Show 1 1 R DIAL I 1 A L S STORY tony THE GIRL fro M 11 0 I 1 HIS TOWN TV 4 in MUNI by MARIE VAN VORST Jons by M G KETTNER R copyright opy right IBM 1910 by he bobbe merrill co cc 2 SYNOPSIS dan blair the ii 22 year old son of the fifty million dollar copper king of blair town mont Is a guest at the english home of lady gallrey dan s father had been courteous to lord gallrey during his visit to the united states and the courtesy Is now being returned to the young man CHAPTER I 1 continued on the day ot of the shoot at dan dropped sixty birds he ile tried very hard not to be too pleased gosh he thought to lit himself those birds tell fell as though they were trained all right and the other sports were mad I 1 could see it he then fell to whistling softly the air he had heard lady gallrey play the night before from the new success at the gaiety and finished it as bis his tollet toilet completed itself he took up a gardenia from his dressing table and fastened it in his coat stopping on the stairs on the way down to look over into the hall where the men in their black clothes and the women in their shining dresses waited before going into the dinin dining groom room the lights fell on white arms and necks on jewels and on fine proud heads dan blair had been in san francisco and in new york on short journeys however which his father the year before had directed him to take but ho he had never seen a show like this he came slowly down the broad stairway of the park house the last guest in the corner where behind her a piece of fourteenth con tury tapestry cut a green and pint square against the rich black oak pan eling the duchess of breakwater sat bat waiting she wore a dress of golden tulle which was simply a sheath to her slender body and from her neck heckl hung a long rope of diamonds caught at the end by a small black fan there was a wreath of dl diamonds like ille shining water drops linked together in her hair she was the grandest lady at odene and renowned in mere than one sense of the word As dan saw her smile at him and rise he thought she Is none too sorry that I 1 made that record but I 1 hope to heaven she won t say u anything to me about it and the duchess did not speak of it telling him that that he was to take her in to dinner she laid first her tan fan on hia his arm and then her hand and dan one of thoe fortunate creatures who are born men of the world when they get into it gave her Us his arm with much grace and as he leaned down toward her he thought to himself well its it s lucky tor for me I 1 have my bead head on tight a few more of those goo goo eyes of hers and it would be as mell ti ell tor for pie me to light out tor for the woods dan liked best at park his chin chins with gordon gallrey the young man was unflatteringly frank in his choice of companions when men the duchess looked about for him to ride with her walk malk with her to find the secluded corners to talk to play with him ehe she was likely to discover dan had gone off with lord gallrey and to come upon them later sitting en in smoke a stand of drinks by their side to gallrey who had no heir or child the boys boy s presence proved the happiest thing that had come to him tor for a long time he talked a great deal to dan about the old man ga lorey was poor and the fact of a tor for tune of ten million pounds possessed by this one boy was continually before his mind like an obsession it was like looking down into a gold mine ga lorey tried often to broach the sub eject of money but dan kept off at length gallrey asked boldly what are you going to dowleh it if on this occasion they were e walking over from the lower park baak back to the house a couple of terriers at their heels do with what blair asked inno bently he was mas looking at the trees he was comparing their grayish green trunks and their foliage with the call cali tornia fornia redwoods A little taken aback lord gallrey laughed why that colossal fortune of yours and blair answered unhesitatingly oh spend it on some girl sooner or later gallrey fairly staggered then he took it humorously my dear chap I 1 never saw a sweet ar r bigger man than your father lahe if he lad been my father I 1 dare say bay I 1 might kave tave pulled off a different yard of ciema but I 1 must confess that I 1 think he tie has left you too much money well there are a R lot of fellows atho mho are ready to look after it for me hair alair answered coolly before his companion om panion could redden he contin ed you see dad tag took care of me for or twenty one years all right and whenever I 1 am up a stump why all I 1 have to do Is to remember the things he be did for the first time since hia his arrival at dan a tone was serious in te rested as he was in the ider man dans inclination was to evade the discussion of serious subjects with blair blairs a slang bis his conversation conver bation was al most incomprehensible dad didn dian t gas much the boy said but I 1 could draw a map of some of the things he did say rio used to say he made his money ot olt t ft f the earth the two were walking side by side across the rich velvet of thelm memo rial mal english turf the extreme soft ness of the autumn day its shifting lights its mellow envelope the beauty of the park the age the stability the harmony served to touch the young fellow a spirits at any rate there was a ring in him an equilibrium that surprised gallrey most things dad said to me go back to the earth he struck the english turf witt with his stick dad said a fellow had b better ter buy those things that stay above the ground dan smiled frankly at his companion cu rious thing to say wasn gasn t if it he re fleeted I 1 remembered it and I 1 got to wondering after I 1 saw him burled buried what are the tb th gs that stay above the ground the old man never gave me another talk like that after a few seconds gallrey put in but my dear chap you did give me a shock up there just now when you said you were going to spend all your money on some girl the millionaire took a chestnut from his pocket he held it high above his aeao and the little dog that had been at his heels fixed his eyes on it t blair poised it then threw it as you promised to be bad to drive with me beto before dinner dan tadd you forget for eta and aa as gallrey left the boy to make his pea peace the first smile of amuse meni ment broke over his face he felt that the duchess duch eias had between her and her tier capture capure of dan D airs air s heart the elu give sive of some nice girl not much perhaps but it might be very hard to tear away amay the picture of the ideal tl stat at was ever before the blue eyes of this man who had a fortune to spend on her CHAPTER 11 II the duchess approves his attentions to the duchess ol 01 breakwater had not been so cons ous or so absorbing as to prevent the eager moth rs who true to her word lady gallrey had incited down from laying siege to dan blair lady ga lorey al ed him don t you want to marry any one of these beauties dan and blair with mith his beautiful smile and what lily called bis his inspired candor answered not on your life lady gallrey Ga lorey and she agreed I 1 think you are too young no dan refuted you are wrong there I 1 shall marr as fast as I 1 can his hostess was surprised why I 1 thought you wanted your fling first and dan from his chair in which with a book he had been sitting when lady gallrey found him anam answered ered cheerfully oh I 1 ion on t like being alone I 1 wa want nt to go about with some one I 1 should like a ling all right but I 1 want to fling with somebody Bome some bod as I 1 go the lady of the house was not a philosopher nor an analyst t she had C CD L j t X ta V pt 3 01 1 C the duchess of breakwater appeared far as he could 14 sped through the air and the terrier ran like mad across the park I 1 like girls awfully gordon and when I 1 find the right one why then I 1 in m going to feel what a bully thing it la Is to be rich lord gallrey groaned aloud my dear chap be he exclaimed the spell of the day the fragrant beauty of the time and place and hour were clearly upon dan blair lord gallrey was sympathetic to him the terrier came tearing ack with the chestnut held between his thick jaws dan bent down to take the nut from the dog and wrestled with him gently swell ii 11 tie grip he a got nice old pup let it go now and he threw the nut tar far again and as the terrier ran once more blair thrust his hands down in his pockets and began softly to whistle the tune of mandalay he said slowly going back to his subject it must be great to feel that a fellow can alvn alv her jewels like the duchess of Drear breakwater maters s ropes of em he nodded to bonard ard the house and a fine old place like this now and motors and yachts and all kinds of stuff his ills eyes rested on the suave lines of the elizabethan houe with its softened gables and its banked ter races possibly his vivid imagination pictured ome nice girl there wait ing as they should come up to meet him chave I 1 have always thought it would be bully to find a poor girl pretty as a peach of course one who had never had much and just cover her with things hey there he cried to the terrier who had wine running back bring it to me they had come up to the terrace by this and dan a confidence fresh as a gush of water from a rock had ceased his face was placid he didn dian t realize what he be had said from out of one of the long win dows dressed in a sable coat her small bead head tied up in a motor scarf the duchess of breakwater appeared she greeted them severely and lord gallrey heard her say under her breath to dan certain affairs of her own and was en grossed in them and lived in them As tar far as lady gallrey was concerned the rest of the world might go and hang itself as long as it didn dian t do it at her gatepost gate post but blair couldn coulden t leave any one indifferent to him very long not unless one could be in differ ent to a blaze of sunlight one must either draw the blinds down or basil basi in its brightness she laughed I 1 ou re perfectly dell delf clous you mean to eay ray you want to be married at once and let your wite wife fling around wl wi h youa just that how sweet of you dan and you w wont on t marry one of these girls herec don t fill the bill lady gallrey oh you have a sweetheart at home then i all off he be assured her blithely and rose tall and straight and slender the duchess of breakwater had come in indeed she never failed to when there was any question of find ing blair dan stood straightly before the two women of an old race and the amer lean ddn t suggest any line of noble ancestors whatsoever his features were rather conglomerate his mus cles were possibly not the perfect elas tic specimens that were those muscles whose strain and a new n w had been made from the same stock for genera eions he was nevertheless vc y good to look on any woman would have thought so and he bent his blond head as he looked at the duchess of breakwater with something like lika b benevolence ne something of his father a kindness in his clear blue ees neither of the noble ladies vaguely un der stood him his hostess thought him a good sort not halt half bad a splendid catch and the other woman only a few years his senior was in love with him the duchess had mar ried at eighteen tired of her bargain a at twenty and found herself a widow at twenty five she held a telegram gran in her hand we ve got the box for mandalay tonight at the gaiety 1 and lets let s motol in tn pir rr wT T |