Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-06

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n I we? Eleven francs About two dollars
wv and quarter Morton!
"Yes and eleven francs have grubstaked
two people for week good many times
before now Gwendoyn you can bank on that!
"B But I tell you the Winstons are here
" How do we know it's the Winstons?"
who else could be? They said they were going to
surprise And they're only friends too, that the
concierge knows You'll they'll call again tonight
or tomorrow morning, sure!
:" And supposing they do?
Supposng they dol After their entertaining us in
Boston for ten days. and then taking us all over Lon
don-to have them catch us like this
"Let me cable, then The coin would be here the day
And when YOU told your father the last time that
never Under any circumstances would we overdraw
agan Besides" she added with a milder emphasis,
1T would take almost every copper we've got on hand
The situation was partly novel and partly not For
the last two months of the first half Of their mar
ried life they had been occupying tiny furnished apart
ment in the respectable southerly end OF the Latin
Quarter And although their fortune, as represented IN
capital under the eyes of their elders at home, was
wholly sufficient for their needs for the fourth time
since they had left Indianapolis they had reached the Tag
end of their monthly stipend several days before the
next draft was due
Carter was in literature He even now gathering
material for that great of historical intrigue
which was to reach its height in the fall OF the Bast1e,
and the Reign of Terror But that great romance was
still to get printers ink, and it had had no predecessors
Literature was, therefore, not source OF wealth upon
which Mr. Carter and his bride could reckon tor inn
mediate dividends
Then I'll have to put in my watch"
Put in your watcllwith my picture in the back OF
@But tell YOU the mont de biftf is a regular govern
ment institution It'd be Just like getting the money
from bank Besides, with nobody knowing us here,
we haven't any blame need to worry about whether its
respectable or not"
@Oh. YOU mean by ttat"-his sarcasm was wither-
ing" that I'm to cable after all
No, you're mott
Every WE'LL deare, very well I'm going out to get
my stuff about the Faubourg St Antoine It'll be up
to youl" ..uh - ,o.,. d, - .,p
At that he stood nailed upon the threshold But he
could think up no rejoinder which he had not used
often already that his literary conscience absolutely ruled
it out And under bursting head OF steam he started
for the Faubourg.
Whatever Mr.. Morton Carter may have lacked. be-
yond any doubt he had the artistic imagination Three
hours later he back with realization of exactly
how the Bastle taken which made his eyes glitter
and his breath in long exhalaons that partook
almost of solemnity There would be one chapter at
any rate in By Right of Blood" which would make
Hugo himself seem picayune
The concierge stopped him at her little wicket and
gave him card. He still holding it when he
mounted to his own door and let himself in
The hall opened upon their dining and sittng-room
From it again, opened the dressing and then the bed
as that you, Morton?" Gwendolyn called from that
inner chamber, and then showed a fower-like head
Where have you been?" he asked, astonshed.
She laid hundred franc note and some big fye-franc
cartwhees upon the table "Pve been to your old mont
de bi6t6 that's where I've been And now we've enough
to make some sort of show on anyway
But wha-what did you take out?-I don't see"
But he did see At least he began to eel-and it was
like large ice cake pressing upon his diaphragm
"Why, there was that tankard thing, and the tray
And at the last, made up my mind we could get on
without the tea-urn too can make that green one
do. And when I'd put in the Sevres bowl and the
" But Great Cesar Those things all Miss Pas
Wen we'd rented them, hadn't we? We'd rented
4te ed ADd yvh
four months rent in advance"
Rented them ml-Snakes Gwendolynl Don't you
Didn't you-Why, rented them to use!
"Wel, that's using them, guess AS long as we're
willing to go without them in the meantime-
"Yes-and if Miss Pastonbury should come back in
the meantime! To say nothing of the honor OF 1t!
She produced it. '"Oh start lecturing now, do
Youd-youd think to hear you,"-she gulped-' that
it was pleasure for me to go pawning And when we
know very well she's safe over in Exeter
The ticket was not in itself terrifying document II
looked much like receipt for registered letter. But
Mr. Morton Carter was regarding 1t with all the horror
he had vainly sought to put into the expression OF
Claude de la Comcelle upon the sight of his ettre de
cachet How-how much will it take to get them out
again?" .
By this time Mrs Carter was beginning to partake of
his emotion in spite of herself "Why, it's only seven
per cent you said and the fees OF course there was
my cab-fare, there and back
sCabfare? Why, did you go over to the head office
Certainly did Papa says it's always good busi-
ness to go to the head office. Besides, how did know
that some time other Miss Pastonbury mghtnt have
been at that place around the corner herself"
It was revelation Of the feminney Machiavelan
which staggered Mr. Carter almost much as the
pawnng itself "Well he said at length, just little
than half eleven francs is gone Thank heaven
we have the rest of it .
Oh-if you must get it out of me, haven't it all
thought while I was there, and near the Anglo
American it would be chance toto get some tea that
is really nice You know how particular ELY Winston
about her tea. Andmand, anyway we've got it now
"Yes and l hope ELY Winston may choke on it
He looked at his watch. I'm not even sure there's
time to make it to-day"
Just as like not there's draft down at the con-
ciergeS now
Thereupon he opened his hand and glanced at the
card in it. He did not exclam, or even change color
10 any marked degree. But at the look which began,
as it were, to warp his countenance she exclaimed
"Oh, Morton-it isnt-Not Miss Pdstonbwy-?"
That's all And she says the other side Am
passing through on my way to Switzerland with my
cousin Mrs Gloyden. Shall be here until tomorrow
afternoon. Shall try to in again before six