The silver messenger., 1908-04-07
THE HOUSE OF
A THOUSAND
CANDLES
By MEREDITH NICHOLSON
Author Of THE MAIN CHANCE" ZELDA
CAMERON" Etc.
CHAPTER xIl.-contlnued.

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But suppose the Sisters are awful
" strict"
They're hideous,-perfectly hide
Ous."
Where is your homer" demanded.
Chicago, Louisville. Indianapolis, Gin
cinnati, perhaps?"
"Humph, you are dull! You ought
to know from my accent that I'm not
from Chicago. And l hope l haven't
a Kentucky girls air of waiting to be
fattered to death. And no Indianapo-
lis girl would talk to a strange man at
the edge of deep wood in the gray
twilight of a winter day,-that's from
book; and the Cincinnati girl is with
out my elan, esprit,-whatever you
please to call 1t. She has more Teu-
tonic repose,-more Gretchen of the
Rhine valley about her. Don't you
adore French. Squire Glenarm?" she
concluded, breathlessly, and with no
pause in her quick step.
Il adore yours, Miss Armstrong" l
asserted, yielding myself further to the
Joy of idiocy, and delighting in the
anu IlOOuo VI DcI
talk. did not make her out; indeed,
preferred not to! l was not then,-
and | am not now, thank God!-of an
analytical turn of mind. And as |
grow older prefer, even after many a
blow, to take my fellow human beings
as find them. And as for women, old
or young, envy no man his gift of re
/ 4,f1 a.
carry a spray of arbutus to the labor
atory or subject the enchantment of
| moonlight upon running water to the
lame and blow-pipe as try to analyze
the heart of a girl,-particularly girl
Who paddles a canoe with sure stroke
and puts up good race with a rabbit.
A lamp shone ahead of us at the en-
rance of one of the houses, and lights
| appeared in all the buildings.
IF knew your window l should GER
tainly sing under it,-except that
you're going home! You didn't tell me
why they were deporting YOU"
I'm really ashamed to! You would
never"
"Oh, yes, I would; I'm really an old
friend!" I insisted, feeling more like
an idiot every minute.
We'll, don't tell! But they caught
ne fiirting-with the grocery boy!
r Nv aren't you disgusted!"
Thoroughly! 1 can't believe It!
Why, you'd lot better flirt with me-"
| suggested boldly.
We'll. I'm to be sent away for good
at Christmas. 1 may come back then
II 1 can square myself. My! That's
slang,-isnt 1t adorable?"
"The Sisters don't like slang, sup
poser"
They loathe 1t! Miss Devereux,-
you know who she is!-she spies on us
and tells"
''You don't say SO; but I'm not sur
prised at her I've heard about her!"
l declared bitterly.
We had reached the door, and I ex-
pected her to fly; but she fingered.
"Oh, If you know herl Perhaps
you're a spy, too! It's just as well we
should never meet again, Mr.. Glen
arm" she declared haughtily.
"The memory of these few meetings
will always linger with me, Miss Arm
strong" l returned in an imitation OF
her own tone.
81 shall scorn to remember you'll
and she folded her arms under the
cloak tragically.
Our meetings have been all to few
Miss Armstrong. Two, exactly, l be
lieve!"
sspbar ,yo, ,,rofa,- tr, to,,ora tho frs,
time ever saw YOU" she said. hel
hand on the door,
"Out there In your canoe? Never!
And you've forgiven me for overhear
ing you and the chaplain on the wall
pleased"
She grasped the knob of the door
and paused an instant as though pom
dering.
Il make It three times, without tha
one, and not counting once in the roat
and other times when you didn't know
Squire Glenarm! I'm foolish littl,
girl to have remembered the first.
see now how blind l have been
Good-by!"
7 She opened and closed the door soft
ly. and l heard her running up tn,
steps within.
! l ran back to the chapel, roundl.
abusing myself for having neglected
; my more serious affairs for a bit o
silly talk with a school girl, fearful
lest the openings l had left at boil
+ ends of the passage should have beer
I. discovered. Near the chapel l nar
q rowly escaped running into Stoddard
: but l slipped past him. found m,
? lantern, pulled the hidden door int
place, and, traverslng the tunnel with
out incident, soon climbed through tn
hatchway and slammed the false bloc
= securely into the opening.
l. AhhH-EH N.s,