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heart instantly acknowledged.

Half way up the stars he glanced back
end saw her standing where he had left
her. He hesitated and went back.
YOU are waiting for some one? Can I
be of servicer
Thank you.' What a sweet voice.
u am afraid there has been a mistake.
No one has come to meet me. May I
ask you to call cab?'
And when he had done so, when she
had thanked him, when he stood bare
headed on the curbstone as the vehicle
rolled away, he recollected that he had
not listened to the address she had Civ.
en- the driver, and he walked off in a
towering rage at his own imbecility.
Never was there so dreary a dav, al
though the late August sunshine found
it's way into his Office; never had the
reading of the law seemed such dull
and tiresome drudgerY;never before had
the pages blurred into mass of mean
ingless black marks, but, then, never
before had bewitching young face
come between him and his books, face
with reddish gold ringlets clustered
around white forehead and shy eyes
the color of woodland violets.
He leaped from his seat as a bright
thought struck him. He could hunt up
the cabman. That was the thing to do.
But, although he hung around the depot
for two whole hours and questioned
every jehu within reach, he could not
find the man he sought. 1t was evident
ly that particular cabman's busy day.
Tired and disgusted, Ross Stafford
took plunge at the athletic club, got
himself home, shrugged himself into his
evening clothes, for he was going out
after dinner, and went down to the
parlor to find himself face to face with
the divinity with the red gold ringlets
and the violet eyes.
ROSS, my DEAR cooed Mrs. Stafford
Vet me introduce you to Miss Chester
whom somehow you managed to miss
this morning. Why you
| For they were smiling at each other
-merrily. spontaneously.
INDEED, mo, motherv Perhaps he held
the pretty hand she gave him a little
longer than was necessary. u met Miss
chester this morning. Did she not tell
you put her in a cabT
Miss Chester laughed. Ross Stafford
laughed. And the bewilderment Of the
head OF the house of Stafford, of the
golfng sou. and the studious son. al
they in turn were presented, set then
laughing again.
Lord bless mel cried Stafford senior
rufiing his hair. >yonr father said yor
were nttle glrli
Uh. shall never be grown up tt
papar cried Miss Chester.
He said,' stammered the young gen
tleman who was getting up an articl
on the architecture of the tenth Cen.
tury, "that-that you were nice chile
} Don't you think queried Adel
Chester mischievously, that I'm nice:
Whereat Ralph grew guiltily red.
Helen Stafford reached home befor
dinner was over. Her brothers rap
turous reception amazed her. Neve
had she know how they missed her
Nor could she dream that each of thre
young hvpocrites was saying to him
self:
| She won't 90 east in such hurry
she and Helen take to each other
They did take to each other. Ros
found it was not necessary to keep hi
engagement that evening and permit
ted his friend to cool his heels alone a
their appointed rendezvous. Ralpl
learned his tenor went wonderfully
: we'll with the pure soprano of th"i
guest. And Dick was so anxious t
initiate Miss Chesser into the mysterie
: of fashlight pictures that he made MIN
self no end of bore. The countr,
cousin of the Staffords did not go Eas
. that week or the next. When she di'
60, all the mirth and laughter Of tn
Stafford domlcile seemed to 90 with he
One morning week after her depart
ure Ralph and Dick said some bite
things when they discovered that Ros
had found out he must attend to bust.
. ness in New York and had left for tn
) city on the midnight train. And whel
Ross returned, silent, but smiling ant
exultant, they were not at all backward
about telling him with true traterna
} frankness their opinion of his conduct
YOU were awfully good to 60 to mee
that little country lassie,' commented
Ralph witheringly. u believe you knew
all the time she was the prettiest kline
of q girl
Kindness, sheer kindness on my par
dear how. Rnt. aa I have atriyen Il