The newspaper., 1907-02-01
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tCopynght, ls6, BY J. P. LlpplnOott Col

presented to the elder and younger
bisques.
So. as we say, Winton turned and
walked away as one left out, feeling
one moment as though he had been
defrauded of a natural right. and de-
riding himself the next, as a sensible
man should. After a bit he was able
to laugh at the sudden attack" as he
phrased II. but later, when he ana
Adams were settled for the day-long
run in the Denver sleeper, and the
Limited" was clanking out over the
switches. he brought the talk around
with a carefully assumed air of lack
interest to the party in the private
car.
she is a friend Of yours. them" he
said, when Adams had taken the bait
ed hook open-eyed.
The technologian modified the as
sumption.
Not quite in your sense OF the word.
fancy | met her number of times
at the houses of mutual friends in
Boston. She was studying at the con-
servatory."
phA Sht iSA 1 DcSAOhAah' SaAb
Winton. confidently.
Miss Virginia hardly. She is a
Carteret of the Carterets; Virginia.
born. bred, and named. Stunning girl,
isn't she?"
No" said Winton, shortly, resent
ing the slang for no reason that he
could have set forth in words.
Adams lighted another of the
scented yillainies. and his clean-shaven
face wrinkled itself into n slow smile
Which means that she has winged
you at sight. | suppose. as she does
most men," Then he added. calmly:
Its no go"
What's no go'?"
Adams laughed unfeelingly.
You remind me of the fable about
the head-hiding ostrich. Didn't | see
you staring at her as II you were
about 20 have a fit? But it is just
as | tell you: it's no go. She isn't
the marrying kind. II you knew her.
she'd be nice TO you till she got a
good chance to fay you alive
Break it on" growled winton.
Presently. AS | was saying. she
would miss the chance of marrying the
best man in the world for the sake
OF taking a rise out of him. More
over, she comes of old cavalier stock
with an English earldom at the back
of 1t. and she is inordinately proud of
the fact; while you-er-you'v given
me to understand that you are a man
of the people. haven't you?'
of his minor fads to ignore his lineage,
which ran decently back to colonial
governor on his fathers side. and to
assert that he did not know his grand
fathers middle name-which was ac-
counted for by the very simple fact
that the elder Winton had no middle
name.
We'll. that settles 1t definitely" was
the Bostonian's comment. Miss Car
teret is OF the sang azure. The man who
marries her will have to know his
grandfather's middle name-and
good bit more besides"
Winton's laugh was mockingly good
natured.
You have missed your calling by
something more than a hands breadth.
Morty. You should have been novel
ist Give you spike and a cross-tie
and you'd infer a whole railroad But
you pique my curiosity. Where are
these American royalties of yours 60
ing in the Rosemary"
ITO California. The car belongs to
Mr.. Somerville Darrah, who is vice
president and manager in fact of the
Colorado Grand River road: the
'Ra5ah.' they call him. He is a rela-
tive of the Carterets, and the party is
on its way to spend the winter on the
Pacific coast"
And the little lady in the widows
cap: is she Miss Carteret's mother?"
Miss Bessie Carteret's mother and