The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1910-10-20

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greater contrast between girls than
between these two whom Lord Love-
land had mentally set apart for him
self a. man picks ont the most be-
coming necktics from box ON q shop
counter.
One, who walked the deck with an
elderly man whose likeness Of feature
proclaimed him her father. was very
tall, almost as tall as Loveland, who
could be six footer when he took
the trouble not to SLOUGH. She twss
slender. ~ a. the right plsc9siland
rounded in all tho right plac9s1i her
waist Being soIfim that she se{med
held together oAjy by spine lai1d 4
.ladylike Iigamene 0r two. which means
|ifaul;lessness Of figure according to
/ fashion plate standards. She Hhad
FURNISHED 'ausurn hair and magnificent
yellow gray eyes trimmed with dark
lashes. {
Val said to himself that the mater
would be pleased with daughtsf-in-
law Of this type and that such a girl
would never make her husband asham-
ed. He could not imagine falling In
love with her hard brilliance. But
then he wasn't going to America to
fall in love. His intentions were
strictly businesslike. And this girl
was bound to be admired everywhere.
LoveIand's second choice might have
been his first for some reasons. and In
fact she was his first by impulse. only
she did not look as obviously an heir
ess as the other. Neither was she so
obviously a beauty. yet her charm
leaped at the beholder with the brief
est glance. especially II that behoIder
were asman.
She was not very tan. and she was
slim slip Of creature not in the least
like fashion plate, but suggestive Of
soft natural curves even In hef navy
klue tailor made frock.
II she had been stagestruck and
bad asked for chance in the chorus
1 theatrical manager would have
found himself giving It to her. he
hardly knew why--more because she
said she wanted It than on the strength
Of her voice or form or features.
Then. having yielded so far to her
magnetism. he would have said to
himself: "She isn't striking enough for
the front row or even the second. She
must 60 into the third" And there
she would have gone docilely. Yet
the critics and all other men with eyes
would have picked her out. and pres
entity she would have been more motto
ed than the beauties in the front row.
By and by, when there arose a little
part with a few lines to speak. she
would have got II, and at last, in some
way or other. II would have been she
who was making the hit Of the
piece"
Lord Loyeland did not say anything
OF this sort 10 himself. but he felt q
faint electric shock OF interest every
time they passed and repassed each
other. though after the Hrst she did
not look at him with the big brown
eyes that surely had the prettiest
most bewitching lashes ever seen.
Val made up his mind at last that
be would walk no more. but would sit
down and think questions over. Be.
sides, for some moments the enchant.
ing girl In the navy blue frock had
ceased 70 nit to and fro. Therefore
be went toward the sheltered corner
where he knew his deck chair was
waiting for hIp and to his extreme
surprise found her comfortably in
stalled In II.
For a moment Loveland was more
conceited than he had ever been in his
life. which Is saying not a little. he
told himself that the girl must have
found out who he was and that this
was her artful way Of scraping &C
quaintance. She had taken possession
Of his chair with his name upon II,
waiting for him TO come and claim his
property and expecting the converse
ton which would be sure to follow.
He was conscious Of shock Of dis
appointment In spite OF the witch
Ing. CURED eyelashes he had not fan.
cicd her that sort Of obvious. eirtine
girl. and. like other spoiled young
men. a conquest which fell to him east.
y was less worth making. Neyerthe-
less he still wanted to know her
The chair next 10 his was unoccu-
pied. though usurpers were warned on
by the name OF "Mr. James r.
smythe- boldly painted In black let
tiers across the back. Stretching away
| TO the left wns row Of smythe chairs
which Val did not trouble TO count
He merely received the impression OF
large family Of impending smythes
and was glad that they were not as
sembled. Risking the avalanche OF
smythehood which might oyerwhelm
him at any instant. he sat down In
the empty chain next TO his own, ex-
pecting the girl to glance up ana aown
and isutter the coqucttish lashes To
his bewiiderment her tactics were more
subtle. She did not look up at all. but
calmly went on reading her book. q
volume Of disagreeably intellectual
suggestion.
This development Of the game wa,
interesting because surprising. but Val
still regarded 4
- ms A game. III