on he the whispered what you see berr 11 I 1 not life ii te lb bot etes ere a very wonderful reflection of it it mostly it ti to a little company ot of pleasure pl aure ee kern come to cast aid aside for a time the serious ade side of life and gamble with their pleasured ai as they do with their money hut but ome some must ie be iq in earnest ear neel myr tile protested one of then them who ho ti to not in earnest tamest li Is gerald and I 1 tell you to although gerald li Is my friend christopher aid said he ile I 1 Is here to amalie ht and h he prefer to amuse himself with ith out giving on anyone one ele else pain if that to impossible however he li Is sufficiently reckless rcCk le not to count the cot where the other person li is concerned bhe she drew a little away that doce do not aund pound like the speech of a R friend klie oie reminded him reproachfully hut but I 1 can that I 1 ani am bli his friend althou although all houth ih a candid one christopher declared all that I 1 have aid paid to you I 1 lieve nid wild to him and a great deal more lou ou will III let me she made no reply her eye eyes were fixed upon the lie exact spot chere here the pea twined to melt into the cloud clouds the grace of her tier olin body lent beauty even to the hunch bunch of ber bet shoulders you are like a it child who hat has been let out of a dark room nent on or everything seems beautiful but you dont see ee elearly clearly your jour eye eyes aren t stroner enough yet what you imagine to be love li Is a none orse thins thing gerald does not love you lie can never marry jou he lit belongs to that world at which you are looking with blurred eyes myrille Myr dont yot lot want to be good 1 I want to be happy myrtile replied 1 I hall shall always be good how do you know because I 1 am all good inside bhe she said 1 I do ony any of the thing things that wicked people do christopher eat sat tor for a moment tn in puzzled thought look here he went on if you ton love gerald and gerald ion lovo ou on and you son are content with the th pretense of his loi loe e and you so go on lov ing him end and you know that you cannot be his hi wife ife then you are not good any longer she shook her head there in only once in my life the said that I 1 have ever come near sin and that li Is when I 1 thought of laying staying at the farm and marrying alerre lea les champs I 1 love gerald all that I 1 need to be happy and good la Is that be he should love me but gerald does not love you and never will christopher declared bluntly gerald at the present mo ment at any rate if it incapable of a table lable affection and if be he were CA pable rable of it his people would not allow him to marry you 1 I do not wish him to marry me the declared with a little choke in hei bet voice perhaps not be the replied in that case you should listen to me more patiently I 1 want you to leave this place and go to tome friend friends of mina la in england what alone aloner alone she shook her bead head christopher the she told suddenly lipping her arm through hie his 1 I 1 think you want to be kind to me I 1 believe that you are very good you are better than gerald but so to long as Grald wants me near I 1 hall shall stay star even it if he cow goes about with other people he thinks of me he lie has hat told me so and he be has promised to take n e to one of his upper supper parties this week I 1 am looking for forward ard to it more ore thia to anything else in the world dalr christopher 5 face hardened 1 I loc or will III not po go to 0 o one of those ropes myrttle be tripti sted 1 I 1 would mould rather take you back I 1 to the farm am mie tuned her hesi end and looked at him there WB was something in her eye eyes from lie shrunk soi toina thing ery iery much like hute hate she elie caw saw the th pain in his hi face end and rhe she wn wait remorseful blie clun to his hi arm aguin tier cheek almost touched hia hi christopher dear christopher she he pleaded 1 I 1 did not mean to hurt you I 1 know how goad you ar arts but jut just think how low wonderful ond erful it be for me to po go hatli A etli gerald gerok to meet kimt other pirle girls to laugh and talk to sit by ml his alde his hi 1 to 0 dince a oh it it would be b para teel dIsel everybody els else cne gr to parties 0 1 I will take yon you to the attra be promised prom leed her oyes eye glowed evidently myrelle ic Is being to be b the cause ef of a conslee 1 number ef of complication complications can you guess them thern TO BE CONTINUED |
