Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1905-11-17


you out of your way?"
Heswells depression became horri-
BILE. Il haven't got way, thanks. IL
had l couldn't find it. | love this
fog. 1t suits the frame of my mind
exquisitely."
Just for moment our young friend
Maggie, who came of a race OF sports
men, wondered If it were quite fair not
to tell him who she was. BY the tone
of his voice she knew that he was on
the verge of making a confidence, and
she decided it as fair. She had never
pinned for anything so much in her
life as to get the real state of his feel
ings for her "Yes?" she encouraged.
by the way, are you sure we are on
the pavement"
AT present, yes. I'm whacking the
ratings with my stick. Personally, i
shouldn't be in the least surprised if
we came to the edge of the earth pref
ty soon"
The girl gave a gasp. And we shall
go headlong into space? How awful!
But | don't think your geography can
be quite right. My cabman put me
down in Brook street. | don't thing
the edge of the earth is within the
four-mile radius"
A misty form doomed under their
noses. Look Quit" cried Heswell.
by Jove. it's man! Hi, sir. can
you tell me Where-?"
Don't be an IDIOT" was the bron-
cbial reply, and the figure faded away.
Some men are such gentlemen,
said Heswell. Hard with your left!
Good. By Joye, we might have
split the boat on that pillar-box."
Miss Weybourne was very comfort
able, but she disliked tangents.
Il wish we knew where we were"
she said, with touch of petulance
1--WE shall arrive eventually, l sup
pose"
do you mind my saying" asked
Heswell, that your voice is rather
like the most delicious voice the world
has ever heard?"
mot at all" she replied, not in the
least afraid of blushing. Delighted.
I'm sure. But we're off the path"
You're the same height, too, he
said.
"As the owner of the most DELI
cious-"
How very JOLLY" She began to. be
afraid that he would discover her
identity. A sudden fright took pos
session Of her. rs this Berkeley
Square, do you Think"
TITS pretty certain to be" he said.
with kind of fatalism.
"Why?"
when I'm anywhere it's generally
Berkeley Square. | go out to ride in
the morning and find myself in Berke-
ley Square. l wire to my mother and
say I'm coming to tea at 4, and find
myself at 4:10 in Berkeley Square.
take seats for theatre and agree to
dine first at the Carlton and find my
self at the moment when the curtain
yes, this is Berkeley Square. It's in
evitable. Forgive my yerbos-
ity. It's a novel thing to confde in
some one one has never seen before
and will never see again"
rs it?" asked Maggie, now quite
perfectly certain. Don't you think it
would be as well for you to finish con-
fding in me? For instance, why do
you find yourself so often in Berkeley
Square? In short. why Berkeley
Square?"
''Oh, the ole, old reason, you know"
he replied, with weighty attempt at
lightness. THE love of an idiot for
an angel. Every man has his Berke-
ley Square"
And every woman has her idiot
who is the sanest man in the world
she said enthusiastically. Il agree
with love. And, for that reason,
should advise you to go once more to
Berkeley Square"
Il shall go fifty million times more"
Yes" she said softly, but by that
time you will be an old idiot. and the
house in Berkeley Square may have
changed hands. No. Go to Berkeley
Square today and say all you have said
to me-"
Il couldn't" said Heswell q
haven't got the pluck. "Hullo!"
He looked up suddenly and gazed
around him.
'What?" she asked.
THE fog's lifting. One can see the
numbers of the houses. | thought sc
Il would have betted on it,"
"Or WHAT"
Il have been going round and round
and have stopped as usual, at S1B. Al
ready the butler, frugal person, has
turned off the electric light"
The wind that had crept up unnotic-
ed had blown the greater part of the
fog away. Heswell and Maggie Wey-
bourne had been far too much occu.
pied to see its gradual shifting. As
they stood at the bottom of the steps
it was possible for them to see one an
other plainly