Show I 1 SHE haida THE avi NG NAME by JANE OSBORN H F 1 I 61 ah N alro syndicate mathilda vain fain chancing to bo be down town toward half balf past four called at her fo fathers thors ollice and beaming in a friendly manner nt at office boys and stenographers walked unceremoniously into the sanctum known its amr mr pains private onico falc fl lc 11 air fain looked troubled and pro pre OC chiple A even when site lind find appeared in ills office so BO site bho perched her settle what robust Y young rung self belt on an tile tho livni atm of at ills chair and him first on in one check and then on tile tho other and final ly IY on tits hta chin worrying you ou dearie ft arte sho asked neatly pushing back tho the papers that seemed to bo be pre occupying him blin on ills his desk maybo I 1 can help you you out you cant help mo me out honey holley lio lie bald adia nut but I 1 nin am troubled tiou bled you see theres a fellow by tho the name of valentine eli tillo townley tile engineer in ailef alt on the bridge were constructing put out palls falls trusts tint him implicitly well lie he sent him hero here to got get tile the revised plows for tile work nad somo some other papers of which there lare aro no duplicates though there have linao been anyway lie wanted them nt at once and after I 1 started valentino valentine oft off for tile four forty alve express with ettli those plans sewed bowed into his vest a telegram Is brought in from townley saying hes arriving hecq at paven tonight to have it a conference and wants wanta to talk over choset plans they got that tele groin grain nt at ten this morning but they taley think it was important enough to give tile mathilda looked at her wrist watch lets ets see its four courty now sll alio reflected 1 I make tho the station now hut but I 1 could make newtown junction that would bo be the first stop I 1 suppose tile train gets there at about halt past live five ivo ive got tho the road roadster sier I 1 could make a break for the turnpike tito the traffic men know nio me out there and I 1 guess I 1 could make pretty good time may I 1 roay may II 11 I 1 mathilda was jumping impatiently about tier her f other father land and it I 1 may give me ino some money tn fit case I 1 need some gas or anything ill get there tn in time to arrange to have a trainman po page ge tile the troth train when it draws in ril ill havo have him film on and ill bring him back home bome by the elmp you rind mr air townley have got ready for your conference mr fain smiled smile tits ills consent accepted tits his daughters lightning kiss nad aad a ad then sat in something of a dazo while she flew out of tits hla room annd was gone with a number of vicissitudes antii narrow escapes alint might have daunted a if less inveterate motorist than mathilda sho she arrived at newton june junction nt at twenty minutes after five with much adoo alic explained her errand to the station agent ht bt the junction who icho consented to board the train himself tile the fellows name lie ho asked n jis s the train drew in Math mathilda llda paused it n second A s light frown flitted flirted across tier her face why audolph yes rudolph she sullied and the accommodating station man jumped onto the train before it had como come to a full stop before tho the last passenger had alighted lie was off of again followed by a striking figure of a young man trailed by a porter carrying an inviting array of heavy pigskin luggage the man was tall mill broad nod and at second secand sight you realized that eliat his cloth clothes es were vere of european Hur make and at third slight sight it occurred to yav you that tho the man himself was not an american though he possessed the breadth annl and I 1 ruggedness that wo we tire oro wont to consider ch characteristics araca erl sties of sons of our own soil the stat station lori inan man was talking loud lond and freely in the amp rlynn language as he knew it best and the young for eignar was listening intently I 1 it was then that t mathilda athilda I 1 hf pala came to the rescue are you mr rudolph she asked thoroughly delighted with the turn events had taken and wondering just how tier her father lind dared sew the plans into rw po perfectly tailored a waistcoat as mr must be yes madam lie he said raising his fits hot hat 1 I understand english but slowly lie he explained well como come with me said mathildo mathilda its all right and ill explain after we get started it Is As important business back in the city somehow site sho got the distinguished young foreigner and his pieces of lg rage gage into tier her roadster and with alth fifty odd add pairoh pair of CACS upon them they started off w ith nn an impressive whirring from the motor of high powered car 1 I do not quite understand said the young oun man and then Ain mathilda thIlda realized that though ile he was not ver very y well verhl in tile the language he smiled at her with tile the same straightforward jook of admiration that would have been characteristic of any of the iner type of young men inen in tier own set it Is important business and you came to get me yes spid mathilda 1 I dont understand der stand much about al out it she felt really incapable of mentioning tile the g 4 plans sewed up beneath beneat li tits hta waistcoat and it occurred to her as they drove t together that the very fact that they could not express themselves very well irell in language lan resulted in Q a closer telepathic ayin between them she gained tile information that sir mr rudolph udolph It was nn an austrian that was rin tural enough site she remembered that tier father had spoken of distinguished european Huro peon engineers coming to this country to consult with jim him she tried tier bit of boarding school gorman german mf but apparently it was waa not the sort bort that mr rudolph understood so they rodo together for anny miles all tile time tile the feeling of frank sympathy growing deeper between them times the young man ann tried to express capres cx pres himself ile iio bald something about a if so ho added it Is my witult mathildo know that once they reached tier lier lie home me tier her fat fathers tiers knowledge of the lie aus au arians language would wake make things el clear ia r lending leading the way ay for tier her handsome young loung foreigner aishe hurried past ft a surprised servant or two in tier her own on house and fairly burst burat into tier her fathers library where lie and mr town kesot icy sut tn tit von conference ference blue prints odd and plans piling spread before them ifer u lie Is suld said Muth Al athilda llda Il leres air 1111 audolph iler her father rose grasped the lie young mans hand and then conver conversed seI with him then they tile luul lillig nd hed atly it MI tin nn gang lender leader named we e u wanted anted not mr ir rudolph and lie he missed lili his train nod front file ali station 80 so 0 we o ordered him back rend nil got tile alio plans this mr air rudolph daughter dui li 14 the aryn of nn an old friend of mine one of tilt alie foremost engineers of tile country lie was stinting starting on oil a tour tn study en glac gl crIng in this coll country 1 Itil dolph well iou seo see how I 1 madd tho 00 in mistake stake 11 1 I am m very aind you did said the tha young man 1 ill I am very very virtu note nato to bo be named It rudolph udolph As hla his plang had been rather upset already the distinguished di osbed young foreigner accepted apted mr enins invitation to remain is as its ills guest for a weela and when no ile went he had secured ma th ildas promise to become hla his wife Ille member lie ho said you will be mra airs rt rudolph udolph not mrs mra valentino valentine |