Show IAL STORY y biffl K W THE GIRL fro f M 11 HIS il TOWN by bj mirie VAN VORST illustrations by M C G KETTNER IVIO by the bobba merrill oo co SYNOPSIS dan ninar the 22 year om old tion son of the dollar copper kins king of blair town mont 1 Is a guest at the english Engl lali home of ardy gallrey On Ga lorcy lorey dans dana father hari had apen courteous to lord gallrey during his v visit jail to the united states and the courtesy to 1 now being returned to the young ou n 9 man the tha youth has an ideal girl rn in h hla ia mind lle lie meets lily duchess ol of breakwater a beautt beautiful ful widow who 14 1 attracted by hla his immense fortune and tales takes a liking to her when dan was a hoy boy a gi rl eang banff ft a solo at a church and lie fie had ad n naver v c r f for KOtten her the on forays lily anil and dnn dan attend a london theat theater er one letty lane la Is the star din dan her us an the tha girl from hla his town and going behind the scenes scene a introduces himself ant and she remembers him he 1111 fear learns that prince la Is arts and escort to letta lord OR oa lorey and n friend named ruggles deter mine to protect the westerner from lily and other fortune hunters young toung alair to xee see lily he ran enn talk of nothing anes but ut letty and t la angers the duchess the wea westerner terner find fanda s letty ill from hard work out nut rho blip reco v e ra and ruggles and D dan an invite her to supper she asks i sIDan dan to build a home fur disappointed theatrical people dan visits lily for the time foi geltIng letty and later announces no u aces hla his engagement to the duchess le letty tty refuses to ring nine for an entertainment riven given by lily galoney tells tella dan that nil all lily cares for Is his fits money and it Is s disclosed a 10 a el that he and tho the ia tf have v e been 1 c n m mutually in love for years I etty sings at an aristocratic funt function tion dan escorting her home dan confronts delorey nod lily together later he informs letty that hta his engagement with lily la its broken tho the singer binder to marry film and they become e n g a aged ruggles thinks the westerner a should h u 1 I not marry a public bublic singer and endeavors to induce I tty etty to give him film up slie site runs away fearing earing she Is not good enough for dan and ruggles glea makes the latter believe she has abandoned his love finally dan finds letty in where ho to to la persistent stent in creasing hta his sul suit t CHAPTER continued I 1 she made him taro take a table in the corner where she sat in the shadow on the sofa overlooking the brilliant room Alax maxims ims was no new scene to lo either of them no novelty ponto scarcely glanced ft at the crowd preferring to feast his eyes on his companion whose indifference to him made hla his abstraction easy she was his property ile ho would give tier her his title she had demanded it from the first the hungarian was a little over dressed with his jeweled buttons his largo large boutonniere his faultless c lothes clothes his single oye eye glaas through which he bo stared at letty lano lane whose delicate beauty was in fine play her checks faintly pink her starry eyes humid with a dew whose luster Is of the most precious quality tier her unshed tears had nothing to do with Poulo they were tor for the boy tier her heart sickened thinking where he might bo be and more than that it cried out for him sho she wanted him oh she would havo been far better for dan than anything he could find ln in this mad city than anything to which in his despair he could go for consolation she had kept her word bo however wever to that old man I 1 mr ruggles she had got out of the business with a fatal result as tar far as the boy was concerned she thought dan would drift here probably as most americans on their wild nights do tor for a part of the time and she had bad como come to me she wore a dress of coral pink tightly fitting high to her little chin and seemed herself like a coral strand from neck to toe clad in the color she affected and which bad become celebrated as the letty lane pink tier her feathered hat hid her face and she was completely shielded as she bent down drawing pictures with her bare finger on the cloth after a little while she said to y without glancing dancing at him it if you stare any longer like that frederigo break your eyeglass eye glass you know how bow I 1 hate it used as he was to her sharpness he nevertheless flushed and sat back find and looked across the room where to their right protected from them as they were from him ham by the great door a n young man sat alone whether or not he be had come to maxims intending to join a congenial party should he find one or to choose for a companion some one of the women who at the entrance of the tall blond boy stirred and invited him with their raised lorg rions and their smiles will not be known dan blair was alone pate pale as the pictures letty lane had drawn on the cloth and be too feasted his oyes eyes on the gaiety girl by jove said the hungarian under his breath and she eagerly asked what whom whom do yoi see epe hla his back sharply he evaded ner and she did not pursue the idea and as a physical wt weakness helmed her when after a second come cherie for heavens sake lets go abe me clia yose ose und land passed out 1 beveral te evern veral young men supping ta together gether coutue over eagerly to to her and claim acquaintance with tha ui gal ety girl and walked along out tr te ibe 4 motor there letty lane discovered she had dropped her handkerchief nod and sent the prince back for it IL A aa 11 though ho he had been waiting for or the reappearance of dan blair stood close to tho the little table which lotty lane had left her handkerchief kereb lef in his bis hand As came up dan thrust tho the small trine trifle of sheer linen into his bia waistcoat coat pocket 1 I will trouble yoi for alsa lanes handkerchief said Ponto his eyes cold you may said dan as quietly hu b blue u e eyes es like sparks froma star I 1 trouble me for hell and it ring lifting from the table own half emptied glass of champagne the boy flung the contents full in the tha hungarians Hung arians face the wine dashed lips and in his eyes blaar laughed out loud hla his hands handa in his poc pockets keti the insult was low and noiseless the little glass shattered OB as it fell so BO softly that with the music its gentle crash was unheard wiped his bis face tranquilly and bowed you shall hear from nie me after I 1 have taken miss alias lane home tell her sold said the boy where you left the hand handkerchief kerch lef all CHAPTER I 1 11 such stuff as aa dreams dan was in his room at the hote ile he woke and then slept again nothing seemed strange to him nothing seemed real it was three 1 in th the 0 morning the rumble rf of parts paris wis waa dull it did not disturb b him for he fie 8 seemed without the bod body yand and to have grown and to fill the room ile he had a sense of location and the need to break through the windows and to easie into ether the en entrance of two friends was a part with the unreal naturalness one was a doumanian Rou manian the other a frenchman both spoke fluent english dan his eyes fixed on the foreign faces only halt half saw them r V f ip kim the boy flung the Cont contents contenta nta full in the Hun hungarland hungarians Hung garlans arians face they blurred their voices were small and far away finally he said all right all right I 1 can shoot well enough this kind of thing our custom you know id as soon kill him one way as another as a matter ot of tact fact no I 1 dont doht know a darned soul here there was a confab incomprehensible to dan its all ono one to me gentlemen he said id rather not drag in roy my friends fix it up to io suit yourselves ile ho wanted them to go to be alone to stretch his arms to rid himself of the burden of sense and bo be free and after they had left he remained in his window till dawn it came soon midsummer dawn a singularly tender morning in his heart ills his maud worked with great rapidity ile he had made his will in the states lie he wished be could have left everything to letty lane but if as ruggles said he be was a pauper perhaps it a lie after all dan had written and telegraphed ruggles asking ashing for the solemn truth and also telling him where he was and asking the older aldei man to come over it if ruggles proved tie ho was poor why some of his burden do a was gone ills money had been a burden he knew it how lie he might have no use for money the next day what good could it do him in a fix like this ile he was to meet conlo at five in a place whose name be recall ile he had bad seen it advertised though people went there for lunch they were to shoot at twenty tw enty five paces he might bo be a rockefeller Kocke feller or a beggar for all the good his money could to do him in n pinch like ilka this ills his father approve app iove the old man mail approve but le fie had sent him here to learn the ways or of the old world A flickering emilo crossed his beautiful set face his fits les jes sons done him good hb blo would like to have seen good old gordon gallrey again he loved hinl ho he had no use for ruggles no use it had been all his bis fault his wind mind reached out to his father and the old mans words came dinning back duy buy the things that 8 stay atay above ground my boy what were those things ings ile he had thought they were hesion passion he be had thought they were love and ho be had put all on one woman she stand by him now that he was waa poor the spasm in hla his heart was so BO sharp shard that be made a low sound in his bla throat and leaned against the casing of the window ile ho must see sea her touch her once more the fellows seconds had bad chosen to be dans dana representatives represent att ves came in to 4 fix him up they were in rock frock coats and carried their silk hats and their gloves ho could have laughed at them then they made him think of undertakers and tits his blood grow cold he handled the revolvers va ivers with 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 place by the window and looked to the boy like a figure of death the hour was getting on he heard his own motor drive up and they went down through the deserted hotel the men who had consented to act for dan regarded their principal curiously he pale there was a brightness on his bis face said bald one of them and told beairs blairs chauffeur where to go and aid how to run Par tonii CHAPTER the picture of it alt all As far as his knowing anything ol 01 the customs of it all it was like ilka leading a lamb iamb to slaughter villebon lovely vernal at a gatei lat ef hour the spot for gay breakfasts and gentle rendezvous Tous had been designated tor for the meeting between dan daa arid alid there in hla his motor motoi he gave up his effort to set hla his thoughts clear nothing settled down even the ground they flow flew over the trees with their chestnut plumes blurred were indistinct nebulous as aa II if sea seen through a diving bell under the sea fear he know the word ile he afraid it that yet he had a certainty that it was all up with him ile ho was young very young and he done much with the job ills his father would have been ashamed of him then all his thoughts went to her the two men in the motor floated off and she sat there as she had sat yesterday in her marvelously pretty clothes hr her little coral shoes he had held those bright little feet in his hands on the Tha they had bad just filled his hill great hands bands then letty lane too spirited away and the boys thoughts turned to the man he be was to meet tho the affairs are I 1 purely formal he be had bad heard beard some one say an exchange of balls without serious results TO BE CONTINUED |