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tain as he passed. One of them, English

"Iimo you were ready, Gray. You ro
going to Chillon, of course. And with
Il true Briton $ deep disdain of foreign
names be spoke it as it was spelled.
mo, was the answer, "l'm going
60 cool off "
Been getting a rcdhot letter, as
you Yankees say, suppose, - the island
er went on, impCrvious to satire.
"That' about the size of it," an.
swered Gray, without hating. Two OF
tho men looked after him with no little
concern in their eyes. Others hailed
him as he passed them by. Gray was
evidently popular \ woman i'll billow-
ing laces and paraso chair smiled
largely upon him as he raised his straw
hat and babe him rause, but prevailed
not. Two younger women, in trim
walking attire, nodded coquettishly and
said it was the very day for the trip.
Thon, too, he answered only vaguely,
and with a PARKWAY lock III BIS dep
blue eye be passed on 20 the telegraph
Office, and the group Of smoking men
broke up.
Something 5 amiss with Cray said
one Of the party, a New Yorker. II Il
go sec
u don't see what there was in the
size Of the letter to upset him, 80 said
the Englishmau, unconscious of slang
that was not Britannia ware. "Grav's
a good sort though Could . fellow do
anything, d'you suppose
But the pursucr was slow. Seeing
him coming and diyining his object.
Nr Gray slipped out Of the side door,
dived through the shrdbbery that Dor
dored % winding driveway to the west
aid took himself of through the crowd
cd place He had need to he alunc--t0
face his changed fortunes fair and
square
Twonty.fva years old and mp TO the
midwoek mai! from America he h2d
never known care since boyish days,
unless ii was some mumout8ry heart
raug when Amy LanRdon proved un-
kind In dGwdling amateurish way
he had read the daily papers and signed
some letters and reports laid before him
by an attentive clerk III the office of the
eastern traffic manager of great road
of which his uncle was Il heavy stock
holder and prominent director. The
most serious thing he had ever undertake
Ell was his membership Ill Il crack city
regiment. wherein he had served through
the ranks and really earned a commits
sion But both these avocations be had
quilted during the previous winter and
I'll because Amy Langdon was reported
flirting dangerously at Nice and Men
tone, and if she were not actually en-
gagged to Darcy Gray be at least felt so
far engaged to her that Irritation was
denied HIM.
AS pretty "A girl as ever rode III Cen
trail park was Amy, and as dashing a
horsewoman, and it was Gray's adni-
rabe riding and universally acknowl-
edged prospects that made him for tho
time so acceptable parti He could
manage horse far better than lie could
woman, however, and Miss Langdon
kept him at her side when in saddle and
subject 60 call at all other times. But
she had, not unkindly laughed off his
protestatiOns ana dissected his offers.
ut absurd, Darcy You haven TIA cent
in the world that doesn' come from your
uncle, and who knows what his wife
for that matter: AS for me, I'm beg
gar with social aspirations Come, b
sensible, and | II like you better BE d
soldier, Darcy and face the facts That
the one thing your cut out for "
You re hard hearted. Amy. he haC
answered
mo, only hard headed I'm soft
hearted enough to like you too wei! Il
, spoil both our lives. %
Gray believed himself much in love
, when she went abroad in November, ant
took ii much to heart that she SHOULD
| be so constantly attended by Ere,
Smythe, who had no atom Of sense II
, his head, but no end of dollars in hi
pocket But when "a lordling a youn
l ger son of All older house than ever dwell
3 in Gotham, az honorable, between
. whom and the title and estates was
, lord with only one lung and that fas
/ going, had opposed his signs to thos
: Of Smythe, and there came rumors tina
l.ocksley Hall was to be enacted owe
: again with an American Amy III tn
5 foreground, Marcy Gray believed /
= time to rush for the Riviera, and wor
r RED old uncle most unwillingly let hin
. 20 Hunter loved that boy his sister
t son, as tho apple Of his eye Their
@ WASH anything he wouldn t have glvel
a HIM but the means Of earning his owl
= living All that he proposed to settl
n magnltcently But the bottom began t.
r drop out of the market in md lamar,
@ and left him stranded high and dry b.
II the middle Of May Two million dol
:. lars, SAID Wall street, had "gono wher
:, the woodhlne twlneth.
j. over beyond the hurry hurly of tn
l. public place, crowded with townstol
d and children the roadway wound alon
Il the water's edge Gray strobe rapid
d westward, his head bowed, his hand
i thrust deep in his trousers pockets II
% missed his usual companions II heav
l. stick and nimble fox terrier, but bot
If had been left with the porter as inal
t, proprinte to voyage to Chillon. The
y were 60 have started, "a merry party
II promised to be, by the early boat frol
! Geneva, and be could see her now cloav
If ing the limpid waters around the heaC
land of Morges 1t was time to warn h
Is companions that he could not go On
girl, ak le u, might miss him, and 81
should be accorded opportunity to nan
~ some other escort, Amy-"Amy, sha
i low hearted " She had disappeare
with that brainless ass half an hon