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Show RIMENS CHOSEN JJCM J.UCflN CoEyrlt tfT MMS-MEI.L CO. i ii 1 1 i ) "How should ! know whether her hair waa' bleached or notr be. eald . sharply. "That's a very allly question. I Ilerny was taken aback, la "I don't aee that -it it," aha aatd e- wltb unusual and somewbat stammer-a stammer-a log mildness. "Most blonde haired ie women, even If they haven't bleached id their hair, have bad It 'restored.'" Doralnlck did not answer bcr. The id servant presented a dish at his elbow r and be motioned It away with an Impatient Im-patient geature. a. Ilerny, who was not looking at blm, it went on. d "What kind of clothes did aha wear? - They aay she's an elegant dresser, h gets almost everything from Paris, la even her underwear. 1 suppose aha it didn't have, her best things, up there, is Put she must hava had something, i- because the papers said they'd gone prepared for two weeks' trip." it "I never noticed anything aba a wore." if "Well, lan't that Juat like you, Dom-Inlrk Dom-Inlrk Ryan!"-exclaimed hla wife, un-t un-t able, at this unmerited disappoint-" disappoint-" ment, to refrain from some expression i- of her feelings. "And you might know I'd ba anxious to hear what aha bad Ii on." ) "I'm very aorry, but I haven't an Idea about any of br clothes. I think t they were always dark, mostly black s or brown." "Did you notice," almost pleadingly, r "what she wore when she went out? I Mrs. Whiting, the forclady at Hazel'a i millinery, saya she Imported a set of sables, muff, wrap and bat, for her - thla autumn. Hazel says It waa Juat the finest thing of Its kind you aver Inld your eyea on. Did aha hava them I up there V "I couldn't possibly tell you. 1 don't know what sables are. I aaw her once i with a fur rap on, but I think It belonged be-longed to Wllloughby. an Englishman who was staying there, and uaed to have hla rap banging on the pega In the hall. It'a quite useless aaklng me these questions. I don't know anything any-thing about the subject. Did you wind the clock while I waa away?" He looked at the clock, a possession of his own, given him In the days when hla mother and sister delighted to ornament his rooms with coatly gifts and In which he had never before be-fore evinced the slightest interest. "Of course, I wound It," Berny said with an air of hurt proteat. "Haven't 1 I wound It regularly for nearly three 1 years ?" This brought the subject of Rose 1 Cannon to an end and aha waa not al- 1 luded to again during the dinner. The 1 conversation reverted to aucb happen- ' Inga In the city oa Ilerny thought 1 might Interest ber husband, and it 1 seemed to her that he waa more ' pleased to alt and listen to her chat- 1 ter of her alaters, the bank, the thea- 1 tera, and the ahops, than to dilate any 1 further on hla adventurea in the snow bound Sierra. t . When the dinner wss over, they re- turned to the front of the fist, where peaaa on to her own plate and as it began to eat tbeni. aald: "It must have been Interesting ha ing the Cannons up there. When read In the paper that they were 1 Autelope too. J waa awfully glad b cause I thought It would be auck good thing for you to get to know tt old mrm well, aa you would, snow In that way together." "I knew him before. My father an mother hava been friends of his fi yeara." "I know that. You've often told m Hut thafe a different thing. I tbougr If he got to know you Intimately an liked you, aa he probably would"-ahe would"-ahe glanced at blm with a coquottls smile, but bis face waa bent oeer hi plate "why, then, something "mlgt rome of It. something In a buslnes wsy." She again looked at hlra. qulcl ly, with sidelong Investigation, to se bow he took the remark. She did no want to Irritate him by alluding to bl amall means, anyway on thla night o reconciliation. "It would be ao useful for you to ge solid with a man like Illll Cannon, she concluded with aoraetiilng of tint Idlty In her manner. Respite her caution. Domlnlcl aeemed annoyed. He frowned am gave hla head an impatient Jerk. "Oh, there waa nothing of . tha kind." he aald hurriedly. "Wi wen Just enowed In at the same hotel There was no question of Intimacy ot friendship about It. any more thar there waa between Judge Vaehburn and me, or even the actor." Uerny wsa exceedingly disappoint pd. Had the occasion been a less mo ,ntous one she would have ex pressed herself freely. In her mind he thought It wss "Just like Doml alck" to have such an opportunity and t It go. A slight color deepened tha irtlflclul rose of her cheeks and for i moment she had 40 exert some con-rol con-rol to maintain the alienee that waa s'lsdon. She jjeked daintily at ber ood while aha wrestled wltb her Irri-atlon. Irri-atlon. Domlnlck showed no desire o resume the conversation, and a si-ence si-ence of some minutes' duration real-id real-id over them, until she broke It by aylng with a resolute cheerfulness f tone: "Itose Cannon waa there, too, the isper aald. I auppose you got to know er quit well?" "I don't know. I saw a good deal of er. There waa only one alttlng-room nd we all aat there. She waa there lih the others." "What'a ahe like?" aatd Berny, her urlosity on the aubject of thla spoiled hlld of fortune overcoming ber recent nuoyance. "You've aeen her." he answered, you know what she looks like" "I've never su her to know who he wss. I auppose I've paaaed ber n the streets and at the theatera. la he cordial and pleasant, or doea ahe Ive herself airs because she's 1)111 'annon'e daughter?" Domlnlck moved his feet under the ---v 1 111 1 1 .... day after jumi wn eapecl-lly good., Th Sunday before. Ckoe had heard 1. play Poet and Feasant and the Over, ture of William Tell, and It waa great I That wlb one of the worat thing about living on a ranch. Gene com. plained, you didn't have any mualo except at the men'a house at night when one of the Mexicans ployed oa an accordion. The old man, with hla elbow on the table, and a ahort. blunt-fingered hand stroking his beard, looked at hla sort with narrowed eyea full of veiled amusement. When he did not find Gene disagreeably aggravating aa hla only failure, he could, aa It were, stand away from him and realise how humorous hu-morous he was If you took him in a cerloln way. ' -"What's the Mexican play?" he growled without removing hla hard. "I Paloma," answered Gene, pleaaed to be queattoned thua amicably amica-bly by bla autocratic aire, "generally RtrirmHWMIl- He Came to the Door of the Room In Hla Shirt Sleeves. La Paloma, but he can play The Heart Dowed Down and the Toreador song from Carmen. I want him. to lesrn the Miserere from Trovatore. It'a nice to alt on the porch after dinner and listen while you smoke." "Sort of Court Minstrel," said his father, thumping down bis napkin with hla band spread flat on it. "Don Kugenlo Cannon, with hla minstrel playing to blm In the gloaming; It'a very picturesque. Did you ever think f having a Court Fool too, or pcrhapa rou don't feci aa If you needed one?" He arose from his chair before Gene, who never quite understood the lomewhat ferocloua humor of hla par tnt, bad time to rcply.- "Well, bo lopg," said the old man; 'be good children and don't get Into nlechlef. and Rose, see that your rother doesn't get loat or ao carried tway by the Poet and the Peasant -hat he forgets the dinner hour. Adlos, Irlle." - ' - A half hour later he walked down he flight of marble atepa that led la llgnlfled sweep from the front door to be street. It waa a wonderful day nd for a moment be paused, looking tilth observing eyes at the prospect f hill and bay which aeemed to gilt er In the extreme clearness of the atmosphere. at-mosphere. Like all Callfornlana be ad a atrong, natural appreciation of cenlc and climatic beauty. Preoccu-led Preoccu-led wltb thoughts and schemes which 'ere anything but uplifting, he yet 'as sensitively responsive to the plendors of the view before him, to tie unclouded, pure blue of the vault bove, to the balmy softness of the air galnat hla face. Some one had once sked him why he did not live la aria as the Ideal borne of the man of reat wealth and amall acruplea. HI newer had been that be preferred an Francisco bees use there were tore fine days in the yat there than nywhere else he knew of. Now be paused, sniffing the air with latended nostril and Inhaling It la "P. grateful Inspirations. Ills eye loved slowly over the noble prospect, oted the deep sapphire tint of the iy. the horizon, violet dark against psle sky, and the gem-like bluea and nethyata of the diatant hills. He irned hla glanoe In the other dlreo rn and looked down the gray ex-mse ex-mse of the street, the wide, clesr, ately atreet. with Its air of clean aclousnes, sunbathed, silent, al on empty. In the calm quietude- of le Sabbath afternoon. Tbe bustling oroughfares of greater cltlea, wltb elr dark, aordld crowda, their un-vely, un-vely, vulgar hurry, their distracting lae. were offensive to him. The onder crossed his mind, aa it bad ne before, how men who could ee-pe ee-pe from such surroundings rhose io main In them. He walked forward slowly, a thick . powerful figure, hla frock-coat ittonrd tight about , the barrel like undnesa of hla torso, a soft, black It hat pulled well down on bla head, la fet were broad and blunt like hla ndi, and In their aqua re-toed shoes ' planted them (Irmly 00 the pav'e rsit wltb a tread of solid, deliberate thorlty. Hla forward progress had melhlng In It of an Invincible, resist-a resist-a march. He wsa thinking deeply he walked, arranging and planning, d there waa nothing In hla figure, or mments. or the expression of hla "". which suggested the sauntering nlessueta of an af'eraooa stroiL (TO DB CUNTIXUKD.I " " 1 ' 1 - ", :.' "i1 i 1 " alwaya smoked In thla room and read the papety, and presently he picked them up from the table and began to look tbem over. Tbe conversation languished, became spasmodic, and finally died away. Uerny, leaning back on the cushions, tried several tinx'S to revive It, but her husband from among tbe spread sheets of tbe evening eve-ning press answered her with the inarticulate in-articulate aounda of mental preoccupation, preoccu-pation, and aomtlmes with no sound at all, till she abandoned the attempt and leaned back under tbe canopy In a silence that waa not by any moan a the somnolent quietude of after-dinner torpor. The clock hands were poUlng to half-past nine when a ring at the bell waa followed by the appearance of the Chinaman at the door,. stating that the expressman had rome with Mr. Ryan's valisea. Domlnlck threw down bis papers pa-pers and left the room. Aa Ilerny aat allent, ahe could hear the expressman's express-man's gruff deep voice In tbe hall and the thuds of the valises aa he thumped them down at the atalr head. Domlnlck Doml-nlck answered him and there were a few more remarks, followed by the retreating re-treating aound of the man's heavy feet on the atalra and the bang of the hall door. 8e ant looking at the clock, waiting for her husband to return, and then as he did not come and the ball aeemed singularly quiet she leaned forward and stmt an exploring glance down Its dim length. Domlnlck was not there, but. a square of light fell out from an open doorway of bla rowm. "Domlnlck." ahe called, "what are you doing?" lie came to she door of the room in hla shirtsleeves, a tall figure looking lean and powerful In thla cloaer-flttlng and lighter garb. "I'm unpacking my tblnga, and then I'm going to bed." "Oh!" she answered with a falling inflection, leaning forward, with her elbows planted on her knees, craning her neck to wee more plainly down the narrow passageway. "It'a only half-paat half-paat Vine; why do you want to go to bed ao early?" "I'm tired, and It will take me some time to get these things put away." "Can I help your she asked without with-out moving. "iNo, thanks. There's nothing much to bother about. Good night. Uerny." and he atepped back Into tbe room snd shut the door. Ilerny sat aa he bad left her for a pace, and then drew back upon the 1 Jlvan and leaned against the mound ?f pillows. She made the movement hsrlly and alowly, ber face aet In a 1 Igldlty of thought to which her body 1 teemed fixed and obedient. She aat ' hua for an hour without moving, her 1 yes staring before ber, two atralght Inea folded In the skin between ber 1 rows. 1 80 he waa atlll angry, angry and un- ' orglvlng. That was tbe way she read its behavior. Tbe coldness that he ex- laled that penetrated even her un- 1 lenaltlve outer shell she took to be ' he coldness of unanpeaaed Indlgna- 1 Ion. Helind never before been Juat 1 Ike thla. There waa a aomethlng of 1 inquired forbearance and patience ibout blm a cultivated thing, not a spontaneous outward Indication of an 13 nner condition of being which waa 1 tew to her observation. He waa not ulky or cross; be was Blmpiy with- Irawn from ber and trying to hide It 0 inder a manner of careful, guarded 1 Irlllty. It was different from any n tate she hsd yet seen blm In. but It h iever crossed her mind that It might ' e cauaed by tbe Influence or another p 'Oman. He was still angry that waa kat " krny thought; and sitting on tbe dl- " an und-r the canopy with Ita fiercely- 11 olned lancea ahe meditated on tbe " ubject. Ills winning back was far ' rotn accompllahed. He waa not as ?, eaay" as she bad always thovflht., A M llng of respect for him entered Into er musings, a feeling that waa novel. " Jr in her regard for her husband 8 lere had previously been a careless, 01 lighting tolerance which waa not far "moved from contempt. Hut If be ad pride enough to keep her thua dl aldly at arm's length, to withstand d( er attempts at forglveneae and recon- m Illation, he waa more of a man than n' lie thought, and she hsd a harder bl isk to handle than ahe had guessed. he did not melt Into anything like " If pity at the futility of her efforts. f" hlch, bsd Domlnlck known of them! ould have aeemed to him extremely r" Hhetlc That they bad not succeed- " 1 gave her a new Impetus of fqrre l nd purpose, made her think, and m heme with a bard, cool resolution 1,1 0 "make up" and gain ascendency tn 'er Domlnlck, Independent and proud- ,h Indifferent, was much more worth lo hlle than lo bully Domlnlck. patient n( idurlng and ruled by a senae of duty! ' CHAPTER XI. c re The Coda in the Machine. On the second Sunday after their re- irn from Antelope, Bill Cannon re- bi lived to dedicate the afternoon to ro tying ralla. This, at least, was what ,r 1 told his dsugbter at luncheon as he 111 le, and Gene aat over the end of the n eal. To pay ralla was not one of the I he ananxa King's customs, and In an- m' rer to Uote s query as to whom he ,u as going u honor thus, he responded at he thought bed "atari In lb flla l'ytn " aa Roe made no corn tr en t on thla In " lllgenc?. The sharp glance be rast mt her discovered no suggestion of ron- f"' lousness In tbe peach like placidity '' ber face. It gratified blm 10 h,r ua ensuspectlng. and In the mli0w g warmth of bis satlafsctloo he rnd sod addressed a pollt tUery ta -ae as to bow h Intended spenm, e afternoon. Gene and Rose, it soured, so-ured, were going to tbe park lo bear e ww4. to a d oae that H agree lathe part Sun- SYNOPSIS. Illll Tannin, tli txmania kins, ami hla tIIHll(rr. Una. h l,mi pltD-wil Up Mrl furiiollua llyun'a dull at Hnn Kranciai-o ' i- iiiniirtny n,.- fHiln r. arrive at Anli-lui. I h.rninl. k Itvmi iitlla nn III- inulher ! be h hull lii v it ton fur lila wlf. aixl la rrr'tiKiMl Tim di'lrrnilntnl olit U'ly relunea In rt'i'i(nlx lnr ilHuiciiti-r-ln luw. I turn-ImIi turn-ImIi k ihi Itrrn trMtti Into a marrlna llli lrril- Ivirn.ui, a airmigraiilirr, -ti-ntl vrHr lila artiiiir. Hli aiiuniiilira lit itiiii-y, I dry hav frriiinl iiunm-la, anil tin Hh nny. ('Hiinim ami lila il.umMfr r aiiiitircl in at AnU-l.. I him! nick It ran In r m-iii'.I from atnrin In wiron ina 1 ihkIiiIoii nnl tirniiiflil to Aiit-I fciilel. Anl-loiK ' i lit off lijr 11111111. Howl I nnihin num. - i minM k la k lo life Two werlta lnu-r It. rnlcn diw iiyira In a l"ir h-ro liutni unit write l-ur fylni; to -mhhxIi inr di'lli-iillli-a Iwlwi-n tlir-m. Iiomliiii It al lual la a hi to Join I' llnw noH txnin l iiriaoni-r In Iml.-I mr-r. mr-r. Il toa ii-tnper ovi-r lalk nf lliitrl. an ai-ior. After ilutw wrnkt, enl of lin-I'rlmmiiirnt lin-I'rlmmiiirnt In anrn Tidi-irrjin- anil mall ire. I iniiiiili-k srta i-il-r from Wlf. T ll Itonv Iik il.n-nn'l love wlfn, anil nrirr Slit. 8101 iiiImmiikI Molrt Im-iii to ilpart. I ! anl I iiilnh k vinhraci-, fmh-r . Il'ini ami ilfiliniMlu an eK(lanalion Hoan'a kimlii-r tiMiif. nni'le nmnaai-r nf ranch, a 11ft l tn K.-i it ( da aiava miImt s yrur. I 111. 11.. n rt .ri-.- -vnimliy for Ihuiil-nli'k'a Ihuiil-nli'k'a iioaition In talk Willi I to). lKiinl-ack lKiinl-ack ri-tuina home CHAPTER X.(Continusd.) On (he Siilurduy morulug she went tit betimes. Inquiry at the railway eftii-e told her that the train which 1 roniie.ted with the branch line to ' ftocky Par did not reach the city till 1 alx In the evt nlng. She ordered a din- 1 Her of the rholrest viands and spent part ttf the morning passing from stall 1 lo stsll In then ttrkuori Powell Street 1 spying about for duluiies that might sdd a In at t elnborstliig touch to the t lengthy menu. The aftiruoon was 1 fVili'ated to the solemn rids of mas- SPt;liig, manicuring, and hair-waving at a beauty doctor's. On an ordinary I ftccutionlttiefa unwonted exertions In lie j ii 1 nu 1 1 of good look a would hsve e tired hrr. but today rli' wss keyed " lo s pitch where she did not notice ni-.!l outalile tllnromfotta. h Long before alx she was dressed, b and sitting btfure the mirror In her a room she In Id on the lust perfecting ' luiiclies with a short slick of hard l nd auhstHiicf and a circular piece of r aiorsy looking while slulT, which she u rubbed with a rotary motion rouud a ami round hrr face. Her new dress of H Tiifpbtrry pink nape betrayed the h '"""" Jiand of an exrt In Its gracefully- " falling folds and the elegance with al.lt h It outlined hrr slltu. long waist- tl rd abspe. Her artificially-reddened h fcair asvtd hack from her forehead In " rl issy rlpplt's; her face, all lines and hollows rubbed from It, looked fresh d nil youthful. With the subdued light si falling on her through the silk and rt rper In mp shades, ulie looked a very 01 fretty woman, tha darkness of her r Ictig, brilliant eyes thrown into higher t ullef by the whiteness of Iter now- ni dored face. , si She was tremulously nervous. Kv- s ery sound roused her to stsrt and ol aiove to that part of tbe parlor whence ft she could linik down ftte long pas- ol rageway to the stalr-hrad. Ijtrge bunches of greenery were msssed l here In the anglea cf the hall and h stood In the corners of the sitting h rotim. Howls filled with violets snd 'r roses were set on the table and man- lr I piece, and (be scent of these-flowers, sweet and delicate, mlnttlcd wllh fit the crude, powerful perfume that the P woman s draperies exhaled with every ai movement. At Inlervala she ran Into hi her bedroom, selwd the little, round, P soft wsd of white and rubbed It over di ber face with a quick concentric move- w ment. drawing her upper Hp down aa d the did ao. which gave lo her count e- h sauce with ita anxious eyea an ex- bi pdlngly comical expression. m It wru nearly aeven o'click when so the bell rang. With a last hasty look sh In the gluss. she ran down the pas- In sageway to the atalrbrad. It waa at aeeeasiry to descend a few steps to a th turn on the stairs from whence the w fc'vrr that opened the doer could be It orked. Aa ahe stood on the amall of lending, thrown out lu bright relief fn by a mass of dark leafage that stood de In the angle of the wall, the door ipend and iVimlnlck entered. He sa looked up and aaw her s.'andlng there, rai rellv dressed, a brilliant, animated ba Bi'.re. smiling down at him "Ah. Perny," be said In a quiet, un- x motional voice. "Is lhat you?" It wss certainly not an enthuaiastlc ne greeting A sensitive woman would an have been shriveled by It. but Uerny ,ni wss not sensitive. Sha had realised f, from the start that she would prob- 1C sbly Kave to rombat,the lingering sur- A ness left by the quarrel. As Doml- nl alck saconded. her Sir of smiling we! tU4 rome was marked "by a bland cheery r), , anronarionsness of any paat unpless- antness. Sbe'waa not, however, aa br1 snronnclous as ahe looked. She noted bis havinesa of demeanor, the tired . expression of hts lifted face. He came ep the stairs slowly, not yet being completely reeovered. and H added to tbe suggestion of rvluctance. of dlCl- r ' celt and aplrttless approach, that eeemed to enrompsas him la aa un- aeea yt dUtlsw-tly-felt aura. P1" As be rose oa a levtl wltb ber. sbe th r retch a" oat str hsnds and. Isylcg n" tern oa bis shoeldera. drew blm .' s.aare fees aa Utaei k;ra Tbe 1 d s !- ef bis cetk. rf.rrr p wllh tbel' rg a--.' a'r. titiH-i the rams M si 1 h"b from h!m. not so securely confident In her debonair, smiling assurance. He patted, ber lightly on the shoulder by wsy of greeting snd said: "How are you? All right?" "Oh, I'm all right." she answered with brisk, determined sprlghtllness "You're the one to ask about You walk atlff, still. How are your feet?" She wss glsd to turn her eyes away from hla face. It looked very tired, and the alight amlle wllh which he hud greeted hrr atayed only on his Hps, did not extend to his fatigued eyea. He waa evidently angry still, angry and unforgiving, and that he should be so, when she w aa ao anxious o forget the ugly episode of the quarrel end be gay and friendly. again, dashed her spirits and made ber feel unsure of herself and upaet. She was determined, however, to ehow him that ahe had forgotten all about It, and aa he turned the angle of the stairway she thrust ber hand Inside s his arm and walked up beside blm. They might have been a bappy married mar-ried couple, reunited after an ab-aeuce, ab-aeuce, alowly coming up tbe stalra together arm In arm. A few minutes later they were seated opposite each other at dinner Tim little table glowed and gleamed, all lierny'a bravery of silver and glass 1 mustered for lis adornment. The 1 rholre and delicate dinner began with ' 1 soup that Domlnltb especially liked, 1 1 fact which Ilerny hoped he would ' lotlce and mention. She wae one of 1 hose women who hsve an unfailing ' uemory for what people like to. eat; 1 single expression of preference 1 ould remain In her mind for years 1 omlnlck and she hod not lived toft to-ft her for a month before she knew 1 verythlng in the way of food he liked ' r disliked. When she wss annoyed 1 ilth him, or especially bitter agalnat Is mother, she would order nothing 1 ul dishes that he did not care for, c nd when the was in a more friendly 1 nood. aa to-night, she would take nine and time lo arrange a 'menu oiiipored of those he preferred. He siiully did not notice these rewards ' nd punishments, but Ilerny alwsya c nought he did and was "too atub- " orn." aa she expressed it to herself. ' show thst be was affected by them. She observed tonight that be nel-fter nel-fter remarked, nor aeemed to relish Is food, but site made no comment. Iking on in a breathless, lively way. sklng questions or hla I Hp, hla ardent, ard-ent, and the condition of hla feet, a though there were no mortifying rrollectlons connected with the caase f hla sudden departure. Her only idlest Ion of embarraasment waa a ndency to avoid anything like a mo-lent mo-lent of silence and to fly from one nbject to another. Domlnlck an-wered an-wered her questions and told ber r bis wanderings with a slow, rare-il rare-il exactneaa. Save in the freexing f hla feet, which matter he treated lore lightly than It di nerved, he wss pen with her In recounting tbe smsll sppenlngs of what he railed "bla ollday." from the time of bla walk om Kocky liar to the day of hla parture from Antelope. ' They had prog reused through tbe i ih to the entree when her questions y tssed from his personal wanderlnga id adventures to his sssoclates. She id been very anxloua to get to thla ilnt, as sbe wanted to know what -gree of Intimacy he had reached Ith the Ilonanta King. Several mes slready she had tried to divert e conversation toward that subject, it It hsd been deflected by the young un. who seemed to find less per-nal per-nal topics more to his tsste. Now is wss advancing openly upon It. quiring about the snow-bound gmup Perlcy'B, and awarding to any but e august name for which her ears re pricked a perfunctory attention, wss part of the natural perversity man that Domlnlck should thy im It and expend valuable lime on acrlptiona of tbe other prisoners "There was an actor there," be Id. "snow t J In on his way to Barmen Bar-men to, a queer-looking chap, but not d." "An actor?" said Uerny, trying to k interested. "What did be act?" "Melodrama. I think. He told me plsyed all through tbe northwest d east as far aa Denver. Tbe poor ap waa caught up there and waa , -aid he waa going tp lose a Sacra mo engagement that I guesa meant ... goid deal to him. He waa culte cresting, been' in the Klondike n r 1 first rush and bsd some queer sto s sbout tbe early days up there." , Iterny'e Indifferent glance became ght and fixed under th steadying thl ert of auddca Interest. 'IVeen in tbe Klondike?" she relied. re-lied. "What was his nsmeT" am Huford. Jamef) Defsy Buford. He'd pa pn aa actor-at the opera bouse at dc B" do buford." said riemy. turning to I 1 ice a belplag of pease oa the plate 1 Chinaman held toward ber. "I lei er beard of blm. I thought per- ea pa It might have been aotae actor to aeea play. I'd "like to know aa I or in private life. They must be coi different." 'he ladled a second spoonful of laj Si !,s Hl 'IIP' j "Realty. Bsrny. I Dont Know," Answered the Victim. le. It was difficult for him to an-er an-er Perny'a queatlons politely. "She dot-en 't give beraelf the leaat a Sbe'a perfectly simple and nat-tl nat-tl and kind." "Thafa Just what I've heard." hla re aald, giving ber bead aa agree-: agree-: wag. "Tbey aay she's Just aa eaay i unassuming aa ran be. Did you nk ahe waa pretty wbea you aaw r close to?" Really. IWrny. I don't know," an-ered an-ered tbe victim In a tone of goaded leoce. "She looks Just tbe same ae to aa ahe doea at a dlatance. 1 rt notice people's looks much. Yes. up pose she's pretty." She bss blonde hair." aald Berny. nlng forward over ber plate la tbe erneaa of her Interest. "Did It look you as if It was bleached V le raised bis eyes, and bis wife en-intessai en-intessai aa aaeapcts4 la&k ct aav la them. Sbe shrank a little, be , totally unprepared for it. next to the parlor there was a tiny . hsll room fitted up as a smoking-room smoking-room and den. It wsa merely a coo- tlnuatlon of tbe hall, and "the cosy P corner" which Uerny bad had a Polk street upbolsteser construct In it, oc- cupled most or tbe available apace. and crowded such visitors as entered It Into the corners. It had been Her- " ny'a idea lo have thla room "lined with , books' as she expressed It. but their J Joint possessions In this line consisting consist-ing ot some twenty-five volumes, and tbe fact that tbe contracted space u made It Impossible to acrommodste both tbe books and tbe coxy corner. Perny had decided la favor cf the lat- . tr. Sbe now seated herself oa tbe , dlvaa that formed the Integral part of this construction, aad. piling tbe pll ) Iowa behind ber, leaned luxuriously , back aader live caaopy of variegated 11 rm&a wait waa swpt-oeted W twe fortaldable-iookiDg bacee. n DtMBlalck aat ta aiasajy chair. He " |
