Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-19

SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS
CHAPTER Leslie Malincourt. n
coquette, is invited To visit her amt.
Lady Appuldurcombe. that she NAV
be satisfied on her return TO marry
Bob Hcatberley. She is welcomed
by her cousin, Ronald Kilmurray.
ll-Lesley meets Miss Cynthia de
Sails. IlI-And is interviewed by
her aunt. Iv-Mr. Yelverton tells
Lesley that Ronny is the best gentle
man horseman in England. V-Les-
ley rides out with Mr.. Yclverton and
is criticised for SO doing. VI
Ronny buys Yelverton's mare for
Lesley. Wellesley desires to see
Ronny brought to sue for Cynthia de
Sails. who is in love with him. VIII
But Lesley's aunt suspects her Of
wishing Miss de Sails out Of the way
that she may have Ronny herself.
IN-Leslev walks with Ronuy in
Leicester square early in / be morn
ing and is seen by Graham Dash
wood, whom she had snubbed. "
Cynthia faints at the races on ac-
count Of Ronny's attentions to Lesley
XI-Ronny overhears Eastwood ac-
cusing Lesley Of having been in the
park with improper persons. lie
slaps his face, and a challenge passes.
XlI-Ronny tells Lesley he loves her.
XIII-Cynthia upbraids Lesley. who
resolves to go home and leave her
rival free to win Ronny. XIV-She
leaves without announcing her de-
parture. XV-Ronny and his moth
er discover that she has gone. XVI,
NV1I, XVIII and XIX-Lesley ar
rives home and tells her friend, Lady
Cranstoun, what has happened.
Lord Malincourt rejoices to have his
daughter ut home. Bob Ieatherley
asks Lesley if che is going to marry
him, and she runs away from him.
CHAPTER XIX.
Bob Heatherley was Of that order of
man which knows what it wants and is
quite determined to get it; SO, having
very early after breakfast drawn Malin-
court to the park. the gardens and every
known covert, blank. he went farther
afield and at last found Miss Lesley
perched on the top Of high gate that
had been favorito vantage ground of
hers from childhood upward. since it
gave 4 splendid outlook whence to view
tic approach Of her pastors and masters
and later on those lovers whom it had
been her aim ~ life to escape.
She colored with anger ut her own
folly when he approached her, for had
she not, i'll her brief engagement to
him, given up the keys Of at least enc
of the childish secrets Of her life? Yet
she had not the least idea of running
away from this lover who until three
weeks ago had alone come within ap-
probable measuring distance of what
she was pleased to call her heart
GOOD morning, Lesley" he said,
lifting his cap, that left his resolute,
handsome face entirely uncovered TO
her intent gaze as he drew near, but
she did not speak--she was rating, val
uins him at his just vaiue so much he
felt as size looked down upon him, ana
all at once he knew that she had hit the
blot-;he reason he did nct please her.
But what was it: He did not know,
but Lesley knew. Re was every whit rs
good as Ronny, in scme respects better
for he was infinitely better looking,
had sweetcr natu-c--but this is worn
ans law, and it was Lcsley's, that the
experience she cannot get for herself she
must get at secondhand. and it is the
man of action and experience who wins
, her. though the other lnan, had he the
same chances, might have done even
more brilliantly and thrilled her with
even greater pride and joy in him.
Bob knew her face too well to miss
its meaning now, bat he was stout
hearted, rs indeed he must have been to
enjoy tie honor Of being really engaged
to Lesley for about a week, so he leaned
his arms on the top Of tho gate and
waited for her to speak.
1t seems 100 years since l sat here
last, said Lesley. looking out from the
cool, long patch Of shade i'll which she
sat to the sunlit panorama beyond and
aroand that her favorite gap" afforded
so magnificent view Of And she had
been enjoying it all so keenly when Bob
came to spoil everything!
"And I've no doubt you've done I, 900
years mischief III them, said Bob dry
ly. Perhaps you've put them all ON
their parole, rs you did me-not TO ap-
proach you for month";
"Oh, for eternity!" said Lesley,
growing fiippant, as she always did
when misunderstood. If courtesy
were possible on the top of gate, I'd
drop you one-for your belief in my
powers.
"Oh, / know you. Lesley" cried
Bob, show you can make fool Of any
man you like! 1t isn't your beauty or
your ways. It's that terrible sincerity
about you that makes every man feel
you couldn't love anybody who wasn't
exactly right. and naturally everybody
wants to be that man and tries to hei'
Bob was saying just what Ronny had
looked, and Lesley trcmbled as she gaz-
ed down ON Bob's determined face. ev-
cry whit e. dominant in its masculinity
as Ronny's own, and Lesley at heart
was as intensely feminine as all women
must be who greatly attract and influ-