Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-19
CHAPTER NXVI.
TROM the senior Miss IVolcott to pr. Peter Kinross: Newport Sept. -

at Newport for nearly three weeks
 and this is my first opportunity, Peter
 for writing to you. You must, of
 course, be curious to hear how things
 have gone with each of us since the
 girl came to me.
 "Of course after your noncOmmittal
 account of her, was prepared for the
 worst and had braced myself to meet
 the shock which my own niece's man
 ners and appearance must give me. The bracing served me in good stead | when she arrived, for the shock was even greater than I had counted on; though as it came from an unexpected
 direction, my being prepared to meet 1t did not count for so much as 1t would otherwise have done. Of course knew Mrs. Kenyon would do all she
 could to soften the blow by fixing her up as to clothes. But from what you
 had told me of my niece's life, I could
 not reasonably have expected to see
 the graceful, exquisite looking girl who
 walked into my drawing room last
 Friday night. You know it is the ex-
 pression of a face and not merely per
 lection of colOring and feature which
 saves it from being cOmmon
 T thought she would look vacant and awkward or else vulgarly loud and self asserti,e. I was not prepared to see face of extraordinary refinement and intelligence and to meet man. her of dignity and gentleness. Do you acknowledge now that blood will tell :? At first I was inclined to be angry with you for not having spared me the suffering I endured in anticipating her coming. I thought you might have told me what she was like, how she had educated herself, and so forth. But on second thoughts I knew you had done wisely in leaving me to find it out for myself.
 'The child is touchingly grateful to me for the motherly care--so new to her-which I confess I delight in lav ishing upon her, and I need not tell you that two lonely, love hungry hearts have found comfort in this newly discovered tie of blood.
 "When we came to talk of finances was surprised at her Quickness to understand business problems which were so entirely new to her. A trained intelligence, even when the training has been as one sided as hers has been, helps so much in every direction. Against my protest she has insisted upon an equal division between us of her fathers wealth. I have absolutely refused to accept this until she has had at least one years experience of life in the world, when she will understand something of the value of money.
 Even if I wished to I don't think could ever make a worldling of her Each day she Is with me I am i'm pressed afresh with the purity and simplicity of her mind.
 Tt is q keener pleasure than I have known in many a long year to watch her impressions of things as I take her about with me-she Is so filled with wonder at everything. She is like a small boy at his first circus! Her comments are often so funny and yet so unexpectedly wise. It will be de- lightful to take her to Europe.
 Tt isn't always easy to understand her. At times she seems absent and dreamy in a way that is quite unac- countablc to me. There is a melan- choly about her which she seems un- able to shake off and which puzzles and troubles me. for surely she has everything to be happy for. Is it, per haps. the somberness of her past still to her? Or can it he possible that she is brooding over some country lover she left out there? If that were the case. you. Peter. having been hy her all summer. would know. wish you would tell me. Wouldn't 1t be tragic if that were the caseT'
 Miss WOlcott concluded with warm of obligation to pr. Kinross for his dislnterested kindness.
 It was this letter which had brought Dr. Einross after a bitter struggle with himself to the place where he was on this afternoon late in the month of October-at Eunice's side, walking with her in Central park.
 It was a bracing autumn day. but the fresh afr was not alone responsible for the brilliant color in Eunice's face and the light in her eyes. But the color and the light suggested excite ment rather than joy. There was a shadow of melancholy back of them.
 Tn EinrOSs' face. too, the signs of his I,attle with himself were deeply marked
 They walked slowly in a secluded path. The change he had felt in Eu- nice from the hour of their meeting that morning had given him a sense of loss. as though the unsOphisticated child who had trusted and liked him had slipped from him. for there was a dignity in her manner with him that lImost made him think she had al- ready grown conventional And as for the deep feeling for him which in their last talk together at the farm she had 90 uaiveIy reyealed-he shrugged his shoulders at the fckleness of the sex for not a sign of 1t could he read in her new manner of reserve
 Now. however. that they were alone In the isolation of the great park he had a sense of being nearer to her She was unbending to him and open Ing up as she had not done all day.
 T am waiting to hear s1ne Of your first frzpreSsiOas. Euaice. Cf life in the great ro-Id- he said as they strOlled lzusFer the great trees whEeh rustIed Ia