Show jy 61 noria illustrations IY y N G COP aka cobl M 11 y SYNOPSIS dan blair the 22 year old son aon of the arty maillo dollar copper king of blaar town mont Is n a guest at the english lioma 0 of f lady malorey gallrey Oa Ga lorey dans father had been co courteous to lord galoney during his visit isit to the united states and the courtesy Is B now being returned to the young roan man the youth ties has an ideal girl ang n lils ills mind ile he meets meeta lily duchess 0 of breakwater rea kwater a beautiful widow who Is a attracted by hlf his immense fortune and takes a liking to her when dan was a boy a gi girl ra sane a solo at a church and he had never forgotten her the da cla lorees lily and ian dan attend a lend london on theater where one letty lane la Is the s star ar dan recognizes her as the lie girl from hla his town and going behind the scenes introduces himself and she remembers jilin him ile ho learns that prince la Is and escort to lett iett lord ga loroy and n friend named determine to protect the westerner from lily and ther other 0 fortune hunters young blair foes to see lily he can talk of nothing nut ut letty and this angers the duchess the westerner sterner finds letty ill from hard work but she recovers and ruggles and den dan invite her to supper CHANTER CHAPTER XI continued yes yea she accepted out of sight of blairtown Blair town and everybody I 1 ever know knew I 1 went away the next day she lifted her glass of champagne to her lips heres one thing I 1 to do she said but im going to just the same im going to do everything I 1 want this evening remember I 1 lot let you drink six glasses of chocolate soda once she drained her glass glasa and her friends drank with her 1 I like this soup awfully what Is lt it just touching it with her spoon why ruggles hastened to tell ner her it aint a party soup its scotch broth but somehow it sounded good on the bill of fare I 1 fixed the rest 0 of tho the dirtier dinner up tor you and dan but I 1 let myself go on the soup its my favorite she ald did not eat it however although she said it was splendid and that she was crazy about it did you come east then dan returned to what she hae had been seen saying yes yea that week went to parts paris and all over the place she instantly tell fell into a sort ot of melancholy it was easy to be seen that she did not want to talk about her past and yet that thai it fascinated her I 1 just think of it he exclaimed 1 I never heard a word about you until I 1 heard beard you sing the other night the actress laughed and told him that be had made up for lost time and that he was a regular sitter now at the gaiety Rug gleEL said ho he took me every night to see you dance until I 1 balked miss lane still its a perfectly great show mr ruggles dont you think sot so I 1 like it better betted than any part I 1 ever had bad I 1 am interested about it for the sake ot the man who wrote it too its hla his farst opera hes an invalid and has bas a wife and alve kids to look after and ruggles replied oh gracious i feel better than ever having gone ten times although I 1 very sore about it aint you going to eat anything she only picked at her food drinking what they poured in her glass and every time she spoke to dan a look of charming kindness crossed her face an expression of good fellowship which ruggles noted with interest 1 I wish you could have een this same author tod ayat the rehearsal of the play letty lano Lane went on hes too ill to walk and they had to carry carri him in a chair we ajl aji went round to his apartments after the theater ho he lives in three rooms with his bis whole family and hes had so BO many debts and so much trouble and such a po poor cir contract that ho he made much out of mandalay but I 1 guess be will out of tills ilits new piece ile he hugged and kissed me ino until I 1 thought he be would break rny my neck london had gone and amrid over letty lane whose traits and contour were the admiration of the world at large fargo and well even to the newsboys and whose likeness was nearly as familiar as that of 0 the Ala donnas of old tier her face was oval and perfectly formed with the reddest of mouths the most delicious and softest of mouths the line of tier her brows browa clear and straight and her gray eyes large and as innocent and appealing as a ebil childs ds under their long lashes they opened up like flowers flo wore wars it was taid that no man could withstand their appeal that she bud bad but to look to make a man her stave slave and as more than once she turned to don ban smiling nd ruggles watched her bar mutely thinking of what ho he had heard this day for after her letter came accepting their invitation he had bad taken pains to find out ine things thugs he bo wanted to know it had bad not been difficult As her faco face and form were public on every postcard post card and tn in every photographers shop so eo tho the actress reputation was tho the property of tho the public I 1 As AB ruggles repeated these things to himself he be watched her beside the son of his bis old friend they were talk ing rather sho she was and behind the orchids and the ferna h her 0 r voice was sweet and enthralling ruggles tried to appreciate hla his bill of fare while tho the two appreciated each other it was strange to dan to have her so BO near and so BO approachable his sights of nor her oft the stage had been so slight and fleeting on the ibe boards she had bad seemed to be an unreal creation made for the public alone tier her dress cut fearlessly low displayed her lovely young bosom soft bloomy white as a shell and her head and ears were as delicate as the petals of a white rose low in the nape of her neck her golden lay lightly and from its toft oft masses fragrance came to him ruggles co could uld hear bear her say gay roach came to the house and told my people thia that I 1 had a fortune in my voice I 1 w wa s living with my uncle and my ate step V hunt aunt and working in the store and that same day your father sent down a check for five hi hundred indred dollars he said it was for the little girl with the sweet voice and it gives rue roe a lot of 0 pleasure to think that I 1 began my lessons on that the son of old dan blair said earnestly im darned glad you lm darned glad you did 1 letty lane nodded so am 1 but with some sharp sharpness neis 1 I dont sod sea why you speak that way ive earned ray my way I 1 made a fortune for roach all right you mean the man you married married goodness gracious what made you think that she ahrer thre back her pretty head and laughed a laugh with the least possible merriment in it oh heavens marry old job roach so they say eay that do they I 1 never beard that I 1 hear a lot but I 1 never hoard heard that fairy tale she put her hands to her cheeks which had grown crimson not truel dan acore at himself for his tact stupidity ruggles had bad heard both sides eldea she ana adora 06 tile the pooh poor mid arid as far as rumor knew she spout spent thousands on the london paupers haupers pau pers and the westerner who had never been given to reveling in scandals and to whom there was waa something wicked in speaking ill or of a woman no matter whom choin she sha might be listened with embarrassment ras to tales ho he had bad boon been told in answer to lits his other questions and turned with relief to tho the stories of lotty letty lanes charity and to the stories of tier her popularity and her success they were moro more agreeable but they make him forget the rest and now as he be looked at her race face across the bouquet of orchids and bertia it was with a sinking of heart a great pity for her and still a decided enmity ile he disapproved of her down to the ground ile ho lot let himself think how he to felt but it was for the boy ruggles wits was not a man of the world in any sense he was 13 simple and in his judgments and hla his gentle nature and his big heart kept him from pharisaical and strenuous measures ho he had bad been led in what he was waa doing tonight by a diplomacy and a common sense that few men east cast of the mississippi would have thought out under the circumstances tell mr ruggles he hoard heard dan say to her tell him tell dimill and she ehe answered 1 I was to telling ailing mr blair that as aa lie ho Is so BO frightfully rich I 1 want him to give me some somo money 1 ruggles gasped but answered quietly well hes boa a great gi giver ver miss lane 1 I 1 guess he to is if lies hea like his father she returned 1 I 1 am trying tryllis to get a lot though out of him and when you asked me to dine tonight I 1 said bald to myself ill accept for it will be a good time to ask mr blair to help me what I 1 want to do at ruggles fac face eshe she smiled sweetly and said graciously oh dont think I 1 have come anyway but im awfully tired W 4 M mill ie took me every night to see you dance until I 1 balked miss lane these days and going out to supper Is just one thing too much to dol do I 1 want mr blaar she said turning b ruggles as if she know a word from him would ronke the iho thing go through to help me 1110 build a rost roat home down on tho the english const coast for girls who get discouraged iu in their art when I 1 think of tile tho luck I 1 havo have had and how these things havo have been from boiu the iho beginning and how money hits has just poured in ill why said ardently it ft just makes my heart nehe to think C 0 of f tho the girls who tty try and fall fail who go on for a little while and have to give up you cant tell sho bho nodded to itu hug agles na as though sho she were a matron of forty you can not tell what their temptations are or what comes up to make them go to pieces ruggles listened with interest 1 I thought it 11 nil all out yot yet but so many como come to mo me tired out and discouraged and I 1 think a nice home taken core anro of by a good creature like my higgins lot let us may eay would bo be a perfect blessing to them they could ea 80 thero there and rest and study and just think and perhaps she said slowly as though while sho she spoke she saw a vision of a tired self for whom thero there had been no rest homo home and no place ot of retreat perhaps a lot of them would pull through in a different way now today she broke her meditative tone short 1 I got a letter f from rom a hospital where a poor thing that used to sing with me in now new york was dying with consumption all gone to pieces and discouraged and there Is whore where your p primroses prim rim roses wont went to she nodded to dan higgins took them you dont mind and blair with a warmth in his volca touched by her pity more than by her charity said why they grew for or you miss lane I 1 dont done care griat you do 0 with them letty lane sank her head on an tier her hands bands her elbows leaned on the table she seemed suddenly to have lost interest even in her bar topic sho she looked around the room indifferently the orchestra was softly playing tho the dove song from Ni mandalay andalay and very softly under her breath the star hummed it her oyes vaguely mixed an rome unknown scene to dan and to ruggles she had grown strange the music her brilliancy her sudden in difference put her out of their commonplace mon place reach ruggles to himself thought with relief she care one rap for or the boy anyway anyta y thank god ashes got other flah fish to land and dan blair thought its my infernal money again but ho he was generous at heart and glad to be of service to her and was perfectly willing to be touched for her poor then two or three met men came up and joined them she greeted them indolently bestowing a word or look on this one ona or on that all fire and light seemed to have gone out of her and dan said you ar are 4 tired I 1 guess I 1 had bad better et take you home TO BE CONTINUED |