Evening star., 1909-04-11

SpenSer lips during the talk with the guide
Rather did he impress on his angry and venge
fu hearer that forgotten scandal should be
left IN its tomb. He took this line. not that he
posed as moralist, but because he hated t
acknowledge. even to himself. that he would be
helped in his woong bv Heens horror of his
rivals lapse from the standard every pure
minded woman sets up in her ideal lover He
had suffered too grevously from every species
OF intrigue and calumny during his own career
not to be ultraSensitlve IN regard to the use Of
such agents.
Yet. watching the crippled old man waiting
there in tie snow. sense of pity and mourning
chilled his heart with an ice cold touch
If | were Stampas son, if that dead girl
were my sister how would | settle with Bow
err: he asked, clenching his pipe firmly be-
tween his teeth Well could only ask God
to be merciful both to him and to me-
GOOD gracious Mr.. Spenser! Why that
fierce gaze at our delightful valley." came
the voice of Mrs. de la We're Il am glad none
of can give YOU the address of the Swiss clerk
of the weather You would surely slay him
He turned Convention demanded a smile
and polite greeting: but Spenser not con-
verltIonal. " on thought reader. Mrs.
de la Nere. he said.
One OF my attractions you should have
added
Il find this limpid light too critical
oh. what horrd thing TO tell any woman
especially early in the morning"
= have wretched habit of putting the sec
ond part of sentence first. really intended
to say But it Is too late.
= 1t is rather like swallowing the sugar coat
ing after the pill; hut III try
Well. then. this crystal atmosphere does
not lend itself to the obvious. Ii in
London, shouldcatalogue Your bewitchments.
lest YOU imagined | was blind to them
That sounds nice: but"
1t demands analysis; so | have failed
douby''
Il don't feel up to talking like character in
one OF Henry James novels. Have YOU seen
Miss agues this morning
Do YOU know her."
No
:" 1t would be kind thing if some one told
her that there other places in Switzerland
where she can command the general admiration
she deserves.
: am inclined to believe that there is man
in the hotel who can put that notion before her
delicately.'
at him. You didn't hear what was said last
night she murmured Where Millicent
Jaques is concerned. delicacy is absent from
Mr.. Bowers makeup l have espoused Miss
Wynton's cause, and there will be nothing but
unhappiless for her while that other girl re-
mains here.
Il hope YOU are mistaken he said slowly
meeting her quizzing glance without flinching.
: That is precisely where woman's point of
view differs from mans she countered. !" In
lives swayed by things that men
despise We are conscious of sidelong looks
and whisperings We dread the finger of scorn.
When you have wife Mr.. Spenser. you will
begin to realize the limitations of the feminine
horizon
Are you asking to take this demonstra-
tive young lady in hand!"
:" / believe YOU would succeed
Spenser smiled again. He had not credited
Mrs. de la We're with such fine perceptiveness
If her words meant anything, they implied
alliance, offensive and defensive, for Helen
benefit and his own
Guess Wen leave it right there till I've had
few words with Miss Wynton he said.
"A heart to heart talk, in fact" She laughed.
"Tell you what, Mrs. de la Vere,' he said.
" If you ever come to Colorado, shall hail you
as a real cousin,
THEN a silence fell between them; Bower
was walking out of the hotel. He passed
close in front of the glass partition and might
have seen them if his eyes were not preoc-
cupied as his mind. But he was looking at
Stampa and frowning in deep thought The
guide heard his slow heavy tread, and turned.
The two met. They exchanged no word but
went away together, the lame peasant hobbling
along by the side of the tall, we'll dressed plu-
tocrat.
"How odd!" said Mrs. de la We're. How
exceedingly odd''
To be continued nert Sunday.