| Show DY BY H S CANFIELD copyright ht by daily story pub co gray gun in the landau and the sergeant is married to a kipling her name was E ethol thol genevieve wynne winne but her friends llad had shortened shor bened it to vieve it seemed to suit her she was of an ex exquisite s sweet figure full without fatness slender slander wit without hout and her hand and f forearm ore ancher and hor foot and tho the ankle aluva above it might have served nerved as models to any man used to putting ills his dreams into marble golden hair crowned ar small shapely head blue ey eyes e s looked from under level brows and I 1 her cheeks were the litie hue of the sun eissed side or of the peach leroy H hen e n oryx saw liar her dud his heart and soul went wen t out to her and were not in hm his keeping he was af a poet young ardent honest gifted and poor ho he looked at vie the world with f resh fresh eyes and til ought himself aich rich because his wants giants were few he could not conceive of a gent gentleman leinan or gentlewoman aho aho vho cared for money his birth g gave a v 0 himi antry to what are called our upper circles though why upper scinco they do not contain more mora wit or mat manliness illness or kindliness or suavity L ian an our other circles no man can cay his hi s life story began be an on the upper H hudson I 1 idson thoro Aua is a summering place L therea small enough and exclusive enough to warrant high prices and poor accommodations not more inore than han t a dozen guests ivera in the hotel w when 11 cn he reached it in that kind hind of hostelry the fact that you have registered at all is warrant of your social standing and knows everybody else as a matter oc course that hemline dreamed ot 0 Vi evoy eyes dext morning moiling he sailed with hot over sc a still roach odthe of the river sho found it pleasant enough watching the light of worship in his dark eyes he talked with a poets tenderness and pas passion gion she did not ui 11 ersland all that ho hc said she did not appreciate much of 0 it f sho she was of the world and her mother was a schemer they were act rich richand euid the girl irl was in the market as much i ir she had strod naked aked upon ar a block in stamboul to hd be knocked down to tle the highest bidding pasha this had been drilled into liar her from her fourteenth year she accepted her destiny complacently that destiny was to make a good match she was vir hitous or thought sher was and shallow no one had ever evar t told old her that when sho she married a man for hla money ano pay she would wo uld soy herself so she had blid not considered this view of it she had plenty ol of clothes andaas and was happy in a light way she was only twenty and andrad had time enough 11 1 in which to marry well meanwhile she wished to enjoy herself and hendryx was about the tha only eligible iii ravens nest hotel the mother looked askance at the intimacy but said nothing she had learned in two seasons to tb trust her daughter it is an old and common story and harddy worth the telling it happened yest yesterday erlay it happens today to day it will happen tomorrow to morrow the man mail earnest and loyal believing in himself and in her the woman physically seductive ltv e mentally Is irren without deeps lu fu her nature not consciously evil but working evil civil in a mo months nills time ho he asked li erlo to I 1 anargy hlin him not in ih the least fil intending tending slier ans answered vered yes Tle thereafter reaf ter he wall on air and a nd felt strong to achieve there came moonlight strolls and sailings whisperings in shaded nooks all of the sweet nonsensical meetings and partings of i a kourt courtship ship and betrothal ho wrote tu to nur ahu anu muti MU t them yaw saw that they rhymed and put i them ii om away among milliners bills does not deserve sympathy 4 1 A T I 1 nt i thero cano moonlight t strolls s t ro I 1 Is because he was happy and many men have walked the road he was walking ho took little thought of the future lie ile knew not being a fools fool thailia that hc could pot not support hini himself self and a zalfo of Vis Vie ves vEIs kinti on 1200 a year but bit t a ma magazine azoti a editor had accepted cc tard fmc venes avith a kindly note t fe HG he saw fame and fortune ahead and had violona I 1 oi is of I 1 to lifo f 1 in n a cottage all of elie cho world shut out from ir ll flonly only ho ills his 11 lri among wo iipp within Us its walls sweetheart he datil tta her once wo ivo will bo be poor for awhile but only for cr awline awl effle mind will I 1 ou i 1 I 1 donld go 0 o anywhere w with ifill you 1 t e answered and endure anything and oven even if vo are poor wo we can livo live I 1 1 ah n new york lin and d go to balls ball and tho the tn tb eaters and come hero in ih e aum mer or go to New ih lie ile said nothing further ex fab theat ho vas willing villing to drift mr isaac potter hotter registered at cavens nest he was not of the lipper circles primarily put but had loaned lorli fed money to one of its indin members bers and brought letters of 0 introduction with him mr isaae isaac potter was a retired dealer in iii leathers by wholesale fifty years old fat ugly boastful and vulgar he wore two chins and two watch chains he fancied himself still and wished to break into society lie he had been told that the easiest way in which wl to accomplish this burglary was to marry acoman a woman of undoubted C connections he hea had no objection to this chis IL 11 ther the right 0 boman could be found ind and he was willing to pay the price alco ho he regarded it as a transaction in leather lo 10 looking oking at vieve and listening to her mother P he saw that ajo was the oman when a mating of tel this liadis v i liT ii d dis Is ar infranco in france there Is a terrible amount of red tape there is the girls alot dot and the mana dot and interviews ter tor views between jhb i relatives and the services of lawyers and notarizes notaries not aries cs a vast amount of bf argument and biago negotiation and what wha t no not t but bu t wo we do things lings ti more horo swiftly in america isaac potter was introduced to ethel gone fiovo wynne at their first meeting 04 ip aw Q I 1 az 1 11 1 41 f W 1 I ask you to bo be mrs mra potter nama tho day vvo ive got ten millions her he told her that be was a bachelor out jut of by business siness and how much money ho he had F followed two weeks of drives and walk he escorted liar her clumsily ut faithfully whilo hendryx ra raged g e d then he asked permission of the mother to propose and ana got it and the hardest struggle of that old comans womans wo mans life was to conceal her joy ile he moved upon the girl in a businesslike way v aar pin im not a youngster he said gJanci glancing ng complacently down upon his hia and watch el chains lains im old danough ano to know what I 1 want and to pay tor for it I 1 want byant you and I 1 ask you to bo mrs potter name naine the day iva got ten millions I 1 made evary every dot dol lar of it myself I 1 dont have to toll tell you that anything in the woj world A d you wish f for or shall be yours I 1 cant write poetry he added witha a sn snarl arl band and I 1 would ift if I 1 could but I 1 can write checks and that counts for more im Lh thinking inking young woman was light not strong morally or intellectually but aiho was riot fiot vicious and possibly she marliave maylia may have ve had her girlish fancies fancies cies will spring ina in a girls mind though the ylare choked by the grime of mayfair sho she looked at the alie red pursy eldar fy man who held hand shuddered and faintly tried to withdraw it then slie she went pale and looked aown and said 4 1 I 2 1 I docu think I 1 can nike make you happy 0 sure of it potter replied conal dently and slipped a ring on her finger he pondered pandered a mome moment nt then went vent on theres a young Tellow around here who seems sweet on you 1 I 1 guess theres no harm in him but I 1 dont want him loafing around my girl just tell fell him youre mortgaged now will you tell him to tabb his clothes and go haw haw hes not anything to ms she faltered abd yes ill te tolt ll 11 1 him hendryx was not the man to make a scene he looked at her steadily when she dismissed him pie he had a sudden recognition of what she was and it Is is possible that even thon then lie he felt a sense sanse of escape and relief he sala said only I 1 we have read kipling together wo we did not nob read the sergeants wedding too together gether but doubtless you ro re it if not road then ho wont away she end 1 nov nora T remember A it and sho she did re read ad it t again and the reading added nothing to lier her p peace pace ace cf mind that was a in mamaat arria c in ili st sf thomas cl cli lurch firch new Y vork ork city fur dished the with matter aoi forano two columns each cach the bride was mils a whito statue oi of loveliness trio grocin wore the mhd air of i a man inan who had just jus bought a hundred thousand thousands hides at half their market value when they entered 1 the cai carriage to drive to the train a ines messenger sengo r boy slipped through ali the crowd and handed hot her a tolo telegram ram it contained only the words gray gun horses she let it tall fall into her lap and lockeet looke dout out of the window with unseeing eyes eye s pot tor ter picked it up and lanced glanced at it what does the fool moan he ha 3 asked these hors horses 1 es are bays she d did d net a anaver h him m and hithe hi in the fredri freshness ess of her goan she |
