Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-17
CHAPTER XVII.

HILIP walked on roses during slD those glorious days. He had
 found his mate. His life was q complete. How bright the world and how fair the future. The only disagreeable incident mar ring the utter joy of existence, and khat only for an instant, was his en- counter with Langdon at Mrs. Ather- ney's pretty fiat in Mount street.
 Grenier. endowed by nature with an occasional retrospective glimpse of mobler character, read him correctly when he said that Anson would never Icondescend to name the intruder in the presence of the woman he loved.
 But he did ask a servant who it was with whom he had just been con versing in the entrance hall. and the girl said the gentleman was MT. Hangdon. No; Mrs. Atherley did not Know him well. He was brought to her yssat home" on previous Wednesday by friend. .. -. Obviously Evelyn could not have more than passing acquaintance with the man or she would have recognized him herself. Her agitation that night in the park, the terror of difficult .isituation, was enough to account for her failure in this respect, nor was Philip then aware that at her previous meeting with Lady Morland's son she entertained a curious suspicion, in ,stantly dispelled by his glib manner, that Langdon was the man who sought ito thrust his unwelcome attentions upon her. 5rl Mount street-how came Mrs. Ather- ley and her daughter to return to the precincts of Mayfair? That was a lit. tie secret between Philip and Lord Vanstone.
 When Evelyn slyly endeavored to make her new admirer understand that there could be no intimacy between q millionaire and young lady who was embarking on a professional career she thought so, be it recorded; this Is no canon of art-he seemingly disre garded the hint, but interviewed Lord ,,vanstone next morning. - --..,
 1Qc COnNcISatlOh NoS SNOtlhs oh OAN Es:de and emphatic on the other. Philip had heard sufficient of Mrs. Atberley's history by judicious inquiry to enable him to place some unpleasant facts be- fore his lordship. - When the facts had been thrust down the aristocratic gorge Ansor turned to pleasanter topics. He In formed Lord Vanstone, who bore the ffitle as the third son of a marquis that bis niece's future was more im portant than his lordship's dignity !. He must cat mud for her sake, and : willingly withal.
 Various firms of solicitors set tC work, and, marvellous to relate, Lord 'vgnesone was able to write and Inform his half sister that certain speculation: in which be had invested her fortune were turning out well. A cash pay ment of f2.000 would be made to hel at once, and she possessed an assured income of at least fl,500 per annun during the remainder of her life.
 The poor lady had heard these fairy tales before. Indeed. some such story of more gorgeous proportions had con k verted her consols into waste paper.
 But a lawyer, not Lord Yanstone's sent her a check for the larger amoun and at a subsequent interview affirmed the statements made by her unreliable relative.
 So she went back to her caste. anC her caste welcomed her with opeI arms. and the dear woman thanked Providence for the decree that he daughter might now accept the atten tions of any man. no matter how ricl be might be, for she saw the drift O Philips wishes. and. if Evelyn wer married to him, surely all their pre- yious trials might be deemed fortunate
 She little dreamed that imperioc Philip had ordered matters his owl Away.
 It was not to his thinking thnt hi bride should come to him from tn gcnteel obscurity of Maida Crescent He would give her a great position worthy of the highest in tbe land. anI it was better for her that he shoul' woo and win her from the ranks O her order.
 It should not be imagined that b was hasty in his decision. To his mind Evelyn and he were known to eacl other since they were children It wa not by the waywarl caprice of chanc that he met her on the night of tn mcteors fall nor again that he cam to her assistance I second time afte the lapse of years
 It was his mothers work He wa 2 faithful to her memory she to he ( trust. Never did bis confidence waver On the day that ETeIyn consented | narrr him he showed her his mother l photograph and told her his belief. Tho girfs happy tears be1ewed tn picture.
 "A good son makes a good husband. she murmured. -NamEs says havD been a good daughter. and I vill try | be good wife. Philip
 Apparently these young people haI attained the very pinnacle of earthll happiness. There was no cloud. no Oh stacie. All that vas best h the EOrh was at their feet
 Some s7ch thought fitted thrOugl Philips active brain o1ce vhe1 Evelyl and he were dlscuSzing the future-
 -Of cOurSe we EiI h.s busy.- be said IaurhinS- ~Yoz are such sa i1iusefi ous HttIe vo-a7-Ehztz Well sud an Iuduztrious tan woman that tk days won't be lozz e101sh fT sn To'