Show THE STORY Returning to London practically c eillY cally after litter an business trip Sir George San lun takes dinner with his widowed his hI old nUrle Aser Aggy He lIe did not approve approve ap- ap i Brov prove of o her m marriage to his hla fa father fa ther tier but her explanation antis Sri him Little I is I. left of or the estate and Lady Bandison proposes pro pro- I to the United Do poses pou 9 that the they go States State to 10 visit her brother Robert Rob ert wealthy wealth contractor Sir George agree MacBeth live on an island gland estate with hi hi daughter Roberta who longs longa for lor city elty life liCe MacBeth Is le a victim victim vic vic- tim of or arthritis and almost almot help lea less lese Is I. glad to 10 see lee his hie sister lister and asks alke tho thu two to ta stay L CHAPTER III Continued Ill Continued 6 It II was Roberta who had selected Indian lodge odge and ond had used her fathers father's tame barne when hen she telephoned tell and arranged arranged ar nr ranged for luncheon Juan had obligingly obligingly Ingli In the modern manner left It all to 10 her Juan who had his tnt name and was known as Jack 1 was a slim clever dark young Soung man of what It Ia commonly called the be Latin American type Ills IUs ef eyes eyes s look looking Ing like dead black cinders or live teals coals according to his mood were capable of keeping his thoughts from He Ue was os as regarding her now with extreme extreme ex ex- Impatience anI and not a little HUle contempt contempt contempt con con- tempt though this Roberta could not lee see She saw only his obvious good- good looks locks and his Iris odd but to her charming manners Jack was wag so different It Ita a as to come here and meet Jack that she ilie had quarreled with her tier father She Ehe he saw sow herself herselt as a daring and sophisticated young foung woman woman hampered by an old fashioned old parent with ridiculous Ideas Ideus of ot what his Ills daughter should and should not Dot do To Jack Jorl Navarro with a cosmopoli cosmopoli- cosmopolitan tan upbringing and Il a sophisticated outlook outlook out out- look lock on women and life Roberta noberta was wasI wast I t rather troublesome child chUd But nut he bad orders to keep her amused and Interested and anti he was doing this with within in to ease that bored him They had reached and finished the dessert stage Hid did Jack bad produced with a flourIsh nourish tIe lit erne and nn 11 nn v I Roberta b ta though her pulses q at this sign that she was as an experienced woman t ook her head Cant she declared No use ask ask- ing kg me Jack In the first place I tont dont I lift It and In th the second place Ive I've liven Ilven my father my solemn promise I oat ont touch It until I am twenty Jack shrugged td his huts shoulders helped himself elf and slid his flask brck back Into his pocket Drinking was not not countenanced countenanced counte counte- at Indian Lodge and one had hud to 10 toM be M careful how one did It If one waited wn to come again aln It was wn a convenient con can place to meet this girl Irl and Jack knew there need of caution lath he lie cot ot what he wan wanted INt Sometimes Some Some- times he If he would succeed with her She was to him so essentially essentially essen essen- stupid go so un unused used to or slow to nUt Grasp meanings of looks or words In Inne the ne game came they ther were playing These North orth American n girls were so often educated In everything else but sex Still SHU he had hat been told that to In In- this girl was wa his hlis share of ot the o i iness Rs on hand so he lifted his eyes eves tad Ind id gave pa her n a long look and a n slow smile mile Any ny hurry he asked J The girl l looked eked at him doubtfully Well Bell i. i I dont don't feel fM exactly comfortable e leaving father atone I C so long I should h have w e gone pone hack back when I those 4 going oln to the Island lie Ile cant can't I move you jou know without help c I JarkS Jark'S s e eyes M were cinders Is that to 10 Permanent I Roberta I The shook her head hend Oh Oh no no in is doctor says he wilt will b be all right a IB while Its It's its it's Just that his r A n Is rather severe se Just now Navarro at nt her Itow ll narrowly noon Roon will Wl you OU be e able ne to meet me be again Tomorrow v night nigh Roberta shook her head hend I 1 dont don't belle believe so It t Isn't t It at nIght easy to get Bet a an away woy y but tl Day 00 tomo tomorrow row I might tomorrow Ill I'll be busy bugy sew ew with the e I wont won't have time for Else She took l B 1 cIgarette cS re e from St as lie he tit him and I MI little Ittle It for her r. r looked at t him curiously I funny Funny Isn't t it I What t Is funny lie Ill asked It quickly and aDd with the foreIgners foreIgners' sensitiveness to the Americans American's ides strange of what Is funny That we should se see so much of each tach Trice other la In tM way When Wilen Hal lIal football Introduced us at nt h the Princeton game I 1 never ne expected to tee Set you rOil lignin Why 1 hy Oh because Slid Ind rou youre you're re so 80 older said you were l a smiled rel lie hoJ Ion M at Brice s i to give him that litre jc price and nd whether he liked it U or not One never knew what American as an like knew might say flOy They at once so much and so little But Dut Brice had fortunately tongue held hIs lie Is a nIce boy that rice Brice and he plays a good too game but he Is Just young a boy to play game my 1 hat Is ls your four gamer Roberta asked It with something of at her fathers father's d directness I n ells Just now If It Its It's makIng maUng you jou ou like me more then a little he sold said softly and put his Ms hand gently oVer oter or II hers rs noberta looked nt tit hIm now DOW flush flush- in little puzzled tt it was part of this mon mans man's th thAI he spoke poke sparingly and nud was lavish with his I In caresses private It confused the g girl rl mm made malle e It hard for her tier to judge Jude him coolly as os she did the boys of her own set and age She did not ei even en know whether she liked It or not Wt not whether she really liked Irked Jack hut but she could nut not run away awny and she came rame hack back again und and attain still undecided under 1 I do like you lack only only only- Only what wiant Well l like Oilier people too A As s well Better answered the honest Roberta with a smile smite that robbed her uneven speech of If all 1111 brusqueness You see l' l known them thorn longer The first time lime I saw flaw you OU Jack said It so softly and with such SUell apparent apparent ent eat calmness that wondered nt at him and at nt herself I loved you so soi i f. f I r O f r. r Just Now It Its It's Making You Like Me More Mor Than a Little Roberta well that no one I 1 had kno known before counted There has been only jouIn you jou OU In all nil the time universe since our meeting Roberta noberta Roberta drew a long breath It was marvelous and so tremendously grown grownup grownup grownup up to listen to a man not man not a boy but buta a grown full-grown man man saying such things to her I Wh Why Jack must be all nil of ot twenty flue I And her father treated t. t 1 1111 no n tic tic- ISO u a U nu I 1 UI U ii in was dazzled she was not blinded nor carried off ott her feet yet et She was conscious of a great disappointment with herself that his words did not raise more tumult In to her breast It must be because she had grown older and more used to things that she could listen to such speeches and feel though her breath came faster foster and she liked It that she was not grea greatly moved Will you not come tomorrow Jack Jock asked her again I ask you to There was something behind the voice something hard and Insistent something something something some some- thing mocking something that said that she was only a woman and must do what he asked It was the first touch of the time Iron IrOD hand of his will behInd behind be be- behind hind the velvet glove of the foreign manners that so 80 charmed herNo herNo herNot her No Not I Roberta said It almost an an- I cannot come tomorrow I will come Wednesday There was silence a silence that spoke of displeasure on Navarros Navarro's part I Then he said No Xo I cannot I come Wednesday but I will come Thursday It was the girl who hesitated and then Ihen made up her tier mind All right Thursday then Where Here lIere Why waste words on an obstinate girl No Nn Roberta said quickly I think you ought to come to the house and meet my my father dont don't you ou I dont don't like dod dodging about to avoid old father and the crowd Navarro Na-arro frowned This girl would upset all alt plans unless she was kept In hand Ill come u e for you Ill I'll watt walt road for you OU on the river All 11 right Roberta Hobert a agreed slowly Come ome to the house If It you like hike No the road rood Jack replied out He fI paid laId the check Ine and they went lit Into the soft oft ft spring dusk and Ind he be put Wt her Into her car kissed her hand and 2 whispered w Pored that she he he was adorable fh the and watched then Stood Pd lighting a cigarette II as In her tear teor along th the highway hIgh hIgh- way wOl at y sixty Mity miles milts an hour It Will was slow low work he told himself but at least enst he had hod gotten totten somewhere and learned something today a e e e e Lady Indy Sandison having ha finished her own tale promptly had hind had to listen to o her brothers brother's recital of his life and triumphs and then to a dissertation on Roberta her beauty heathy and talents and anti finally to a short resume of Robs nabs difficulties with her Listening A Aggy's gy lips had closed tightly She was as not one to approve ft of halfway measures and was Will In full fall sympathy with Ith her brothers brother's determination determination deter deter- ruination that things should not go BO on this way ny for tor the girls girl's own ol sake What now precisely are you yon thinking to do she finally ask asked looked at her appealingly I am nm puzzled he admitted with the frankness of ot the truly great What would you jon OU do It is not for me to say retorted Lady Sandison promptly I have ha seen sellI tier her but the once Flu Im not one for driving a girl to open rebellion No agreed Aggy Come Corne Aggy you ou always had a tremendous lot of ot sense and Im I'm In la need of ot a womans woman's eye ye as well as my own ol Could you be persuaded torun to torun torun run this house for tor me mt Aggy for tor money You know well Id I'd do It for lore love Aggy Ag told him sternly since love Is not a word to bo be used often and requires cautious use even between relations Hut hilt that would defeat your plans piAn Use sense woman Nobody but you rou and I need know our arrangement and would It not be better for you to vork ork for tor me nit than for a stranger It It would depend How much authority au would you OU give me Things must lie Ill In my own hands If It Im I'm to tomake tomake make headway and help you rou you Done said Mid Hob Itoh MacBeth J 1 paid my last housekeeper two hundred and fifty dollars a month lIl me me Rob I I could not charge you the like of ot that I It will be a saving If it I pat you three hundred bundred said the crafty Rob you to take over the entire direction on of the house leaving Roberta noberta Ith nothing but her own affairs to at attend nd to She wont won't like ilkI that that that- Fine Tine I see your plan but the far tar too high Say two hundred Three hundred or nothing I IlIae Have lIa lave It your our own way but Im I'm l tto t tto tto to be used openly against the lass Hob nob was WIlS so bus busy planning his cn that he did not notice not how he he little blue eyes were twinkling Ins Im just going to make Miss Mis and ando Mighty see sec where she gets off ott It if she abS doesn't behave he said Have Ilave It your own way agreed Aggy Agy demurely What Phat about SI Sit Geordie Can Cnn you no DO help him to ft t place or use him here Rob Hob MacBeth stared at tit his sister He lIo said nothing for what seemed to tier her a long time I cant can't ask him to do anything mental menial he announced puzzled You cannot she declared shortly I dont don't know what hes he's fitted for lies Ilea had a lot o expensive school Ing lag a lot hot o still more expensive soldiering soldiering sol diering when he was hardly more than a laddie laddle and a thin time of ot It ItIn ItIn Itla In la the wilds of ot Central America Hmm said her brother frowning Im away announced his sister rising to look over your kitchen anc and see It I can cnn get to together gel her a teL tea for tor you and him and me You can be thinking She started toward the door Im very much puzzled said bee he brother brattIer Dont strain yourself Lady SandS Sand son told him Theres such suel things as secretaries In America are irl there not And you lying here helpless help helpless less far from your office By ny George I That's an Idea Ideal I Aggy looked at him without spear spes' and left for the tile kitchen That Thai Rob Hob after all these years had ae ac accepted her and her problems including Sir Geordie without either astonishment astonish ment meat or hesitation did not seem to her remarkable It was what she had expected et Would she not have done doni the same thing tiring for Rob Hob Some twenty odd minutes later shu sla reappeared carrying a tray on which toast deliciously browned Jam cake cak and ten tea were Invitingly spread forth and went toward the library EvIdently Evidently Evi Evl- dently Sir Str George had had assisted MacBeth Mac- Mac Beth lIeth to get there for for she could hear the two men talking Roth Both looked up at her and Sir George f sprang prang to clear a place on the table 11 n 1 1 take the tray from her You should have ha called me Aggy he said reproachfully TO BE SE CONTINUED |