Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-04-04

ELlNOR.
two small wrinkles of impatience out
Of her brow, tucked her letter into
her bosom, and went down to meet
the early morning caller.
Mr.. Brookes Ormsby, club-man, gen.
tleman of athletic leisure, anu inheri-
tor of the Ormsby millions, was pac-
ing back and forth before the handful
Of fire in the drawing room crate when
she entered.
"You don't deserve to have a collie
sheep-dog friend" he protested re-
proachfully. "How was to know that
you were going away?"
Another time Elinor might have felt
that she owed him an explanation,
but Just now she was careful, and
troubled about the packing.
"How was / to know you didn't
know" she retorted. "It was In the
Transcript"
"Well," said Ormsby. Things have
come to a pretty mess when I have
to keep track of you through the So
ciety column. I didn't see the paper.
Dyckman brought me word last night
at Vineyard Haven, and We broke a
propeller blade on the Amphitrite try
ing to get here in time"
81 am so sorry-for the Amphitrite," /"
she said. But you are here, and In
good season. Shall call mother and
Nell?"
mo. | ran out to see II I'm in time
to do your errands for you-take your
tickets, and so on"
"Oh, We shouldn't think Of troubling
you. James can do all those things.
And failing James, there Is a very
dependable young woman at the head
of this household. Haven't person
ally conducted the family all over
Europe?"
James is q base hireling," said the
caller, blandly. "And as for the cap
able young woman: do or do
not recollect a dark night on the Ger
man frontier when she was glad
enough to call on sleepy fellow pill
grim to help her wrestle with a par
ticularly thick headed customs officer?"
IF you do, it is not especially kind
of you to remind her of It,"
He looked up quickly, and the mas
terful soul Of the man, for which the
clean-cut, square-set jaw and the ath-
letic figure were the outward present.
ments, put on a mask Of Difference and
humility.
"You are hard with me, Elinor-al-
ways flinty and adamantine, and that
sort. Have you no soft side at all?"
She laughed.
"The sentimental young woman
went out some time ago, didn't she?
One can't be an anachronism."
81 suppose not. Yet I'm always try
ing to make myself believe other
things about you. Don't you like to
be cared for like other women?"
81 don't know; sometimes l think
should. But l have had to be the
man of the house since father died."
81 know" he said. "And 1t is the
petty anxieties that have made you
put the woman to the wall. I'm here
this morning to save you some of
them; to take the mans part in your
outsetting, or as much of it as can.
When are you going to give me the
right to come between you and all the
little worries, Elinor?"
She turned from him with faint
gesture of cold impatience.
"You are forgetting your promise. "
she said quite dispassionately. eve
were to be friends; as good friends
as We were before that evening at
Bar Harbor. I told you 1t would be
impossible, and you said you were
strong enough to make 1t possible" "
He looked at her with narrowing
eyes.
ut is possible, in way. But I'd
like to know what door of your heart
it Is that ] haven't been able to open" "
She ignored the pleading and took
refuge in a woman's expedient.
IF you insist on going back to the
beginnings. shall go back. also-to
Abigail and the trunk packing"
He planted himself squarely before
her. the mask lifted and the master
full soul asserting itself boldly.
"It wouldn't do any good, you know.
| am going with you"
ITO Abigail and the trunk room?"
"Oh, no; to the jumping off place
out west-wherever it Is you are going
to hibernate"
NO" she said decisively: "you
must not"
"Why?"
my saying so ought to be sufficient
reason"
1T isn't" he contended, frowning
down on her good naturedly. "Shal