Show it t n i in wt imi i it 11 I 1 DIVERTING LEONIE 4 I 1 by ELLIS BROWNE 4 W 4 marjory tried her best beat not to but the conversation floated across te table to her eora ears with almost fiendish mra alra Fana kUn hawa voice was rs waa it bit high pitched and just jual now is BUO 0 was radiant with excitement contradicting tommy flatly about willard my dear child I 1 was there ile he m was as simply mad over her bor he can say aay what lie he pleases now but I 1 know and to does everybody evory body else who saw them together 0 tommy tried to divert her catching bight covertly of majory a face the expression in her clear blue eyes the hurt close lines around her lips oh I 1 dont know mrs fanslaw Fans baw 1 ill was just a cub I 1 don t think he be ever really cared for her well he did and it if you could have seen her face last night ht at the box party aarhus gave when the she heard beard he was in town oh my dear my diar women are far more faith ful ahrin men she ebe the most beamut I 1 tul red hafi you ever saw in all 10 I 1 your life I 1 cant can t bear red hair said tommy blithely marjary knew she he meant leonle leonie raleigh she had met her it at a tea that week and had bad noticed what an unusual type she was and will her will had been in love with her only three years ago she fingered her engagement ring absently ile he really very nice a gentle voiced vell ell mannered middle aged mun man and suddenly something he wits waa abing aying caught her attention you know no 0 o few artists have ever been able to catch Tit lans tone red hair has always excited an nan effect on artists yet it Is rare my friend the marquis to is quite wild over a young californian he be met kt at tea yesterday i civiss raleigh suggested mar ja jarv ry of course it was wa leonie the men had flocked around her like bees at a t the tea she had made a complete picture in the fading sunset light of the studio yes he cannot got get the inspiration for his bis work until he has the divine thrill for his subject you see ee and lie he has sought for a model tor for his bis francesca France ses she must be this same florentine type that titian loved to paint all ah the florentine women with their dark eyes and red hair and faces like whitest pearls the next day tommy tomay took marjory in to dinner as will was west for a fe few fea A days and he noticed her loba of content you know I 1 expect you to purr I 1 any moment what have you to tommy marjory answered has the marquis any money not much but nee hes a really fine suit of chap and his title to is 0 K ancient regime you know some of his people lost their heads in the same basket with louls louis I 1 believe why nothing marjory changed tho the subject the count kept her post ed doth both he and the marquis belonged to the little group of marooned cond dentals in new york too old to go to war marking time in the now new world and it appeared that the red haired california girl vas ns a splendid success she blie had enough money in her own right to make the attentions of tho riar marquis luis acceptable even before s i return everyone was waa mating the lie two and talking of their romantic meeting marjory smiled and said nothing not until the night when came back she was at the opera with her mother and two boxes away on the saine came tier were leonte leonie and the uril quis you know her dont you dear she aha asked very impersonally Impero nally tommy e oed ed her from the back of the box alertly leonle leonie raleigh from santa bai Ba babbara bars ibara willard eat up his hie eyes suddenly kean with interest where is in she right night over there in the seward box lent she lovely will such i wonderful red hair ali ah they will be engaged in less leas than two weeks I 1 could wager tho the count said happily next her mother I 1 ile he is most devoted to her lie he is in per fealy mad over her and she Is quite willing to be the fair marquis ah ab yes yea quite willing you know said will appraisingly she h always seemed an awfully ardi nary girl to me it it hadn haan t been for hei hair saied she d never attracted any at tent lon you knew her out west t yo you dear oh in a way glad ashes going to marry a marquis leonie a the kind of r girl that requires plenty of back ground then feminine to her pretty finger tips marjory could not resist just juat the otie one question were vero you ever really engaged to te her will Ne never verl very emphatically you dont have to say ay that just to make me feel happier dear I 1 dont suppose you can be blamed when you hadn haan t met inet mo me yet only dread to te look e een en in the eyes of adv girl who may have been kissed by you dou don t you know Ore I 1 etheart he leaned over ner ncr chaar dont you know that our love v as su BU big and wonderful that it just swept away oven even the memory of any other out oat of my life and tommy beamed and stepped carefully back out of the box even red half bair could not eclipse that 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