Show LADY LARKSPUR by MEREDITH NICHOLSON ag agis 1 by an carrle boo 3 COUNT 8 nopal ao anc richard s dwle BUO ce baul aaa american playwright con 1 I to his hl friend I 1 bob ad singleton at ta 0 the act as thin that inspired PI by the AS of af ft you young all aceres B whom he ha be nod see een in 11 laa london lie AS baa ans written A I 1 wv lady a larkspur I so clely 1 with the thought that bhe ahe 0 d interpret atie a hem leading 1 char it acter r athla girl bar violet dewing has donn disappeared nd re auses to to allow I 1 in the play to he bo pro pla deuced with A none A else in the part singleton a ha ass returned 1 in from FI franco fice ce where here he add had been berving in in the eval evalon aviation on corps hla A uncle raymond ad 0 baafi o to ford wealthy anny man a sea had contracted a a nor hort time her before to hr da while has I 1 OD ft I 1 asil it to 10 japan he I 1 letl single 1 IA ion a S comparatively mail b mount at ot 1 only money ar and th the privilege or of aski I 1 in the KB am v rage of A hl ummer he home barton on cal the sound connecticut an mm and to Is bellied ahel AH el to As ix he 1 1 ing 1 in the be orient orant tiie household cla so at fout barton 1 la mode up of elderly aci alse ot if the in a no new york lintel where he bashford mado a his he home by to the onne of ho alb will thee people 1 are ha to ha have 0 a home base at barton tor the rest 0 ot thel their ines a singleton goes to ill bar or ton no asking man him use the manu arda A 0 lady lera larkspur there Is he B fanda as the household strangely el ut upset sorn boine of ita As mci obera being A acea by their il com comrades base radea ot it pro antonio head of 1 we the establishment eforia hom him that he haa been perplexed honal by clr A ome a I 1 what in ro asia or of apparently a rem a foreigner o ass coking hout mrs m Bash tord d anno antoine A ha id tha fies male and bembera of 01 the be household held W into a guard emard tor pro singleton reada ady lark larkspur 0 pur with approval pares I I 1 aunt alice abra trac unexpectedly P ln becu ali a iad licely reception and I 1 lurn or out to bo be young as a and ar arh h mra ase r I 1 her or traveling ea companion soland torrence bashford ho lawi er the due two women hoakes 1 ane aZes and ad warm singleton aunt I alice may he be an ha Impo panno ator CHAPTER li II continued 77 7 its her manner of speaking of things mr singleton it it t seem fitting filling in a widow and a her so eo total lately bare bereaved oved and the older ind ad 3 quite as bad sir the maids tell fell me they keep heep talking all day about fairies aad ad pretending the re queens and arch like and talking tailing poetry to each bell other othe the late master never in staged in such things sir ho he would have aled longer if he be laid had I 1 it was probably the poetry and ad fedas I 1 that but attracted traded at him to mrs alm baaford tea sir he acquiesced with still a gulp 1 I 1 suppose you re right sir you should be grateful to mra mm bashford tor for not net bouncing you all al for far the row you made last night it could be time done 1 in fact mr fr 1 lorrence I real Is has augles suggested BUg t it that legal in means I 1 could be or found f for getting rid of you yon that hat would be very sad and sir he aa aid id humid humbly halt alra 11 bashford lelnd kind to you hasa been aishe t she taken pales to make you el 11 II f ewt at home betl yes it er but she a taken el is ie hell back let into the he house aud ad the there no rk for hes bee there then being two women in the laundry already and ad she boa 4 told san ie dutch must be given his old place to charge or of the poultry and both being 1 germany gemus ou on will ill r recall LL it I 1 a anut her kind heart you till idiot it all hem been spoiled that a whole what a the matter with you it es causes us feeling that all 11 sir air it needa led t cause it it if you brute brace up and ad act ilk lahe a man I 1 re totted retorted then airy oiry I 1 had it beso been BO it harsh tell I 1 added we must wk take good rare care of mrs mm bashford antoine it ifould on I 1 it be your W old it cons master net is kh it would be wise wins to be keep 4 guard gourd at the house for or the limmet la ill ease cam your mysterious stran ter ifer turns A up P gain again he couldn coulden t be have failed to note my hung change ot of tons tone rant about the unknown visitor but he an made its no comment the guards guard zat set sir front and rear mor while therea theme no danger shat whatever ever tt it deot just a aa well to take no chances please tell the boys to send for me immediately at say any hour hear of tue the ight it if they aee say any prowlers allers beat about very vary ahod air but it if you please aue all he be had bd cad reached the gae and ad he be lingered boasted fingering his hot hat nervously vu if I 1 ft I 1 t tor for the ladies talking talk about spirit wed med nit all feel better sit air youre you re far from being a fool an wine tome those ladies just play at be having in such mch rubbish it if they really believed in ghosts you yen may be sure aure hey t talk about it at table win lefore ilk like you and ad me A though this deemed sit to impress JI him moment later sit a I 1 was drawing down the beades in my bedroom I 1 aw ans him r running lug across the W lawn like st rabbit CHAPTER 11 A fee fan the th moral incoming mail all brought a letter f from vion beat lea acknowledging my to con Bratu lations t I 1 are on an his play while in my enthusiastic thi ostia praise pleased him he waa very cry scornful acorn at ful of my suggestions nit mg even oil more or it pressed present than when he talked to on me D it 6 allies his for in mi to lo idea copier ork ck lauy larkspur ate it alie agui out of me I 1 in I dode did finished cla clean demend D out of the running 19 T there t only this to relan t I 1 had a letter from delta dalton saving lug that some same time ago he be asked it t the lost hotel where he sent beat the script of lad lady I 1 to know whether miss dewing des lug Is had A it slut sent a f forwarding idiak ad dress her he r acau accumulated and abed mall mail bad been beau called tied to for b by some borne one who whoa identity was mas not ill disclosed lobed 0 of f course cents this 11 isn t much to hang a rope on but if that play Is what I 1 think it Is and miss violet I 1 joica dewing deming eser eer reads made it sued shea going gain g to jump for far the telegraph office the moment a site finishes the last act I 1 have base DO plans tor for returning east the folks folka at home let me a do as I 1 please and its it s a relief to be in sello ao 10 aioo where shere I 1 hear nothing of the doings ot of Broad broadway vay I 1 hope your an dent clent globe trotting aunt still lingers in the far east bastl I 1 keep the ink now flow ing son that noel ought to be well 11 under m ottav av n when hers I 1 get back ties the tale I 1 had begun seemed utter trash fresh in comparison with the story of alice cashford Eash ford in which much against my will mill I 1 had become a minor character I 1 had bad rather prided in myself self on my ability to see through a plot la a the first chapter of the most campli rated 3 story story but there were mere points in this ritten tale that b baffled allied me a i kept anav from the house until ill dinner time when h I 1 we was received quite as a no old friend by alice and mrs farnsworth the table talk was oas of celtic poetry matry and ironed I 1 less e as disturbing to antoine than the previous might ni glita discussion of ghosts their day had been beau loot they ex in a further in examination of my uncle calls a japanese loot and they had taken a long walk salk bid the estates boundaries and were mere enthusiastic about the landscape it a so BO beauttis be beautifully auttin ily peaceful all about here alice murmured 1 I feel that et I 1 AS neer want vaut to rooe mass again that a a real tribute to america idease mrs I 1 arnsworth arns worta remarked for allen alice dearly loves lose new men es she icher led a taste for or travel from her father iho he put some a new places on an the map crops you yen know knew I 1 dian didn t know and I 1 I 1 wanted to ask ii que aUona about alice a father but as aa though anxious I 1 to frustrate such in a quires my aunt asked how close wo so ere to the file place made famous by Is rael met ampe from dj if I 1 choca the mystery is I 1 So ived the british sho she had read mad the efort for bad and would motor to the scene merne she be de blared it was quite clear that them were chapters in her life that we were I 1 out not to be opened tor for my perusal no 0 o sooner somer had bad I 1 caught a glimpse of a promising page I 1 than im A the book vs was politely poi closed A curtain hung betheen the immediate present at barton bartolon Bar an the file sound and other scenes and inci dents denta of the girls girla life itte and mes aira farnsworth was wag equally detached from any tangible fungible background it that I 1 might meet them dally daily for the file rest of my life in till tills same mine friendly fashion without adding a particle to my knowledge of ill them I 1 became alert immediately when shen a eg we to rose in from the table alice said wah uie the nit air of asking an unimportant tobar favor vie IN a were em speak speaking 1 ng last night of if a man who has blea been asking tor for us here his visits has base alarmed the servants bat there them ts Is nothing to acar flare him you know she am smiled at mrs mm t k armsworth its it a rather he who she beeam ill to fear us that at j tast ti 1 la our implies 1 stan blon though we be hae no idea why y he should do so still I 1 its is tather other good tun fan to find yourself an object of asp end attention old to be followed een r pursued U leve 4 a chea led him oa AS a lif t tie i laven t me ite coasts constance 1 7 mrs a foreso th laughingly admit led thu chii they tied had led the gentleman a on a trine trifle but with OIL all tian lion sh ehe protested P rot shed ft 1 a met of him here unit and it there ere 1 in tokyo and ad later were to tn find ill him on our steamer we ahr threw w him off in the canadian rockier m where hem 0 a e stopped tor far a day and ad elii 1111 cd it I 1 we ini in chicago where here he was as 0 evl 1 dently denatly 11 liing W in wait it tor for aa u 1 de delightful ligh fill I 1 I 1 exclaimed but please don t get the idea the that I 1 the ali ninn annoys us u interposed mrs met Farm anath orall tar jar from it I 1 tried alice oue seen A enough of us AS baill perhaps P to understand that we e enjoy little ad colors eald aid sirs mrs the man ads to be interested in ID M mr I 1 fords 3 art treasures tres lures antoine s stort start about the la Is ruth earth r against that but bat we will give him the benefit of the doubt ahat we As are hoping Ss Is that something really amusing way mn come came of his persistent pursuit IN till you and the army of se sen aels at here we feel perfectly safe so were tor for giving filing him eiery chance to show his bond re he Is the count giuseppe Gluf eppe said mid nay my aunt vi a im ho rep represents ants himself as a co a R lover of the beau filleul 1 7 I lie he nl silly 1 a solved I 1 it I 1 ia eny busy to understand why he has haunted the tha place its quite easy count 11 la sell erv a alous lous to see the porcelains ains 1 I anaut to the pottery but I 1 I 1 shan ban t press ill the matter 1 I aaice you not to your remark was mas highly Ini improper proper train from a nephew to an aunt I 1 I 1 hem have told you about all I 1 know of at tills this italian gentleman I 1 sol am going to nak ask a favor he telephoned honed tr St stanford fd this aft afternoon erneen to kno know whether we tied had arrived A and d I 1 bade him call tonight I 1 should be glad ad it if you would ouid remain until he leaves I 1 should like to know n what hat you make ut f him v certainly I 1 assented pleased that she had bud taken me into her confidence and deeply curious as to the italian connoisseur Vs tt hat bat she bad told we me so an frankly and plausibly did not how e eier or touch upon the matter of the in I 1 terest e met simon shown by the american state its de pertinent parti nent in mv sum aunt a arrival at ber bar ton which Jesu troubled bled me am much all more a than the smile of the italian who he had foland follo nid the hie women across the pacific can count A t menthol blensly and ad was recall ed in the drawing room W th the tg ladies indies greeted him with ill the he greatest cordiality AS aa he crossed the room I 1 verified smiled the limp sell and other points pill is of antoine Anlo inea a description hla bearing was nag that of a gent genteman hman and in his very correct evening dress dresa he hardly looked like a man who would disguise himself and atte attempt rapt to rob a house bouse he spoke english all but perfectly a and it proceeded at once A to talk a great grant d dl dial L 1 I was sad ad when he I 1 found I 1 had bad so 10 IIII narrowly ly missed you at seattle and ad gain again at chicago you travel far too rapidly for one of my age I 1 hla his age might have base hem been thirty he was mas a sune eune polished finished sophisticated person nothing was as more natural the than that he should pause in his travels el to call upon two to aigin ble women nomen he be h had 0 it met A a on a pacific steamer pa pos was he was in loia iola with allen bash ford this was as not a difficult state of heart and mind for a man to argue 11 el into lot she waa even more strikingly striking I 1 y beautiful tonight than I 1 im ha 1 I 1 thought 1 a lit her before khe us was again got 1 n m white hite lt it was sea only in daytime that she n wore ore blak and nd white was as exceeding ty ly becoming to her As we talked she plied listlessly a f tan a handsome trinket tt of ostrich astrich plumes A pretty S woman n and ad hoha a fan are re the lop happiest piet possible A bit combination in ate there is no se severer mr test of grace than a woman s manner of using a fee fan A woman memo makes an implement of this plaything nourishing flourishing it to em am is h asi iier her talk or what abet Is worse pointing painting still w ath it like an instructor before in no a blackboard but I 1 in A gr graceful a cebul lauds hands it la Is unobtrusive a mere bit jt or of dc decoration ration that teases and fascinates the beholder a A eie I 1 inith ft ath all his poise and equanimity I 1 was distinctly conscious that monta means nl 1 s dark ei as I cs w ere are intent upon the I 1 idly it ly swaying maying tan fan I 1 thought at firt first it we waa her hands that but interested him as they unfailingly let interested rested me but when from ti time to time sho she p put t down don the file nit fan his bis gaze be still followed f i bould it and et at films a waa nothing novel in the delicate combination of ivory and I 1 had bad act been many bay f fans that to in alt 11 appear as were vers just like it once a as she picked it up and lazily opened it I 1 saw ill him head bend forward As eagerly gully then find ing that I 1 had bad noted his eagerness he be to rose a prot pretending that a limbs screen be before far a the fireplace had caught isis eye and ad liked asked whether it u was as not net a flat coffee en tine production which shook my mitts faith lu in his connoisseurship as I 1 had bought the thing myself flare a new YAM bras worker who had bad made it to my 11 cou count nt montant an and aunt 1 alices ostrich plume fan TO ITO BL 1 at |