Show y t y THE GIRL 1 l awl 41 HIS TOWN by MARIE VAN VORST by 61 G KETTNER SYNOPSIS dan blaar tha 22 year old eon of the fifty million dollar copper king of blaar town mont la a guest at the english home 0 lady malorey dan 8 father had been courteous to lord gallrey during his visit to the united states and the courtesy la now bang returned to the young man the youth haa an ideal girl in his mind lie meets lily duchess of breakwater a beautiful widow who la attracted by his immense fortune and takes a liking to her when dan waa a boy a girl 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 her as the girl from his town and going behind the scenes introduces himself and she remembers him CHAPTER V at the carlton there are certain natures to whom each appearance of evil each form ot delinquency Is a fresh surprise they are born simple in the sweet sense ot the word and they go down to old age never of the world although in a bense gordly it dan blaar s eyes were somewhat opened at twenty two be bad yet the bloom on bis soul he was no fool but bis ideals stood up each on its pedestal and ready to appear one by one to him as the scenes ot his ufa shifted and the different curtains rose he bad been trained in finance from bla boyhood and be was a born financier money was bis natural element be could go far in it but woman I 1 he was one of those manly creatures a tonight to whom each woman Is a sacred thing a dove a crystal clear soul made to cherish and to protect made to be spoiled and in dan were all the qualities that go to make up the un selfish tender foolish and often un happy american husband these were some of the other things he had in berated from his father blaar senior bad married his first love and whereas his boy had been trained to know money and its value how to keep it and spend it to save it and to make it he had been taught nothing at all woman he bad never been taught to distrust women never been warned against them he had been taught nothing but his father s mem ory of hla mother and the result was that he worshiped the sex and won dered at the mystery with gordon gallrey and the oth ra he bad ridden shot better than they and had played but with lady gallrey and the duchess of break water he was nothing but a child As far as bla hostess was concerned on several occasions she bad put to him certain states of affairs well touch angly dan had been moved by the stories of sore need among the ten ants bad been impressed by the necessity of reforms and and on each occasion bad given bis hostess a check she had asked him to say nothing about it to gordon and he bad kept his silence dan liked lady gallrey extremely she was jolly witty and friendly she treated him as a member of the family and made no demands on him save the ones mentioned in the time that he had come to know the duchess of breakwater she on her part bad filled him full of oth er confidences into his young ears she poured the story of her alsap her disjointed life from her worldly girlhood to her disillusion in marriage she was beautiful when ehe talked and more lovely when she wept dan thought himself in love with the duchess of breakwater ills conversations with her had brought him to this conclusion they had motored from park together and he had been extremely taken with the pleasure of it and with the fact ot their real companionship two or three times the words had been on hla lips which were fated not to bo spoken then however and dan reached the gaiety still unfettered bis duchess by his side and then the orchestra had begun to play manda lay the curtain bad gone up and letty lane had come out on the boards but her apparition did not strike off his chains immediately nor did be renounce his plan to tell the duchess the very next day that be loved her when with sparkling eyes lady gallrey mandalay dan listened with eagerness everybody seemed to know all about latty lane but he alone knew from what town ehe bad come they went tor supper at tho carl ton after the theater letty lady gallrey said tells it herself bow the impresario heard her ang la come country church picked her up then and there and brought t r her over wr here and they say abbe mar aled him dan blair could have told them how she had sung in that little church that day dab was eating his caviale sandwich her name then was sally towney he murmured how little he bad guessed that she was herself right out of that church and I 1 into the london gaiety theaters Thea terl any way she bad made him sit up it was a far cry from montana to the london gaiety and so eho mar the greasy jew who had ered her dan glanced over at the duchess ol 01 breakwater she was looking well exquisitely high bred and she am pressed him she leaned slightly over to him laughing he bad hardly dared to meet her eyes that day tearing that she might read bis secre she had told him that in her own right she was a countess the countess Coun tOss 0 titles dlan t cut any ice with him at any rate she would be able to buy back the old farm that Is the way dan put it she had told him of the beautiful old court mortgaged and hung up with debts as deep in ruins as the ivy was thick on the walls As dan looked over at the duchess he saw the other people staring and looking about at a table near it was spread a little to their left for four people a great bouquet of orchids in the center there gallrey said theres let ty lane and the singer came in followed by three men the first of them the prince indo lent bored haughty his eyeglass dangling miss lane was dressed in black a superb costume of fa atless cut and it en folded her like a shad ow as a shadow might enfold a spec ter cpr the dancer was as pale as the dead she had neither painted nor gouged rouged she bad evidently employed no coquetry to disguise her tag rath er she seemed to be on the verge of a serious illness and presented a striking contrast to the brilliant crea ture who had shone before their eyes not an hour before her dress was a p aw 1 i fl actress distinction he said softly t himself all right she macci the rest of them look like cents CHAPTER VI gallrey seeks advice did not go back at once to Os dene park lie stopped over in lon aon for a few days to see joshua rug agles and BO remarked tor the arst time tho difference between the speech of the old and the new world mr ruggles spoke broadly with corn disregard of the brills trills and adorn ments of the kings english he spoke united stater of the pure broad western brand and it rang out it vibrated and swelled and rolled and as ruggles dlan t care who heard him nothing of what he had to eay was lost old mr ciali had left behind him a comrade and as far as advice could go the old man knew that his dan would not be bankrupt advice dan biair senior once said to his boy Is the kind of thing we want some fellow to give us when we aln t going to do the thing we ought to do or are a little ashamed of something we have done its an aw ful good way to get cured of asking advice just to do what the fellow tells you to at once during ruggles tay in london the young fellow looked to it that kug agles saw the sights and the two did the principal features of the big town to the rich enjoyment of the western er dan took his friend every night to the play and on the fourth evening ruggles said lets go to the or n dan I 1 have learned this show by heart they had been every night to sea mandalay oh you go on where you like josh the boy answered I 1 m going to see how she looks from the pit ruggles was not a man he had come from farther west and bad never heard anything of sarah towney or letty lane he applauded the actress vigorously at the gaiety at first and after the third night slept she knows how to make herself conspicuous said the duchess challenge to the more gay and dell cate affairs the other women in the restaurant wore the gown cama severely up to her chan its high col lar closed around with a pearl neck lace from her oara ell pearls long creamy and priceless she wore a great feathered hat which drooping almost bid her small pale ace and hei golden hair she drew off her gloves as she came in and her white jeweled hands bashed she looked infinitely tired and extremely bored As soon as she tool her seat at the table intended for her party font kotowsky poured her out a glass of champagne which she drank off aa though it were water 4 gad lord gallrey said she Is a stunner t what a figure and whit a head and what daring to dress like that she knows how to male heiselt herselt conspicuous eald the duchess 0 breakwater she locks extremely said lady malorey the pace she goes will do her up in a year or two dan blaar bad his back to her and when they rose to leave he was the last to pass out letty lane saw him and a light broke over her pallid face she nodded and smiled and shook her band in a pretty little salute it her face was pale her alpa were red and her smile was like sunlight and at her recognition a wave of friendly fellowship swept over the young man a sort of loyal to her which he felt for any other women there and which be could not have ex in warm approval of the rit j y through most ot the performance when he waked up he tried to dla cover what attraction letty lane had for dan for tha young man never left fuggles Hu ggles side never went behind the though he seemed absorbed as a man usually la absorbed for one reason only in response to a telegram from Os dene park dan motored out there one afternoon and during his absence was at big hotel by a call my dear mr ruggles lord ua lorey said for be it was the page boy fetched up why don t you chae out to see usa all friends of old mr are welcome at ruggles thanked gallrey and said be was not a visiting man that be only bad a short time in london and was going to ireland to look up hla family tree there are one hundred acres ot trees in laughed gallrey Ga lorey abu can climb them all and hug glea replied I 1 guess I 1 wouldn t find any 0 the top ot any of cm my lord the boy has gone out to see you all today TO IB CONTINUED |