Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-17

nently, 1 mean" she added. with an ugly
SMILE
| II take it that I am speaking to Lord
| Clandonalds divorced wife?'
| Really, my good sir, you give yourself
| or rather Miss Winstanley, away as they
/ say IN the vernacular of your richly gifted
! country. You are evidently well informed
or the progress of that Immaculate young
laoy anatr with ClandOnald-continued on
| shipboard doubtless from America and who
knows when and where since?"
The young lady. whose name I forbid
you to mention here" cried Glynn. with a
! In question on shipboard for the first time,
as she did twenty others, and has never
seen or communicated with him since"
She has convinced you Of that fact
then rumor Is right for once. and there Is
| confiding fiance from America? After
all yours Is a younger civilization than
ours and you still believe in your girls?"
she had been striking beauty. had even
now certain reckless grace of manner
Her face was as Posey had described it,
He read there untruth, degradation of
moral fiber and the ravage of disease and
drugs. There was no use in dealing with
her In herolcs. Money would buy her. and
money she should have.
IF Miss Winstanleys friends agree to
make 1t worth your Enthusiastically
worth your while Cher eyes glittered) to
keep at distance from her, never again to
approach her in deed or speech, at the risk
of FORGETTING monthly allowance of say
(here he mentioned a sum which caused
Ruby Darien's haggard face to flush high
with covetous delighD-.'it will certainly not
be without an understanding on their part
OF how you contrived to present yourself
through Lady Campstowns premises with
out identification by her servants"
That was small matter she said
eagerly. Although my respected aunt in
law has long since instructed her staff not
to admit me to her presence, there remains
In her employ child of nature, an untu-
tored Provencal housemaid, who in former
days chose to idealize me- and even now
would do anything reasonably atrocious at
my bidding. She it was who contrived to
let me in from the lane, to which a cab
from the station brought me up the hill
should tell you that I am stopping tenn
porarily at Nice, in an hotel where they
has proved, alas too fatally convenient to
Monte Carlo!'
Then. If you will allow me, will myself
see you into another cab for your return.
There Is station for carriages at no great
distance down the road from here. Tomor-
row I will present myself at your hotel In
Nice, with the necessary papers insuring to
you the allowance 1 named, and an agree
ment, which l shall In return ask you to
sign. pledging yourself-to keep your side
Of the bargain"
American promptitude in business is
proverbial. she said, essaying easy
laugh. and darting a side glance. not un-
mixed with admiration, upon her interlocu-
tor. How nice 1t must be to be disgust
ingly rich as all you Yankees are; to be able
to confound the politics and Illustrate the
knavish tricks of your enemies by the
prompt administration Of hard CASH! al
ways thought that II I'd had money anough
to be good on, might have graduated as
saint
When Glynn walked up the steps at Refine
des Fees, feeling mixture of disgust and
pride in his victory achieved, Posey ran
out to meet him, slipping her arm in his
You We triumphed, see. Oh! John, dear
what daddy needs Is real son like you,
and !. just such brother. Don't tell me
anything about that horrid creature now,
let's be happy for while. Let us speak of
something far from her as one pole of
earth is from the other-of dear Helen Car
stairs. whose card found on the hall table
when l went in after leaving you. II 1t
hadn't been that 1 was with you. I'd have
begrudged missing her for anybody's sake
OF course the stupid servants said I was
not at home. Now, why couldn't they have
shown her into the garden, and then she
could have been introduced to you, and how
pie Of all others I most admire, and shall
expect and insist upon being friends with
each other! Say, John. to please me that
you are longing to meet Helen.''
"Posey,' began Glynn. and his voice to
his own ears sounded unnaturally thin IT
have been waiting a chance to tell you
that have known Miss Carstairs; that |
ran upon her by chance at the Care de
Lyons yesterday, just as the train for the
south had started. That we were, in fact,
companions in the same compartment, and
talked Of you together, more than once,
during our days rum"
you! Helen Wonders will never eeasev'
cried the girl exultingly. But" sober
ing thought seizing hold Of her, "how was
1t possible you never mentioned her to me
in a single one of your letters?"
"Try to think why, Posey," the young
man said gravely, az they paused together