Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17

mally plain, Miss Blocker looked away.
By and by. hope springing eternal, whis-
pered to her that what rich old man
wants in wife Is not youth and beauty,
provoking the eternal triangle of the mod
ern situation, but agreeability, tact,
knowledge of how to make the wheels go
round. She rallied, smiled at MIR. Glynn In
the manner of a sweet old-time friend and
counsellor then, taking out a French novel
and pearl-haudled paper cutter. subsidized
into apparent literature and actual plan
making.
Helen wondered II ever girl in her posi-
ton were more curiously bounded by odd
circumstance. She saw that Glynn like
herself, profoundly moved by their
rencontre. And what wonder. since When
they had last met she had sobbed her rare
well upon his breast, his arms had tightly
closed around her. and he had declared
that he could not, would not give her up
He had been forced to give her up, how
ever, and gradually to acQu1esce IN tne
common sense of her decision. The offer
OF himself to Miss Winstaney made with
out knowledge of Poseys altered clrcum-
stances, had been joyously approved IN
letter posted at Liverpool by Mr.. Win
stanley. who had hidden John remember
that he was now his son, and, as such. en-
titled to a full share of the good luck that
he proceeded to unfold. When Glynn had
assumed charge of Mr.. Winstanley's in
terests and business he had for the first
time learned the full meaning and extent of
that good luck, Mr.. Winstanley also told
MIN that under the circumstances Ol IoSey .
call to a much higher position in life and
society than had ever been expected. he
desired her to spend some time longer In
pursuance of education and wider expert
ence before returning home to be married.
A little daZed by the turn of events
Glynn has acquiesced in this latter decree
almost too easily, he feared. He told him
self that he needed time to adjust his
ideas to the prospect of riches AS mat
ter of fact he was relieved not to become
Posey's husband until he knew her better.
The pretty, half-baked, freakish creature,
who offended his sense of conventional1ty,
who dealt with him SO Internationally,
seemed about as practical a bride as
Undine must have been to her long-suffer-
ing knight Between Poseys image and
himself that of high-bred Helen Carstalrs,
stepping down from her proud pedestal to
give him the first passion of her woman
love, had, in the beginning, perpetually
come Latterly. this had been wearing on
and stern habit had asserted itself, as II
fortunately does.
Posey's letter surely the strangest ever
penned by betrothed maiden to her lover,
came to Glynn regularly. She had told
him, with appalling frankness, that after
engaging herself to him Cby telephoneD she
had suffered many pangs of fear that the
whole thing was mistake; also, she must
confess she had met another man with
whom. had there been no Instructions in
the way, she might have been happier.
During her fathers Illness, seeing the
enormous stress he laid upon her promise
to marry John, she-had come to see things
more clearly had recognized in herself
vain, silly child, and was now resolved to
devote her whole future life to being more
worthy of her good fortune as Glynn's
wife.
To read these artless illusions had been
like looking into a crystal globe. What
ever Ca me- Glynn could not complain that
she had deceived him. During his bene-
factors dangerous illness, when it was es-
sential for Glynn to remain where he was,
and he could only cable his anxiety and
sympathy, his heart had become more
awakened to Poseys claim upon him, and
he had felt for her loyal tenderness. When
the summons from Mr. Winstanley ar
rived that was to bring him once more in
actual touch with her, he had set out to
obey 1t, believing that he was at last eff
fectually cured OF old weakness, and piano.
piled to begin the new life.
And he had hardly set foot in France be-
fore he found himself seated side by side
with Helen Carstairs in a railway train,
their intercourse during long day and
evening, and actually bound for the same
goal.
simultaneously. Glynn and Helen rose to
the occasion, put behind them the tempta-
ton to revert to the fond chapter lived in
their young lives, and took up again the
sort of intercourse that had pleased and
refreshed her at the beginning of their &C
quaintance. 1t was like one of their old
talks at the house of Helen's friend who
had introduced them to each other, and
fostered their intimacy; woman who had
the cleverness to find interesting people in
the whirlpool of business and pleasure and
moneyspending that calls itself New York