Show w v THE GIRL from HIS TOWN by VAN VORST ration by M G KETTNER efti effi by 00 SYNOPSIS dan the 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 hie visit to the united states and the courtesy Is now being returned to the young th youth an ideal 1 his mind he beete lily duchess of breakwater a beautiful widow who Is attracted by his immense fortune and takes a liking to her when dan was a boy a girl sang a solo at a church and he had never forgotten her the ga lily and dan attend a london theater where one letty lane Is the star dan recognizes her as the 11 from his town and behind the scenes intro duces himself and she remembers him he learns that prince la suitor and escort to letty lord galore and a friend named determine to protect the westerner from lily and other fortune hunters young blair goes to see lily he can talk of nothing but letty and this angers the duchess the westerner finds letty from hard work CHAPTER IX continued but dan hesitated looking at the bit ot humanity that he had laid with great gentleness gentle neBs on the divan covered with pillows letty lane lay there small as a little child inanimate as death it was bard to think the quiet little form could contain euch life fire and motion or that this senseless little creature held london with her voice and grace higgans knelt down by letty lanes side quiet capable going about the business of ing her lady much as she laced the singers bodice and shoes it you would be good as to open the door air and send me a call page they 11 have to linger out this enar acte or put on some feature but exclaimed blair she can t go back tonight lord yes returned here miss lane drink this at the door where he paused dan saw the girl lifted up saw her lean on shoulder and assured then that she was not lifeless in good truth went out to do as higgans had asked him in a quarter ot an hour the curtain rose and within halt an hour dan from his box saw the actress dance to the rajah her charm ing polka to the strains of the diun garian band CHAPTER X the boy from my town he went the next day to see letty lane at the savoy and learned that he was too to receive him mrs in the sitting room told him to t 3 I 1 dan liked the big cordial face of ahe who acted aa corn canlon dresser and maid tor the star mrs bad an affable face one that welcomes and she made it plain that she was not an enemy to this young caller the visitor in his blue serge clothes wae lees startling than most of the men that came to see her rols 1 tress she works too hard doean doesn t she she does everything too bard sir she ought to rest I 1 doubt if she does even in her crave returned higgins she Is too full of motion she Is like the little birl in the fairy book that danced in her grave dan dian didn t like this comparison can t you make her bold up a lit lie smiled and shook her bead letty lanes sitting room was as I 1 ull of rosos as a flower garden there were quantities of theatrical photographs in silver and leather frames on the tables and the piano signed portraits from crowned heads pictures of well known worldly men land women whom the dancer had charmed but a full length picture of letty lane herself in one of the dresses of man lay on the table near dan and he picked it up she smiled at him enchantingly from efte cardboard across which was written in her big lashing hand for the poy from my town letty lane dan glanced up at mra why that looks as though this were for me the dressing woman nodded miss lano thought she would be able to lee you today the picture in his hand dan gazed it it rapturously tm from montana where she came from so eho told me sir he laid the picture back on the table and understood that be wanted miss lane to give it to him herself she led him affably to the door and affably smiled upon him bhe bad a frill in her band a thimble on her finger and a lot of needles in her bodice she looked motherly 51 and useful alair liked to think of her with letty lane he put bis hand in his pocket but she baw his gesture and reproved him quietly no no sir please I 1 never do I 1 am lust as much obliged ind her face remained so affable alair was not em barr assed by he refusal ills parting words were now you make her take care ol 01 herself and to please him as she opened the door she pleasantly assured him that she do her very best dan went out of the savoy feeling that he had left something of himself behind him in the motley room of an actress with its perfumed atmosphere of roses and violets the photograph which he had laid down on the table seemed to look out at him again and he repeated delightedly that one was for me all right I 1 m the boy from her town and no mistake and he thought of her as she had lain lifelessly and pale on the dressing room sofa under the touch of hired bands and how no doubt she had been lying in her room when he called today with shades brawn resting be tore the long hard evening when lon don would be amused by her delight ed by her charmed by her voice by her body and her grace he had wandered up as far as piccadilly went into a florist s and stood before the flowers her sitting room had been full of roecs but dan chose something else that had caught bis eye from the window a huge antry has act of primroses prim roses smelling of the earth and the spring he sent them with he took on with the mine a lot 01 discontented half hearted rapscallions rap scallions a whole bunch who nad tailed all along the line lie dian didn t chuck em out there s no life in old wood josh he said to me tt sometimes theres alre in it and I 1 it going to light up and he did he won over the whole lot of them in eighteen month and within two years he had that darned mine paying dividends mean while something acme his way and he took it from his chair dan asked you mean the bentley claim measles bis friend said comically with a grin your father was sick to death with them when be was sit ting up tor the first time peeling in his room there was a fellow an eng lashman a total stranger come in to see him better clear out of here your father says to him am shed ding the damnedest disease for a grown man that ever was caught im not afraid of it the englishman said im shedding worse when your father asked him what that was he said the idea that he could make any money in the west he told your father that he was going back to eng land and give up his western schemes and that he bad a claim to sell and he told blair where it lay who has seen ita your father asked any of my mena and the englishman told your father that nobody had wanted to buy it and that was why he had come to him he said he thought his only chance to sell was to hold up some blind man on bis dying bed and that he had heard that glair was too im from montana where she came from his card and wrote on it to the girl from my town and sent the gift with a pleasure as young and as fresh as was his own heart lie got no note of acknowledgment from his flowers miss lane was evi dently better and played every night no mention was made of her mitlon in the papers but dan coulden couldn t go to the gaiety or bear to see her make the effort which he knew must tire her beyond words to conceive after a few days he called at the savoy to get news of her he got as tar as the lift when going up in it he saw prince the sight affected miss lanes townsman for bibly that instead of going up to the dancers apartment din took himself off and anger displeasure and some thing like disgust were the only sen he carried away aiom the ba voy he sent her no flowers andave himself up unreservedly to ruggles and to a couple of men who came in to see him by appointment and when toward four clock he found himself alone with Rii ggles dan threw himself down in a big chair and looked intensely bored well I 1 guess we don t need to see any more of these belows for a week dan ruggles dawned yawned with relief I 1 m blamed if if isn t as hard to take carlof money as to getti was a poor man once and so was your ta ther those were the days we had fun ruggles took out a big cigar struck a match sharply and when he had lit his henry clay he fixed his gaze on the flying london fog whose black curtain drew itself across their win dow there s a lot of excitement rug glea said in not knowing what you re going torget may turn out to be any thing when you re young and on the trail that the way your father and me felt and when we started out on the spot on the map today our father had forty dollars a week to engineer a busted mine and to pull the company into shape dan knew the story of hie fathers rise by heart but he listened eick to eair out of bis room and to prospect your father liked the tel low s cheek and when ne round out that he hid the maps with him your father bought the whole blooming sweep at the mans price which was a mere song your father never went near bis purchase for a year or more and when he hid turned the mine he was managing over to the original corn pany with me as manager in his place it a salary of twenty thousand dollars a year he said to me one daiy diy ruggles you 11 be sorry to know that the tun is all oer I 1 ve struck oil aut the oil was copper the whole bloom ing business that he d bought of that I 1 was rich with ore well teats the story of hug agles said you were born there ana your mother died there dan said gallrey Ga lorey told me what did did later for the man that sold him the mine and it was just like everything else be did for dad was all right just as good as hey come ruggles agreed he left his rem abruptly your dad and me had the fun in our time now ou are going to get the other kind ou re going to make the dust fly that he dug up and the rich young man said mus angly bet it isn t half as good ni my end and agreed not by a jug tul and followed on to Al andalay dans fury at prince Ponto came back I 1 guess you thought 1 was a little loose in the lid dian didn t you josh going so often to the same play you wouldn t have been the first rich man that had the same disease ruggles answered there Is nothing the matter mandala but im not gone on any actress living josh you are in the wrong pew TO it the of your neighbor 8 lawn mower disturbs you the best remedy la to get out your own |