Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-01-11

- promise you VIM never seu a.,
"oh. lady's PROMISE
mine" Miss Winthrop replied. betray-
ed into asperity, lis sacred! But-but
won't you tell me? 1t might make "a
difference"
lie continued to smile, but she noticed
a still more grim look about his jaws.
81 regret" he said, with what seemed
TO her calm insolence, that even that
supreme inducement cannot unseal my
lips on that point"
1t was Miss Winthrops turn to hest
tate.
1--WE just been talking to Mrs Sed-
den." she said desperately
She looked at him with eyes so shy and
tender that an answering spark came into
his, and he made a quick movement to-
ward her.
Listen Miss Winthrop" he said eager
ly. "Wingfoot has not been poisoned. 1
saw him run today. No one can fool me
nuch about horses. He has a cold. II
has been coming on for several days.
saw il and warned them. They didn't
think so. They laughed at me. / tried
to warn Sedden. but yesterday he angered
me by saying something about-about
some one l know. ! made up nay mind to
have done with him. lie is-he is really
rather common, don't you think, in some
ways? And i told the other men, but they
wouldn't listen, and, then, m not very
popular, you know. They-they think be-
cause / so often win, 1 suppose, that-that
| try TO keep myself on the outside, but
it isn't that l really do. They never hedge
bets, you know, and l do. I'm very eX-
travagant sometimes, and sometimes l
have to- | hedged on Wingfoot, you
know. l felt sure / felt almost sure. /
l had stalSed every penny | could rake
4 4
do something that would cost-oh, such a
lot of money! l mean l wanted to get to-
gether lot of capital, you see.
at was about-about a girl l rather
like her. And she has money, and there's
a story got about somehow that it's her
money I'm after not her. Can't you see ?
So / hedged. And l was out you see, last
night between u and A. and IL didn t
want 10 explain, although I'm not ashaIn-
cd of what I was doing, and-and-weii,
really, II made il rather difficult. But l
wanted you mean her-I mean l want
ed the girl Of whom / have spoken TO
know THAI / am not tho sort of chap az
heart she takes me for and 1 dare say /
am boring you terribly. but l wanted
some one to speak TO about it. and. you
see, I'm not really what you might call
fast at ALL only, only ~ well, l hardly
know how TO explain all this to you, Miss
Winthrop You see I've been extrava-
CANT and all that, yct-and upon my soul,
/ don't know what it's got TO do with
what I've just said-yet, as / say, |
couldn't explain to those men, and L never
shall TO any one, about my absence last
night, and-and'-
Miss Winthrop interrupted him. She
was never afterward able TO say whether
vt that moment she had been laughing or
trying.
81 told you that I've just been talking
90 Mrs. Sedden," she said, carefully enun
ciating each syllable
81 think l ought to apologize to you
she began hurriedly.
A radiant change came over Brinton ps
ne looked into the girls eyes lie lapsed
back into the drawl as he interrupted:
you are so charming when you al
contrite that you-er-tempt me to forget
that las you once said-insult you by
looking at you" He held up his hand ri
sight OF her coud.ng eyes. II was Jes,
ing" he ADDED "Fad you not better
withdraw before l carry my insults far
ther2"
Miss winthrop knew what he meant.
She leaned over the bansters to him as
he stretched out his arms.
"Gortonr' she said