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darker than it really was. I've met a considerable number of igs in my timé," said the general 'genially, "but s{ways glad to add an- other to the U#t, yoo know. It's'rather reproach to us, I'm afraid, that we "Jet the papers discover you first." "0b. those papers!" exclaimed Matt. 'But really, general, what is obe to 32" I might as well run after an ex- ess train as try to deny all that rub- » *Nobody is safe in this country," y "You can go to bed at night in honored citizen and wake up in 'the morning an alliterstive outcart-- Merciless Marshall Murders Meid or something equally surprising and un- Pleasant." b "It's the swudgy pictures I hate most," put in Miss Marshall "I've hse mine stuck all round with little 'euphds shooting &Trows into an unfor- Wiihate foreign nobleman." : The general, still lnughing at hls own any was greeted and diverted by a x ogi acquaintance, affording Matt 'the opportunity of asking Miss Mar #hall if she would not like to make the round of the booths with him. Iler ce showed lier pleasure at the pro- posal, and In her answering look, 80 {arch and eager, Mutt 8eemed to read something that made him dizzy, She was more than pretty; she was ex- quisite, and the sudden realization of {ber beauty was not without a dart of {pain. They moved about, talking--or, rather, trying to talk, for the noise and N ¢ caused constant interruptions-- talking. and hoping for chairs and etud- ig the general like a pair of truants, the while looking into each other's and laughing. But there were no ; there was not an empty spot he. hole ehurch except in the pul | tht Wes" Set "Inst ensIbly" In ir Hike & wooden fly on a long, wold scarcely have telephoned to me Mke that if you badu't" "That's true. It was perfectly crazy of me and almost entitles you to think everything." } "Everything? What's everything? "That I meant more than I aid* "What exactly did you mean?' "Oh, how you pin me down! It'd so impossible to tell you! You never could understand.", "Why not? I'm not so conceited as that. 1 am quite capable of under standing that a woman might like me 8 cents' worth, but not a dollar," "It's that very litera!ness that makes it so impossible. Men--oh, how can I express it--men see everything so clear ly, can express everything Im @ifferent kinds of symbols and chart them fu their mind like a barometer récord of fwmigration statistics. We are hasler, BIOrS--Tnore unformulated, all tnstinet, with a tingle where you have a fact.™ "That's awfully clever. Go on." "Is it clever? You see, we're even clever in the same haphazard sort of way and hardly know it when we are! You came and I saw you and didn't think anything much about it except that you stayed In my head. Stayed and stayed, you know--not right out in front, but in a corner, like a hatbox your maid has forgotten to take away. And every time I saw you the hat box grew bigger and more worrying, till finally"-- She broke off with a smile, adding lightly, "Ob, well, there's yout doughnut, and now, please, I want my cooky." "It's a darling little donghnot," aid Matt, "and instead of eating it I'm go- ing to put it away in silver paper and keep it just to look at. And as for cookies--all I know is that the sweet est voice In the world suid, *Come to fhe chsh | tomorrow night,' and © Church SoH GRYOFTO Heart Break Hill, 1 rose the next day a very dif ferent man from the night be fore. A pitiless consideration of his circumstances, begun at dawn, and carried to the bath hour, bad shown him facts as they were-- the dismalest facts imaginable and as gray as the first peep of that gray mourning Who was he, to be calling on aristocratic young ladies and whis- pering things in pretty pink ears? He whose fortune amounted to less than $4,500 sad he bad need to strive very enefgelically fo keep his own somewhat large red ears above the en- gulfing waters. His business was in- dubitably mules--not to linger in fools' peradises, waste money and time, and drift into the most heartbreaking of false positions. He tried to put tbat sparkling face out of his mind; tried not to linger on those girlish admissions that made his pulses beat; called himself, oh, so many times, a fool--a crazy, silly fool--and vowed all sorts of tremendous things. He would excuse himself from that tea; would leave the next day for Ken- tucky; would get back to dry land and mules and sanity. But he did not wish to appear rude, He would hate to have his action misconstrued. He would go at 4 after all, and if the occaslen pre sented itself would tell her the truth quite frankly--that he bad hardly any money, vo profession, and a long, up hill ight in front of him. Though how tdiotic he was to take it all seriously-- himself and her and the whole affair-- as though ft were any more than & passing flirtation. It was just the in- curable way he had of exaggerating | everything--ot making mountains out of molehllla He laughed at himself | & little forlornly. What an ass he was, to be surel What an ass! After breakfast he made it up hand- 801 4 night, where 1 found the sweetest sas and gradually recovering the ed stem. Matt gazed at it much a castaway sallor might gaze at an alrship--an unmanned airship drifting high above his head. But as he gazed "I'his resolution grew, and he announced t recklessly. | "But they'll all see us!" cried Miss Marshall, aghast. "Only the tops of our heads, and they aon't recognize us," said Matt. "And Mr. Doty will be scandalized-- everybody will" "Oh, nonsense," said Maft. "It's the voice In the world belonged to the | mulatto's' sorely shaken coufidence eweetest girl in the world, and then | [Te proved his sincerity by promising everything seemed to go round and | to leave for Kentucky on the morrow. round till the sweetest girl in the | They shook bands on It, and any lurk- world, who is also the cleverest girl in | ing grudge that Victor might still have the world, suddenly became the only | feit disappeared In that hearty clasp. gir! in the world, and--and"-- | But there was still a weight on the "Yes, you'd better stop there," sald mulatto's mind. He stammered out Miss Marshall "That sn't frankness, something about the San Francisco that's conventionality. A sectnd later | mouey--boped that it was all right-- you'll be saying 'Love me and tha hoped that it bad come. world Is mine." | "Escose my mentioning it," he said, "Would that be so awfully silly? | "but you know we'll be needing it asked Matt. | pretty soon, and I'd rather not sell the dickens to stand up here, with people 'I digging into you and pestering you to buy beadwork pincushions, when you'd : } give everytling in the world for & cozy talk" "A cozy talk would be nice, wouldn't $t? Though it would take an elephant fo get through all"-- "Come along.- I'll be the elephant." The pulpit was reached by a spiral stalr--or, rather, could be reached by pressing apart a stout lady gabbling to another stout lady, sweeping through five gauzy little girls and disturbing a amounting tier of sweethearts, two to a "Not only silly, but bromidian." "Bromidian? What's bromidian? "Repeating commonplaces, like a pan rot" "Mayn't anybody say I like you without being called a parrot--or that bro-name?" "ln good society Mr. Anybody nevee says tbat to Miss Somebody after an acquaintance so very brief as ours." "No short cuts allowed; is that the idea?" "Yes." "What's thé most I could be permit. ted to say, then?--sorrying? You said step. Had Matt not been in evening | worrying, yourself." "dress hie would never have succeeded in "It isn't quite fair to steal my word." | "disindging these lovers, but his swal- | ~How clever one bas to be--to like lowtail Was an awe inspiring garb and | you. One mustn't say this; one - mustn't say that; it's like a comptis cated game, and terribly beyond a poot | sailor like myself. You must forgive me for being bhundering and stupid. I, hardly know anything about young white ladies." # | Miss Marshall Janghed outright at being thas described, *1 never thought of myself as a young white lady," she , said, much entertained. "It sounds ad funny to we as though you called me a young pink lady, or a young blue; Indy. Oh, dear," she went on softly, ! "1 don't want to be foo hard on my | poor salar, 'who's awfully nice' and. stupld, and garage till"-- "Oh, that's afl right," returned Matt. "It ought to be coming along soon, and if It doesn't I'll telegraph. Don't you | worry about that," he added reassur- "ingly. "It's one of those splendid jew- | elry stores with diamond necklaces in | the window and is good for a hundred times the money." But Victor's concern remained. He bad kept better tally on the dates than Matt It was exactly twenty-four days since the latter had written, a long | while surely. Victor asked for the re- " cetpt and examined it closely. "That's Il right as far as It goes," he said, banding it back with a relleved exz- pression, "though they don't have to buy the ring if they don't want to or change their minds." "If people like Snood & Hargreaves offered $5,500 for the ring it's pretty sure to be worth it" replied Matt "Hven If they backed out we could sell it somewhere cise." x "Yes. that's true," said Victor, recov- ering his cheerfulness, "and maybe for 2 better price, considering you took the first bid they made. Depend upon ft, you could have raised them a few bun- » They lingered awhile longer, talking about the $300 commission Victor Hoped to get on a secondhand car and as to the advienbility oF taking $1000 ro rage. a DRANGE™ A 3 ye El A Pro darker . Ac di we section of Florida--a Gro¥s Wh ) "it first came. Into [ cording jo Redeemer | the lak d¥vears ago, has not known a crop a bearing, some twenty failure. In addition acquiring a large acre; surrounding the grove' thousand dollar to the and bear in mind that hops per annum. This is prove about it. ; The Company was other and independent pany's project. 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