Show s w u 1910 by the lo 10 SYNOPSIS dan blair the 22 year old eon of tl e fifty million dollar copper king of claar town mont la a guest at the Lingl lih home of lady malorey dan fattier haj been courteous to lord gallrey during bis visit to the united states and tl e courtesy Is now being returned to the young man the youth has an ideal girl in djs mind lie meets lily duchess of breakwater a beautiful widow who la attracted by his Irp mens fortune and takes a aking to her when dan was a boy a girl sang a solo at a church and he had never forgotten lier the ga lorees lily and dan attend a I 1 ondon theater where one letty lane Is the star dan recognizes her aa the girl from his town and going behind the scones intro himself and ehe remember him lie learns that prince Is auktor and escort to letty CHAPTER V continued gallrey nodded that la just why I 1 toddled la to see you ruggles caller had been shown to the sitting room where he and dan hobnobbed hobnob bed and smoked during the westerners visit there wag a pue of papers on the table in one corner a typewriter covered by a black cloth gallrey took a chair and refusing a cigarette lit his pipe I 1 have the pleasure of meet ng you in the west when I 1 was out there with blair I 1 knew dans fa ther rather well ruggles responded 1 I knew him rather well too for thirty years it he went on blair haan hadn t known you pretty well he wouldn t have sent the boy out to ou as be has done lie ft as keen on every trail I 1 might ay that he had been over every one of like a bound before he set the boy loose gallrey answered quite so gravely 1 I know it I 1 anew it when dan turned up at holding his pipe bowl in the palm of his slender hand he smoked meditatively he thought about things as he had been doing lately for many years his sense of honor was the strongest thing in gordon gallrey Ga lorey the only thing in him perhaps that bad been left by the touch of the horld he was unquestionably a gen aloman blair however he said gasn wasn t as keen on this scent as you d expect his intuition was wrong ruggles raised his eyebrows slight 1 I 1 mean to say lord gallrey went on that be knew me in the west when I 1 bad cut loose for a few blessed months from just these things into which be has sent his boy from what if I 1 ha 1 a son god knows id throw him 03 far as I 1 could biair wanted dan to see the world of course that Is right enough we all have to see it I 1 fancy but this hoy isn t ready to look at it he is twenty two ruggles re turned when I 1 was his age I 1 was four people gallrey went on park at present isn t the window for blair s boy to aeo life through and that 1 what I 1 have come up to london to talk to you about mr ruggles I 1 should like to have you take him way dan been up to down there nothing as yet but he Is in the she aiming at ten million pounds pocket of a woman be in a nest of women ruggles broad face had not altered its of quiet expectation theres a lot of em down there 7 be asked there are two malorey said briefly and one of them my wife turned b tween his great fingers lie as a slow thinker he had none ot old biair s keenness but be had other qualities gallrey saw that be bad not been quite understood and be waited and then said lady gallrey la like the rest of modern wives and I 1 am like a lot or modern husbands we each go our own way my way Is a worthless one god knows I 1 don t stand up for it but jt Is not my wife s way in any sense of the word does she want dan to EO along on her road ruggles asked and how far we are financially et rapped just now said gallrey calmly and she has got money from the boy he remove bis pipe from his mouth still holding it between his teeth be put his band in his pocket look out his wallet drew forth four checks and laid them down before ruggles it Is quite a sum gal orey noted sufficient to do a lot to park in the way of needed repairs ruggles had never seen a smile such as curved his companion s lips dut park will have to be repaired by money from some other source ruggles wondered how tho bus band had got hold of the checks but he dian didn t ask and he did not look at the papers when dan came to the park said galordi Gal 1 I stopped bridge playing but this more than takes its place Ruggles 1 big band went slowly toward the checks be touched them with his fingers and eald Is dan in love with our wife and lord gallrey laughed and said lord no my dear man not even bat boy 1 dont know abere you ve kept or how ou kept as he Is but be is as clear as water 1 have talked to him and I 1 know nothing in ruggles expression bad changed until now his eyes glowed dans all right he eadd softly dont you worry I 1 hes all right 1 guess bis father knew what he waa doing and I 1 U bet the whole thing was just what be sent him over here tori old dan blair worth a copper when the boy was born and yet he had ideas about everything and he deemed to know more in that old gray bead of his than a whole library of books dans all right my dear man eald the nobleman that Is just a here you amen cans are wrong you comfort yourself with your eternal dans all right and you wont eee the truth you won t breathe the word scandal and yet you are thick enough in them god knows you wont admit them but they are there now be honest and look at the truth will you you are a man of common sense dan blair Is not all right he la in an infernally dangerous position the duchess of breakwater will marry him it la what she has wanted to do for years but she has not found a man rich enough and she will marry this boy offhand well bald the westerner slowly it he loves her and it he marries her marries her exclaimed the nobleman there you are again do you think marriage makes it any bentert why if she went off to the continent with him for eix weeks and then set him tree that would be preferable to marrying her my dear man he that la just why I 1 toddled in to see you that it la pure good nature on his part mere prodigality adita appealed to him that s all relief crossed ruggles face tie understood in a flach the worldly appeal to the rich young man and be cleved the story the husband told him have you spoken to the boy my dear chap I 1 have spoken to him about nothing I 1 preferred to come to you you eald ruggles continued there were two ladles down to our place gallrey had refilled his pipe and held it as before in th palm of band I 1 can look after the affairs of my alfe and alls abaft happen again I 1 promise you not at but I 1 m afraid I 1 can not do much in the other case the duchess of breakwater hae been at for nearly three weeks and dan Is in love with her ruggles put the four checks one on top of the other Is tho lady a widow unfortunately yes so the aest dan has got into at the eater said and gallrey answered that Is the nest and he has gone out there today got a wire this morning the duchess has been in an awful funk said gallrey Ga lorey because dans been stopping in london so long abbe sent him a message and aa soon as dan wired back hat he was coming to the park I 1 decided to come here and see you ruminated rumina ted has tho duchess complications financially catheri Rat heri the other answered and turned bis broad hon eat face full on gallrey Ga lorey do you think she could be bought 1 gallrey took his pipe out of bis mouth it depends on bow far dan has gone on with her to be frank with you mr ruggles it la a case of emotion on the part ot the woman bhe is really tn love with dan aad ex claimed the nobleman I 1 have been on the point of turning the whole brood out of doors these last days it wag like imprisoning a mountain breeze in enamel house a woman with her care and experience and said leaning over the table where buggies sat it I 1 had a boy I 1 would rather have him marry letty lane ot the gaiety now you know what 1 mean fuggles Ku ggles face which had hardened relaxed I 1 have been that lady he ex claimed with satisfaction 1 I hav seen her several times gallrey sank back into his chair and neither man shohe for a few seconds turning it all over la his slow mind remembered dane absorption in the last few days so there are three women in the nest he concluded thoughtfully and gordon gallrey repeated iso not three what do you mean your wife ruggles held up one finger and gallrey interrupted him to murmur take care of edith the duchess of breakwater ou thinh won t talk of money no don t count on it she is aim ing at ten million pounds fuggles was holding up his second anger well I 1 guess dan has gone out to take care of her today dan and ruggles had seen manda lay from a box from the pit and from the stalls on the table lay a book of the opera while talking with gallrey Ga lorey ruggles had unconsciously arranged the checks on top of the II 11 blotto of mandalay take care of miss lane hug agles said at length his lordship echoed miss lane and looked up in surprise what adilea lano for god a sake miss letty lane at the gaiety fuggles answered why she isn t in the question my dear man you put her there just now your self boshi gallrey exclaimed ampa tient ly I 1 spoke of her as being the limit the last thing on the line no corrected the other you put the duchess oi breakwater as the i limit gallrey frankly are right my dear chap be accepted and I 1 stand by it TO BB continua CONTI NUb fri f |