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Show knew conduct no gentleman could ever forgive. I had paid th money with . my own ... check I had left the country the next day and ha cad that he is let me bear the shame of it all so I came out to New York and met you. I love you, dar-ling, dar-ling, and you shall Judge. Shall we go back to England and straighten things out? It shall be as you say, little woman." "But, Dick, think what it would mean to that other woman and those childTen Oh, I couldn't, dear and yet.when I think of how you have suffered, suf-fered, I could do anything; dear, dear Dick" She buried her face in her hands for a moment, and the man watched her eagerly, anxiously. "Dick, there is just one thing in the world I have always wanted more even than to go home; and that is to marry a hero. We'll stay here, dear, and you shall forget the pain and the hurt in my love." Vivian Clare Howard How-ard in Chicago Examiner. 1 II One Mans Honor ii tives would in all possibility cut me dead. The fellows at the cubs in the park on the street, would pass me with a cold nod; if I offered them my hand not a mother s son of them bat would quietly and coldly ignore it. My God, child, you don't know what it meant to me. I went through It once, but not even for you could I go through that hell a second time." "But, why, Dick; tell me why what have you done?" "It's not good hearing for innocent ears like yours, little sweetheart; but it is your right to know. I have told you that when I came into my money : 5 '! Xfk 0 M1 I F "Are you quite sure that" you are really happy, dear very happy?" And he leaned over the table deux and touched her fingers behind the friendly selter of the roses. Forgetful Forget-ful of the ubiquitous waiter, of everything every-thing but the earnest-faced man before be-fore her, the girl impulsively stretched stretch-ed out both hands to him and said with siining eyes: - "So happy, dear, happier than I ever hoped to be and to think that at last the' dream of my life is going to be realized I shall go home, home to dear England again. I was very little when mamma and Grace and I left the old home after papa's death. But America has never seemed so beautiful to me as our dear home in Surrey." A look of sadness crept Into the glowing eyes and she did not notice that the man moved uneasily in his chair and that a gloomy, worried wor-ried expression overshadowed the bright hopefulness of a moment before. be-fore. "We shall go back just as soon as we are married, shall we not, Dick? Dear old Dick, I, am so glad that you and not any one else are to give me my dearest wish. Aren't you glad you don't look uproariously happy what is it, dear?" "May, would you mind so awfully If we well, if weijdn't go back to England, afteiUaTi i' y - "Would I mind? Dick are you crazy? Oh, you know I have hoped and waited for that, all my life. It used to seem as if it would never come true till I1 met you and you told me you loved me. And since then I have thought of it, waited for it day and night" Dick looked at her questioningly for a moment and then said, a little bitterly: "Do you know, little girl, that at times I have been tempted to think that you loved the thought of going back home better than you did me." Her face crimsoned painfully, and his heart smote him. "There, there, little one; that wasn't fair. I was a beast to say it to you more of a beast because you are going to be put to the test" "Why, Dick, what do you mean?" "Just this, Maysie, girlie; we cannot can-not go back to England at least I cannot" "You cannot go back, -Dick? Surely surely you have not committed some crime which prevents you from going back. It isn't that? Say it isn't!" "Well, I'm not exactly a criminal, little girl.but I might just as well be,"' he said bitterly. I should be treated like one if. I went back, and every "See here, old chap, I'm in a devil of a hole." at eighteen I kicked over all restraints re-straints and went the pace till well, till I came the worst kind of a cropper. crop-per. You see, Margrave and two or three others of the Oxford set came into their money at the same time, and, like a lot of hot-headed fools, we turned London upside down hunting for some new devilment in which to make ducks and drak or j it all. I was the hottest-headed rool of them all and soon found that I had not only established an unenviable unen-viable reputation for wildness, but that I had run dangerously near the end of my tether things had arrived at a stage where I could no longer hold my own with the fellows so I made up my mind to pull up stakes and go to one of the colonies with the remainder." He sat gloomily silent for a moment, mo-ment, apparently lost in a retrospect anything but pleasant An impatient "Oh, go on, Dick, please go on," from the girl brought him back to the present pres-ent again. . ' "Just before I sailed for Australia the day before, I think it was Margrave came to me and said: 'See I; d here, old chap, I'm in a devil of a hole; I need two thousand pounds the worst sort of a way and not another sou ean I raise on the estate. I've got to have it, or there'll be a scandal that will break the mater's heart; help me out, lor God's sake.' "Margrave's mother had been awfully aw-fully good to me when I was a lonely little chap at Eton used to have me down for the holidays, and all that, you know so the upshot of it all was that I promised to let him have the two thou. and it was just half of what I had left and further, he got me to promise to take the check to the party he was rowing with. I took it, got a receipt for it and sailed the next day. "For eight years in Australia I got no word from the home folks, but thought that the letters had gone astray, as I was far up country, and finally I went back to England with a nice kittle pile and a big longing for the society of my own kind again. God, what a home-coming it was. Not a welcome; black looks, veiled insinuations insin-uations everywhere. One day I asked a chap who had refused my hand, what it all meant. He .tojd. .nja.Maf; grave's'troubie . had been the worst sort low-down, dishonorable treatment treat-ment of a woman we all I "' "Are you quite sure that you are really happy, dear very happy?" one believes me to be the most despicable des-picable wretch on the face of the green earth." A nameless fear grew in the girl's eyes. "For heaven's sake, Dick, tell me ' "I mean just this: If I went back to England to-morrow my own r- |