The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-30
Page of
Interest
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BYMARY ROBERTS RINEIlART
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There wasn't any reply to that, so
took the watch and placed 1t on
the library table between us. The
effect was all that 1 had hoped. He
stared at It for a instant and then at
me, and with his hand outstretched
for It. stopped.
.where did you find 1T" he asked.
/ couldn't understand his expression.
He looked embarrassed, but not at all
afraid.
Il think you know, Mr.. HARRISON"
retorted.
Il wish 1 did. You opened it?'
Yes"
We stood looking at each other
across the table. Ii was hts glance
chat wavered
About the picture-of you" ne
said at last You see, down there
In South America. a fellow hasn't
much to do in the evening, and IA
chum OF mine and I've were aw-
fully down on what we called the plu-
tocrats, the-~the leisure classes. And
when that picture Of yours came In
the paper, we had--we had an argu-
ment. He said" He stopped.
What did he say"
Well. he said 1t was the picture
of an empty-faced society girl
"Oh!" i exclaimed.
II maintained there were posi-
hiiities in the face" He put both
hands on the table, and, bending for
ward, looked down at me. Wen. 1
was a fool, i admit. / said your eyes
were kind and candid, in spite of that
naughty mouth. You see, said
was a fool"
II think you are exceedingly rude"
managed finally. III you want to
know where / found your watch II
was down In the coal cellar. And
II you admit you are an idiot. / am
not. II know all about Belia's brace
Leland the board on the roof, and
oh. II you would only leave--Anne's
necklaee--on the coal, or somewhere
and get away"
My voice got beyond me then, and
l dropped into chair and covered
my face. / could feel him staring at
the hack of my head.
Well, I'll be-" something or 9TH
err, he said finally. and then he turn
ed on his heel and went out By the
time / got my eyes dry {yes, | was
crying; | always do when l am an
gry) ! heard Jim coming down stairs,
and ! tucked the watch out of sight
Would any one have foreseen the
trouble that watch would make!
Jim was suiky. He dropped into a
chair and stretched out his legs, look
/ ing gioomily at nothing. Then he
got up and ambied into his den. clos
| Ing the door behind him without nav
! ing spoken a word. 1t was more
than human nature could stand.
| When I went into the den he was
stretched on the davenport with his
face buried In the cushions. He look
ed absolutely wilted. and every line
OF him was dropping.
go on out Kit" he said. in a
smothered voice. BE good girl
and don't follow me around"
| You are shameless!" / gasped,
! Follow you!When you are hung
around my neck like alike a."
/ Milestone was what 1 wanted to say,
but / couldn't think OF 1t.
He turned over and looked up from
| his cushions like an ill-treated and
suffering cherub.
| I'm done for, Kit" he groaned.
Bella went up to the studio after
we left. and investigated that cor
ner."
What did she find? The neck
lace?" / asked eagerly. He was too
wretched to notice this.
NO, that picture of you that l did
last winter. She Is craZy--she says
she Is going upstairs and sit in Taxa
hiro's room and take smallpox and
die"
'Fiddlesticks!" / said rudely, and
somebody hammered on the door and
opened 1t.
Pardon me for disturbing you,"
Bella said. in her best dear-me-Tm-
glad-lknocked manner. ''But--Flan-
nigan says the dinner has not come"
Good Lord" Jim exclaimed. II
forgot to order the confounded din.
nerl"
(To be continued.)