Show A C aj 0 E OPP im LITTLE GROWN and CO CHAPTER I 1 continued 17 pauline he suld said leaning it 11 little forward you are udo rahle 1 I suppose it poes goes without that you should find tire me so sin she nil 1 dered 1 composedly 1 I suppose also that I 1 must api penult you ou tle the privilege j of my illy christian name oil oi the 0 otlien it V j hand do not try to ret get on oo no 1 will yon youl I 1 must warn you iou that yol ou i have reached the he ex ext teine of ni illy complaisance ills eyes ees flashed for a moment he it was much too spoilt to regard tier her in difference as anything an tiling inore than part 0 of tire the galip auni it was a duel direl berwein bet the two the result of which lie scarcely doubted hut but with ills fits to ii xa al 1 impetuosity he resented delay you wll accept me file some onto flav dav lie paid eald wh why not nowa now we VP could n nd the honeymoon in parts I 1 and nil go on in to tho the lakes or we could ile he married ut at the emeny y in ili I P als if you liked you re taking base nf this loney lonely spot site she murmured dip III ping tier her hand in the lie water 1 I I 1 anve told you ou that I 1 am ain lit in love loi with fin an other nun non you will forget him film in a uk v e ek gerald assured tier latr 1 I 1 ani am a most companionable person 1 I have no doubt that you have hae given ninny many people the opportunity of you iou so slie she replied dills 0 rily I 1 trin ain not prepared just let aj for such tin an experiment pauline lne do boti IMP me a little tie he asked earnestly site she looked bilm flit in tile the eyes ai not very ery antich she admitted frankly frnnk ly you see the nicer p pirt of me hie the part with which I 1 should care Is numb fumu numbed with tune little tile most that I 1 can sni le I 1 that if you me are very ven kind I 1 WAY into change to some extent ement personally I 1 think it hopeless you consider I 1 suppose lie suggested telling me file your 31 our history now that we are on a slightly different hunk vt ing is 9 nothing would induce tile me to of tile tho sort slit slip replied 1 think that wp we have hae left my lily n alet int alone quite long loll 1011 ough lie he took tit the scull and flug dug it into the still stagnant water lie did it not pleak again until they reached ica elied llie elie funding stage ebore ali ie Is tills his other roan man lie he asked is as lie handed tier her out slie site thought for several moments before bhe answered then slit she turned toward him with the air ab of one who lias has arrived fit at a decision the other man slie site declared hired Is ni my brother lie he Is in if prison con delliner del lined to what you call all I 1 believe hc penal servitude CHAPTER 11 lord flinter leys hearted hack back in ills chair and prepared to enjoy enna ills grent PM eft treat during the duy day lils his one glass of vintage port so you did it not go to after nil gerald lie remarked on alic lip e ee ning nine of the lat hitters batters arrival tit nt hinter leys leis no I 1 RO go sir arnld gerald replied some sol ne old fi lends of mine turned up in town I 1 have haie been spending it g KW u lilt deal of time with them ll itin 1 I would limp have preferred hearing hirl ns that had lieen been on the ills fi rither observed with etli a glance nt at ills mons non pallid face unit and careworn cuie worn I 1 london in always seeing efina to life ine intolerable it ins ns certainly very cry lint 11 gerald admitted 1 I 1 was on the river rier a great deal or of till alic billic tho ligh fliers wius MIS it short silence lord was ns w n it rule rifle it resen ell man and fin lie he disliked ithe tusk 14 lip hp hild had set UP ile ed with it for n few fc moments lookin through flip high aindow vin dow neros burnst the terrace to the garden gardens i below ilis face Foft softened ened ns as lie he glanced ni lit the hit two girlish seated tinder the lie cedar tree where coffee was being served you ou have been allty ull ty I 1 suppose t cippo c gerald lie he said raid artly arll of the usual nullifier of In discretions hut but one fiction of nf yours ours which to conle come tinder hut heading I 1 liall f always re member with gratitude myrtile Is the most wonderful child who ever entire to in brighten a dull housel lio lold i im eind you ym approve ni prove of tier her sir 0 M replied indifferently wore I 1 study tier her bord I ord alln went on earnt ly tire the intire phe fhe fills me ine with 11 II stenis st i enis cina as am though slie she be sonic some BOH agit of a spiritual changeling I 1 have always bon b on cn ns As you know ritt lier r a Pt Ickler for race Is tine of those marvelous exceptions which w up pet et all argument areu arcuni ment ent she Is an ardito arnt to ro the alner tips tn in every wm wily small mall or great hint counts it seem elit though it were absolutely impose sible for hf her to do an ungracious or was thing abe has destroyed every prejudice I 1 posses possesses seu ti cinyd us interested intoci tit t lusi last it wais nits ninny years airs since lit lie lind had known knout its alithe so 1 I 1 uin am ery rv klod you 0 o kept tier hem sir if tic rein inked lied 11 1 I nin lhnn aind 1 im ani th ink flit fill was ns tile alie fervent reply 1 I look furnal furn tl alti it pleasure which I 1 fin se SLi sicely ecsi alf to lie liobis silo sla gives tit up for lily in 10 to lo watch tier too during the last year tills hns been like watching if beautiful flower she anade it conquest t of you von nt fit imy rate daid III gerald rent it rk ell Ld 11 1 thought itself that slip she looked per factly feltl tit lit flimer dinner fill tunit slie she lini fins made it conquest of tile in to to nn fill extent which I 1 should never hap halt believed liell pud possible pos sll lard nd lilt nil tied glancing neross ut tit his fits royl am 1 I 1 have lin hn I 1 nn fin federly ld fl innas desire ocr told to welcome lionie to IlIn ferley i it lie whom liori you on might de doliar to lo clione for foi a wife afu I 1 have kept it 11 little list in ni ily inland of tile lie young bonien at it present known to society bot lct libin chiw it would enild gle file DIP to si here I 1 limp have never for one mccond contain plated the hie addition to 0 o 0 th it list of nf tit tin tin unknot known tn person and yet ct thee alif ri Is 14 no nn question of if anything nm tiling 0 of f that sort between in lip clr I 1 r geduld declared breaking R patie pati e lord sipped ills port find looked once biot moio out of it tire lie inflow gerald it little startled by bv his father expected w 18 con selous of that one ald ili li parta lit fit the law 1 il if burls purls 0 4 FF va nothing would induce me to do anything of the sort she replied of ch kristop tiers stern pluie or of that strange medley of sensations the flare nf fir passion which wined deemed to lime have perished in ili the of ch i s tl ile he too looked out nut of tile lie window ando ln do myrtile find luon been if child then sho was iia i n now non more inore more inore gra clotis just ns as eoin corn plemely v arg inal yet Y t to him slie she existed ls ud lit fit that ninni ent only ns as the picture of if something om ething that lind find passed 1 I mil ain afraid lila his f it little sadly ii illy that adne 4 riot not look finnk n at it in ilif filp tin flit samp way I 1 linw evl CUT that li Is nothing tt it inny lir lip pilly it 11 nort kirt f of f if librn ro worship with lit r it Vs you I 1 tand vill lio took tile hie initiative in bringing lier her anway nn finin tier hoine tier rier indifference to tn mr ex Is it link abnormal for tw lier lears as it 4 when hie fill right bilan art iea s I 1 vav n thal nn ain brove aban tiny other living lord s comly slowly finished ills lil ulin ill gerald produced lis hs f allbe alli l you lire art ready sit sir lip lie askel I 1 will you n take fit urn arin not nit ro it moment mai tile HIP reply you vou perceive from lily aper rp r to 0 o that I 1 nm am in it run nall I 1 frania nf if mind I 1 shall K go men cun to proe it ani you wont ont mind mv mi sir not ot in the tic least Ger bertild tild 1 I 1 n not 11 t us its it rule interfere in aili suh matters m ahrn ns its aw ih know hut but I 1 alp tithe if 11 ver verbell bill nil nut t nril interest I 1 think in your lour elites clites find your our affairs generally it hat has come to mi iny knowledge chri in gh various flint you yiu irive sill rit lie HIP gre gretiver titer part of it the lie last n ianth with alth two tio lol lolale dle hearing it 11 aniu naine nn wint and a alece I 1 belleve both unknown to tn engllish society soc leti alint that Is I 1 true ahr gerald lord pon con tinned finite though again I 1 nm nin it little citi tride nir my province I 1 must confess that I 1 was disturbed to tit hear har h ar from sir mr that you rou had offered for side a portion of the lai teall property and were considering a n mort kuke upon lt hantl 1 I 1 do d not know why ur mr llon liena dovar over should hould have troubled you with niece meat emalls berald said ald a 6 little uneasy but in ili the main they are correct 1 I mak maew you un an allowance ullo KB an you yon know h now ills father continued n as my only son eon mid and the lie heir to of the five thousand it a year which I 1 can well tifrit 1 to ilo do you yourself a portion of house in town ton ana boti ou line have tile ube tr f my lily bei there your aur polo pontes ponies in by express arrangement 1 to my lily own chiule t expenses eapen ti you must forgive lily feeling boine surprise I 1 therefore nt at tin the fact that lint you little found it neve ary to raise lane clinis slims of iti olley sri erald did was na silent t for a moment col isel ou 3 of unit and inwardly resenting illi flithers anxious ilous iii scrutiny solo tiling of tile the bitterness hakli lie wait feeling showed itself perhaps in lilt tone 1 I needed flip lie il nione lolley dad lie said it t will mill till nil tome come buck to to tile me of 01 its value milne it if tile lie necessity la Is fx ht 11 your hiir nl fit curd or on tin the turf loid lend 1 I snaking ao ini u onie advance nii acl spit if to having you ou part with etli land which belonged to your our meat great krind grand mother mot lier oi 01 executing it upon liny part of your property 1 I have the hie money for or a different pui purpose pose gerald it a purpose which lil cli precluded m illy apply ing to you ion there are other lh oled you ion line have never pi resented to 0 o my lily mind gerald iem ll ills father lid ad knitted ni being a likely tool for the lie or harples of the world orld I 1 shall continue to believe hint voll ou live able to take dire fir of your belf although I 1 am hound bound t to say tint that I 1 regret your hick of confidence 1 I shall tie in a n position to tell yuji you t the he whole story ator very ij shortly gerald promised 1 the element of secrecy eliout it tit lit two nothing to do with etli file 1110 they madi way MI the window on oil to the aliu terrace down don ilie t haf apps ps and net 0 o the HIP lawn to the cedar tree MM tile was standing bedino the coffet tray find and gerald iris hir fathers recent words gazed ht at tier with etli it new though soine willit lilli guld interest the thin thinnest neso or of fr benr ago lind half given cluce to lie slender per rici tion or of early onil ES alic hild tile lie air of being wholly und and gracefully nt at ea adif e yet jet ow alie swe sweeties etnes or of her sin 11 C it II certain ever present but ru give desire to ph viv seethed like tile hull 1 i of her konstant von stant but unexpressed KI tiido lady iid mary min and lulled in u flit if cigarette between her teeth there wits it tele telegram grim upon lier her ahnee silo content cont tnt with life 11 fo une have you ion tile news she asked christopher lias fills been invited to fund for west leeds it Is it 11 cr cor tain split sent find ile he lias fills opted ile he la 13 coming down don tomorrow afternoon good old christ 1 I gerald cinyd 1 though alint flat on lin earth cm ali lie wants eints to half ills time pottering lottering pott ering ahoua the lie house of cow irions for I 1 cant your friend christopher llant alent lord observed finds ill pleasures without a doubt somewhat interfered with by the possession ot of so some I 1 ile of principles lie HP will lie very welcome iere bere my coffee arid the evening cven lii paper it if you please myrtile Myr tilts ut find momentarily wandered fler eyes were fixed upon gerald who alin was MIS looking paler find tired than ever in the lie clear ere ailing twilight lou loll found it liot hot in ill the city silo she ti akal ked setly ns she ole poured out tile lie c coffee 0 fr ee lie ile frowned impatiently there Is nothing which irritates a selfish man diore thon the evidences of till in direction which he ines does riot nut covell if it was as I 1 dont deserve estre fin tiny y byrn pathy lie replied 1 I wits only if there I 1 ere because it fit inc TO dr BB CONTINUED CONTIN UnD |