Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-11-04

"LRE THERE MANY OTHER GIRLS IN THE
STATES AS BEAUTIFUL AS sHK Z
Loveland. "There's Miss Coolidge too,
She's a beautiful creature. Are there
many other girls in the States as beau
tiful as she"
las beautiful, but few more beauti'
full"
ANY beautiful ones richer"
I'm not up in that kind of statistics.
Major Cadwallader Hunter Is"
"Yes. but don't care for the fell
low. I'd rather take counsel with you.
Do you know Miss Coolidge?
mo"
81 wish you did,
would you like me to use my In
fuence with herr"
81 should like you to use your infu-
ence with me to keep me up to the
mark. She's rather hard to talk to-so
different from YOU"
"She knows her value. She's worth
several millions, as we say In Amer
ica-I wish we didn't. Why should she
worry to make herself agreeable? She
can get all the attention she wants
without Bothering. whereas we poor
girls have to work hard If we want to
be popular in spite Of our poverty"
81 suppose there's something In
that" said Loveland, too deeply abb
sorbed In his own affairs not to take
her In earnest. And the girl would
have liked 10 turn q scornful shoulder
upon him if his voice had not been sc
nice and IL he had not been so hand
some. "He is a perfectly worthless
young man." she reflected savagely
yet she did not tell him, as he de-
served. that she had reconsidercd and
would not, after all. undertake the ex'
ira hard work of being his guide. PM
losopher and friend.
AT first all the girls had admired
Loveland not only because he had a
title, but because he was himself, and
some of the younger ones, like Fanny
Milton and Madge Beverly, had been
inclined to regard him as a starry pal
adm. Fanny said he was 80 hand
some 1t almost hurt" and that she
"could hardly talk to him for gazing
at his Gibson chin" But when the
more sophisticated Eva Turner. Elinor
Coolidge, Kate Wood and few others
realized that their starry paladin was
impudently inspecting them all with
view to the possible purchase OF the
most satisfactory each began to hate
him secretly with forty woman power
secretly because there was a kind OF
glory In him as an asset. They were
worldly though good hearted girls t(
! whom Major Cadwallader Hunter had
introduced his prize. and they foresaW
that handsome Lord Loveland would
be petted. perhaps fought for, in so
ciety when he had left the little worlt
of the Mauretania for the bigger world
| of New York. There would be an ad
vantage In having known him first IL
case he should become the rage" al
he was sure to do II not too insuffer
ably rude and offensive. Thinking OF
this, each girl chung to her share OF
him and refrained from trampling OF
the expensive doll, as, for her pride's
| sake, she ached to do.
Val was unaware of the hatred, bu
conscious Of the rivalry, and was al
together kept very busy. He forgot tt
MarcOni to his mother that he hat
sailed on the Mauretania. as Jim Har
borough had thought he might forget
As for writing, he had not moment
for any such sedentary employment.
Then presently the hugehess OF th'
great city lOomsd honstro'ls. fdoun
famous In purple shadow against sucf
blue sky as Italy and New Yorl
| know.
A crowd was massed on the dock t
welcome the Mauretania and her pas
sengers, and for the first time sine,
he had left England Val felt a vagu
inconsistencies stirring In his breast
Almost every one else on board seemed