The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-11


to different tune.''
Sometimes when Evelyn protested
that society would really remain indif-
ferent whatever they did, he would re-
ply. little brutally, that when she
had found a husband it would be an
other matter.
tsThere will be two Of you then to
cynieally. TT shall shake the hand
cuffs off and get back to the east A
man lives in the sunshine. Here he
scarcely vegetables. When they inquire.
@ yon weede sead them ses es5 to the he
Himalayas to begin with, and there
they can ask again. Don't lose time
about it, Evelyn. You know: that young
John o1, ) Hall is head over ears in love with
Evelyn's face would flush at this,
and there had been an occasion when
she answered him with the amazing in
timation that she would sooner marry
baronet he spokesof. This frightened
ths Rer fea fa mother sfseeSos Sloesd runs in her
yeins,'' he said to himself. sBy
heaven, she'd marry stable boy if
Here was the specter which haunted
him continually .sszS He feared to read
the story of his own youth and mar
daughter. Notwithstanding his iests,
dominated every other instinct Of his
life, "You are all that I have in the
confess in gentler moods. B. He. desired
h. her affection in like measure, but had
never wholly won it. Perhaps instinc-
. lively she understood that some barrier
of the past interposed itself between
them. Her fathers defects. Of charac,
tor o4 hn her ok frnv,
her. She feared she knew not what.
. And if this were her normal mood,
what Of the Evelyn who had gone to.
London at the bidding Of mad de-
there; who had returned at the. dead of
night and awaited her fathers home
coming with that tremulous expectation
which at once could dread exposure and
yet delight in the peril Of ite When
her first alarm. had passed and quiet
dreamed the story Of espionage, Evelyn
idence. After all, why should Count
. Odin betray her, even if he !, had her
and had nothing to gain by dealing
might well deride the danger of his
visits Nothing but clumsy accident
could write that story 50 that the earl
might read it, she thought. And SO
she welcomed him home with all her
habituall composure, and upon the morn,
ing of the second day of July she found
herself seated opposite to him in my
lady's bower. listening to his stories
Of italy and his plans for the summer
and the autumn months to come.
'We ought to give some parties, I
SUPPOSE he said; "the servants ex-
pect it, and we must not disappoint
them. Ask ali the people who don t
want to come and get rid Of them as
quickly as you can. / have written to
Colchester about the yacht and we
ought to get her in commission in An
gust. You always loved the sea, Eve
1yn,: and this will be change for you.
We can put into Trouville and Etretat
and see what the French women are
wearing. I shall steam down to the
be until December. We have the birds
to kill first and plenty of them. Of
course, I know you wanted to be in
London this spring, and it is not my
fault if you did not go. This copper
as rich as Vanderbilt. could not
neglect it just because a lot of fools
were driving mail phaetons in Bond
| street,
Evelyn smiled a little coldly.
"Men DO not drive mail phaetons
tor cars. Of course, it is very neces.
sary for us to keep the wolf from the
door-We are so poor, father :
The earl had grown accustomed to
remarks such as these, and had become
skilful in eYading them. He under.
stood perfectly well that Evelyn ex:
pressed her own disappointment and
that she meant to remind him of his
broken promises to take a house in
Mayfair for the season and to sacri
fee his own pleasures at least for g
few brief weeks.
"I am poor enough,' he said, 'ttt
want all the money, can get. This Ole
place costs a fortune to keep up.
mean to do big things here by and by
and twenty thousand won It be too mucl
| when they are done. Besides, it is no
: money that we men run after, but tn
qualification of our own vanity in get
ting it. The claims on this estate ar