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Show Van Kess's Honeymoon. BY ADA MAY KRKCKEIt. (Copyright. 1MI. by Dally Btnrv Pub. Co) Tha boy bad lent tor Ashbee to htl.i them. "She's th aort of thing a (el-low (el-low never forget," Dalulae - had written, "Sweeps everything before her, wltaont any body le'lK aqls ImpreHS hor. Wa fellowa lire nut at words' polnte; I'd God-apccd1 any lucky chap who got run on her. You're a pretty clevor one and say your heart's of marble so you'd better bet-ter come over and vindicate us." After that Ashbee had rather looked (or something superb, and during his first few mumonts beside MIiuj Moselle's Mo-selle's hammock wns perhaps at some loss to understand tho potency of allurements al-lurements which radiated from so nondescript a fnco nnd (Inure and certain cer-tain boyish attitudes Ihut flavored of a boardlug-house hoyden out for fun. The apple of a score of glowing masculine eyes and the sole Insi'iratlou of half as ninny apiieallngly diligent tongues,' the little lady In the middle of the evening suddenly leaped out of ner hammock to scamper across to ti cluiter of wutl-flowors. A nuiulier ot men trailed after hor. Anhbco. whoso conversation with her hnil uparklel, turned fretfully to Dalbluc with: "It's her blusted Indifference that drives you donkeys mad. Why don't you get up a rival game? 1 eo there are lots here that are worth while." "That's where you c tiff It. Goosle." Calblnp answered. "We'll all hack jrou In anything you try but the client-nutty client-nutty Jeuloimy trick Is no go. You should sen hor exiling us util Uut I thouitht you probably would he getting get-ting busy wllh the lady by thl" Unie ao made other plans for the ovenliu. Cotno nlong!" "Tbunk you. I'll elny here." Ashbee ( rejoined thoughtfully, remaining In the very chair ho had (list chosen for sn Inspection uf the 1Ioiic.hu, nnd soon "I don't bellevs yon csre" growing dreamily spiithctlc to his environs. en-virons. Late In the evening when the deflation def-lation of the verandah had teen perfected per-fected and tho empty chairs were ghosts of the earlier mirth. Hoielle same fluttering back after a book bo had left In the hammock. 3h glanced glanc-ed at Aahbea but ha kept bla ayes Died upon a widow with her small boy tracing a lugubrious stroll over tha lawn. Hotel le tossed herself Into tha hammock and lay there, keeping Infinitely silent Well, Aahbea had MM VfiWf w 'I "I'm a villain, too." been somewhat piqued and If Roielle would not speak neither would he. It seemed a full half hour when she at Inst observed: "I don't believe you care especially for women's society, do youT" "That wuuld be a rather rude admission ad-mission to make to you. Miss Iloielle." ' on. no, you mustn't mind me," the Kil l linuhed. "I think I hut's fine and wish I could talk with you. You won't rare Just for ono evening will youT When it s almost over at that!" Tli:s IrrnsUtlble Ingenuousness melted melt-ed away every barrier to a long and d lei table tete-a-tete. As the two ported port-ed Ashbee sucKOHted that they go for a walk on the morrow, aud whon she cried "Jolly!" he smiled a thousand times while reflecting upon the In-stuntaneousness In-stuntaneousness of Ms success. "A little coolness: that's all she needed!" As for the others, printer's Ink cannot can-not portray tho parulysls that soiled the knot of young fellowa and all the clouj of wltnessea at the hotel as one alter another, by little and little they perceived the miracles that were being be-ing wrought by Asbbees hands. It was thut gentlemun's second night at tho hotel and the moon swam from out a cloud at half after eleven ta Illumine bla large frame and to glisten glis-ten on the auburn tints of Miss Ro-relies Ro-relies dark tresses as the two meandered mean-dered In and out among the shrubbery on Mio lawn. The third night, and when the circles along the verandah had been broken up for the night certain cer-tain discerning eyes spied a rowboat floating down with the tide, they two alone within. At the hop a day or two later Ashbee had Miss Rozelle's best dances and at Intervals between bore off with her to lover's crevices among the palmy decorations. One morning she tripped over to the station sta-tion with blm. There wss a certain coquettish unohtruslvennss about their movements which was past finding out and made them the more serious. |