Show ho AN an I 1 y a pet T apa U I 1 oitay fruim law maw aa all W V S Z vr CZ ige be ls Is d a nice boy that 11 hal alBrIce dalce imia anil lie he plays a good jame game but ho hii ll is T 4 4 aust 01 now its making you like me I 1 more thanks thana little roberta Rober taY tool young just a boy to play my game what 19 your game gamet roberta asked it with something of tier bet fathers directness i just now its is 1 making you like 1114 4 me more more than a little roberta robert lie he said softly and put tits his hand gently over liers hers roberta looked at af him now flush ing f a little puzzled it was part par t or of this amans mans fascination that he spoke sparingly and was lavish with bla bis caresses in private i it confused the girl made it hird hard for foi her to judge him coolly collit ks as shi she did the boys of her own set and age she did not even know whether she liked it or not whether she really liked jack sackbut but she could not run away and she came back again and again still undecided tl L do like you jacle jack only only what well I 1 like other people i too As well better answered the honest Ro roberta beita with that robbed her speech of all brusqueness you see ive known them longer the first time I 1 saw you jack said and with such akbar apparent 61 calmness that roberta wondered at him and at herself I loved you so well that no one I 1 had known before counted there has been only you ln i since our meeting roberta roberta drew a long breath I 1 marvelous and so tremendously grown up to listen to kr an not nota a boy but a full grown man saying such things to herl her why jack must be all of twenty fivel and tier her father treated tier like a child I 1 dut but though roberta was dazzled she was norl Sar carried ried oil off tier her feet yet ashe she was conscious of a great disappointment with herself that his words did not raise more tumult in her breast ita iti must be because bec usi she had grown older i ana more used to things that shel t could listen to such speeches speech es and feel though her breath came fastert faster i and slip he liked it that she was not greatly moved moved will you ou not come co me tomorrow jack asked ber again 1 PI I ask arkyou you to theresae The renas something behind he voice aiom something ething hard haid and nd insistent lu something mocking something that said that slie was anly only a wom anand must do abat he be asked it wasi was f the first touch of oe the iron hand of his will behind hind the velvet glove 0 of the foreign marinero mariners ma Mii iners alin thail tao 66 charmed her no roberta said it almost angrily 1 I cannot come tomorrow I 1 will come wednesday ived ne ada k there was ivas silence a silence that thai spoke ot of displeasure on navarros Navarro nav arros Iii part then lie he said no alno I 1 cannot come wednesday but 1 I will acome come thursday it was the girt girl who lies hesitated I 1 bated and then made up tip her mind all right thursday then where here why waste words on an obstinate girl yo no roberta suld calif quickly 1 l think Y you ou ought ollit to come to the house and meet my father dont you I 1 dont like dodging about to nv avoid 0 jather bad the crowd navarro frowned this girl would aup lupsey S et all plans unless she was kept in hand ill come tor for you ill watt wait for you on the river road all right robertah Ro bertai agreed slowly come to the house it if you like no the road i jack jacl ye replied plied lie he paid the check and they ident went I 1 out into the soft serl spring ng dusk and he be put her into her car kissed her hand hana and whispered that she was adorable laid 01 then 6 n st stood od lighting gC a cigarette as jao the her tears tear al along ang the hah way att aft julty lim units s an hour rt it hiis slow work he told himself but at least hi he h had h d gotten somewhere and learned something g today 0 lady sandison Sand lson having finished her own tale promptly had had to listen I 1 i to her hen brothers recital of his life aa and d triumphs land and then to a dissertation on roberta her beauty and talents and finally to a short resume of robs rob difficulties with her listening aggas lips had closed i tightly she was not one to approve of halfway measures and andaas was in full sympathy with her brothers determination mi min nation atlOn that things filings should not go on this way for the girls own sake what now precisely are you thinking to do she finally asked macbeth looked rt at her appealingly 1 I am puzzled pu he admitted N alth jib the frankness frankee ss of the truly great what would you dati do it itla Is not for me to say retorted bady L ady Sand lson pro promptly MP aly 1 I have seen her but the once amnot im not one for driving a a girl to open rebellion no agreed aggy come come aggy you always had a tremendous lot of sense and im in nied need of 1 a womans comans eye as well eai as my own could you be to run this house for me ag aggy Y for money you know well id do it for love aggy told him sternly since love Is not a word to be used often and requires cautious use even between j relations but that would defeat your plans i use tuse sense woman nobody but you andi need know our arrangement and would it not be better for you to work tor me than for a st rafter ger I 1 it would depend how much authority tho rity would you lyou give me things must me ille in my own hands it if im to make headway and help you dono donal sald rob macbeth 1 I paid my last housekeeper two hundred and fifty dollars almonth ai a month IMIch ty mei me rob I 1 could not charge you the like of that bej bei a saying saving if I 1 pay you three thre hundred said the crafty rob bouto j you to take over the entire direction 0 ot the house leaving roberta with nothing ant her own affairs to attend to sh she e wont like that fine I 1 see your plan but the pays tar too high sa say y two hundred 1 three hundred bundred or nothing save it your own way but im not to be used openly against the lass rob was sd so busy ling his campaign taftt th at hi he did not biot notice how her r 1 i little blue eyes hiis ive were re twink twinkling lini im 1 just going to make and mighty sea where she gets off if she doert doe ut behave he said haneit Ha it your jiler own wn way agreed aggy demurely what about sit geordie Ge ordle can you no help him to a place or use him here rob macbeth stared at his sister cje he said nothing for what seemed to her i a long time 1 I antask cn cant task ask r him film to so do anything mental menial he announced puzzled you pyou cannot she declared shortly 1 I hes fitted for 4 hesbah He shad a lot o sh ing a lot ol 01 0 stall more expensive soldiering when be was j hardly more than 6 a ladd la dd lenand leanda a thin time of it in the wilds of central Amerl amerlia ca t bimm said her brother frowning im away announced tits his sister rising to look over your kitchen and tee see if I 1 can get together a tea for you and ahlm tand mi me you can be thinking she started toward the door tm im very much puzzled said her brother dont strain yourself lady sandi sandl son ion told him hidi theres such things ai as secretaries in Ameri caare there not and you lying here help 1 l jesa less far from rom your your office i begeor By Geor gel tha ts tsan tin idea aggy looked at achim film without speaking and left for the kitchin that rob after all these years had accepted her and her problems IncI including udIni sir geordie Ge Gj ordle without either astonish I 1 ment or hesitation did pot seem to hir her table etwas what she had expected acted would she not have done 12 th the kame same thing jor for rok rob 1 1 some twenty odd minutes later she reappeared carrying a tray on which 1 toast browned jam cake 1 nud and tea were invitingly spread forti forth 1 and went toward jabe the library evl d dently t I 1 js clr I 1 r G george jo ig 5 ta had d is assisted isted anc j beth to get there for she could hear the two men tatting talking r T both looked ua up it aej her and sit sic george sprang boclear to clear a table and take the tray irom from her s you soul dhave called me aggy he be said ald reproachfully lily youra duio a wonder aggy 1 declared jer her biot brother hii looting at the toast 1 il I e bien offering sli sir george gerije tile the po post st of secretary private secretary a sort of liaison officer between me in pled state here and my now york leavo pave a A secretary ecret ary there but f wint hani n tt a III i 4 inac clin A akl an binl get 1 I 1 in il rn at IN f same time f anko t a I 1 1001 k mi matiie lit tiIe ft the various johs and come iier e anti jaja etc me an Idea asto whether chiy my plans are be being carried nola not lady Sn foI looked Pl at jilin and nodded approval ton linvik ane adl to take sir george bere here iere ilare have a bitof lit of toast rob and rind let me put pu tjan aja m on ad 1 it 1 it will I 1 set ct you I 1 ap p and to think you two have eliav aln bcd it out nil yourselves I 1 tiny kielp she looked nt at them both admiringly sir ceorge returned rc alj jook warily ile ie knew his aggy 0 of old but her brother lir othor smiled brond broadly ly it was barini ing to jilin him i to rind find how much he be liked aggy again n aln despite tier her handicaps liandi eaps poverty ir tier her lack of family had she not io atri marry y a baronet lin ronet robert kobert MacBet li might 1 th in 1 ties meant to him title giorges were lasource of pride while berg sipping gitig eair our 1 tea 11 sald said lady sandison idison comfortably aware that hat sli sir george was her mabb maibe be ablo able to tofi telf nic 10 rob whore ere sir geordie w will bailo i ide and how lidia late does you your r daughter daus liler generally stay I 1 out when there IS ld inner dinner to get and none to get itt lt looked worried slie she ought to be home bome IV we qu quarreled irrell id of course this dils morning but I 1 hardly thought shed leaie lea e me M aloi leso long ion something so by ordinary detained tier her declared ag aggy aggy arver since she had glimpsed roberta this morning she lad had had fermind her herl mind made up about that young toung lady but she was not telling robertas father dont put pipit yourself outi out Rob fRob ashes no run awny away shell be home bome soon oh do you think sol so aggy youre a great comfort then lie to sir george id like you to stay here Sir George it if it suits you irwill it will tie e i best for me and theres ale plenty nty of room sir george looking like tin an embarrassed apollo thanked him harui lie was thinking rapidly that hat never ha had I 1 d hla his luck blen been greater than now that had d taken ali the helm 1 afore your daughter gets baa 1 resumed agov w watching first on tl on the other but ed evidently dently satisfied in f her own ni mind ind that they were aaget getting along nicely ire are we vve to use our titles litre here ar or put t them bliem 6 by as you might say until we go home again robert macbeth looked puzzled lie ile badWi had forgotten glitten that robe Roberta arta knew enoth nothing about this tin s aunt except that she aie wai was a pooi poor anil I 1 obstinate scotch woman who foolishly refused the 04 money money li he 0 had offered reil how 1104 would she take alil this new new clement lie was ln ing into his home hoine would avouli Roberta 1 real worth or only tier her odd oad ways and dollies and queer modes of expression it if 11 could only keep it fro from m tier her muttered robert 1 I might try it as an experiment 1 I woul wouldn declared sir geor george e quickly its hardly fair it if wel were 4 to be in the house she should know all about us I 1 think sir it would be a grand lesson to her it if we kept it from her ber declared her aunt ag aggy aggy roberta rober ta that kind retorted tier her father andl indignantly kintly ashes not a snob ashes just a naughty child 11 SIV sir george cutup ut up tits hla hand liand for tori I 1 si silence ence and rose se but before bafo re he c could out speak alie the door was was idling flung open hollo dad roberta called happe happeney happened neb 7 no ko lights in A D the e garage no sign noole ko orie in n the the kitchen e i the chii maids mald st they wint went eway away with Wd villy lyas as soon as as your back was turned her father told lien her you expect it to bel be continued |