Show y SERIAL STORY THE GIRL n JL from rem HIS TOWN I By MARIE VAN VORST by M. M G. G KETTNER KEITNER j. j Cop 1910 br by Tho Bobbs Co cs SYNOPSIS Dan Blair the tha year 22 son eon on of or tho the fifty dollar dollar copper king of ot Blair Blair- town Mont Is le a guest at the English homo of ot Lody lady Galore Dans Dan's father had been courteous to Lord Lor Galore during his visit IsH to the United States and ond the courtesy Is le now being returned to the young man The Tho youth has an Ideal girlin girlin girl girlin in his ls mind He meets Lily Duchess of ot a beautiful widow widow who Is attracted by his Immense fortune and takes a 0 liking to her When Dan was waa a 0 aboy boy a 0 girl sang a solo at a church and ho had never forgotten her The Ga- Ga LIl Lily and Dan attend a London theater where one Letty Lane Is the tho star Dan recognizes her as the girl from his town and ana going behind the scenes Introduces introduces Introduces Intro Intro- duces himself and sho remembers him He learns that Prince Prineo Is suitor and escort to Letty Lord Garey Ga Ga- lorey rey and nd a friend named Ruggles Buggies det deter deter- r. r mine to 10 protect Ule lne westerner irom lw and nd other fortune hunters Young Bla Blair uti I goes to see Lily he can talk taUe of nothing but Letty and this this angers the Duchess The Tho westerner finds find Letty ill III from tram hard work but she recovers ers and Ruggles and Dan invite her to supper She asks Dan Danto Danto Danto to build a n home for lor disappointed theatrical theatrical theatrical the the- people Dan visits Lily LUy for tor tho the time forgetting Letty and later announces an- an his engagement to the duchess refuses to sing for an entertainment entertain entertain- ment given Iven by bv Lily LUy tells Dan that all Lily cares for Is his money and lt ft is disclosed that he and the duchess have been mutually in love for tor years Letty sings at an aristocratic function Dan escorting her home Dan confronts and LIl Lily ily together Later he informs In In- In forms torm that his engagement with Lily Is Is' broken asks the singer to marry hIm Wm and they become engaged Ruggles thinks the westerner should not marry a public singer and endeavors to Induce Letty L. L tty to fo give him up She runs away fe fearing she is not good enough for lor Dan kind and Ruggles makes the latter believe she has bas abandoned his love lovo Finally Dan finds Letty in Paris where he Is persistent persistent persistent per per- In pressing his suit The westerner western western- er meets at Lettys Letty's rooms end and a 11 challenge results Dan with his mind In n a 0 turmoil arranges for the duel CHAPTER Continued One of ot his c companions offered Blair a a. cigar He refused the Idea sickened sickened sickened sick sick- ened him Here the gentlemen exchanged exchanged ex ex- changed glances and ne me ne murmured Is he afraid The other shrugged Not astonishing astonishing hes he's hes a child At this Dan glanced up and smiled what Lily Duchess of ot Breakwater had haa called his divine young smile The two secretly were ashamed ashamed he he was charming As they got out of the motor Dan said I want to ask a question of ot Prince If if it is s allowed Ill I'll I It t on my card After a conference between Prince seconds and Dans Dan's the dip was handed the prince If you get out all right will you tarry Barry Miss Lane I shall be glad to mow inow The Hungarian who read It under he tree half smiled The of ot oft t t. t the touching youth of It the crude ack of form was form was perfect enough to ouch his sense of humor Op OJ the J DUCK ck of Dans Dan's card crawled I Yes It was a a. haughty inclination a saute saute acute sa sa- ute of honor before the fight The meeting place was within sight f f t the little rustic pavilion of ot Les Agneaux celebrated for Its preale pre preale preale ale and the advertisements lad ad confronted Dan everywhere during tie ils wanderings these miserable days hider a group of chestnut trees In right feathery flower Prince and his seconds waited wafted their rock coats buttoned up and their loves and silk sUk hats in their hands LS Blair and his companions came up ho others stood uncovered grim and armal ormal according to the code Twenty-five Twenty paces They were Measured off oft by tho the four tour seconds and andt t their signal Dan Blair and the rince took their positions the re- re raised perpendicularly In their ight hands Still more Indistinctly the boy saw lie ho sharp sharp- sharp cut ut picture of ot It all tie he diving bell was sinking deeper deeper- Into Into the sea If I aim ho he said to himself I hall kill sure sure sure Blair heard the command Fire nd ad supposed that after that he fired CHAPTER Fountain Girl His next sensation was that a warm tream flowed about his heart My lifes life's blood he ho could dimly tusk lInk my hearts heart's blood Redder han ban coral more precious more costly ban any gift his millions could have havo ought her Ive spent It for the theIrl theIrl theirl Irl I love The stream pervaded him him folded his limbs about a an enchanted sea sen on which he boated and its color changed from rimson to ct coral ral pale palo and then to and became a cold cold polar ea and ea-and and he Jay lay on It like a frozen tan nan nan whose exploration had been In inam am ain aln and above him Greenland's Icy rose rose emerald lIko on every Ide de That Is It It ft Icy moun moun- talus How she sang song It down It down down Her voice tell fell on him like magic balm He was was a little boy In church sitting small and shy In the tho pew The tune was deep and low and heavenly sweet What a pretty mouth the soda soda fountain fountain girl bad like had like coral and her eyes like gray seas The flies tUes buzzed they droned so 50 loudly loudly loudly loud loud- ly that he couldn't ear her Ah All that was terrible terrible terrible-he he couldn't hear her No No-no No no It wouldn't do He must hear the hymn out before he died Buzz drone Buzz buzz drone drone Way Nay down he ho almost heard the soft note It was ecstasy Sky Sky high high up too up-too too faint taint Ah All Fountain Girl sing Girl sing sing with with all your our heart so that It mo may reach his cars ears and charm him to those strands toward which he be floats Tho The expression of anguish on the young fellows fellow's face was so heartbreaking heartbreaking heart heart- breaking that the doctor his ear at Dans Dan's lips tried to learn what thing his poor fading mind longed for From the beds bed's foot toot where he stood Dans Dan's chauffeur came to the g gentleman's gentle gentle- mans man's side and nodded Right sir right sir sir Ill Ill I'll fetch Miss Lane Lane Ill Ill I'll ave er ere sir sir keep keep up Mr Blair He Ho was going barefoot a boy still following the plow through the mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain fields Miles and miles stretched stretched away before him of dark loamy land He saw saw the plow tear up p tho the waving furrows tossing the earth In sprInkling sprinkling sprinkling ling lines Ho He heard the tho shrill note of ot the phoebe bird and looking heavenward heavenward heavenward enward saw caw it darting into the pale sky What a dandy shot he thought What What a bully shot Prince had made mado a good shot Ah there was the tho smell of the hay hay- fields no violets no violets that sweetly laid grew holy to his hla eyes radiant eyes radiant witha with a beauty he be had not dreamed a womans woman's wom wom- woman's womans ans an's face taco could wear Above the the choir rail raU silo eho stood and sang peerlessly and the church began to fade and ado fado and nd still sUll she stood there thero In a shaft of ot light and her ber face was like an angels angel's and nd she held her arms out outto outto outto to him as the tho waters rose roso to his lips Sho She bent and lifted him lifted him lifted him high upon the strands CHAPTER 1 r W ri In Reality Dan awoke from his dream and sat suddenly up In bed In his shirt sleeves and stared at the people in his room room room- a hotel hote boy and two strang strangers rs not unlike unlike un un- like the men In his dream Ho brushed his hand across his eyes Sit down will you Do you speak English They were foreigners but they did speak English no doubt far moro more perfectly perfectly perfectly per per- than did Dan Blair Look here tho the boy said I dont don't know what's the matter with mo mo me-I I must have had a ripping jag on last night night let let me put my head In a basin of water will you 7 He dived Into the room dressing-room and came out in another second his bis blond head wet wiping his face and hair furiously with a towel Ho He hadn't beamed as he did now on these two wo strange men men for for weeks Well VeIl he be asked slowly I expect youve you've come como to ask me to fight with Prince yes Its It's against our principles you know In Inthe Inthe inthe the States States we we dont don't do that way Personally Id I'd throw anything at him himI I could lay my hands on but I dont don't care to have him let daylight dalIght through me and I 1 dont don't care to kill your friend See Im I'm an American yes American yes I 1 know I know kno he nodded sag t dk t I j. j r s 1 41 Jy E i. i r X 1 f. f 2 r. c J 1 l A f 4 o o t Dan Blair and the tho Prince Took Their Positions the Revolvers Raised PerpendIcularly Perpendicularly Per Per- In Their Right Hands their petals on his lips Ups and face tace He was back again In church lying prone before an altar If It she would only sing he would rise again that again that he knew and and her coral shoes would not dance over his grave He opened his eyes wide and looked Into Letty Lanes She bent over him crying Sing he whispered She didn't understand Fountain Girl Girl If if you only knew how the flies buzzed and how bow the droning was a living pain She said to Ruggles He wants ants something so he what heartbreakingly what I can we do She saw sav saw his hands stir I rhythmically on the counterpane he he didn't look to her more than ten years old What a cruel thing thing thing-he he was a boy just of age age age-a a boy boy boy- Ruggles remembered the tho nights he had spent before the footlights of ot the Gaiety and that the pale woman trembling trembling trem trem- bling there weeping was a great sing sing- er I guess he wants to hear you sing She kneeled down by him sho she trembled so she couldn't stand The others the doctor and Ruggles the tho waiters and ald porters gathered inthe in inthe inthe the hall heard No one of them understood understood understood un un- the Gaiety girls girl's English words From Greenland's Icy mountains From Indias India's co coral rill strands They were merciful and let him listen in peace Through the blur In his brain over the beat of his young ardent heart above the short breaths the notes reached his failing senses and lifted him lifted him lifted him There wasn't a very long distance between his boyhood and his bis two twenty-two years to go and ho was not so weak but that hat he could travel so far tar He Ho sat there by his father again again- and heard The files flies buzzed and he ho didn't mind them The smell of the tho fields came in through the windows and tho Fountain ln Girl sango sang sang- o and and sang sang and as eh she sang her face tace but we dont don't have your kind of fights out our way It means business when we go out to shoot He threw the towel down on the table soaking wet as it was put his bis hands in the pockets of ot his evening clothes which he still wore for he had not undressed threw his young blond head back and frankly told his 1115 visitors Im not up on swords Ive I've seen them in pictures and read about them but Ill I'll be darned if Ive I've ever had one In my hand His expression changed at tho the quiet response of ot seconds TO BE CONTINUED |