The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-03

sleep to extract from Diana the admits.
sion that Dundas had proposed that
night Lisa then sows the first seeds
of distrust by assuring Diana that
Dundas Will not keep his appointment
for the morrow.
CHAPTER III~-Continued
Il do know. everything. And III tell
you what / know, IL you'll promise
me two things"
What things?"
"That you won't ask me Low found
out. and that you'll swear never to
give me away to anybody"
"Of course, / wouldn't give you
away as you call It, But---rm' not sure
| want you to tell mo. have faith
In 1vor. I'd rather not hear stories
behind his back
ooh, very well, then, go to the
Duchess'a tomorrow" l snapped. "and
wear your prettiest frock to please
Iyor. when just about that time he'll
be arriving In Paris to keep very
particular engagement with Maxine
de RenZie."
Di grew suddenly pale, and her eyes
looked violent instead of black. II
don't believe he's going to Paris!" she
exclaimed.
II know he's going. And know he's
going especially to see Maxine"
1T can't be. He told me tonight
he wouldn't cross the street 10 see her.
IL made 1t condition-that IL he
found lie cared enough for her to want
to see her again. he must go, of course;
but he must give up all thought of
me. II I'm to reign. L must reign alone.
We'll, then. on thinking 1t over. he
probably did find that he wanted 20
see her."
NO. For he loved me just as much
when we parted, only half an hour
ago"
yet at least two hours ago, he'd ar
ranged a meeting with Maxine for to-
morrow afternoon"
You're dreaming"
Il was never wider awake: or If I'm
dreaming, you can dream the same
dream If you'll be at Victoria Station
to- morrow, or rather this morning,
when the boat train goes out IT ~
O'Clock"
II Will be therew cried Di, going
from red to white. And you shall b9
with me, to see that you're wrong. I
know you Will be wrong"
That's an engagement" said l. AT
10 o'clock, Victoria Station, just you
and l. and nobody else in the house
the wiser. If I'm right and Ivor's there.
shall you think it wise to give him
up?"
..He might be obliged to go to Paris.
suddenly, for some business reason,
without meaning TO call on Maxine de
RenzIe--in which case he'd probably
write me. But--at the station, / shah
ask him straight out-that is. IL he's
there, as I'm sure he won't bel
whether he intends to see Madsmoiselle
de Renzie. II he says no. I'll believe
him. If he says yes-
you'll tell him all is over between
your"
He'd know that without my telling
after our talk last night"
"And whatever happens, you will say
nothing about having heard Maxine's
name from me?'
Nothing" Di answered. And / knew
she would keep her word.
CHAPTER ".
Ivor Travels to Paris.
1t is rather a startling sensation ror
man to be caught suddenly by the
nape of the neck, SO to speuk, and
pitched out of heaven down to--the
orhe. Place.
But that was what happened to me
when / arrived at Victoria Station, on
ny way to Paris
/ had taken my ticket and hurried
on to the platform without too much
risk observation by being too early
when I came face to face with the
girl whom, at any other time, should
have liked best to meet; whom at that
particular time 1 least wished to meet;
Diana Forrest.
1.-THE Impn-14isa Drummond-was
with her; but saw only Di at first
Di, looking u little pale and harassed,
but beautiful as always. Only last
T l,pl told 1a n
no attractions for me. I had said that
| didn't care to see Maxine de Renzie;
vet here / was on the way to see her,
and here was Di discovering me in the
act of going to see her.
or course, could lie; and I suppose
some men. even men of honor would
think 1t justifiable as we'll as wise
tolie in such case, when explanations
were forbidden. But couldn't lie to
a girl I loved as love Diana Forrest.
1t would have sickened me with life
and with myself to do IT. and it was
with the Knowledge in my mind that
could not and would not lie, that I
had to greet her with conventional
Good morning."
"Are you going out of town?" I
asked with my hat off for her and for
the IMP, whose strange weakened face
saw now looking over my tall lovers
shoulders. IT had never before struck
me that the Imp was like cat; but
suddenly the resemblance struck me-
something in the poor little creatures
expression, 1t must have been, or In
her greenlsh gray eyes which seemed
al that moment to concentrate all tho
Knowledge of old and evil things that
has ever come into the world since
the days OF the early Egyptians--when
! a cat was worshipped.
uNo Tn not going out of town." Di
answered. II came here omeet you,
in case you should be leaving by this
train, and brought Lisa with me-. q
.'Who told you ! was leaving?" |
laslted. hoping for a second or two that
the Foreign Secretary had conflded to
her something of his secret-guessins
nurs, perhaps. and that my unexpected.
uneNplicuble absence might injure me
With her -