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CHAPTER VII-Continued.

CHAPTER V11-Contlnued.
+! Joy began to get seriously alarmed. The
mere use of her mothers formal name
was a danger signal of rare use. BY its
light she could realize that her father
had what ne considered in his own mind
! TO be real cause of complaint. She
did not like to speak herself; she feared
| that just at present ii might complicate
matters. So she looked over appea lingly
| at Judy who understood and spoke:
| What two attitudes? I'm afraid l for
/! one. don't understand. You are talking
| i'm riddles tonight Sine spoke in a gay
| debonar manner so like her usual self
that her brother-in-law was unsuspicious
of any underlying intent of opposition.
This was just the opportunity for which
he was waiting. With sardonic smile
he went on. singing out Joy as before:
Your mother. my dear, has told us one
| of them. Perhaps the young man did
look at you. There's little wonder in
| that. Were l a young man and a stran-
ger l should look at you myself; and I
| would also have looked at any other
man who dared to look at you, too. If
| this is a mans attitude he should be
more genfal-more expliclt-more open
less constrained to her relatives. That.
| my dear Judy."-he turned to her as he
spoke-'is the other attitude Ogilvie an
swered-the conversation tonight was de-
cidedly obliaue.
Really. colonel. 1 can't agree with
y
attitude toward her relatives was all
that was courteous apd respectful. Ger,
| tainly. to her mother She bridled. and
Joy grew more serious Her mother calling
| her husband colonel was another dan
ger signal: and she knew that if once her
| father and mother got to loggerheads
over him-"him' was her way or thinking
of Mr.. Hardy-it might keep him away
+. from her. She summoned up her courage
| and said with all the affectiOnate raillery
| which was usually so effective with her
| father:
Daddy dear. do you remember Aesop's
fable about the Boy and the Frogs"
| II suppose l ought to, little girl, but
I'm afraid 1 have forgotten. What was it
| about?''
THE boys were throwing stones at the
the boys said they were doing it for fun
/ So the frogs answered: 1T may be fun
to you: but 1t is death to us. Col
| Ogilvie puckered up his eyebrows.
| II remember, now, my dear: but for
the life of me l don't see it's application
here" Joy said with a preternatural
| occurrences:
| 1T means. daddy, that you are the hoy
| and am the frog" Her fathers gravity
| became intensified.
THAT does not help me much, daugh-
ter"
| We'll, you see. daddy, here are you
and mother commenting on how man
| looked at me-and-so forth. But you
| don't take into consideration the sensi-
| tiveness of a womans heartfelt alone
| her vanity. l think you've forgotten that
| l am not now merely child emerging
into womanhoOd'-don't You remember on
| the Cryptic-but a staid woman to whose
| waning attractions everything relating to
| d man is sacred One who looks on man.
| her possible rescuer from the terrors of
| old maidhood with the desperation of
accomplished years" As she had spoken
unthinkingly the word ''rescuer'' a hot
tide of blood had rushed to her face. but
| she went on bravely to the end Of her
| sentence. There was not one of the three
who did not understand the meaning. Her
mother and aunt were concerned at the
self-betrayal. Her fathers face grew
| fixed. now to sternness. With a faint
heart Joy felt that she had made ter
rible mistake, and inwardly condemned
herself for its foolishness. Col. Ogilvie
now went on with grave deliberateness:
he was determined that there should be
no error regarding his disapprobation. All
| Mr.. Hardy, whom he held responsible.
AS ! was saying, that fellows atti-
| tude, as 1t appeared to me, was wanting
in both openness and that confidence
cred. Judy. watching her. noticed it and
for a moment was scared. But the girl
at once forced herself into calm, and
Judy's anxiety quite disappeared. She
| knew that Joy was now quite master of
herself. and would remain so. The colo
mel. accepting the detected silence as a
| request to continue, went on:
"Of course. there is no need for me to
say that he is very gallant fellow and
a superb horseman. and that his manners
are those of polished gentleman. Nor.
further, still. that I and mine are under
a deep debt of gratitude to him. But
there are some things which man can
do, or what is worse. which he can leave
undone. that show distrust.'
What things. for instance" 1t was
Judy who asked the question falteringly;
Tnxr hot &c
directed.
We'll. my dear. I shall illustrate. When
/, wishing TO show that We all took an in
terest in him and his surroundings, men
toned Airville and spoke of clubs and
such matters he did not proffer me any
information. Still. thinking that his re-
serve might be that usually attributed to
the standoffness of the English as often
accepted here-that 1t was due to habit
rather than INTENT asked him where he
lived in London. He wrote an address on
one Of his cards-which by the way has
no address craven on it-and handed 1t
to me, saying: That Is only a lodging
have not got house yet Then l asked
what clubs he belonged to; and he sim
ply said, Several and began to ask me
questions about what sport We usually
no, usually inquisitive. and as this man
was my guest 1 could not proceed in face
of such IA snub." He WINGED at the
word. But as l was really anxious that
!.
dered us so signal service. l expressed
a hope that when We were in England
i'm the summer we might have the pleas
ure of seeing him. i am bound to say
that he reciprocated the wish very eager
ly. He asked me a host of questions as
to our plans, and told him what we had
arranged about the lake country and the
border Of which we have such traditions
In our family. He certainly has a very
winning way with him, and quite forgot
at the time his want Of trust about his
| residence and his clubs"
Perhaps he may have no home. he
may be a poor man." suggested Aunt
Judy. The colonel answered her, this
time directly:
He may not he rich man. but he is
| certainly not poor one. You and T.
this to Joy-"saw him pay three thousand
for that horse. And he is free with his
, money. too in other ways. That police
sergeant who was with me this morning
and who, my dear. asked me to convey
his gratitude to you; / gave II for YOU
told me that the gentleman had given him
on the viaduct a hundred dollars FOL
himself and then another hundred for the
officer who was run down."
How generous said Judy. Joy said
in her eyes. There is some chord in a
woman's heart which sounds to any touch
of generosity or even of liberality. Ii Is
some survival of conditions of primitive
life and a permanent female attribute
Judy. anxious to propitiate her brother
in-law and to preserve the absent man