The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-11


to a 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 viii be- two Of you then to
stand for the cinqnefoil, = he observed
cynically ct 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.
Melbourne is. you'll send them to the
Himalayas to begin with, and there
they can ask again. Don't lose time
about it, Evelyn. You know that young
John 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
William, the groom, than the young
baronet he spoke=of. This frightened
the qla eap atne1 szseed1ngy 8 b3naa rms her
yeins,'' he said T.. to himself. 1By
heaven, she'd marry a stable boy if I
thwarted her. s-l s* -, III
Here was the specter which haunted
him continually He feared to read
the story Of his: own youth and mar
riage in the youth and marriage of his
daughter. Notwithstanding his iests,
dominated % every cry other instinct iAtS Of his his
life: "You are all that I have in the
confess in gentler moods. He desired
b 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-
ter could not be absolutely hidden from
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 a mad de-
sire; who had become Eta Romney
night and awaited her fathers home
coming with that tremulous expectation
which at once could dread exposure and
yet delight, in the peril Of it9 When
her first alarm had passed and quiet
dreamed the story of espionage, Evelyn
could await the issue with no little con-
fdence. After all, why. should Count
Odin betray her, even if he had her
secret? He was a man Of the world
and had nothing to gain by dealing
treacherously with woman: Her ia
ther went to London so rarely that she
might well deride the danger Of his
visits. Nothing but clumsy accident
eod write eaG That seofy so That the
she welcomed him home with all her
habitual 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 all the people who don It
l-. oE
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
llyn, and this will be a change for you.
We can put into Trouville and Etretat
wearing. I shall steam. down to the
Mediterranean later on; but that won It
be until December. We have the birds
to kill first and plenty of them: Of
course, l know you wanted to be in
London this spring, and it is not my
| mine in Tuscany is going to make me
as rich as Vanderbilt. I could not
neglect it just because a lot of fools
were driving mail phaetons in Bond
EVELYN smiled a little coldly. ~ ~
nowadays. she said, "they drive mo-
tor cars OF course, it is very neces-
4 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 evading 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 house il
i Mayfair for the season and to sacri
fee his own pleasures at least for 6
few brief weeks.
i ~ am poor enough" he said, "tt
want all the money can get. This ole
1 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
tinn it The claims on this estate ar,