| Show A anin K ln to love I 1 DY BY KENNETT F HARRIS cop right 2 by dally daily story co when liep hepburn burn hrat saw the young woman he was rather taken with her A little later he decided that ehe she was altogether to self eel reliant and self hessed for his big tabie talle there was wits a inan in the party who bad had really achieved something eora ething in the world of t art and was being lionized a process to which he seemed to take to rather too kindly a man who aroused an intolerable itching in the toes ot of every other masculine per on present hepburn notis ed that miss miar pollard was one of the very few of the women who dj not assume the attitude of adoration in the presence of the genius perhaps the genius noticed it too tor for he left his little circle of lovely wort worshipers eipers and seating himself by mid pollards aide side honored her with come rome of his exclusive and original views of things general and particular hepburn happened to be close by and heard the conversation which filled W hs soul with joy A steel trap Is leisurely even dilatory compared with her he said that even evening ints to a select audience of the overshadowed she had bad him rattled in the first lound and daled and rubbing the ropes before the third you never saw a girl with a quicker get back and he never really landed even once she must be all right said teddy ackeray Ac keran kerian 1 I think ill reward her for that with a little of my ty I 1 am interested 1 I nt be counseled hep burc the genius ian t exactly a fool even if it he acts sets like an ass As tor for you you would simply be skinned alive if you began being pretty to her I 1 want to try it myself I 1 know why asked teddy oh well I 1 take it all back said hepburn 1 I mean to discuss the young lady sh Is mighty clever and charming and handsome aad and what do you say to a luttio game it hepburn had continued with what was in his mind he would havo have said she Is too self poised too independent mentally and physically A man could never assume an attitude of protection toward her she rows and shoots better than four fifths of the men here and I 1 have played the fish myself better than ale he did yesterday ten she knows too much for a woman and any feml feminine foibles as far as I 1 have noticed theres not enough of the clinging vine about her not that I 1 care a continental about her one way or the other being in this indifferent frame ot mind hepburn for some days avoided miss pollard then he concluded that his avoidance might perhaps seem marked and after all he be had bad no reason to dislike the young lady he ile k was crossing the field to the tennis 1 Hn honored ored her with some of bis his exclusive and original views court with teddy ackerman when he made up his mind to thia this and he had a vague idea that teddy was babbling about something but ble his eyes were fixed upon a figure in a it white drees half halt reclining in the hade shade of a noble beech she a queena queen T exclaimed teddy heres my chance now dont poll the son you yosip due to play ly anil and well watch you he ile did not hear what hepburn said which waa was perhaps just as well but strode off and flung himself on the grass at margaret pollards side with a sigh of relief at tho the same timo polly ackerman waved her ra ket cordially at hepburn and challenged him to a game presently waa was broken up by the arrival of jean wll wit eon son and maud patterson and maud soon actor ott r took him off to pump water from the spring in the ravine the two girls left together watched I 1 V I 1 A le O 0 V War margarett garett be he cried the players for some moments in silence then as hepburn made a 6 par ticul arly brilliant stroke jean clapped her hands that splendid rhe asked turning a glowing face to margaret and he splendid she the added do you Y raar jar mr hepburn asked margaret ruther coldly he ile playa plays tennia tennis well if you like of 0 course he does he does everything well and hes so superbly handsome I 1 junt jurt adore him dont you 1 I can hardly say I 1 do he ile bad looking though and as you say he does everything well but you dont like him why doctor fell rell replied blar margaret gareL perhaps I 1 dont like perfect on perhaps its because he seems to know it I 1 suppose a woman likes a man mainly for his flaws and blemishes his weaknesses if it you like she wants something to excuse something to pity 1 I thiu king of at him in quite that light said jean artlessly artl esaly and margarets color deepened a little the worst of him is that he interesting she said indifferently pollys hollys Pol lys a pretty girl she how flow can you say that persisted jean hes lles so impenetrable and strong like liko a rock of granite and and oh well said sald margaret Ua rgaret impatiently 1 I dont like wat type of man all she was doomed for her sins she told herself to see much of him in the next few das and he experienced what he called the attraction of repulsion he ile could talk well when he pleased and be he exerted himself to talk bia best when they were thrown together but from any verbal encounter he invariably came away with a feeling that he had been worsted and he be often chafed at the me king tone tones of her voice and the halt half contemptuous look in the depths of her grey eyes he ile was particularly con eclus of that look one day at the beach he ile was teaching maud patterson to heim and there was a good deal of the vine about maud blaud margaret swam like a mermaid and hepburn resented the he ile rather resented the way tuy ackerman waa was Zol following lowing her about too and the fact tact that she seemed rather to like that idiots attentions atten tlona did not increase biswell bis his well his respect for her there cap car a an evening at last however when bis his old feeling ct et damah and affection for ackerman Ac revived he ile had watched him strolling in the ravine path that ran below the houie just a liena and there between the trees and he had noticed that the woman with him and to whom he wax was earnestly ear WM was St margaret it WM not at that is ment aben a A i pain hot shot his breast and the blood swelled and throbbed at hin temples that the old feeling re 1 turned it was when teddy camaj striding back alone his head upon his breast his face ace white and drawn and his eyes blank and unseeing that be he felt kindly and pityingly Ted teddy dyl 1 he said ob oh go to the devil eald said acker man roughly and walked on for a moment hepburn stood look ing after him uncertainty uncertainly rage rising within him at the thought of the in jury lune done to his friend by that cold heartless unwomanly I 1 then came an impulse to confront her to upbraid her pour the vials of his wrath and contempt upon her an unreasoning impulse of anger that sent him swiftly through the wood to where margaret eat sat crouched in the fern berido the path sobbing as it her heart would break and at the sight of her and the sound of her weeping anger passed from him and the scales fell from his eyes margaret margaretl he cried she started to her lier feet and her face hardened she did not speak but made an abrupt gesture of dismissal and turned from him her whole at was of aversion but ae an he seized her hand and compelled her to look at him the tears were still in her eyes and upon her cheeks and it emboldened bold ened him no he said 1 I must tell you now what I 1 would never have told you before for I 1 thought you less or more than woman and now I 1 know you tor for bat hat you are I 1 love ou hard and unfeminine as I 1 ara am she laughed scornfully 1 I thought miss patterson wan was your ideal well I 1 wan sim sorry that this happen happened id mr ri 14 ara ro good night ID bu not unkindly ho he implored 1 I know well enough that you not cara iara for me yet I 1 was weak enough to tell you you she j ae As weak as water in your hands pitiably weak miserably weak and so pity me at leaba you pitied pitted him I 1 know because t f MR hi weakness mb and yet perhaps it was she said with wp h eyes that soft softened eDed at u they looked on him kneeling at her feet feel but it la Is different with you because I 1 yen yeo you arc are bard hard and yet I 1 love you be cried and you are gentle and compas compassionate compassi slon onte te I 1 know for I 1 love you aej you mist be it Is ia not different with me she touched his hair with an al at mo not mot t maternal caress it is she whisp arpA bending to him for I 1 do not ib u at h him im t |
