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Show You Never Can Tell By H. IRVING KING McClure Newspaper Syndicate, j WNU Service. j AT RS. LORRAINE was talking I w;th ner lawyer. "It was nice j of you to come down when I sent for you," she was saying. "I am fully aware that, in CLlfn-r these days, if you S I want to see your 5 14 f D T legal adviser you j 3 il 1 I must go to his office. It is only in novels ! 5 TORY f English life that the 'family lawyer' runs down to his client's country place at the summons of his employer." em-ployer." "I always enjoy a visit to Oak-i Oak-i hurst," replied the old lawyer gallantly, gal-lantly, "first because it gives me a chance to enjoy the society of Mrs. Lorraine, and secondly because it is such a beautiful place to run away to for a few days." Mrs. Lorraine laughed. She was a sprightly old lady who looked like a piece of Dresden china and had the snappiest of black eyes. "You charming old courtier," said she, tapping Mr. Alward's arm with her fan. "Now it's just this; My grand-nephew grand-nephew and heir, Harry, has just been graduated from college and I have brought him down here and selected a wife for him. I am going go-ing to marry him to Constance Martin. Mar-tin. She is just the girl for him." "Has he seen her yet?" asked Al-ward, Al-ward, who was aware of Mrs. Lorraine's Lor-raine's off-hand way of doing things. "No," replied the old lady, "but he will tonight. Constance and her mother are to arrive this afternoon for a two weeks' visit." The lawyer looked across the lawn and saw two young people strolling slowly toward the house. In the j young man he recognized Harry Lorraine. His companion was a girl j with golden hair, a beautiful com- j plexion and a graceful form. The i two were in earnest conversation, j "Who is the young lady with Har-; ry?" asked Mr. Alward. ! "Oh, she is Helen Capwell, the daughter of a poor relation of ours, j whom I took to live with me as a companion upon her father's death j last year. Harry is very fond of : her and so am I. She's a sort of a ! cousin of Harry's, you know." j THE doubts of the lawyer at to i the wisdom of Mrs. Lorraine in throwing such a charming young lady into Intimate association with a nephew she was planning to marry to an heiress were strengthened strength-ened when the strolling pair reached the piazza and he was Introduced to Helen. But he kept his thoughts to himself and that evening took Mrs. Lorraine's instructions for drawing up legal papers settling half her fortune for-tune upon Harry Lorraine and Con-nance Con-nance Martin upon their marriage; the remainder to go to them upon the old lady's decease. Constance and her mother had arrived late in the afternoon. Constance Con-stance was as pretty as Helen, though of a different type, and had had more worldly advantages. But for himself the old lawyer preferred the unsophisticated simplicity of Helen. And, watching Harry closely, close-ly, he imagined that he did, too. As the lawyer was taking an early troll about the grounds next morning morn-ing he chanced to pass along a path running beside a high hedge. He heard voices behind the hedge and recognized them as the voices of Helen and Harry. "Oh, Harry," Holen was saying, "you would be sacrificing too much." "Nonsense," replied Harry; "the money my father left me is mine to do as I please with and " The young people passed on and Alward did not hear the end of the sentence but he could guess its purport. What ought he to dot Speak to Mrs. Lorraine? Speak to Harry? Speak to Helen? No, he decided. He would not meddle. MONDAY morning, Just before Alward left, Harry asked to ace him privately in the library. The lawyer thought he knew what was coming. Harry was going to confide in him, and, ohl how he hated to receive the confidence. "Mr. Alward," Al-ward," said Harry, opening Die conversation, con-versation, "you are aware that my lather left me $20,000. You have een my cousin, Hjlcn. and have, doubtless, been struck by her beauty and goodness." Oh, Lord, it was coming! "Yes, yes," groaned the lawyer, "a most charming girl. But without fortune, I understand; and. from her lack of early advantages, and ignorance of society, not exactly calculated or fitted, I should say to make a suitable suit-able wife for a er ?r . . ." "My aunt," interrupted Hurry, "would never consent to Helen marrying mar-rying at all. She wants to keep her here always as a companion. As to Miss Capwell marrying 'above her station,' as Mrs. Lorraine would ny, Helen Is engaged to a young man in the next town a commercial commer-cial traveler who has a chance to ' be taken Into his firm tf he can put up $r).()()ll. I want you to arrange to j make him a loan of that amount for J five 3'cars without interest. Can you draw up tlie necessary papers for me?" I "With great pleasure," replied I Mr. Alward. And he whs so pleased that tie never sent Hurry a bill for his services in the matter. Three month iiflcr his visit to Oakhurst Mr. Alward received an Invitation to tho weddinK of Harry Lorraine and L'uiisl.iiu c M.irliu. |