The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-12-24
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By rREDERIC REDDALE
Copyright, lyg2, by J. p. Lippincott Company.

I've been in too many tight places my
self not to realize how it feels to be
jumped on!'
So there you have the unique person.
atty, outward and inward, then newly
launched in the cream of English So
ciety
No smart function was complete
without him, and in response to his
own lavish entertaining in town during
the season, he was deluged with invi-
tations to visit some of the most eX-
elusive country houses in England for
the shooting season. Being a bachelor,
with not a relative in the world" as
he said, he was naturally regarded as
big fish in the matrimonial SWIM
and might have married a titled beau
ty before the summer was over, thus
reversing the accepted Anglo-Ameri-
can procedure in recent years.
III course of time RosSiter Kane'S
round OF autumn visits brought him to
Denecroft.
Three years had passed from the
date OF Richard Dysart's self-eXpatria-
ton. Time had brought no outward
change in the lives of those hitherto
concerned in this story. Stella Dysart
was still reigning mistress at Dene-
croft Sir Arthur, as may be imagined,
lost no time in putting the all-impor-
tant question to Marcia Churchill,
only to be met with a gracious but
kindly refusal and the tidings that his
brother had been beforehand. Thence
forward he remained single, nor
showed no signs of transferring his af-
fectionS elsewhere.
Marcia kept her troth, although lit
tie had been heard from the absent lad.
A brace of letters in the first six
months then a long silence, finally a
single impassioned apl cal, enclosing
his picture, for which she had asked,
reiterating his undyine love, be5ging
her to wait for him, limiting at all
sorts of bad luck, but intimating that
certain venture then impending
would make or break him. After that,
silence and suspense.
True to his word, Sir Arthur paid in
$4,000 to Richards credit at the fam
lily bankers, but it was never drawn
against. Whatever he was doing, the
boy was clearly determined TO sink or
swim by his own uulided efforts. The
Baronet, on his part, felt too deeply
wounded to write or make any over
lures at a reconciliation.
So Marcia waited, her beauty en-
HANGED and spiritualized by her faith
full love and daily hope.
"He will come back" she said for
the hundredth time,
"Of course he will" echoed Stella,
for Rick had been her favorite brother,
and in these latter days she and Mar
cia learned to love each other as sis
ters, and jokingly vowed to live to-
gether as old maids to the end of the
chapter.
Rossiter Kane had met Stella Dysart
in town, likewise Marcia Churchill
With the former he appeared to be at
once empresse, and it would be hard
to say which of the two girls liked him
best. With Sir Arthur, too, he got
along famously for his was the happy
faculty of adapting himself, chamoie-
on-lika, to the surroundings or the per-
son with which or with whom he
happened for the moment to be brought
in contact He could interest himself
in Sir Arthur's old manuscripts and
early Italian canzonets, although as
he quietly confessed to Stella. he had
no personal appreciation of their beau
ty or their value.
II started too late in life, Miss Dy-
sart," he would say, land what
need most is some kind person to take
pity on me, become my mentor and
lick me into shape, as we used to say
out west"
1t needed no oracle to interpret the
inference. Rossiter Kane, had the
nomination been left to him, would
have chosen his mentor then and
there, and the post would have pos
sessed a life tenure.
Evidently Kane's time had come at
last, and he was hard hit. lie had es-
capped the meshes and the machina-