Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-05-30
The Man on
| the Box
y BY HAROLD MacGRATH
Author OF "Ths Grey Cloak, ""The
Puppo< Crown"
Copyright. 1904. The BObSs-fIerrill Company.
CHAPTER y.-Cosr1N,JEp.

glanced nervOusly around tho room
and toward the hall.
My dear fellow, your wife wouldn't
believe me, NO matter what | said
against your character. Isu't that
right, Chuck? Jack, you arc lucky
dog, III there ever Was one. A hand
some wife who loves you, kid, a fine
home and plenty Of horses. wonder
IL you married her for her money!
Jacks eyes narrowed. He seemed
to muse. Eyes. believe can do 1t
as easily as I did IS years ago"
DO whatf" asked
Wallop that hc brother Of mine.
Bob, hope you'll fall desperately In
love some day. and that you will have
devil of time winning the girl You
need something to stir up your vitals
BY George! and nope she won't have
cent of money"
Lovable brother. that" Bob
knocked the ashcs from his cigar and
essayed at laughter which wasn't par
tcularly felicitous. "Supposing was
IN love, now, and that the girl had
heaps of money, and all that?"
And all that" mimicked the elder
mean?"
oh shut up"
We'll. I hope you are in love. 1t
serves you right. You've made more
than one girls heart ache you good
looking ruffian!"
Then he switched over to politics.
and Robert became an interested lis
tener. Quarter OF an hour later the
women returned. and certainly they
made picture which was most sat
1stactory to the masculine eye. Bob
jumped to his feet and kissed them
both, thing I lacked the courage to
DO. How pleased they lookedJ How a
woman loves flattery from taose she
iovesi
Well. William is in front with the
carriage; the women are putting on
their cloaks, and I am admirinE the
luxurious crimson fur-lined garment
which brother Robert had sent to Nan
cy from Paris. You will see by this
mat he was not altogether a thought
less lad. Good-by, Mr.. Robert. I
lHaVe you and your guiding-star to bolt
the established orbit; for. after this
night the world will never be the same
careless. happy o-lucky world. The
farce has is tragedy. and what trag-
coy is free Of the ludificatory? Youth
III ISL run Its courses. even as the gay.
wild brook must riot on its way TO join
the sober river
dare say that we hadn't gone 90
minutes before Robert stole out to the
stables. only to return immediately
With a bundle under his arm and a
white felt hat perched rakishly on his
head. He was chuckling audibIy to
himself.
1T VIII brighten the girls half to
TO death gray horse and bay: oh
] won't make any mistake. Let mo
zee I'll start about 10 o'clock. Tbat'D
get me to the spot Just as the bows
leave. This is the richest yet. I'll
wager that there will be some tall
screaming" He continued chuckIing
as ne helped himself to his brothers
per1ectos and fine old Scotch. / don't
Know what book he found in the pri-
Nate case; some old rascaI's mer-v
tales no doubt; for my hero's face was
never in repose.
we mad LEFT Mrs Secretary-of-the-In-
terior's and we're entering the red
Drlck mansion on Connecticut avenue.
Carriages lined both sides of the street
and mounted police pa;rolied I'D and
flown.
Poor boy sighed Nancy 81 won
oer II neil be lonely Its stlame to
leave MIN nome the ysry first night"
Why didn't he come. them"
Mrs. w. shrugged her polished shout
ders.
oh, my cigars and Scotch are fairly
comforting" put in Jack. compIacenf-
~. Besides. Jane isn't az ali bad
Noking, "-winking at me what do
yonNSsy. Charlie?"
But Chsrlie had not time 10 answer
The gray-haired. gray whiskered am
bassador was bowling pleasantly 10
us a, dozen notable military and
naval attaches nodded and we passed
on to the ballroom. where the or
fhestra was playing "a Summer Might
IN Munich In a moment Jack and
his wife we're lost in the maze Of
cleaning shoulders and white linen
" was picture such as few men
once having witnessed o. can forget
Here we're the great men FOO the great
world. this man was an old rear-ad-
iniral destined to become the nations
hc'O soon; there famous general
N long and splendid service. ccle-
'bra.ed statesmen. diplomat. Gnan-
ciera; noted English duke. scion Of
the Hapsburg family. an intimate Of
the German kaiser. a swart jap. a
Chinsman with HIS peacock feather;
tens u mon whose lightesf word was
listened 20 b. The four ends " the
world; representatives o. all the great
iingdOTns auc states The president
and his handsome wife had just left
ss We Camc. 50 wc missed that for
nslty. which dt'racts FROM TIE Jloos
area of ne ballroom.