Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-28

her own hearthstone, in the shadow of her own
roof-tree, protected from the public gaze
But how often she is dragged before the foot
lights, so to speak. Every penny-a-liner makes
her the subject Of paragraph; her household
gods inventoried, her profits estimated her
weaknesses chroniced, and her features photo
graphed."
But personally she is not much public
character. She has reserves And after that the
subject dropped.
But Lucille and DR.. Harrisse had a thousand
other things to discuss He delighted in a
man who dared to disagree with him. They found
that they had just missed each other at Interlach
en-; that he had only been prevented by chance
from Joining the party with which she had made
the ascent of Mont Blanc; they had mutual friends
abroad; but still the great enigma, where he had
known her in America, remained unsolved. But
he troubled himself very little about it just now
he was drifting with the tide; he was passing
through new phase of existence. He had believed
himself invincible, and behold! he had been
quered by touch of hand, turn of head" It
absurd perhaps, for man of his years to be
easily enchanted; he rather longed for the end
of the voyage in order to discover If it was only
the glamour of pretty face and sweet manner
that infatuated him. He assured himself that it
would not last, but he seriously hoped it would.
Such moonlight nights were never known before
as those which he spent with Lucille; such star
light never shone upon palace gardens or noun
tain streams Was it the same old world, or had
he been translated? She sang to him in all the
strange foreign tongues she knew; sometimes his
tenor voice joined herS I'LL III seemed as II they
were merely two spirits soaring. He began to
confess now that he had never been so happy in
all his life he began to wish the voyage would
last forever. He had forgotten to ask where he
had met her, who she was how descended, how
placed
It seemed to DIR. Harrisse about this time, that
DR.. Johns was always joining them, that he had
a weakness himself for Miss Lindsay; and Har
risse smiled, thinking how futile it was.
you remember Captain Hamerton?" asked Dr.
Johns on one of these occasions, when the talk
had somehow drifted upon love and marriage
"Oh, certainly" said Harrisse, wishing Captain
Hamerton and DR.. Johns were in the Red Sea,
figurative1y speaking. 81 remember him-an
cient mariner, always endowing something
somebody, eh?" ;.
well you know, he fell in love with circus
rider! Fact And he sixty, If day; a real love
AFFAIR.""
81 think must go below" said Lucille; "the sun
is whitening" Naturally enough, Lucille was tired
of the surgeons "reminiscences; naturally she had
no interest in the vulgar loves of crcusriders
and old beaux.
you will miss the sunset" he said, aside, de-
tanning her cdr Johns will be gone presently
Let us see the evening star come out, together,
this last night at sea-"
"And suppose he married her and lived hap
PLY forever after" said Harrisse, having carried
his point, and turning to Dr. Johns.
NO; she wouldn't marry him; but when he
died he left her fortune, and she left the pro-
fession."
"And the Hamertons Mayflosoer stock"
Dr. Johns left presently, and the sunset famed in
the west and darkness dropped down over the wide
lonely sea, and one star softly trembed into view;
and far off sail, like white wing, shone against
the dark horizon, wan and ghostly.
1.-THE sea has its pearls.
Tho baava has II