The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-06-21
!; CUPID AND
I 1.-THE LAW.
The Story of Boston Love AFFAIR
That Eventuated In Mexico.
D BY JOHN FORBES.
Copyright, 1901, By John Forbes
By JOHN FORBES.
Copyright. 1901. By John Forbes

tell you all about il. and perhaps send you
some of the drawn work"
And with these and the other usual
messages the train carrying the big ex
cursiOn to Mexico pulled out Of the sta
ton.
II was a common. everyday sight to the
station hands, and they gave II only a
passing glance. But to most OF the trav,
elers it was novel experience. and they
looked on it as only the beginning Of days
of sightseeing in the land of the Monte
zumns.
There were two passengers in one of
the sleepers who attracted some atten-
tion. One was a woman of 60. tall and
straight, with a carriage like a queen
and who seemed as young and gay as the
youngest. The other called her mother"
and was about %. beautiful girl. Their
son and brother had come to the station
to bid them goodby. a man OF 80. well
groomed and well made. the typical
American man of that age.
He had provided them with everything
that his affection could suggest and told
them to be sure to let him know day by
day where they were and IL they were
well.
sand you will look after mother. Alice.
won't you?"
As he spoke two young ladies turned
and looked at him-his sister and a
younger woman, about "a. She turned
involuntariy. and the pretty blush thai
covered her cheek showed that her name
was Alice too.
Robert Duncan glanced at her and was
struck with her beauty. But she saw his
look and turned away and busted herself
with her baggage. His mother and sister
both noticed the coincidence also and
smiled.
$50 we will have two Alioas along"
said his mother. 81 hope we shall become
acquainted with the young lady. Sh~
looks very pleasant and very nice"
Just then the porter shouted "Ali
aboard" and Robert jumped from the
train As the car passed him he looked
in vain for the faces of his mother and
sister. But he did see the face OF the
other Alice looking ut him with some Gu.
riosity.
Then he returned to bis office. He was
the junior partner In prominent law
firm in Boston and had hard afternoon
Of work before him There was a brief
In a case that had puzzled both himself
and his partner. But try as he would to
concentrate his mind on his work, hV
could see nothing hut the beautiful face
at the car window and hear nothing but
the droning of the car wheeis-
At last he became SO nervous that hS
threw down his pen, and. telling the boy
he would not be back till morning. he
walked I'D across the Common and thu
Public garden to his home.
|. The evening at the theater did not help
him, and he was rather horror struck To
find himself no better in the morning
This was new experience for him. No
woman had ever before come between
him and his work. This was silly. He
never saw the girl before. and he never
would see her again. Of course. He must
have dyspepsia.
So, ON his way TO bis Office, he made a
call on his old college chum. now prom
Using young physician. He did not tell
the doctor what the most prominent symp
ton was. but was sure he needed medicine
for dyspepsia. Accordingly he felt rather
foolish when he was Obliged to say no to
oil the doctors questions as to whether
he had certain symptoms inseparable
from gastric trouble.
The doctor laughed and gave him some
harmless powder and he went to the Of
flee strong in his resolve to finish the
brief. He made fairly good Roadway,
but still the image OF the beautiful girl
would come back to him, and. as the day
wore on. more distinctly. Late In the aft
ernoon hp got a telegram saying the party
was at Chicago and signed Alice" And
that started Il all over again.
Then be became alarmed and feared his
mind was going. for he was not q be
lever in "love at first sight, or hardly
in the grand passion itself.
Then he found himself With an almost
resistless longing to take the frat train
and follow his folks. or course he did
not admit to himself that he wanted t.
see the other Alice.
That afternoon one Of the firms besi
clients came in. He said he contemplated
purchasing some thousand acres In Mex
leo with the idea Of establishing O coffee
plantation there. He was not satisfied
with the title to the land and felt tina
some one ought to go down there and lool
into the matter more closely. He coult
not spare the time and came to them
thinking that possibly some Of thri
young men might have enough knowledge
of Spanish to make the trip.
Robert Duncan regarded him as an an
gel and said that as the Office was n"
very busy inst then he thought he shnulr
like to make the trip himself. This wa
better than the client expected. and thu
matter was soon fixed up.
perhaps you will meet your folk
down there" said the senior partner.
"Why. perhaps | WILL" said Duncan
as II he had just thought Of it. But h.
told his partner that u was hardly prob
able, as he as going down on the lowe
tablplands near the coast and the ezcur
sions usually kept pretty well upon th
high platraus.
Tint nigh before he started no got I
letter from his mother and in il she said
"Alice Chambers is lovely. and we enjo
her 20 much" SO that was her name
Chambers
The next morning be started HI
tourney was tiresnmp one and afte
several DAYS spent on the train he foun
himself one glorious afternoon rlimbin
little mountain path ON the back Of
burro. Duncan had told his folks b.
wire of his intended trip and found b.
looking over their itinerary that they ha
passed quite near where he now was.
He had left the train at q little tow
through which they passed some day
previous and was making his way int
the country to interview an old India
whom he expected to find the next mort
ing The title to Mexican lands often d
ponds on information only obtainab
from the kindly Indian.
That night he slept on his blanket al
der the stars and early the next morniu
was pushing on. the path growing sti
wilder and more beautiful. At last. abor
s. o'clock. he came over the spur of II
mountain and looked down on a love-
valley. His guide and interpreter tol