Show I II iiRI S fERIAL STORY J THE GIRL p jy p tom rom LI 1 I r HIS TOWN By MARIE VAN VORST Illustrations by M. M G. G KETTNER b- b 1910 by Tb TSy Tb Bobba Co a SYNOPSIS Dan Blair the tho year old son of ot the dollar copper king of ot Blair Blair- town Mont Is Isa Isra 18 guest at the English home of ot Lady Dans Dan's father tather had been courteous to Lord during his visit to the United States and the thc courtesy Is now being returned to the young man The youth has an nn Ideal girl girlIn girlIn Irl IrlIn In his mind He lie me meets ts Lily Duchess of oC Breakwater A n beautiful widow who Is II attracted by his Immense fortune and takes a 11 liking to her When Dan was a boy a girl sang a solo at at a church and he had never tor forgotten otten her hr The Galore's Ga- Ga lores lore's Lily and Dan attend a London theater where here one Letty Lane ls lathe the star Dan recognizes her HS as the tho girl Irl from tram his town and going behind the scenes IntroduCes Introduces Intro Intro- duces himself and she remembers him He I-fe learns that Prince is suitor and escort to Letty Lord Ga Ga- lorey ey and a n friend named Ruggles determine determine determine deter deter- mine to protect the westerner from Lily and other fortune hunters Young Blair goes Foes to see Ree Lily he hc can talk of ot nothing but L Letty tty and this angers the Duchess The westerner finds Letty Ill from hard work but out she recovers and Ruggles and Dan Invite her to supper She asks Dan Danto Danto Danto to build a home for tor disappointed theatrIcal theatrical the the- people Dan visits Lily for tor the time tOI forgetting Letty and later Inter announces an an- flounces nO hIs his engagement to the duchess Letty refuses to sing for tor an entertaInment entertainment entertain entertaIn- entertainment ment given by LII Lily tells Dan that all Lily cares for tor Is his mon money and It is disclosed that he and the duchess have been mutually In love for tor years Letty feUy sings at an aristocratic function Dan escorting her home Dan confronts and Lily together Later he lIe In Informs informs In- In forms torms Letty that Chat his engagement with Lily is broken asks tho the singer to marry him and they become engaged Ruggles thinks the lie westerner should not marry a public singer and endeavors to Induce Letty to give him up She runs away fearing she ahe is not good enough for tor Dan and BuggIes makes the latter believe she has has' abandoned his love Finally Dan finds Letty in Park Paris where he he is per per- In Dressing his suit CHAPTER Continued She made him take a table In the corner where she sat In the shadow on the sofa ovell overlooking the brilliant room Maxims Maxim's was no new scene to either of them them them-no no novelty scarcely glanced at the crowd preferring to feast his eyes on his bis companion whose Indifference to him made his abstraction easy She was his property He lie would gIve her give his title she had demanded It from the first The Hungarian was a little overdressed overdressed over over- dressed with his jeweled buttons his large boutonniere his faultless clothes his single glass eye through which he star stared d at Letty Lett Lane whose delicate te beauty was In hi fine play her cheeks faintly pink her ber starry eyes es humid with a dew whose whoRe luster is of the most precious quality Her unshed unshed un un- shed shedS tears had bad nothing to do with they they were for the boyHer boy Her heart beart sickened thinking where he be might be and more than that It cried out for him She wanted him Oh she would have been far better for Dan than anything he be could find In this mad city than anything to which in his despair he could go for consolation She had kept her ber word however to that old man Mr Ruggles Hug Rug she had bad got out of the business with a fatal result as far as the boy was concerned She thought Dan would drift here probably as as' as most Americans on their wild nights do for fora a part of or the time and she had come to seo see She wore a dress of ot coral pink tightly fitting high to her little chin Bud and seemed herself like a coral strand from neck to toe clad clad In the color she affected and which had become celebrated celebrated celebrated cele cele- as the Letty Lane pink Her feathered hat hid her face and she was completely tely shielded as she bent down drawing pl pictures tures with her bare fing finger r on the cloth After Arter a little while she said to without without without with with- out glancing at him If rf you stare any longer like that Frederigo you'll break j your eye You know how I hate it Used as he was to her sharpness he nevertheless flushed and sat back and looked across the room where to their right protected from rom rota them as they were from him by the great door a n young man sat alone Whether or not he ho had come to Maxims Maxim's Intending to Join a congenial party should be he find one ona or to fo choose for a compan companion on some one ona of the women who at the entrance entrance of the tall tail blond boy stirred and Invited him with their raised and their smiles will not be known Dan Blair was alone pale as the pictures Let Letty Lane had ball drawn on the cloth and be he too feasted his bis eyes on the Gaiety girl Jove said the By Hungarian under his breath and she eagerly asked What Whom Whom do you see pe 7 Turning his back hack sharply be he evaded her ber question and she did not pursue the Idea ida and a as a physical weakness overwhelmed her ber when after atter a second said Come cherie cherle for heavens heaven's sake lets let's go go she she me me- rose and passed out Several Leveral young men supping together chine caste over eagerly to speak to her herand herand and claim acquaintance with the Gaiety Galety Gal Gai ety girl and walked along out the motor There LeUY Lety Lane dl discovered covered she had bad dropped her handkerchief and sent the prince back bach for Cor It As A's though he had been waiting for forthe forthe forthe the reappearance of Dan Blair stood close t to the little table which Letty Lane had left her handkerchief handkerchief hand hand- kerchief In his hand As came up Dan thrust the small trifle of sheer linen Into his waistcoat pocket I will wUl trouble you for Miss Lanes Lane's handkerchief said his eyes cold You may said Dan as quietly his blue eyes like sparks from a star trouble me for hell And lifting from Cram the table 8 own ha half emptied glass of ot champagne the boy flung the contents full tull in the Hungarians Hungarian's face The wine dashed against lips and in his eyes Blair laughed out loud his hands in his pockets The insult was low and noiseless the little glass shattered as it fell so softly softly soft sort ly that with the tho music its gentle crash was unheard wiped his face tranquilly tranquilly tran tran- quilly and bowed You shall hear from me after arter I Iha ha have ve taken Miss Lane home Tell her said the boy where ere you left lert the handkerchief that's all CHAPTER Such Stuff as Dreams Dan was in his room at tho the hotel He woke and then slept again NothIng Nothing Noth Noth- ing seemed strange to him nothing him nothing seemed real It was three o'clock In Inthe Inthe inthe the morning the rumble of cf If Paris was dull it did not disturb him for beseemed he be seemed without the body and to have grown and to fill the room He had a sense of suffocation and the need to beak break through the windows and to escape pe into ether The entrance of two friends was a part with the unreal naturalness One was' was a the other a Frenchman Frenchman both both spoke fluent English Dan his eyes fixed on the foreign faces only half halt saw them they blurred their voices were small and ano f far r away Finally be he said I All right all right I can shoot well enough this kind of thing isn't our custom you know know ld Id I'd as soon kill kUl him one way as another as a matter of fact No I dont don't know a darned soul here There was was' a confab Incomprehensible Incomprehensible In tn- comprehensible to Dan Its all one oneto oneto oneto to me gentlemen he said Id rather rath er not drag in my friends Fix It up to suit yourselves He wanted them thorn to go to go-to to be alone to to stretch his bis arms to rid himself of ot the burden of sense and bo be free And after atter they had left he remained In his window till dawn It came soon midsummer dawn a tender morning In his heart His His mind worked with great rapidity He lie had bad made his bis will In the States He wish wished ell he could have left everything to to Letty Lane but if as Ruggles said he was a pauper Perhaps It wasn't a a lie after all an Dan had written and telegraphed phed Ruggles asking for the solemn truth and also telling him where ho he was and asking the tho older man man to come over If Ruggles proved be he was poor why some of ot his burden burden burden bur bur- den was gone His money had bad been beena a burden he knew It now He might have no use for money the next day What good could It do him In a fix like this Ho He was to meet at five o'clock In a place whose name he be couldn't recall H He had seen It advertised though people went there for tor lunch They were to shoot at twenty five paces paces paces-he he might be a Rockefeller or ora orn n c beggar for all tho the good his money could do him In a pinch like this His father rather wouldn't t approve the theold theold theold old man wouldn't approve but he be had bad sent him here to learn the ways of ot the old world A A. flickering smile crossed his beautiful sot set face His lea lea- sons hn hadn't nt done him mu h good 1 lib fib would like to have seen good old oid Gordon Gordon Gor Gor- I don again he ho loved him he him he had bad no use for Cor Ruggles no use use use-It It I had been all his fault His mind reached out to his father rather and the tho old oldmans oldmans oldmans mans man's words camo came dinning back Buy tho the things that stay above aboveground aboveground aboveground ground my boy What were those things He had thought they were passion passion passion-he he had thought they were love and he had put all on one wom worn an She couldn't stand by him now now that he was poor The spasm In his heart was BO so sharp that he made a low sound in his throat and leaned against the casing of ot the window Ho He must see her touch her once more The fellows seconds had chosen to tobe be Dans Dan's representatives came in to fix him up They Thoy were In frock coats and carried their silk hats and their gloves He Ho could have I laughed at them Then they mado him think of ot undertakers and his blood grew cold He handled tho the revolvers revolvers revolvers re re- re- re with caro care and Interest Im not going to let him murder me you know he told his seconds They helped him to dress at least one of them did while the other took Dans Dan's place by tho the window and looked to the boy like a figure of death The hour was getting on he ho heard his own motor drive up and they went down through the deserted hotel The men who had consented to act for forDan forDan forDan Dan regarded their principal curiously curious curious- ly He wasn't pale there was a brightness brightness bright bright- ness on his face said one of them an and told Blairs Blair's chauffeur where to go and how flow to run CHAPTER The Picture of It All As far Car as his knowing anything ol of the customs of it all it was like leading lead lend leading ing a lamb to slaughter Villebon lovely vernal at a 0 later latel hour the spot for gay breakfasts and gentle rendezvous had been designated n ted for the meeting between Dan I i 11 S 1 11 7 The Boy oy Flung t the e Contents Full In the Hungarians Hungarian's Face and There In his motor he be gave up his effort to set his thoughts lear clear Nothing settled down Even the ground they flew over the trees with their chestnut plumes blurred red were indistinct nebulous as asIf asif asit if it seen through a diving-bell diving under the I sea Fear Fear he he didn't know the word lIe He wasn't afraid afraid it It wasn't that yet ret rethe he had a certainty that It was all aU up with him He was wag young young very very young and and he hadn't done much with the tho job His father Cather would have been ashamed of him Then all his thoughts went to Her Tho two men In the motor floated off oft and she sat there as she had sat yesterday In her marvelously marvelously marvel marvel- pretty clothes her clothes her little coral shoes shoos He had held those bright little feet teet In his bis bands on the Thames day they had just filled his great hands Then Letty Lane too sp spirited away and the boys boy's thoughts turned to the theman theman theman man ho lie was to meet The affairs are purely formal ho be had heard someone someone some someone one say an exchange of ot balls without with out serious results I TO BE CONTINUED I |