Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-14

until late in the autumn.
 He had time on his journey to re
 fleet upon the episodes of the past few
 days with comparative coolness. ol
 judgment and to see some things witt
 more clearness than on first view | also the various developments of the
 summer appeared in somewhat differ
 ent perspective now that he looked al them from little distance.
 q went to that farm to find seclu sion, quiet, monotOny that would
 leave me free to study, and what fell
 into-plots and counterplots, with coun try courtships, disguises, a stolen in fant, haunted chambers, murders, sui.
 cides, ghosts and discovered heiress Who'd "a thought it? I couldn't have found half so much excitement at New
 port. Why, it's been strain!'
 He had been told before leaving the
 farm that his fellow boarders were to
 go back to town before his return.
 When he had paid his board Mrs.
 Morningstar under the effect of his extra fees for her conniving in his dis guise, had thaWed so far as to volun- teer the promise that she would ac- count to the yonug ladies for his de- parture by saying that the farmland had been discharged because of the incOnvenient and uneconOmical ire quency of his headaches. He wonder n1 T o hSanan dental hints would be dropped as to his pretended character. He could not think without growing uneasiness of the fast approaching reOpening of the college, when he would have to meet Miss Ellery and Miss Parks as pr. Kinross of the faculty.
 It was when he was nearing the end of his journey that some indistinct ap- prehensions which had been vaguely troubling him began to assume def nite shape and the realization to dawn on him that perhaps he had been rash in coming away and leaving Eunice in ignorance, even for week, of her possible good fortune. Goodness knows what she might do in this week of his absence. Abe was evidently very des- pcrately in love with her, and the Morningstars, in their dire chagrin at being obliged to pay over to her that S3,0O0, might drive her to the point of marrying Abe in self defense, as it were. Of course it was only her utter ignorance of life that made her toler- ate Abe, though even that did not seem to excuse such bad taste. Fancy Miss Wolcott receiving Abe Morning star as her nephew-in-law! The pie ture made him laugh aloud.
 The wearing doubt as to whether Miss Wolcott could be brought to ac- knowledge Eunice as her niece and recognize her claims was never absent from his mind for an instant. At times he felt that he was going on fools errand. If, at the time the Daniels wrote to her, she had not even tried to see the child to prove or disprove their story, how could he hope that now, after all these years, she would con cede what was so much against her own interests?
 'lf only l were diplomat instead of a blunt, plain man I might lead up to my story so prettily and persuasively that before she knew it shed be burn- ing to illustrate artistically the beauty of self sacrifice in her own person. But l know I'll make muddle of it. Your money or your life" That's more my style, more's the pity"
 He cOnsOled himself with the reflec- ton that if Eunice did not come into the money it would probably be far better for her, and it was only by req son of his sense of justice that he was trying to place her in command of the great wealth that belonged to her He himself was remarkably free from the money madness of the age. He had always had more than enough for his needs, but not enough to spoil him. and had therefore gone through life, thus far. escaping the mania for accumulat- ing wealth.
 Her money may quite spoil the at tractiveness she now has in her sim plicity. her perfect naturalness. when one is alone with her Just the anti podes of Georgiana. There couldn't be q more extreme contrast of character. Georgiana is a persOnified pose. If she ever did a spontaneous thing in my presence. ever made an unstudied remark. think I'd fall in love with her on the spOt."
 It was at 2 o'clock on Sunday after noon that he presented himself at the home of Miss WOlcOtt He sent in his card and waited on the piazza. which was furnished like a sitting room and shaded by screens from the hot sum meT sun. His suspense as tO the out come of the impending interview made him too uneasy tO sit still, and he paced the long porch in his nervous ness. wondering for the hundredth time bow he could most cOnvincingly relate his story and trying tO school himself against too gre=t bluntneSs in the deli cate matter he had to handle. He rather tOOk it out of the porch furni- ture before Miss WOlcott made her ap- pearance. for in striding about he pushed things ruthIeSsIy out of his way. nearly upsettinE a spindle legged table holding a sbpndcr vase nf rOses and making a stool nOisily collide with another table covered with books and 
 A sutIslen swish of skirts in the door way made him turn about at the end of the Ts0rch and come lack quickly to meet the unc0mfOrtably stout little woman uko walked forward to greet him
 Thozgh Miss woloott vas govned