Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-03

! Younger Set |
By ROBERT w. CHAMBERS. 8
thor Of Fighting Chance" Etc y
By ROBERT w. CHAMBERS
s. copyrisht. 1907. by Robert w. Chambers
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Author Of 1.-THE Fighting Chance" Etc

thing in tit" asked the boy. Because,
if you are sure
There certainly is if l can prove
that my powder is able to resist heat,
cold and moisture. The Lawn people
stand ready to talk matters over as
soon as l am satisfied. There's plenty
of time. but keep the suggestion in the
back of your head, Gerald"
The boy smiled, nodded Importantly
and went of to remove the stains of
tennis from his person, and Eileen
went, too, turning around to look back
at Sclwyn.
THANK you for asking Gerald! I'm
sure he will love to so into anything
you think safe"
"Will you join us, too?" he called
back smilingly. I'VE may need CAPT.
tall.
I'm remember thatv' she said, and,
turning once more as she reached the
landing. "Goodby until luncheon
and touched her lips with the tips of
her fingers, flinging him gay salute.
In parting and meeting, even after
the briefest of intervals, it was always
the same with her; always she had for
him some informal hint of the formal
ity of parting. always some recognition
of their meeting-in the light touching
of hands as though the symbol of cere-
mony at least was due to him, to her
self and to the occasion.
At luncheon Nina and Eileen talked
garden talk-they both were quite mad
about their fruit trees and flower beds.
Selwyn, Gerald and Boots discussed
stables, golf links and finally the new
business which Selwyn hoped to de-
velop.
Afterward, when the children had
been excused and Drlna had pulled
her chair close to Lansing's to listen
and after that, on the veranda, when
the men sat smoking and Drina was
talking French and Nina and Eileen
had gone off with baskets, trowels and
pruning shears-Selwyn still continued
in conference with Boots and Gerald.
and it was plain that his concise. mod
est explanation of what he had ac-
complished in his experiments with
chaosite seriously impressed the other
men.
Boots frankly admitted It. Besides
he said, eff the Lawn people are so
anxious for you to give them first say
in the matter I don't see why we
shouldn't have faith in it--enough, /
mean, to be good to ourselves by offer
ing to be good to you, Phil"
''Wait until Austin comes down-and
until I've tried one or two new ideas.
said Selwyn. Nothing on earth would
finish me quicker than to get anybody
who trusted me into q worthless
thing
Its plain" observed Boots, "that
although you may have been an army
captain you're no captain of industry
you're not even a noncom.w
Selwyn laughed. DO you really be,
lieve that ordinary decency is uncom-
mon?"
look at Long Island" returned
Boots. "Where does the boom OF
| worthless acreage and paper cities land
| investors when it explodes?"
Gerald had flushed up at the turn In
the conversation. and Selwyn steered
Lansing into other and safer channels
| until Gerald went away to find a rod.
And, as Drina had finished hei
| French lesson, she and Lansing pres
emily departed, brandishing fishing rods
adorned with the gaudiest of flies.
In the rose garden and along tha
| section of the wall included in If th.
rich, dry. porous soil glimmered like