Show THE GIRL hu HIS TOWN by MARIE VAN VORST by M G KETTNER H rf UK by abo bobb baj SYNOPSIS dan blaar the 22 year oll on of the eltty million dollar copper king ot glair town mont Is a at the english home ot lady gallrey dan a father had been courteous to lord malorey during hi visit to the united states and the courtesy Is now being returned to the young man the youth has an ideal girl in hla mind he meets lily duchess of breakwater a beautiful widow who Is attracted by his immense fortune and takes a liking to ber when dan was a boy a carl ctrl sang a solo at a church and he had never forgotten her the ga lorees lily and dan attend a london theater where one letty lane Is the star dan recognizes her as the girl from his town and galas behind the scenes introduces himself and aha remembers him he learns that prince Is suitor and escort to letty lord ga lorey and a friend named ruggles determine to protect the westerner from lily and other fortune hunters young blaar goes to see lily he can talk of nothing but letty and this angers the duchess the westerner fandi letty til from bard work but she recovers and ruggles and dan invite her to supper she asks dan to build a home for disappointed theatrical people dan visits lily for the forgetting lestr and later announces his engagement to the duchess cletty refuses to sing tor an entertain ment given by lily gallrey tells dan that all lily cares for Is his money and it Is disclosed that he and the duchess have been mutually in love tor years letty sings at an aristocratic function tan escorting her home dan confronts gallrey and july together later he informs artty that his engagement with lily Is broken asks the singer to marry win and they become engaged ruggles thinks the westerner should not marry A public singer and endeavors to induce cletty to give him up she runs away tearing she Is not good enough for dan land ruggles makes the latter believe she has abandoned his love finally dan ands letty in paris where he Is per in hla suit the westerner meets at letty s rooms and a challenge results dan with his mind in a turmoil arranges for the duel CHAPTER one ot hla companions offered blaar a cigar lie the idea sickened him here the gentlemen ex changed glances and ne murmured Is he afraid the other shrugged not astonishing hes a child at this dan glanced up and smiled what lily duchess of breakwater had called bis divine young smile the two secretly were ashamed he was charming As they got out ot the motor dan eald 1 I want to ask a question ot prince it it Is allowed write it on my card after a conference between prince seconds and dans the slip was handed the prince it you get out all right will you marry miss lane I 1 shall be glad to know the hungarian who read it under the tree halt smiled the of it the touching youth of it the crude lack of form was perfect enough to touch his sense of humor on the back of dans card scrawled yes it was a haughty inclination a sa lute of honor before the fight the meeting place was within sight of the little rustic pavilion of lea agneaux celebrated tor its pre sale and belenets belg nets the advertisements had confronted dan everywhere during bis wanderings these miserable days under a group of chestnut trees in bright feathery flower prince conlo and his seconds waited their frock coats buttoned up and their gloves and silk hats in their bands As blaar and his companions came up the others stood uncovered grim and formal according to the code twenty five paces they were measured off by the four seconds and at their signal dan blaar and the prince took their positions the revolvers raised perpendicularly in their right bands still more indistinctly the boy saw the sharp cut picture of it all the dwing bell was sinking deeper deeper into the sea if I 1 aim be said to himself 1 I hall kill sure sure blaar heard the command fire and supposed that after that be tired CHAPTER Sod awater fountain girl ills next was that a warm flowed about bis heart my alfes blood he could dimly think my hearts blood redder than biral more precious more costly than any gift his millions could have bought her 1 I ve spent it for the girl I 1 love the stream pervaded him caressed him folded bis limbs about became an enchanted sea on which be floated and its color changed from crimson to coral pale and then to white and became a cold cold polar aea and be lay on it ilka a frozen man whose exploration bad been in vain and above him greenland 8 icy mountains rose uko emerald on every ade i i y st sav that Is it greenland a icy moun balna how ebe aang it down down her voice fell on him like magic balm he was a little boy in church sitting beall and shy in the pew the tune was deep and low and heavenly sweet what a pretty mouth the soda fountain girl had like coral and her eyes like gray seas the files buzzed they dronek droned so loud ly that he coulden couldn t hear her ah that was terrible he coulden couldn t bear her no no it do he must bear the hymn out before be died buzz buzz drone drone way down be almost beard the soft note it was ecstasy sky high up too taint ah Sod awater fountain girl sing sing with all your heart so that it may reach his ears and charm him to those strands anward which he floats the expression of anguish on the young fellow s face was so heart breaking that the doctor his ear at dans lips tried to learn what thing his poor fading mind longed for from the bed s foot where he stood dans chauffeur came to the gentle mans side and nodded right sir right sir fetch miss lane III ave er ere sir keep up mr he was going barefoot a boy still following the plow through the moun tain fields miles and miles stretched away before him of dark loamy land he saw the plow tear up the waving furrows tossing the earth in sprank ling lines he heard the shrill note of the peoebe bird and looking beav enward caw it darting into the pale sky what a dandy shot he thought what a bully shot prenco had made a good shot ah there was the sameh of the hay field sno violets that sweetly laid grew holy to his ayea radiant a beauty be bad not dreamed a worn an s tace could wear above the rail she stood and sang peerlessly and the church began to fade and fade and still she stood there in a shaft of light and her face was like an angel s and she held her arms outa to him as the waters rose to his lian she bent and lifted him lifted him high upon the strands CHAPTER ui i in reality dan awoke from his dream and cat suddenly up in bed in bis shirt sleeves and stared at the people in his room a hotel boy and two strangers not un like the men in bis dream ho brushed bis hand across his eyes sit down will you do you speak english 7 they were foreigners but they did speak english no doubt far more perfectly than did dan blaar look here the boy said I 1 don t know the matter with me 1 must have had a ripping lag on last night at me put my head in a basin of water will you he dived into the dressing room find came out in another second bis blond head wet wiping his face and hair furiously with a towel he haan hadn t beamed as he did now on these two strange men tor weeks well he asked slowly 1 I expect youve come to ask me to fight with prince yes its against our principles you know in the states we dont do that way personally I 1 d throw anything at him I 1 could lay my hands on but I 1 don t care to have him let daylight through me and I 1 don t care to kill your friend see I 1 m an american yes I 1 know I 1 know he nodded dan blaar and the prince took their positions the revolvers raised per in their right hands their petals on big lips and face fie was back again in church lying prone before an altar if she would only sing ho would rise again that he knew and her coral shoes would not dance over his grave he opened his eyes wide and looked into letty lanes she bent over him crying sing he whispered she understand Sod awater fountain girl it you only knew bow the flies buzzed and how the droning was a living pain she said to ruggles lie wants something so heartbreakingly what can we do she saw his bands stir rhythmically on the counterpane he look to her more than ten years old what a cruel thing he was a boy lust ot age a boy ruggles remembered the nights he had spent before the footlights of the gaiety and that the pale woman trem blang there weeping was a great sing er I 1 guess he wants to hear you sing she kneeled down by him she trembled so she coulden couldn t stand the others the docto nand ruggles the waiters and porters gathered in the hall heard no one of them un der stood the gaiety girl s english worda from greenland icy mountains from india a coral rands they were merciful and let him listen in peace through the blur in bis biala over the beat of his young ardent heart above the short breaths the notes reached his falling senses and lifted him lifted him there a very long distance between bis boyhood and bis twenty two years to go and be was not so weak but that he could travel BO far he eat there by his father again and heard the files buzzed and be dlan t mind them the emell of the fields came in through the windows nd the Sod awater fountain girl sang end sang and as fah sang her face but we don t have your kind of out our way it means business when we go out to shoot he threw the towel down on the table wet as it was put his hands in the pockets of bis evening clothes which be still wore for he had not undressed threw hla young blond head back and frankly told his visitors 1 I m not up on awards I 1 ve seen them in pictures and read about them but be darned if ive ever bad one in my hand ills expression changed at the quiet response of seconds TO BE CONTINUED |