Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-10-15

\SEs33y dressed and ready for him.
She was seated before cheerful
CRATE fire looking over a magazine she
had brought to pass the time on the
train.
Come in" she said, pleasantly
enough, he reflected, now that Miller
was not present to absorb her atten-
ton. Il expected you to get up lit
tie earlier. Those guns down at the
barroom Just about daybreak walked
me. and l couldn't go to sleep again.
There is no use denying it. AL, we
have a barbarous way Of amusing our
selves up here in north Georgia"
He went on and stood with his back
to the fire. still una BILE to rid his brow
of the frown il had worn the night be-
fore
"Oh. | reckon you've got too Gifted
for us" he said. "along with other ac-
compliShlnents that fast set down
there has taught you"
Adele laid her book open on her lap.
Look here. Alan" she said, quite
eravely, whats the matter with you'
Nothing that | know of" he said,
without meeting her direct gaze.
"Well there is" she said, as the out
come of her slow inspection of bis
clouded features.
He shrugged his shoulders and gave
her his eyes steadily.
Il don't like the way you and Miller
are carrying on" He hurled the words
at her sulcnly. You see, know him
through and through"
"Wcll, that's all right" she replied,
not tiinching from his indignant stare,
conduct and his!"
"Nou allow him to be too familiar
with YOU" Alan retOrted He's not the
kind of a man for you toto act that
way with. He has trted with dozen
women and thrown them over: he
. doesn't believe in the honest love of a
man for a woman or the love of wo-
man for n man
"Ah, | am at the first Of this" Adele,
instead of being put down by his
stormy words was smiling inwardly.
Her lips were rigid, but Alan saw the
light of keen amusement in her eyes.
as he really so dangerous? That
makes him doubly interesting. Most
girls love to handle masculine gun
powder DO You know, if | was Dolly
Barclay, for instance. an affair with
you would not be much fun because
I'd be so sure of you. The dead level
of your past would alarm me-"
THANK heaven. all women are not
alike was the bolt he hurled at her
IF you knew as much about Ray Mil
Ter as | do. you'd act in a more digniheC
way on first acquaintance with him
"On frst--oh, see what yor
mean" Adele put her handkerchief tC
her face and treated herself to a merry
laugh that exasperated him beyond EN-
durancc. Then she stood up, smoothin-
her smile away. Lets go to breakfast
I'm as hungry as a bear. | told Ray
burn-I mean your dangerous friend
Mr. Miller--that we'd meet him in thu
dining room. He says he's crazy for {
cup of coffee with whipped cream in it
| ordered ii just now
THE dew Alan bit the word II
two and strobe from the room, she fol
lowing. The first person they saw IL
the big dining room was Miller. stand
ing at the stove in the center of thu
room warming himself. He scarcel,
looked at Alan in his eagerness TO hav'
chair placed for Adele at little Ia
BILE reserved for three in corner o
the room. which was presided over b,
slick looking mulatto waiter who's
, father had belonged to Millers family
"Pve been up an hour" he said t
her. IL took stroll down the stree