The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-09

II know my place. also my danger.
You see. have been hearing of you
this long time" C;riersOn said, look
ing up at my lady, with lazy smile.
NV lady had way with her-it
could be sharp and short when she
chose. 1t COULD likewise be very meek.
Now she set her finger tips together.ask-
ing pIaiutivly: -'Air. Grerson. is there
nothing else you would rs soon Say?
You are the ninth man TO tell me that
since / came TO the picnic. ought to
feel NY sins very deeply. but somehow
1 can't"
who says yaV have sins? meant
only your projections" Griers0n began.
but she stopped him with gesture of
appeal.
That's the very worst of ALL she
murmured you'll be telling me next
that you came ON purpose to see and
he conquered. do wish pretty speeches
didn't run In ruts so much. If could
I'd write book about them. telling
men what not to say"
Il see. The Complete T.ovcmaker,'
Grierson answered, his. eyes twinkling.
IF You wrote from the riches of your
experience dare say the treatisc would
he most authoritative
."rhere wouldn't be any treatise IL
did that You all say so much the
same sort of fooIishncss," my lady
came back mt linn, with Just the least
toss of her head.
ATy lady of course had q name. pref
ty one ElInor ClHre. Only strangers
and the older people ever called her
IIlinor. Somehow at school she had
been rechriStened my lady, and my
lady she was likely TO be to the end of
the chapter.
A very pretty girl. with money to
her name and much more money in
prospect. withnI spriEhtIy and good
hearted. she was easily the belle of
the countryside She had had beans.
indeed, before she was ont OF short
frocls. One of them. who as n tail
lad had carried her on his shoulder
and Graded her asleep In his arms,
was still constant. Notwithstanding he
was thrice eligible, and the lsindest,
most uususpcIous soul alive
G:rierson lnh heard of him likewise.
Indeed. Philip Darcy. the constant one,
was. after sort. his lSinsman.
.'PhiTs the man you have got to
beat" Grandfather GriersOn had said
In explaining the situation.
GrIndCnthrr liked my lady, but not
nenrly so well as he did her posses
slonS. Therefore he Ind sent impera-
lively for Arthur. his grandson. and
hidden him as imperativrly court tho
girl and marry her.
Grandfather's was mOneyel avarlce.
therefore the more eager He had
piled UP fortune and held on to 1t
ike grim death. Because his only
son liked 70 spend money even better
than to nuke it the old man excused
his clutchInE-at least to himself.
Since that young gndabont Arthur
bad no knaCk OF making money, being
worse in that respect than his father,
IL was but right he should marry it.
Grandfather Grierson said this over
and over, in so many keys and lenses.
Arthur had been tempted to run away
before anything was begun. lie would
have run away, indeed, but for catch
Ing a glimpse Of n1S lady. The glimpse
refreshed his endurance and modified
sensIbIy his estimate of grand'pnternal
wisdom.
Suppose we write the book togeth-
err" Grferson suggested Xallantly. II
can make MYSELF understood on the
typewriter-can'e say any more than
that-but you-you have reams OF wis
dom, I'm sure, al ready to your hand.
| DO take me as secretary. / promise
Won shall find me willing and obllging.
with no objection to long hours
At have a great objection to them.
IcouIdn't stick at anything half a day
unless 1t was to save my llfe,'' my
lady condded. adding gayly: II don't
believe you could either. Confess!
Don't Won love to 60 ana do the things
you didn't intend2"
only sometimes" Grier-
von said, smiling down at her This
d one OF them. / meant to ask con-
sideratiOn as possible husband. yet
see how y6n lave reduced my soaring