The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-17
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 Loveland's face slowly reddened and his eyes grew troubled
 NY GU needn't mind about the money for the messenger she said quickly. You can pay me back EaftefWard, if you're so awful proud"
 'eWhy. of course I'd pay. you back Val assured her sBut-er-the fact ls''-he hesitated. trying 10 find a way out of the tangled web tsMr. Cor don'' had woven-.the fact is, I"-(he wondered if he could bear to go to the hotel and thus escape the dif1culty about the name. but pictured himself arriving in evening dress by broad daylight and felt his gorge rise at the degradat1on-sthe fact is anything coming for me at the Waldorf will have on it the name of Loyeland. The Marquis of Loveland' will be the ad- dress on my letters"
 My goodness, you did fly highr' ex- claimed Isidora, dimpIing. 'T guess it's no wonder they gave you "a whole suit" eshe pronounced 1t "soot') .'of rooms. But that's all right. You put on card what you want the messen- ger boy should do. and you needn't be afraid to trust him. These little fellers are safe as banks
 Isidora saw that Bill had the food he liked for breakfast-a steamtng pile of buckwhea2 cakes trimmed round the edges with crisp brown 1aca and oozing sirup at every pore Also she seet him a copy of the New York light without having even glanced Slf the front page although a gentle man friend who had paid her a great Heal of attention last summer was at the begInuing of his trial for really sxc1ting murder.
 When the messenger came back MT. Go1~lcn's face grew ever more b1an7 until it hardened into an ex- Rrese&on of hopelessness. She was sure Ehat ae boy Trad brought neither let ter nor telfgEaalm and that something , shad- eons 1yerX .Wr0ng indeed with her myste~t~us guests calculations.
 Here. take this and pay the mes senger," she whispered. esI guess your friends had disappointment-'
 Bill obeyed, but did not at once come back When the youth had been paid and had shot away up the street as if through a pneumatic tube Bill finger ed in consultation with the pale young man at at the table.
 Something's up." Isidora said to herself in an agony of curiosity. But what the '.something" was she could not find out till breakfaat was over and the room clear of customers
 'The cable I expected hasn't ar rived" explained P. Gordon. "Itss all right, of course, when come to think of 1t, and I'm not really worried, for haven't paid enough attention to the difference of time between London and New York must send again later in the day, when there will be letters, too, perhaps, and peoples visiting cards. Neanwhile"-
 Meanwhile stay where you are and make yourself at hoEne,'' cut in Isidora hospitably Nevertheless she was anx- lous when the thought of her father and the inevitable moment of his com ing downstairs. heavy footed with ill., ness and "cross as bear with sore head" Pa would want to have the beautiful young man in evening clothes satisfactorily explained, and it was borne in upon the girl that he would De rather GiflcuEE to explain. Eonpay- Ing people and things were always diff hcult to explain to Alexander, especial ly when he was under the weather. But-there was one way out of the scrape, and Isidora snatehed at It sud denly with a leap Of the heart. All might be well should she prevail upon BIT Gordon to accept another loan from her if he liked to call 1t Ioans <.F4S