The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-19

she spoke in this way to stranger,
man Of whose existence she had hard,
csrt oGeR aware Tsan Yesterday she would
satisfactory answer. To- no other her in
all her life had she spoken so openly
and 50 readily as to this fair-haired,
Z blue-eyed Englishman, who did not APP.
pear 70 nave one grain of humbug in
all his body. Her surprise was not
greater than her pleasure; she would
confess intimate thoughts which as she
had not shared even with her own
father Gavin, upon his part, a servant
of candor always, observed nothing un-
usual in her freedom; but he could ask
himself already if she were in love
with man to whom her future was
plssaag Ws are forgetting how t. /. ..r;..
ous,'', he reioined; !"that is also one Of
the vices Of the age. People chatter
away as tho words were enough and
the truth of words nothing at all. You
do not mean anything you say, and
: you expect me to listen to you in the
same spirit: I: decline to do so. #
back again before the year is out. AS
for the blue. red and orange, well
could as soon imagine you buying an
early Victorian sideboard. That is my
frank opinion. You must forgive me If
it offendsq0
He looked straight into her eyes and
she did not turn away. Gavin Ord was
unlike any man she had known-not
by mere cleverness alone, but by that
strength of will and character which
could not fail to assert itself in any
company, whatever its nature. Here
she would certainly obey. Such pos
sibility Of docility astonished Evelyn
beyond measure-but it also encouraged
her to put question to him.
"Frank opinions need no forgive
ness,o she said. 81 am longing for
more, Mr.. Ord. You told me last night
London. Please tell me where it was. -
She asked the question with some
pretty pretense Of Indifference which
did not deceive him for an instant. It
is better, he thought. that. | should
! tell her, and SO he said, without any
affectation whatever: ..
when I thought the matter over re-
membered that a young actress, VINO
made great sensation at the Carlton
theater in Nav, might have been named
for your sister. That is what gave me
; the idea that had seen you before. y
How strange! DO you also re-
men be1ft the LADY A + fondon went mad
D Z ~H~N
over her. She called herself Eta Rom
ney, and the play showed lust such
house as this. It was the old story OF
Di Vernon retold, Lady Evelyn:
HYou were much taken with the
play, it appearss'
= 8: Not with the play. at all. But
thought Eta Romney one of the clev-
crest women have ever seen on the
tsIs she playing still, may asks"
{ .'You know that she is not, Lady
II know it-are you seriouss''
$50 serious that I shall forget the
subject until you choose to speak OF 1t
again.
"But it interests me greatly she
/ pleaded, with that insistence which Of
|: ten attended the discussion of things
better avoided. eff am really SO like
+ somebody else, ought not to be Gu
rious2 You .say-'
"Ineded, I say nothing" he ex'
. claimed quickly, and then in lower
voice at least until the earl has
breakfasted. -
She did not reply. The earl entered
the room and began at once to speak OF
Gavin Is work and the arrangements
which must be made for it.