Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-14

there is a crowd of ladies on the lawn"
All | begin to see light.
That is not the reason l asked you to come. If
you honored me greatly you would be the first
woman my mother excepted have ever driven to
the club To-day's players are mostly Americans or
English. Of course there some hrst-rate French
teams but you can take it from me that they show
their real form only before the ladies'
LAS in the Journeys of old?"
Perhaps. 1t is the same at the ChateauX Every
wants his best girl to watch his proves with the
gun
He stopped wishing he had left the best girl out of
it; but Joan was kind hearted and did not hesitate
an instant.
so you are what is known gentleman of
leisure and independent means?" she said suavely.
Something of the sort.
81 am sorry for you, Mr.. Belgrade
Il am rather sorry for myself at times, he
admitted, and if Joan had CHANGED to glance at
him she would have seen a somewhat peculiar
Delgrado?'
She gazed at him now in blank bewilderment-
just second too late to see that expression Isn't
belgrade your name?' she asked
Yes in sense. People mostly call me Alec.
Correctly speaking, Alec isn't mothers darling tor
Alexis; but it goes, anyhow.
Sometimes I think you are an American she
vowed.
Half" he said "Mv mother is an American,
And pray what is that" she cried.
Haven't you heard of Kosnoviae 1t is little
Balkan State"
is there some mystery, then, about your name?"
"Oh, no. plain Alec.
"Am to call you plain Aec?"
Yes
But it follows that you would call me plain
Joan"
Let it go at Joan
"No, no, Miss Vernon. Don't be vexed really
did not to be rude. And you promised, you
know"
Promised what?''
That might help carry your traps. Please don't
send me away!'
&C
sionally she declared. Il will compound the
Alec if you will tell me why the belgrade applies only
in a sense
"Done-Joan," said he, greatly daring He
waited the merest fraction of time; but she gave
sign. MY stipulation is of the slightest, he added,
that discourse in the Louvre Where are you
working?"
In the Grande Galere; on subject that l en-
joy. too. People have such odd notions as to nice
pictures. They choose them to match the furniture
Now, this one is quite delightful to copy, and not
very difficult. But you shall see.
They entered the Louvre from the DUAL
loan was undoubtedly Hurried. Here in very
truth was that irrepressble Henri descended from
his bronze horse and walking by her side. That his
She knew that a spitefu Bourbon had melted down
no less than statues of Napoleon in order pro-
duce the fine cavalier who approved of her time
she crossed the Pont Neuf and it seemed if of
the little COrsicans dominance allied with
touch of Bearnas in the stalwart youth whom
she had met for the first time in Rudins studio about
three weeks earlier
They were steel and magnet at once belgrade
had of the boulevardier's Astounding self
ceit or Joan would never have given him second
look; while Joan's frank comradeshp vastly
alluring than the skilled coquetry that left him
cold. Physically too they were well mated, each
obviously made for the other by discriminating
Providence They were just beginning to discover
the fact, and this alarmed Joan.
She could not shake off the notion that he had
waylaid her this morning for purpose wholly I'M
connected with the suggested visit to the polo
ground So, tall and athletic though he was, she set