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coni pa pan n avith I 1 la hl me i I 1 dran bran ton ion booth ill n artict allt it bart ban it lor 1 fir country place tc i CC ofes to sail aut that I 1 Is ina its ih in 1 vill alili hetty CHAPTER vil VII continued I 1 ran ea leslie Is she staying here herec cried booth lo lowering mering his voice noice to an excited inho demanded R randall la is canin ills his mind appeared to be else a here N ili h that a the girl I 1 san sa on oi tho the road wake up the one on the eu am elope ou on ass Is she ehe the one cite vou non were ere telling me about in the club the SIs NN hat s her namo amo N ho oh ob A vou on mean miss castleton she shea s aust gone upstairs lou IOU must have hane met inet her on the steps I 1 lou on kno I 1 did so that is miss ss castleton ripping in im t slie she dian didn t I 1 tell she ashes s beautiful she la Is a type just as ou on said eald old man a really vender tul ful ti tue r e I 1 saw her berest esterday erda and the da day oglore I 1 e been mon wondering derIng how hot you ou man aged to pet gel a likeness like nebs as ot of her on the back of an ail eni envelope elope said leslie sar cast feally must have base had a good long look at her my m be it isu t a snapshot snap snip shot you vou knott kno booth flushed it Is an impression that a all I 1 dren drea it from memory memon pon rn in soul shell be immensely I 1 im m sure for heavens heaning sake eake les dont don t be such a tool fool as to show her tho the thing cried booth in consternation she d never understand 0 oil vou on needa t morry norr she has a fine sense ot of humor booth dian didn t enoi is whether hether to laugh or scowl HP he compromised nith him sell self bv bi slipping ills his arm through that st of lils ills friend and caving I 1 naish vilh vou iou the best or of luck old boy DO thanks said leslie adril CHAPTER vill VIII in which hetty Is weighed booth leslie returned to the citi on tuesday the artist left be hind him a memory sketch of sira sara brandall Wr andall done in the solitude of 0 his room long alter after the rest lest of the house bouso was vi rapped in slumber on oil the first arat night of 0 his ble stay at South look it TIIS mas as sketchily sketch ll drawn as the one he had made of 0 hetty betty and quite as wonderful lu in the mitter matter of faithfulness but ut N za he was as deeply perplexed as ever terla the subtle something thit that made the other notable flit fhe craftiness of 0 the artist vias nas there but tho touch of inspiration vias nas laiking lacking sara vias dc delighted lighted sho she viah nam nil flit and inada no pretense of ing the fact the discus discussion bion which fol followed lomed the exhibition of the sketch at luncheon las vry animated it schied to ex cite eslic to such a degree that lie he forth from his bis pocket the file treasured sketch of flett hetta for the pur par pose ot of comparison the til girl who inho had been genuinely en ell thusia over the picture of sara and iho vi ho had bad not been by m wa a of knon kno ing that the first sketch existed vias mas covered aith contusion confusion embarrass Embair rasa ass and d shy sense ot of gratification vere v ero succeeded almost at once by b a feeling of keen annoyance the tact fact that tho the sketch was mas in lesliea poa aslon tC slon ind identie L ft a thing to be tool took axa awa nil all the lle cleasure asure 11 he i rally ma limn lime experienced during the art rem few moments of interest booth night caught the align flash dish in ili her hei fie trec trending ding the flush and mine countable pallor that fol followed lomed almost immediately ile ho felt guild and it at the lie simo into time deeply annoyed with mith almlie lt 61 ie later I 1 ater on lia ili tried to explain but the attempt was nas a lamentable tail fail tire lire bile laughed riot not unkind ii in big f rice lee I 1 exile eollo had refused to allow the file sketch to lc lclive lie his hand it if gap could haie gained possession ios session of it eien eian lor for cn an instant the thing would mould hue bine been tota to bits but it AN went ent back into his commodious Olum odious pocketbook and she wab mah too proud to demand it of him blie bile became oddly bith e to booths booth s persistent though as time wore more on oil moie than once ile he had caught him looking at her hei with a fixedness that beti a aed ed per so bo plainly that she could not fall to recognize an underlying matli ile he was nina lalni striving to bli his il lemor that was clear to her there Is no mistaking that look in a person 6 enee eee it cannot be disguised lie ha was mas as deeply perplexed as eer when bell the time came for him to depart with leslie labile lie he asked her hei point blink blank on the last evening of his etah it if they had eier eer met before and she frankly confessed to i a short memory toi for facea it was mag riot not unlikely she said that lie he had seen her in london or in ili paris but she had riot the faintest tion of haing seen him before theli their meeting in ili tte tle road urged by b sara she had reluctantly antl co consented to sit to him tor for a portrait during the month ot of june ile he put the request in ili such terms that it did not sound lice a proposition it was mas not surprising that he should is ant her tor for a subject in fact act he put it in such a wai sa that she could not but feel that slie she would mould be doing him a great and enduring fai faor or she imposed but one condition tile the picture was mas neier neer to be exhibited ile he met thit that with bland by b proffering the canvas canias to mrs brandall Wr andall as the subject a s next best friend to hai baio 0 and to hold so long as she might ili ine e tree free gratis with the artists comell ments and so BO on and so 60 forth in air good humor leslie a aid had bad been solicited by bi both sara and the painter in the final effort to overcome the girl 3 object tiona ile he rather borod bored about it but added ills hla voice to the general clamour N ith halt half an ail eyo eye one could seo that lie be did not relish the idea of hetty betty posing for dds days to the hand some agreeable painter moreover it meant that booth mho could afford to gratify his on ahlm ams mould be obliged to rend a month or more in the neighborhood so that he could do vote note himself almost entirely to the consummation of this particular under taking moreover More oser it meant that vivi ans ana portrait Lit lt vaa as to be temporarily disregarded sara nas mas quick to lecog nize the first ot of jealousy on the part of her brother in law the ile nan idol of the NN randalls is nas as in ion loe e insufferably in love as things ment math ith all the Wran VV randalls dalls the hated selfishly selfish and so they the loed her husband had been their king but their king aas as dead long live the king leslie had put on the farall family bromn a little Jauri jauntia ja until til perhaps cocked over the eye ee a bit so to speak but it vas mas there just the same an ZI plain to lien sara saia had tried to like him lie ho had bad been her friend the theoal only one she could claim among them all and et be death his bib genial allegiance she could detect the air of condescension the bland attitude of a superior sup eilor who do de tends an another others s cause for or the tha reason that it gratifies nero she experienced a thrill of malicious joy oy in ing the fall of nero lie he mould bring domn hla hie house about ills hoad head and abera 11 to mould be do rome to pay the lidd fiddler biddler ler 4 4 brandon booth took a small cottage on the upper load halt half man between the village and the homo home of sara nin randall and not far from the ab honed boiled back gate that in the teeth of her connections by marriage ile he set bet up his establishment in halt half a day da and being bottled betook retook himself off to dine with sara and hetty betty all his household cares like the world heisted snugly on the shoulders of an ablam named pat than whom there MIS mas no more faithful ser senator in all the earth nor in the heavens for that matter it nu 0 o are to accept his own ovin estimate of in ili an bent lie he m was as EL a tr treasure asure booths a house was as at al waa mays in order try tr as ill he would mould ho couldn coulden t ret get it out of order pit P it a 8 N w ifo fro raw to that As he haung jauntily down don the tree lined road that led to saras sara s portals booth WIB nas full of the jo joy ot of ing stra sira waa mas at the bottom of the ter rare iare among thi flower flomer beds beda in the formal larden at the lie bound of hla his footsteps on the graal sara looked up and smiled her elcome it is so BO nice to ses see ou on again she said golrig him her hand band my hearts la in the highlands he be quoted waling a ague tribute to the heavens and wit its nice of you to seo see inc ni hu be added grice full rhon rhen lie pointed up the lie terrace len ian t she he i picture 7 gad its it i lovel the whole effect I 1 list picture against the a sk lie ilo stopped short and the sentence ani ng never finished although she wait ed for him to complete it moto re marking arking in her heart Is riot not in the highlands IOU ou menu something a gone gona m wrong rong oil no site said still smiling nothing like that her heart la Is lu in the lowlands IOU NN would consider conil dei I 1 washington ashington square to bo be la in the low IONN lands mouldan t aou on oh I 1 see he said sloma IOU oi mean she a thinking of leslie ho knobl it wis a venture on in part that a all she may bo be think ing ot of you vou nir mr booth or some chap in ID old england that a 8 mote like it he retorted she can t be thinking of me ine vou on kanom IN no zo one ei ever er thinks of me i when lien I 1 am rn out of view lem out of sight out of mind no she a B thinking of something a long ua dav ok off or some one it if vou on choose to hai have a it that ua she smiled upon him with inith hilt half closed shadow shadoe sh adov eyes eves and shook her head then she bhe arose let ua no go in betty Is ie eager to see vou on again they the started up the terrace ills his face ace clouded I 1 have haie had a feeling all along that shod shed rather not have haic this portrait mrs brandall Wr andall A queer sort of feeling that she doesn doean t just like lik the idea of 0 being put on canvas nonsense she eha said iNith without out look ing at him hetty betty met them at the top off of the steps the electric porch lights had bad just been turned on by bv the butler the girl stood in the path of the light booth was mas never to forget tho the lovell ness of her in that moment lie ho car ried the image with mith him on the long walk malk home through the black night ile he declined saras sara a offer to send him leasot over in the car for the very reason that he m wanted anted the halt hour of soil boll tudo tuda in which to concentrate all tl the I 1 a impressions she had made on his fane fancy the three of them stood there for a few minutes am awaiting the butlers an nouri no cement sara s arm v N as about halt s shoulders he was mas so taken up tip with mith the picture the presented that he scarcely heard their light chat ter they the is were ere types of loveliness so full of contrast that he marveled at the power of nature to create women nomen in the same mold and vet et to model so differently different As the entered the Nesti vestibule bule a servant came up with nith the word mord that that miss castleton wis inas wanted at the telephone long distance from new york the girl stopped in her tracks booth looked at her in mild a condition which gave nay via an instant iastan later to perplexity perplex it the look of 0 an govance in her eyes eves could not be dis guised or mistaken ask him to call me up later wat son eon she sha said quietly chis la Is the third time he has call called ed miss bliss castleton said the man 11 ou on were mere freebing ebing it if vou on please maam the first time I 1 will come she bhe interrupted sharply with a curious glance at sara who mho tor for some reason avoided meeting booth 3 gaze rell him we me shall expect him on Fi friday said bald mrs brandall Wr andall B by george thought booth as she left them I 1 wonder it if it can bo be les lie if it Is m well ell he be x t be flat if lie he could have seen the tha look in her eyes later on he had no trouble in gath ering cring that it m was as leslie IN Wr randall andall who mho called but lie he waa iriv much in the dark as to the meaning of that ex e pre presalee press salie lve look he only know knew that she was Ns as in the telephone room for ten min utes ute or longer and that all trace of 0 emotion was gone from her face when she rejoined them thein nth a brief apology for keeping them waiting malting ile he left at ten aaning good night to them on the terrace sara walked to the steps with him dont don t vou on think her nolen la Is love 1010 ly lya she eho asked hetty betty had mung aung for them I 1 darts dare eav bay he be responded absently absent GIN give 0 3 vou on my v vord ord though I 1 jaent m aen t thinking of her voice she la Is lovely ile he walked home as it if in ili a dream the spell pell wis on oil him far in the night lie he started up from the easy chair in which ho he had been smoking and dreaming and racking his brain by turns by jovel he cx exclaimed claimed aloud 1 I remember I 1 ve got it and row rom ill prove it alien ho he went to bed m with ith the storm from the sea pounding about the house and slept serenely until pat and miry alary mon wondered dered whether he meant to set got up at all pat said hu he at brt alfast I 1 is want ant vou on to fro fo to the city this morning and fetch out all of the you cm find about the place the old ones are in that italian hall seat beat and the late ones are in the studio bring all of them eliere 3 9 a duvvll of a bunh bune h of ablai said pat |