Show 13 REM R I 1 A L L TO 6 aft R rs y V IV THE f PIRL H fro M HH AL I 1 S alm 0 va by MARIE VAN VORST by id CL kettner apy 1810 1910 by the botha M 3 2 SYNOPSIS dan blair the 22 year old son eon of 0 the fifty million dollar copper king of 0 blaar town mont la in a guest at tho the english home of lady gallrey Ga lorey dans father had been courteous to lord gallrey during his visit to the united states and the courtesy Is now being returned to the young roan man CHAPTER I 1 continued on the day of the shoot at dan dropped sixty birds he tried very hard not to be too pleased gosh lie he thought to lf those i birds fell as though they were e trained all right and the other sports were mad I 1 could see ed 1 he then fell to whistling softly the air he had heard lady gallrey play thia th night before from the new success at the gaiety and finished it as his toilet completed itself he took up a gardenti gardenia from his dressing table and fastened it in hla his coat stopping on the stairs oh on the wity way down to look over into the hall where the men in their black clothes and the women in their shining dresses waited before going into the dining room the lights fell on white arms and necks on jewels and and on line proud heads dan blair had been in san francisco and in new york on short journeys however which his father the year before had directed him to take but he had never seen a show like this he came slowly down the broad stairway of the park house the last guest in the corner where behind her a piece of fourteenth century tapestry cut a green and pink square against tho the rich black oak paneling the duchess of breakwater sat waiting she wore a dress of golden tulle which was simply a sheath to her slender body and from her neck hung a long rope of diamonds caught at the end by a small black fan there was a wreath of diamonds like shining e water drops linked together in fler hair she was tho the grandest lady at and renowned in more than one sense of the word As dan saw her smile at him and rise he thought she Is 19 none too sorry that I 1 made tint record but I 1 hope to heaven she wont say any anything thin to me about it and the duchess did not speak ak of it telling him that teat he was to take her in to dinner she laid first her tan fan on his arm and then her hand and dan one of those fortunate creatures who are born men inen of the world when th they ey get into it gave her bar his arm with much grace and ns as ho he leaned down toward abr he thought to himself f 6 well its lucky for me I 1 have my head on an tight a few more of those googoo goo goo eyes of hers ant and it would be as well for me to light out for the woods I 1 dan liked best at esdone park his chia chins with gordon gallrey Ga lorey tho young man was unflatteringly frank in his choice of companions when the duchess looked about for him to ride with her wall walk wlad with her to find the secluded corners cornera to talk to play with him she was likely to discover dan had gone off with lord gallrey Ga lorey and to come upon them later sitting enveloped Iv ve loped in smoke a stand of drinks by their side to gallrey Ga lorey who had no heir 0 child the boys presence proved the happiest thing that had come to him for a long time he talked a great deal to tc dan about the old man ga lorey was poor and tho the fact of a fortune of ten million pounds possessed by this one boy was continually before his mind like an obsession it was like looking down into a gold mine ga lorey tried often to broach the subject of money but dan kept oft off at length galoney asked boldly what are you going to do with it on this occasion they were walking over from the lower park back to the house a couple of terriers at their heels do with what blair asked aided innocently he was looking at the trees he was com their trunks and their foliage with the california redwoods A little aback lord rd giloroy laughed why that colossal fortune of yours and blair answered unhesitatingly oh ob spend it on somo some girl sooner or later gallrey fairly staggered then lie he took it humorously my dear chap I 1 never saw a sweeter bigger man than your father if ho he had been my father I 1 dare say I 1 might have pulled off p a different yard of hemp but I 1 must confess that I 1 think he has left you too much money well there are a lot of fellows who are ready to look after it for me blair blaar answered coolly before tits his companion could redden he continued you see dad took care of me for twenty one years all right and whenever I 1 am up a stump why all I 1 have to do is to remember the things he did for the first time since dince his arrival at dans tone was serious interested te as he was in the older man dans inclination was to evade the discussion of serious subjects with beairs blairs slang his conversation was almost incomprehensible dad gas much the boy said but I 1 could draw a map of some of the things he did say he used to say amade A made his money 0 out ut of the earth the two were walking side by side across the rich velvet of the immemorial english turf the extreme softness of the autumn day its shifting lights its mellow envelope the beauty of the park the age the the harmony served to touch the young fellows spirits at any rate there was a ring in him an equilibrium that surprised gallrey Ga lorey most things dad said to me go 90 back to the earth he struck the english turf with his stick dad eald a fellow had better buy those things that stay above the ground dan smiled frankly at his companion curious thing tor to say it he reflected ted 1 I remembered it and I 1 got to wondering after I 1 saw him burled buried what are the things that stay above the ground the old man never gave me another talk like that after a few seconds gallrey put in but my dear chap you did give me a shock up there just now when you said you were vere going to spend all your money on some girl the millionaire took a chestnut from his 1113 pocket he held it high above his head und and the little dog that had been yelping at his heels fixed his eyes on it blair poised it then threw it as tar far as aa ho he could it sped through tue the air and the terrier ran like mad across the park 1 I like girls awfully gordon and when I 1 find the i bt one why then tim im going to feel what a bully it is to bo be rich lord giloroy groaned aloud my lily dear chap he exclaimed the spell of tho the day the fragrant beauty ot of the time and place and hour were clearly upon dan blair lo 10 lord i r d gallrey was sympathetic to him the terrier came tearing back with tho the chot abo nut held between his thick jaws dan bent down to take the aut from the dog and wrestled with him gently swell little grip hes got nice old pup let it go now and he throw threw the nut far a again ain and as the terrier ran once moro more blair thrust his hands down in his pockets and began softly to whistle the tune of mandalay lie ho said slowly going back to tits his subject it must be great to reel feel I 1 that a fellow can give her jewels like the duchess of breakwaters ropes or em cm he nodded toward the house band and a fine old place like this now and motors and yachts and all kinds of F tuff ills his eyes rested on an the suave lines of tho the elizabethan house with its softened gables and its banked terraces possibly his vivid imagination pictured some nice girl there waiting as they should come up to meet him 1 I have always thought it would be bully to find a poor girl pretty as a pa poach ach of course one who had never had much and just cover her with things hey therel there ho he cried to the terrier who had come running back bring it to me they had bad come up to the terrace by this and dans confidence fresh as a gush of water from a rock had ceased his face was placid ho he realize what he had said from out of ono one of the long windows dressed in a sable coat her small head tied up in a motor acara abart CD SZ I 1 I 1 va 11 3 0 U 73 r the duchess of breakwater appeared the duchess of breakwater appeared she greeted them severely and lord gallrey heard her say under her breath to dan you promised to be back to drive with me before dinner dan did you forget and as gallrey left the boy to make his peace the first smile of amuse ment broke over his face he felt that the duchess had between her and her capture of dan beairs blairs heart the elusive picture of some nice girl not much perhaps but it might be very hard to tear away tho the picture ot oi the ideal that wits was ever before the blue eyes of this man who had bad a fortune to spend on herl her CHAPTER 11 II the duchess approves his attentions to the duchess of breakwater had not been so conspicuous or so absorbing as to prevent the eager mothers who true to her word lady gallrey had invited down from laying stage siege to dan blair lady ga lorey asked him dont you want to marry marry any one of these beauties dan and blair with his beautiful smi leand what lily called his inspired candor answered not on your life lady Galo gallrey I 1 and she agreed 1 I think myself you are too young no dan refuted you are wrong there I 1 shall marry as fast as I 1 can ills his hostess was surprised why I 1 thought you wanted your fling aina first and dan from bis chair in which with a book he had been sitting silting whon whom lad giloroy found him answered cheerfully oh I 1 dont like being alone I 1 want to go about with some one I 1 should like ithe a fling all right but I 1 want to lulng with somebody as I 1 go the lady of the house was not a philosopher nor an analyst she had certain affairs of her own and was on en grossed in them and lived in them As tar far as lady gallrey was concerned the rest of the world might go and hang itself as long as aa it do it at her gatepost gate post but blair leave any one indifferent to him very long not unless one could bo be indifferent to a blaze of sunlight one must either draw the blinds down or baak in its brightness she laughed youre perfectly dell clous you mean to say you want to be married at once and lot let your difo alfo fling around with you just that abat how sweet of you dan and you wont marry one of these girls here dont nil the bill lady gallrey Ga lorey oh you have a sweetheart at home won then all off he assured her blithely and rose tall and straight and slender slander the duchess of breakwater had come in indeed she never failed to when there was any question of finding blair dau dan stood straightly before the two women of an old race and the amerlean american su suggest agest any line of ancestors whatsoever ills his features fea turea were rather conglomerate his muscles were possibly not the perfect elastic specimens that were those muscles whose strain and sinew had been made from the same stock for generations ho he was nevertheless very good to look on any woman would have thought so and he bent his blond head as he looked at the duchess ot ol breakwater w with th something like benevolence ne ue something of his fathers kindness in his clear blue eyes byes neither of the noble ladles ladies vaguely understood der tood stood him his hostess thought him a good sort not half bad a splendid catch and the other woman only a few years his senior was in love with him the duchess had married at eighteen tired of her bargain at twenty and found herself a widow at twenty five she hold held a telegram in her hand weve got the box bos for mandalay tonight at the gaiety and lets motor in 00 TO BE CONTINUED |