Show WN RL r i va avo KG cof 1910 to tam t 12 SYNOPSIS dan blair the 22 year old son on of the arty binlon dollar coppel kinq king of blair town mont la in a guest at the tha english home homa of lady gallrey Oa Ga loroy lorey dans dana father had been courteous courte oua to lord gallrey during lite his visit to the united states and the courtesy cour teay to la now being returned to the young man the youth has art an ideal girl in his ht mind lip H meets lil lily duchess e 0 s 0 of ls breakwater a beautiful widow duca who h 0 Is attracted by his big immense fortune and takes a lilting liking to her when dan was a boy a gi girl r 1 eang a solo at a church and he bayli had ad n never e ver ganjon sanjon forgotten her tho th oa ga lorees lily and dan ban attend a london theater where one letty lane la in the star dan recognizes her its as the tha girt girl from tits his town and going behind the tha scenes introduces himself and she nhe remembers him lie ite learns that prince Ponto Is auktor and escort to letty lord lorey rey and rid a friend named ruggles determine m inn to protect the westerner from lily and other fortune hunters young blair goes to see lily he can talk of nothing goes but ut letty and this angers the duchess the westerner finds letty tit til from hard work but she eho ro recovers covers and Ilu ggles and dan invite invite her to supper she asks dan to build a home tor for disappointed theatrical people CHAPTER XI Continued she did not appear to hear bear him in deed ebo was not looking at him and dan saw malting his big way toward their table across the room lotty letty lano lane rose dan put her cloak about her shoulders and glancing toward ruggles and toward the boy as indifferently as she eho had considered the now comora who formed a small group around the brilliant figure of th the 0 actress tress sho nodded good night to bo both th allu fuggles ggles and blair and went up to tho the hungarian as aa though he were her husband who had come to take her homo home flo however at tho the door she sufficiently shook off her mood to smile slightly at dan 1 I havo have had lots of tun fun and the scotch broth was waa greatt thank you both so BO much until thoy wore up in their sitting room her hosts did not exchange a word then ruggles took a book up from tho table and sat eat down with his cigar 1 I 1 am going to read a little dan slept all day teel feel as wide awake adako as aa an owl dan showed no desire to bo be communicative munica tive however to ruggles disappointment but ho he exclaimed abruptly ill bo be darned ruggles it if I 1 cau can guess what you asked her aorl 11 well oil it did turn out to bo be a pretty expensive expansive party for you dannie it ruggles ro returned turned humor bously ill lot you off from any moro more supper parties and dan fumed as aa ho he turned his bla back Ex thoro there you are again ruggles Hug glea with your infernal intrusion of money into everything I 1 do W when hen the older tr found alorio he bo read a littie and then put his bis book down to enuse and his meditations were on tho the tide of life and the beds it runs over tho the living whirlpool as ruggles himself had seen been it coursing th through rough london blondon under log fog and mist it seemed now to surge up in the dark to his very windows and the he flow mysteriously passed under his windows windo rii in these silent hours over which tho the waters go out of tho the sound as it flowed on the cries rose he thought kindly to his eara cars god bless her god blocs lotty lanel and with this sound ho bo closed his meditations thinking ot of a moro more peaceful stream tho brighter sweeter wa tors tora of the boys nature translucent and clear tho the vision was happier and with it ruggles rose and yawned dawned and shut his bis book CHAPTER XII tho the groen green knight the duchess of breakwater had made dan promise at tho the day ho he went back to london that ho be would tako take her over to her own place court and with her sao aeo tho the beauty ruins and traditions of tho the place when dan got up well on la in the morning ruggles had gone to the bank dans thoughts turned from everything to lotty lane with irritation he put tier her out of hla his mind thero there had come up between himself anil and tho the girl ho he had known slightly in I 1 hla big own town two years ago a 0 wall of partition every time ho he saw her pont font kotowsky was there condescending or ar rudo nido and proud the prince the night before had given the tips 0 ot t hla fingers to dan nodded to ru rug f agles as it the westerner bad had been his bla tailor and had appropriated letty lane and sho eh hod gono gone away under hir bid shadow the simplicity of dans life his bis decent bringing up his tm im maculate youth for such it was hla his aloofness from the world made him h im naive but ho he was waa not dull ile he waited not like a skeptic who would tit nt every one into his bis pigeonholes on the contrary he be waited to find every one as perfect as ho he know knew they must bo be and every time he be tried to think of letty lane Ponto troubled him horribly and seemed to rise before him and sardonically look at him through his bla eyeglass eye eyo glass alnes making the boys belief in good things ridiculous he wrote a note to ruggles saying baying that he would be back late and not to wait for him and set out ID his own car for where the duchess was to meet him at court at noon on his way out he decided that ho he had been a fool to discuss letty lane with the duchess of breakwater and that it had boon been none of his bis business to put her duty before her and that ho he had bad judged her quickly and unfairly lie he fell in love with the lovely english country over which his motor took him and it made him more affectionate toward the english woman woman lie ho sat back in his bla car looking over tho fine shooting land the misty golden forests na as through the misty country his motor took its way the breath of england was on his cheeks checks he breathed in its odors fresh and sweet tho the wildness air was coul cool and fragrant ills hta cheeks grow rod red ills hta ayea shone like stars blare and he was content with hla big youth and hla his tot lot when they stopped at castelan Caa Cas telen the property belonging to court he felt something of proprietorship stir in him and at arms or dered derea 4 drink bought petroleum and then pushed up tip tho the avenue under the leafless giant trees whose roots were older than afa fathers name or than any state of 0 tho the union and ho be felt admiration and something like emotion as he bo saw the first towers of 0 court finally appear tho the duchess waited lor for him bins lu in the room known ns as tho green knights room because of a figure in tapestry on tho the walls tho the legend in wool had been woven in spain somewhere about tho the time when isabelle isabella was kind and when in turn a continent loomed up for the world lu in general out of tho the mist tho the subject of the green knights tapestry was simple and convincing on a sheer cut village ot of low ferns whore where daisies stood up like trees a slender lady poised tier her dark sandaled feet on tho the pla pin like turf her figure was waa all swathed round with a spotless dross of woolly white softened cott ened by age into a 0 golden misty tone and a pair of friendly and confidential rabbits sat eat close to her golden slippers the ladys face was wa candid and mild her eyes were wera soft and around her head was wound a fillet fallot of woven threads mellow in tone a red no ao doubt originally but softened to neoral pink by time this lady in oil all tier her grace and vir virginal gidal sweetness sweeties swe etnes a was only half of tho woven story to her right stood a youth I 1 til n forest green his big sword drawn and bis big intention evidently to kill a creaturo creature which near to tile the gentle rabbits out of the dalsted grass lifted its cruel snakelike ellke head bead for nearly live ivo hundred d re d years tho the serpents venom had been poised and if the serpent shout should d start tho the green knight would strike too tod at tho the tame same magic moment close to the tapestry a ire fire had boon been laid in the broad fireplace and tho the duchess had ordered tho the luncheon table for dan and herself spread with the cold things england edgland knows how bow to combine into a delectable toast feast tho room was waa full of mediaeval media eval furnishings nish ings but tho the green knight was tho best of all the duchess of breakwater took him for granted sho had known him aliu all her life and she ebo had bad only been struck by his bis expensive beauty when tho the offer camo came to her from the national museum to buy him and she wondered how long she could afford to stick to her price when dan came in he found her in a short tweed skirt a mannish blouse looking boyish and wholly charming charbit ag and she mixed him a cocktail under the green knights very nose and offered it with the wisdom of the serpent itself and the duchess in the least suggest tho the white robed milk white lady the friends drank their cocktails cocktail sin to good spirits and dan presented the lady with the flowers ho he had brought her and he bo felt fell a strong sentiment stir at the sight of her in this old room alone and waiting tor for him th the servants left them the duchess put her banda on the boys broad shoulders nearly as tall as he bo she was 4 prince making his HI way toward their table across acroca the room a good example of the bost best looking english woman straight and strong and her eyes were level and dan met them with his own 1 I am so BO glad you camo came sho she murmured ive been ragging myself every minute since you went away from you have what for Do cause I 1 was such a perfect prig ill do anything you like for miss lane I 1 moan mean to say ill arrange arrange tor tar a musicale must calo and ask her to sing tho the color rushed into dans faco face how flow balij of herl what a buck showed tier her to bel be lie he sald said you aro are na as sweet aroet as a peach the duchess hands were still on an tin his shoulders she could feel his bla rapid breath 1 1 dont make you think of it a box ot candy nawt now sho murmured and the boy covered her hand with his own 1 I dont know what you matte make ms 09 taink of 44 4 Is bully whatever it it tho the spanish tapestry could only have reven reversed sed its idea and it if the immaculate jady or evou even one of tho the rabbits could havo have drawn a sword to protect the green knight it would havo have been passing well dul but the ibo woven work when it first had been embroidered was done for ever it was irrevocable in its mistaken idea that it la Is only the woman who needs protection I 1 CHAPTER XIII tho the face of letty lane As aa dan went through the halls of the tha carlton on tits his way to his rooms that same the porter gave him two notes which uan dan went down into the smoking room to read he tore open the note bearing the hotel savoy on the envelope onvel opo and read dear doy boy will you come around tonight and see aee me about eve ocl dont let anything keep you 10 letty lane had the habit ot of scratching out phrases to insert others othera and there was something scratched crat ched outa out 1 I want to talk to you about something very important come com a sure bure 1 L I 1 dan looked at the clock it was after nine and sho would be at the gaiety going on with her performance the other note which he be opened more slowly was from ruggles and it began in just the same way as the dancers had begun dear boys boy I 1 have been suddenly called back to the united states As AB I 1 know how to in get at you I 1 I 1 had a cable that takes taken me right back I 1 get the Lusi lusitania tanta at liverpool and you can send mo me a Alar marconi cont better make tho the first boat you can and come coma over joshua nu fuggles ggles ruggles left no kopd of advice and unconscious of this master stroke on the part of tho the old man whose heart yearned for him as for hla his own son dan folded the note nole up and thought no more about ruggles when an hour later tie ho camo came out of the carlton ho he wag prepared for the ifo of tho the evening ile he stopped stop pied at a the telephone desk and sent a tolo telo gram to ruggles on an the Lusi lusitania tanta cant matilt come coma yet awhile am engaged to be married to tho duchess of breakwater akwa he wrote this out in full and the man at tho the marconi sat eat up and smiled as ho be wrote with letty lanos lanes badly written note in hla his pocket and wondering very much at her summons of him dan drove to tho no gaiety and at the end of the third act went back bach of the scenes there wore were several poo people in her dressing room higgins was lacing her into a white bodice and miss ganv before her glass was put ing the rouge anber on her lips TO DD BM CONTINUED |