The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-31
THE WHOLE STORY
IN ONE CHAPTER.

IN ONE CH ARTER.
from the Chicago Tribune.l
/ I beg your PARDON" the young man
said, removing his hat and shaking
back the thick name of clustering hair
that fell upon his forehead as he did so,
but that is your chaperon on the land
ing below. is it not?''
Yes, poor DEAR replied the striking
/ ~ pretty, liSsonae young girl, regarding
HIM with some surprise. she couldn't
Climb any higher. Nothing has hap
pened to her. 1 hope
They stood upon the topmost platform
of the rickety tower that crowns the
summit o. Mackinac island
Before them spread the magnificent
panorama of land and. water Nnose glo-
RES have formed the theme of song and
story for hundred years AMI may he
round set forth fully in all tie railway
ard steamship circulars.
No." he said. nothing has happened
70 her. but / am glad she couldn't climb
any higher
Then. sir. you will pardon ne for
SAVING that you seem to De heartless.
net to say a bold. young man, and Cor a
stranger"
But l am not a stranger. We have
met before
indeed! Where. may I ask::''
4 In my Dreams
The cool audacity mingled with more
Tran tinge of earnestness. With which
he said this, paralyzed her.
In my dreams he went on, '.I have
seen and talked with you a thousand
sllllos. o. / cont mean the Peter lbbet-
sol1 Kind of dream Not that. There is
nothing in clasping your han6s Under
your mead, crossing your left foot over
youl right and going to sleep ex2ectlng
70 dream true That's only one of
Du Maurier's jokes. I'm talking of real
6leams-not pipe dreams. You are my
dream girl I recognized you at sighe
| but never supposed you existed i'll
HnCA r
| have
You will excuse me, sir. I must
The same voice. the same injection,
The same willful. imperious vayi Par
lol me, but take good look at me Do
l seem to be crazy? Do I look like a
drunken man? Am 7 not a fsirly re-
spectacle person, SO far as appearance
goes? If 1 fail to pass a close inspection
l Will step aside at once and NOT bar
your way single instant"
Ihus adjured, she eyed him from head
to foot.
Then, with recovered possession
and the feeling that she was, after all.in
no sort of danger, the love of adventure
that croDs out now and then in every
healthy American girl tingled along her
nerves. She would punish this audac-
ious youth, but she would amuse her
self with him first-just little.
No, sir, you don't appear to be either
drunk or crazy. You are rather a fine
| looking
|
But somewhat forward and pre-
sumptuous young man, decidedly self
conceited should say
20, come, now, Miss Gloriana Goovius,
that is"
How do you know my name, sir?''
Saw it on your trunk at the hotel.
didn't dream that. Saw you leave the
hotel and come uD here. Followed you
up. In another carriage That's why
am here. Go on, please"
-f4J,
frank open face. Probably just out of
college,
There you are away off. I'm not as
young as ! lool-. and 1 don't look so
awfully young don't need that mock
ing smile. either, to assure me you're
only guying me. I've been out of college
four years. 1 have made the European
trip, and-heavensl Look at that crowd
away down there! 1 saw a man run
over just nowi"
'Oi Was he .rs.s 80 stffsFt =
mo; he wasn't hurt. I saw him run
over-to the other side of the road. pro-
badly to get drink or something. I'm
full of little things of that kind"
Full of little drinks?"
4 am even with you, anyhow. for
guying me. Let me be serious a mo-
ment-'
20, no. You are not half as interest
ing when you are serious. Don't please
Another remark like that, Miss Goo
! vius, and you'll attract the attention oil
your chaperon. I am going to be q
great deal more serious. let me tell you
before l am done. Go on, please"
That's about ALL You look vel
dressed. and I suppose you are fairly
, prosperous"
Yes, / am in no immediate danger o.
starvation. 1 am paying that carriage
= driver down there by the hour, and an
in no hurry to get away from here.
affirm without hesitation that it's worth
, the expense. By the way, do you see
that little vessel over there in the har.
bor?" ef
That magnificent white yacht? Yes
} that belongs to the famous Gordon
Jinkks What of it?'
Nothing, only l own it."
What? Are you"
L am. And 1 can tell from the way
you pronounce the name Jinkks tina
you know L spell it with a double k
couldn't endure, you know, to have YOU
pronounce it as if it had only one
Y But I never suspected"
Il know you didn't, dear"
"Siri'
Slipped out. Didn't mean to say it
: But you're likely to hear it a million
times later on"
And you," she said musingly, "ar