Show announces OU C e s Hs is an fn E engagement nan t jay by H IRVING KING R dillingham could not exactly M MR be said to be in business but lie be had bad largo large interests mostly inherited over which he kept a close supervision also a stenographer see sec detary and an only son each of at whom was about twenty five years of age now you think that walter la Is going to fall in love with cynthia Cynt lila that curtis curits Is going to object violently there Is going to be a row and the lovers are going to be married in spite ot of everything and everybody everI ever body just hold your horses a minute and see come with me to one or of those english basement brownstone brott bro unstone fronts on west thirty something street A similar house on the right has a restaurant in the basement a modiste on the firby floor door and offices representing heterogeneous erogene ous enterprises from there up to the roof the house on the left Is a rooming house in tact fact no 89 39 1 Is a the only house on the block still in t the he occupancy of the family which owned it and dwelt therein when people spoke of being genteel and the crude and hustling bustling were trying to outdo the idle die and splendid step right into the drawing room and let me introduce you to miss margaret blair and mr air walter dillingham margaret 1 walter was saying 1 I dont see any sense in waiting any longer I 1 dont think dad will object a bit he a bad fellow after you get inside his shell he and your father were close friends moved la in the he same social set were at college together I 1 have heard him speak of john blair in such terms that I 1 dont think he will object to having john beairs blairs daughter tor for a daughter in law perhaps not replied margaret thoughtfully yet he might think oh he might think a lot of things the situation being as it Is that I 1 have inveigled you yon or something like that anyway we must wait until the end of the year when my contract expires and in the meantime I 1 want you to promise me that you yon wont say a word on the subject to your father 1 I will not make any such booi fool promise said walter and then they had ball a little tiff and then be put his bis arms around her and promised that be would not say a word to his father unless circumstances forced him to margarets father bad once been wealthy but his fortune bad dwindled and as it dwindled he and his wife had bad gradually withdrawn from society and been forgotten when mrs blair blaar died society remembered for a whole week she had bad been it a famous hostess in her day when two years later john blair died society remembered again even went to the funeral and said that something ought to be done for margaret but margaret refused all offers of assistance and society having done its duty went away and forgot her existence which was just what she wanted society to do john blair bad left his daughter the brownstone house in thirty something street and a little a very little money she had bad to work to piece out walter dillingham did not too often invade the library when his father was at work there with his pretty stenographer secretary but sometimes he did and when he did he be could not help looking at the young woman for miss cynthia waldron was good to look at several times the elder eider lingnam caught his son gazing upon the secretary with a look which was most objectionable to him finally one day he be summoned walter into his bis most august presence and spoke to him on various matters pertaining to love marriage and ethics ONY my son said he 1 I trust you will always remember that you are a gentleman born so I 1 do not like your manner toward my secretary miss bliss waldron strongly object to it while miss bliss waldron Is in my employ walter interrupted him why father your suspicions are cruelly unjust I 1 on any account go er philandering about because I 1 am engaged to a most charming girt girl you see 01 Enga engaged gedl 1 cried mr dillingham and then sternly to whom pray to the daughter of your old friend john blair indeed replied the father little margaret I 1 seen her tor for years yeam I 1 have been derelict in that matter A child of such parents cannot but make a worthy wife but why have you not ot brought hr her to see me oh ob you see enough of her as it Is said walter she la Is your secretary cynthia waldron you see she took a fake name when she went to work want society toca to catch tchon on none of socie tys business anyway hum hum quite right said cur esq miss waldron will you step this way a minu minute tel all except that margaret Is mrs walter dillingham but she still acts as mr Dilling liams secretary he get along without her |