Show the an adso me man by I 1 TURNBULL I 1 by WIN MYERS by margaret turnbull W N U THE STORY returning to london practically its penn after an unsuccessful business trip sir george sandison Sand lson takes dinner with his widowed stepmother his old nurse aggy baggy he did not approve of her marriage to his fa father but her explanation satisfies him little Is left of the estate land and lady sandison Sand lson proposes that they goto TO to the united Sta states testo to visit isit her brother robert macbeth h weal wealthy th y co contractor nt CHAPTER I 1 contin continued aed agnes lady yf J Sand lson glared at her heir stepson 8 such 11 a ito do about ai a we wee pickle mone money well that and now we come downto docu to bare rock Sandis brae even at the rent I 1 have gotten out of they foreigners wont keep you at the first youve you e the taxes to pay and one or two debts at the end of the second year have a nice bice bit left over but it will be at the end of the second your plan sir george lifted his handstand hand sand let them fall 1 III I have none as yet I 1 meant to go to my uncle and ask him get nothing interrupted lady Ladr Sandison Sand lson grimly 1 11 I wasco was bhim him myself hell do nothing ll 11 sir george blushed lady sandison Sand lson gave him a keen look it was jasitt A Vei because cause I 1 asked him that lora lord cheddar armstrong do anything for his sisters ton son indeed I 1 askham ask him outright ile be came to the solicitors office to see flibott about the settlement of the estate ind nd asked tos to see eeme me helas he was against q fon foufou for the oil business he consid tred ired that you had thrown the little money your mother mothe chad had left you away 1 I did and he said there was no doi more Li armstrong money going that gait and A he be asked meto me to ten tell you that hed sons of t his own to start in life he wished brou trou rosfelt rou well Felt but he ca bareto care reto to leeyu see you you had made some effort to become a useful usefull member of so society clety meaning marrying money I 1 tale take it but how lady sandison Sand lson laughed efte he left that hat to you he said s ald something about four share of family looks being til ill that the armstrongs were responsible no for and they th ey were the best islets you yon had sir george looked considerably in noyed lady sandison Sand lson si grimly he hes if I 1 grand looking an himself but I 1 1 cannot annot see that be hep f getting much out if f the wealthy mar marriage flage he made his wife aflfe holds the purs pura strings tight and his children all take after the mother 1 Irh eyll not get faron far on their looks 1 ile he can keep his money growled gir george t ile he will hed rather lose his re aglon than a single on bd of it t 1 she looked agal agala at adf her stepson lit it was then ahia this amerl america scheme tame came into my hen heau it if we go away I 1 while the place it tinted and earning and nd leave my bit of bf money turning itself over and earning whilst were to tn america where nobody knows knos us KG could work and mole make a ihling sir george looked at her aggy was leer biever and after all aggy was fond of him film he had no one on earth than uncle charles and he had not a penny of his own and aggy was not offering him money but a chance to earn some over here there was ans nothing but a chance to borrow and riot not much at that he ahe spoke after a bit slowly by the lord I 1 an ideal idea I 1 ita more said lady Sand lson 1 ts a certainty tor for I 1 hae a trade that will make money any time im it cook that could please a king it if the worst comes to the worst ill plenie please in american millionaire alq anke tome lome of tits his money back with me hie and you then she broke off as she saw sir be georges orges fac face e youre a clever woman ago and your plans not it a bad one except the part where you cook that will not be necessary but youve forgotten one thing and that I 1 have nothing to offer anybody why tra im too too poor to pay my passage over oer and no qualifications for a job if I 1 were e over no qualifications 1 aggy aggas s voice kas iras K as tall fall of scorn ido do you look in the glass oh come aggy sir george er gainly was annoy annoyed ed you are as bad as uncle charles t lord charles far wrong t declared aggy judicially I 1 confound it aggy we wont discuss that sir george said irritably then he be thought for an instant Could Tour brother help us Heff hell get jet th the chance at it vowed ag aay gy veil that will be something sir george agreed by heaven I 1 id like As i try ary I 1 if I 1 could ifould raise the orice but ry y J I 1 tell you frankly aggy agey lei no use ube im broke 7 flat 11 1 I can manage the passage money declared aggy abruptly it if you think well ofay of my plan in fact she added looking at him cautiously 4 1 I have ave uie tickets in my purse what whai I 1 1 I thought idrisu it lingould it would be aist a matter of refunding if you do refuse she with pleasure oh ob laddle laddie dont refuse adus nae me vT bink what it means meark sto to me to have some ane one that belnak to me to do for aorl 11 sir george aloie arose to his full height trembling a little lady sandison Sand lson arose too was lie he going to utterly annihilate her annd and walk out of her life altogether for one moment she feared it she was perfectly aware that chati this flits young man halcome had come tober to her with one idea to get the interview over and then never neer see her again and she adored him she knew eliat this was her last chance and that only his poverty had given her ahat that even now poor as he ivas ws if it occurred to him that this stout middleman aged wo woman was aa practically proposing that they join forces against bad fortune if lie he realized it himself with her would lie he do lt it aggy had lind no intention of being a burden ai either emotionally ar or financially ri P he had opened his HI mouth to tell her to stop when She Made H him lin forget everything else except his HI 1 island she would layher pay her way both in care and affect affection lork in plans for his future furuie in money mone yiH as long horkia as s hers bets held out or she could earn it but would he tal tolerate eyen thelo the slight light bond of old affection and new interest now how would he be know that she would world ask nothing itce accept pt nothing no ahlai ll 11 ob one instant instants Ins tanti she trembled to think that he would refuse tle the next she wai was able t to 0 bie breathe athe again aggy youre an anndel said her stepson and ill think J over she gazed up ul at hl him to a mist before her rather hard looking blue eyes she was not oneail one to give way to emotions rather to disguise them she pretended th that at she was gazi gazing ngat at bam with curiosity not affection how tall will you ayou be six feet three 1 admitted d sir george be something to show america said lady sandison Sand lson complacently there are lotsof lots of tall americans no doubt said aggy lady sandl son still with her absurd air of satisfaction americas a grand place but the streets can cannot noVile be exactly aarow ded with beautiful young men that are six feet I 1 three I 1 CHAPTER 11 II giobert li robert obert bailly macbeth stretched out on a wicker chaise longue looked at his Is island and i when as a poor young artisan ho be had bad left Scotland ild to see kaland seek a land where lie be could rase there ther eliad had bee been n before hip blin one ambition a big place yet curiously eli enough ough great country estates foz foe as he gradually grew wea wealthy lilly b he abad had looked well el about abou thim him left lefi him unmoved none of these for robert Dl macbeth aBeth he wanted an island to be surrounded by water to be absolutely independent to see his big own little slice of the world set apart from the rest by natures barrier of fast running water gratified something thin g within him that he found difficult to explain probably Pio bably tits ills nationality tiona lity accounted for most of it island born and bred chehad he had reverted reer ted to the ideals of ills his forefathers 1 to their love of blue water about a bli alt of greg green n land robert macbeth Ald eBeth shifted tits ills eyes and moved his head and an his short body slightly only he did so 80 did one ne notice that bb helas jaks lying ln in a 0 chaise longue because he must ua H g av a sigh figh of pain ils as tie he slowly moved a leg arthritis that now fas fashionable blonn bli name name for an old fashioned disease had bad him bythe by the feet fe etHe uie sank san li back with a groan but he could now now roberta his only onla the broan groan changed into A a good round anth macbeth was ii B s short hort rather broad scot with egray eyes that we were at once astonishingly lovely in color with their deap fringe of black lashes and both friendly and shrewd hei harblack had black brows and a short shori clipped red and gray mustache lie he was quite evidently a personage and knew lilith out openly exhibiting the naive conceit of the self anade fiot yet cevile he had raade his way from fro in day laborer to can contractor and builder his splendid and nd varied vocabulary had bad been one of his greatest helps in that advance no one could make a team of horses hauls haul ns much or as steadily as ayoung youn z rob hob macbeth Mac neth no one could manage manag 6 hogang a gang of bf j tillian labo r ers reis as well ills his vocabulary practically unused ni at home while gentle defide jean b was wa alive was well knoon 0 wn and feared nt at his office it was only since arthritis had find laid him bythe by the beela that thatis lit was becoming known on ills his island especially when roberta rendered him he was furious now as 11 he e looked tit nt her and yet Rob roberta erfil jean macbeth was gasn wasn a makenny make any father fabber S she he was small barely five feet th three ree I 1 I 1 nit hut she was h beautifully e a proportioned A pocket 1 edition af of venus with her father ea ear 1 I and red hair it ns in macbeth characteristic this red hair roberts robert sawn awn was a reddish fair avit with h i only alie tiniest admixture f of 66 gray his ho however weyer seen seemed ted merely a warm tan when compared with Roher roberta tas locks which rioted ovee over her hid a glistening holmst afred of red cut cutis curls Is cut cui and pruned by some french expert in the art of hairdressing if his long training as a contractor contract oi and builder had gl ghon n bt liam to a wonderful vocabulary it had find also given illin him wonderful control over ov e r 1 his I I 1 Is temper t rt per being an expert experienced e ince d man to a n I 1 it he e knew chatto thatto that ito give way to hi his temper before roberta sine since ellie lie could not a arbitrarily forbid the thing she wis was ie pet ton on doing doln and see that his ban was ci carried out would be futile but he had to remind himself that he was robert macbeth dapower a power and a terror to grown men and high hilgh in the council of mighty men m before he could calm himself for roberta had flouted him had ridiculed all his plans io fo himself and for 10 her I 1 as silly 11 as moss backed 11 and 6 at the last id d n tiresome I 1 because he aas was fl flat atou his back for the first urne time th la ill his active life she had thought it th the strategic hour to parry carry through her own plaris plans and mo move the whole establishment lish ment bodily from hla his island aland had flad it he been at fault himsel liti her up u to be so a 0 modern mode n so inda pendent it had badi i always been beena a aradi tion in the macbeth family tant thear lassie s were RS good as any lad was it because he lad had shown too plainly that lie he loved her beyond belond everything I 1 and nd could deny her nothing or was a s it just because the whole younger younger generation was quite out of hand band he lean leaned eil back a and nd sighed he had hoped for peace and comfort at home and he was evidently not notto to get it yet lie he sighed again as he looked about him and saw roberta race along the drive and cross crois the bridge without a look or a wave of the t hand h a nd in 1 n ills 1115 direction quite evidently she had bad decided to keep her appointment regardless gard lessof less of his request that she slay atheme at home and properly induct laduct the new servants who were arriving today rank disobedience 1 open def defiance lancel I 1 macbeth grinned he had bad never minded a littlee little spunk in a lass A few minutes later infer he heard her I 1 car tearing bearin along the river road on the mainland well she was deliberately I 1 disregarding his wishes despite le spit althe all he hadsall had said sald he roust must plan how hov to circumvent her his leys became heavy and brooding the very worst thing of all was wag that roberta bitted bated his island it was the island asland that roberts tw been so fluent morning she had expressed herself as 03 astonish blied edt that he had chosen it without consulting in her itaas in her opinion a godforsaken spot macbeth Blac ileth had not realized how scornful thle the lady was of his most precious possession until he heard her say that it was a great mistake that he had not waited until slie she had finished e d school before purchasing this island 4 i ji oberta had not been looking at her father or shed she would have stopped before she said that she had been sitting on the edge of the terrace smoking cigarettes furiously kinc beth lad had no not known that she smoked he had opened his mouth to tell her to stop when when she had haam made ade him forget everything else elie ei except befit his island f TO BE DE CONTINUED |