The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-02-09

oiu not mean as much RI
Monty as she had thought, but down
underneath, the fear that he was nm
nappy seemed the only certain th,no
In life. She felt that she mnst n,a,.,
sure. And together with the verv hM
man desire to know the wors+ r,os 49,
purltanical impulse to bring it about
Lou forget that this Is the last Mace
tnev would care to invade" And ~
brewster,s face Peggy seemed to read
Una Tor her martyrdom was the onlv
wear. Bravely she put it on.
Monty, | forget nothing that I real.
~ know But this is a case in which
you are quite wrong. Where il vonr
sporting blood? You have never fonob+
q losing fight before, and YOU can't do
It now. You have lost your nerve
Monty. Don't you see that this IL +ho
tlne Tor an aggressive campaign"
somehow she was not saying things q,
all as she had planned to say them
and his gloom weighed heavily mon
her. You don't mind, do you. MONTY
q added more softly, this sort NJ
tnlng from me? I know 1 ought not to
interfere, but I've known you so long
and hate to see things twisted bv a
very little mistake"
But Monty did mind enormously. He
had no desire to talk about the thine
anyway. and Peggy's anxiety to marry
MN OF seemed a bit Unnecessary Man.
ifestly her own interest in him was az
the coldest. From out Of the gloom be
ooked at her somewhat s%ullenly. For
the moment she was thinking only ~
his pain. and her face said nothing,
Peggy he exclaimed finally, re-
sentins the necessity Of answering her.
you don't IN the least know what Won
are talking about. 1t is not a fit of mn.
ger on Barbara Drew's part. 1t is a Sc
rious conviction"
"A conviction which can be changed"
The girl broke in.
Not at all Brewster took it IN.
"She has no faith in me. She thinks
I'm an ass"
Perhaps she's right" she exclaimed
q little hot. Perhaps you have never
discovered that girls say many things
to hide their emotions. Perhaps Won
don't realize what feverish, exclamato-
~, foolish things girls are. They don't
know how to be honest with the men
they love, and they wouldn't if they
did You are little short of an idiot.
Monty Brewster, If you believed the
things h said rather than the things
she looked"
And Peggy, fiery and determined and
detantly unhappy, threw down her
cards and escaped so that she might
not prove herself fearfully feminine.
She left Brewster still heavily enyel-
oped In melancholy, but she left him
puzzled. He began to wonder if Bar
bara Drew did have something in the
back Of her mind. Then he found his
thoughts wandering off toward Peggy
Inc her defiance. He had only twice
before seen her in that mood, and he
liked 1t. He remembered how she had
lost her temper once when she was if
teen and hated a girl he admired. Sud
denly he laughed aloud at the thought
of the fierce little picture she had made,
and the gloom which had been so sed-
ulOusly cultivated was dissipated in a
moment. The laugh surprised the man
who brought in some letters. One Of
them was from hopper Harrison and
gave him all the private news. The ball
was to be given at mid-Lent, which ar
rived toward the end of March, and me-
gotiations We're well under way for the
chartering of the Filter, the steam
yacht belonging to Reginald Brown,
late of Brown 4 Brown.
The letter made Brewster chafe I'M
der the bonds of inaction. His affairs
were getting into a discouraging state.
The illness was certain to entail a loss
Of more than $4,000 to his business.
His only consolation came through Har-
rlson's synopsis of the reports from
Gardner, who was managing the brief
American tour Of the Viennese orches-
ira. Quarrels and dissensions were
becoming everyday embarrassments,
and the venture was an utter failure
from a financial point Of view. Bro
ken contracts and lawsuits were turn
ing the tour into one continuous round
OF losses, and poor Gardner was on
the point of despair. From the begin
ming, apparently, the concerts had been
marked for disaster. Public indiffer-
ence had aroused the scorn Of the iras-
chile members Of the orchestra. and
there was imminent danger of a col
lapse in the organization. Gardner liv-
ed in constant fear that his troop Of
Quarrelsome Hungarians would finish
their tour suddenly in a pitched battle
with daggers and stems. Brewster
smiled at the thought Of the practical
Gardner trying to smooth down the
electric emotions Of these musicians.
a few days later Mrs. Prentiss Drew
and Miss Drew registered at the Ponce
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