Show A WONDERFUL WOMAN BY MAY AGNES FLEMING It had come corne- corneto to that then it il was Kathie Kathle and Gaston He lie saw him draw her hand under unde his arm as one having ha the right whisper something in her ear that lit her face fice with sunshine sunshine sun sun- shine and lead her away Peter Dan stood alone lie He watched them quite Quito out of or sight sight his his teeth set his face per perfectly colorless and a look In his small eyes ees bad to see seo I have read of men who sold their souls to th the devil for a price he lie said sald between n his set St teeth I 1 suppose th the days for such bargains are over and souls are plentiful enough In the kingdom king Icing dom o of his dark majesty without payIng paying pay pay- ing lug a farthing But if those days could come a again aln and Satan Salan stood stool beside me I would sell my soul now no for for r revenge on ori puP Are Arc you sui sure you to soil a. a clear sharp voice close behind him said I lawyers la never thought were vere troubled with those Inconvenient ap ap- hearts hearts and souls Well Vell If Ie you fou have haye keep it Its It's of no use to tome me ne And Im I'm Im I'm not Satan either but yet yetI I think for a n. fair price I can give you your revenge He lie whirled around with a stifled exclamation exclamation ex ex- and saw at his elbow elbo r S r CHAPTER Ill III I Amon Among the hie Roses She stood tood beside him her ceaseless smile at its brightest on her small face 1001 looking like hike some somo little lItle female Mephistopheles come to tempt a modern Faust He put up his glass eye-glass to look at her What a gorgeous little creature creature creature crea crea- ture she was It was his Iris first thought In the dim yellow light of ot the conservatory con con- the amber silk glittered with ith its pristine lustre the yellow roses She he wore made such an admirable admira admira- ble foil to her lead dead black hair What the deuce brings m me hero here Dont Don't trouble yourself to ask the question ques ques- tion ion mon ami arni your face asks it for fOl you ive i've been eavesdropping in her airiest tone ton not intentionally you OU understand as the lie young oung man continued contin conin- to stare speechlessly at her hel through his eye glass Entering the conservatory conservatory conservatory conserva conserva- tory by the merest chance I overheard Miss D Dangerfield's last words to you OU a a 30 little more than kin kiti and less than kind were the they not Permit me to congratulate you Mr 11 Dangerfield Congratulate me Mr 1 Dangerfield repeated dropping his double-barrelled double glass eye and glowering en vengefully at atthe atthe atthe the fair fall creature b by ly his side In Heavens Heaven's name on what On having escaped becoming the husband ofa termagant Believe e m me not wen oven and eight thousand a year ear would counterbalance so atrocious atrocious atrocious' atro atro- cious cious' a temper as that Eight thou thousand and a year would counterbalance counterbalance coun coun- with me mo even a worse temper tem tern per ner than that Mrs the lawyer law law- yer er an answered grimly I am nm only sorry I am not to have the opportunity of trying Once m my wife I 1 think I could correct the lie acidity of oC even Katherine Dangerfield's temper temper- and tongue No you could not himself himself him him- self would fail fall to tame this shrew sinew You see see Mr Ir Dan Dangerfield I 1 speak from past paM experience I 1 know what kind of blood flows In OUt our spirited Katherine's vet veins ns Very good blood then I am sure sure sure- very vory r good tempered too In the lie main main maln- at least on the fathers father's side AJi Ul On the fathers father's side The sneer with which this was wild said hl Is In In- In describable May I ask If you ou knew her mother Mr Ir Dangerfield Certainly I I 1 did did did-a a decidedly fine woman too and as amiable as she was han handsome Colonel ld- ld Sir John was wai colonel then then married married a aS aSUi S SUi s. s s La and Katherine was born In iii this very house homo while hile they were ero their Christmas vl visit lt You may have known her father and mother moth moth- er Y pr-Y U r-U u certainly seem seeni to know Sir John l' l suspiciously well well but but dont don't tell me took her tantrums from either cither of ot them I them I know better Mrs Irs wr listened quietly adjustIng adjusting adjust adjust- ing her bracelets and burst bUrt out laughIng laugh- laugh log Ing when he ceased censed I see you ou JO Jo you know all about It ft How lIow old wa Katherine when her fath father r and r 1 left lett England for India Two or three year rear or thereabouts It seems to me me being being so M well acquainted ac tic- and all ull I that hat as you ou say say y you oUght to know yourself Was as It itin In England or India yo yoc rne to know the governor BO so well In neither Mr Ir Dan cr elt Or docs does your our acquaintance extend only to the baronet Gad lie he looked ed I Rice an incarnate thundercloud when a 5 L z presenting you His Ills past remembrance brances brance of you mu must t bo ho uncommonly pleasant ones I should say Did you know tho the late Mrs Colonel Dangerfield Dangerfield Danger Danger- field Mrs 1 7 I 1 knew the late Mrs l Colonel Dangerfield Dangerfield Dan- Dan gerfield Mr MiS Dangerfield And yet you say Katherine takes her temper from her mother My ly late law aunt must have greatly changed chang then from the time I saw her last I repeat it it Mrs said tapping tapping tap tap- ping her C fan n. n Katherine inherited her most abominable temper from her mother the tho only inheritance her hel mother moth moth- er ever J rt her And she looks like her wonderfully her wonderfully like her so her so like Mrs 1 repeated In a strange suppressed voice that I could coul almost take her for Cor a ghost gho t in tn pink gauze Like Lik l her t r crl cried l J tel Dan Dan- fy u ln hf hut lut you ou must be he dreaming She is no more like her hel mother than I am The late Mrs 1 Dangerfield wits was woman Which our spirited heiress never Will L be I agree with you OU Mr Dangerfield Dan Dan- gerfield ld and yet et you ou told mo mo you were In love with her and wanted to marry her I 1 meant what I said the young man nian responded sullenly I do o want tt to maIT marry mairy her hot Or 01 her fortune which fortune which I r don't dont see that that's nn any business of yours Mrs Irs and I dont don't see eo what I am standing here abusing Katherine to you ou for You dont don't like lien her do you Now what has she ever done ilone to you ou 5 Nothing whatever whatever-I I haven't seen Katherine until tonight for fifteen years She was two years roars old then thena then hen hena a LL little demoiselle In and too young to have an enemy Yet you are arc her enemy Mrs Irs Va Vu- vasor and you ou sit at her table tahl and cat eat her bread nn and salt And you ou speak sleak of lien her mother as If IC you ou detested her I Is it for the lie mothers mother's sake salte you hate the daughter 5 For the tine mothers mother's sake She Sho ree re- re e ted the four short words with a concentrated bitterness that thal rather re repelled re- re polled her companion And you hate her for tor her own Mr 11 She laid her little hand suddenly and sharply on his arm and sent the words In his ear eai in a whisper We Ve I both hoth hate her hel let us UM make mal common cause together and have havo our re rc- rc ye ii ge Peter Dangerfield threw thires' oft off the gloved ha hand d that felt unpleasantly like a steel manacle on his wrist Dont be melodramatic if J you please Mrs Mr Irs Vava or R Revenge In in- in j deed And I a lawyer lawer You would make malce an uncommonly good gooI first actress ac tic- I tress tres my dear lear madam but hut In private life your histrionic talents arc are quite quie thrown away avay He Revenge Henge bait bah Why hy h hythe the vendetta has gone out of fashion oven eveni in Corsica l We e dont don't live in th the days of the hand handsome Lucrezia when lien liena a perfumed rose or 01 a pair pall of oC JouVin's best kids kid sent ones one's adversary lY to glory glor There is no rio such mch word as revenge In these SC latter days my dear madam If I on ones one's s 's wife runs away from one Ine some sonic other follow fellow flow wo we dont don't follow follos' and ant wipe ile ou out t ou our l d dishonor Ish nor In his blood we Wp simply go to Sir Sh Creswell anti and get et a divorce If I we ve run awn away avay with wih some other fellows fellow's wife that other f fellow Jo sues us us ins for damages an and makes a aj good soot thing thing- of it if I. I Believe nele e me Mrs AIrs revenge Is a word WOt that hat will willi ilU soon be obsolete h except pt on theatrical boards lInt But Bu at the lie same me time I should like to know what wha you mean mean What Is that you sing fing me mc there rh Mrs cried in the lie French t idiom she used when excited While tho the world lasts and men love and and hate and use swords and arid pistols re revenge revenge re- re will wi never go so out of ot fashion 1 And nd you ou hate your cousin cousin nate her so 80 that If It looks were lightning she would have aVe fallen at your fe feet t t tm en n minutes ago A little litle rickety dwarf dwart She laughed her shrill shri somewhat elfish Inu laugh h Not a pleasant name to bo bu called Mr Dangerfield His tn fae c blackened at the I brance his smal small smaill tle eyes shot forth that steely teely fire light blue eyes only can ean I Hash flash Why do you ou remind mo of ot that he said gald hoarse hoarsely She did not mean It id I she he she said so j I She paid said so she so-she she said BO so his corn com com i cried Peter Dangerfield Dan- Dan gerfield youre you're ou ro not the tho man I take joui OU for Cor if 1 you ou en endure ure quietly such an nn insult I as Gaston J hint And look at l her now with that penniless tenor singer Incer with wih the voice oice of ot an n angel anJel and tho ho taco face ot of ri a got oll Look how sh she sha smiles nr up at n him Did hu over give you OU such auch a glance as 5 that lint See Seo how hn lit bonds bends over her and whispers in her ear Did I she ever ver listen to you O I with that hat happ face Cace those drooping downcast e eyes es Why hy she loves the man that man that impoverished Impo- Impo adventurer ad and anti love and happiness hap hap- ss make makE her almost beautiful An And AmI she hc called caled you ou a rickety y dwarf f 11 Per Pei Perhaps haps even ven now the they are laughing over ove It rather as a good g jok joke I Woman Devil her victim burst burs out goaded to frenzy You Mel lid lel Katherine would stoop tono tono to tono no such baseness as that hat Would she not You have yet to learn to what depths of or baseness women women wo wo- men like her hel can cn stoop She has bad bitter biter bad blood in her veins I tel tell teil you ou She comes conies of a a. daring and unscrupulous unscrupulous unscrupulous un un- un- un scrupulous race Oh dont don't look at al me melike J like e that I that I dont don't mean tho ho Danger Danger- fields And you will wil ll bear her merciless merci merci- less les taunt and stand stanl quietly ty b by while she he marries yonder handsome coxcomb cox cox- comb and go and be 10 best man tt lit the wedding an and tal take e your hatred tOI forever after aCel when hen you meet Gaston Od Lord of Park Bali Bah Peter Dan Dangerfield you ou OU must ha have hamik milk mik and water ater in your your- veins vein instead ot 1 blood and I am only wasting m my time here lien to Ill Pil detain you your 11 you 3 no o I g l ng ft She hall hail goaded UK o point point- point at la last t As she site turned to go he lie caught her arm fiercely and lit held her herback back Stay he cried hoa hoarsely ely you shall shaH not go gu You clo do jo well wel to say I hate herAnd her And she he shall never marry paston if I can prevent I it Only shOw m mf the wa way vay how Only show nip he lie exclaimed breathless and hoarse a aTu tid d see wh whether whether- ther I have blood In m my veins instead of milk mik and water a a mans man's pa passions in my heart though heart though it ii be the lie heart healt of a rickety dwarf S I Ah Ab that blow struck truel home Look at them once again Mr Da Dan Dan- n- n gelfeld lest your OU br bravo brave ve r resolutions 8 l u tons should cool look cool look at al Jath Katharine Dangerfield Dangerfield Dangerfield Dan Dan- gerfield and h her hr r lover 10 01 jiow w. J The he barol baronets baronet's daughter was was was' waltzing again she again she had a passion passionate e love of dancing lancing and arid loate floated with the lie native nath grace of a She waltzing with wih h her r long wreathed rose brown bron hair floating over his shoulder er her tier happy face tace ace uplifted up up- lifted as she whit whIrled down the tho long vista In his arms to the Into Intoxicating music of the Guards Waltz You see Mrs AIrs Irs said sid significantly cantly canty he lie who runs luns may read and I Ira he he who stands still sti ma may understand unc Ills His Ils melancholy tenor voice his lover- lover I like sl sighs ls his dark pathetic eest have done their heir work work Danger Danger- held is in love Casto Gaston Gaton It I Is a very old story a lall lady of ot high degree e has ha stooped to conquer Sir John wont won't take lake It I I r dare say but could Sir SI John refuse fuse his idol idolized dar dar- ling hing anything If J she sue cried for 01 the moon she would have hav it It And she is so Impetuous neat dear child She will I be bo Mrs Gaston In the tho time wJ It I I would take another young lady toMe I chIc cide the color of ot the bridesmaids bridesmaid's d dresses S She shah never nevel le rs Gaston Ciaston If I can cn proven t U Pet eer l' l cried vehemently HI pale hale blue eyes ees filled filed with wih lurid Jut rage Yes but unhappily there I ha lie tho rub Sir r If you rou can prevent v nt It It You dont don't ont suppose no- no no Mrs Ir Vr asor saId raid thoughtfully Air fr r is Iii In love lo e with wih her hel S Continued tomorrow morning |