The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-02-28

cards, but Monty considered bridge
the pons asinorum and preferred to
Play piGuet with Peggy. 1t was one
OF these games that the girl interrupt
Cd with = question that had troubled
her for many days. Mon" she said.
and she found il much more difficult
than when she had reheag@ea the scene
in the silence OF hsr w;.k.. I've heard
q ruInor that Aiss Drsw- and her moth
err have taken ROOFS at the hotel
Wouldn't it be peasAnter TO have them
hers!"
A heavy gloom settled upon Brew.
stsr's face, and the girls heart dropped
Nike lssA. she bad puzzled over the
ecsrssgsgzent and wondered II by any
eHa-t Of her own things could be set
r1Sht At times she had had flashing
hspss that it did not mean ~ much to
Monty ~ she had thought but down
underneath, the fear that he was I'M
happy seemed the only certain thing
R rife. HE fek that she must make
sure. And together with the very hu
maa desire to know the worst WAS the
You forget that this is the last place
they would care to invade" And in
Brswster's face Peggy seemed to read
that for her nartyrdoIn was the only
wear. Bravely she put it on.
Monty. forget nothing that ! real
ly know But this is n case in which
you are quite wrong Where is your
sporting blood? You have never fought
losing fight before, and you can't do
It now. You have lost your nerve,
Monty. Don't ron see that this is the
tin.e FOR IN aggressive campaign?
Somehow she was net saying things at
al az she had planned 10 say them.
and hia glcorn weighed heavily upon
he. "rou don't mind. 30 YOU. Monty"
SIZE sdde3 more softly, this sort OF
thiss fraa re? I know l ought not to
.Etcrrsre. but I've known you SO long.
and | sate to see things twisted by
very lise.s znistake"
Bxt Monty did mind enormously he
had ~ desire to talk about the thing
anyway. aAd PeHgy's anxiety to marry
hsR 81 seemed bit unnecessary. Man
NastaT kec swn interest in him was Of
he SSteest. From OFT Of the glOsm no
locked at her somewhat sullaRly. Fog
tae moment she was thinking only OF
his pain. aAd her face said nothing
Peggy" lie exclaimed finally, re-
ssEtiag tAA aseessi:y OF xnSws rily her.
''yeu dent In the least know what yoN
are talking about. 1t is not it Of an
ger Gil Barbara Drew's part 1t ID u SC
rious conviction
"A conviction which can be changed"
the girl breie in.
Net at ALL" Brewster took it NJ.
"She has no faith in me. She thilLls
I'm an ass"
Perhaps she's right" she exclaimed,
little hot. Perhaps you have never
discovered that girls say many things
to hide their emotions. Perhaps yoE
don't realize what feyerish, exclainsto-
ry, foolish things girls are. They don't
know how 10 be honest with the men
they love, and they wouldn't if they
did. You are little short Of an idiot.
Monty Brewster, If you believed the
things she ssid rather than the things
she looked"
And Peggy. fiery and determined and
defiantly unhappy, threw down her
cards and escaped so that she might
not prove herself fearfully feminine.
She left Brewster still heavily envel-
oped in melancholy, but she left him
puzzled. He began to wonder II Bar
bara Drew did have something in the
back of her mind Then he found his
thoughts wandering of toward Peggy
and her defiance. He had only twice
before seen her in that mood, and he
liked it. He remembered how she had
lost her temper once when she was If
teen and hated girl he admired. Sud
denly he laughed aloud at the thought
Of the fierce little picture she had made,
and the gloom which had been 80 sed-
ulously cultivated was dissipated in 4
moment The laugh surprised the man
who brought In some letters. One of
them was from Hopper Harrison and
gave him all the private news. The ball
was to be given Mt mid Lent, which ar
gotiations were well under way for the
chartering of the Filter. the steam
yacht belonging to Reginald Brown,
late of Brown 4 Brown.
The letter made Brewster chafe I'M
der the bonds of inaction. His affairs
were getting into a dscoara ging state.
The illness was certain to entail loss
Of more than $4,000 to his business.
His only consolation came through Har-
rison's synopsis of the reports from
Gardner, who was managing the brief
American tour of the Viennese orches-
ira. Quarrels and dissensions were
becoming everyday embarrassments,
and the venture Was an utter failure
from a financial point of view. Bro
ken contracts and lawsuits were turn
Ing the tour into ova continuous Pouud