Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-12-02
Lord LOveland
Discovers
America
By G. N. AND A. M.
WILLIAMSON
Copyright. 1919. by Doubleday Page "
Company Copyright 1908. by
the Mcclure Company

BOSS sick. Is hep" said Bill who was
finishing his work on the room side OF
the blackboard by indicating lobster
with thick scarlet strokes of fast fly
ing chalk. Wont be down till by and
by?"
The daughter Of Alexander the Great
showed her dimples "You think that
means you'l get n free meal. guess
When the cats away
"And has got pretty. kind kitten
for his undpratudy." Bill finished.
"We-ell. you know I'm soft. don't
you? If you want anything look shnrp
and get it or pa might change his
mind and pop in Won't you have
something. Mr.. GordonT she went on
Hospitality
"If you'll trust me till afternoon for
the price of a breakfast" Val an
swered, trying to speak lightly.
"Oh!' she exclaimed. Il didn't ask
you to pay. Pity if | can't invite
friend to have meal without any one
making fuss"
Every well; I'll accept your inQita-
ton with thanks, provided you'll
breakfast with me-" said Val as gal
lantly as If he were addressing a
duchess-or a popular chorus girl.
"My. l couldn't do that" answered
Isidora. "Pau be wild If he got to
know l eat meal in the restaurant.
We've parlor upstairs" she went on,
with q pretty air Of Importance, land
the hired girt brings our meals. But
you'll be seeing me soon again" sne
treasured Loveland. 81 shall be at the
desk in pas place"
Not fifteen minutes had passed when
Miss Alexander, alias Solomon, reap
peared, this time In all her glory,
painting with haste and the snugness
of her stays perhaps she had drawn
them in extra tight, yet smiling In
conscious beauty.
my. but you are got up to kill this
mornin'!" exclaimed Bill Willing, and
the fair Isidora darted vexed glance
at him, for she had wanted the swell
TO believe that this gorgeousness was
her daily toilet.
"Now the shows ready to begin"
she announced with q smile and a
glance-all, all for Loveland. And she
was so lusciously handsome in her
richly developed young beauty that
Val. despite the revolt Of his fastidi-
BUSINESS, admired her reluctantly.
Inclined to be reserved at first, 1t
soon occurred to Loveland that, since
any port in storm was better than
no port, he had better enlist Miss
Alexander's aid. In response to her
bids for condolences he said that he
had landed in America yesterday and
had gone to the Waldorf-Astoria. to
find on his arrival that his clothes had
been stolen out of his luggage by an
English servant. He added that his
London bankers had been dilatory
about instructing their New York cor
respondents: that when the hotel peo-
ole, for some extraordinary reason
known only to themselves, demanded
immediate payment he had been prac-
tically penniless and had walked out
in q rage. leaving everything, even his
overcoat. He kept his real name and
title secret.
She, with quick feminine instinct,
recognized the vast social distance be-
tween "Mr. Gordon" and Bill Willing
more poignantly than did Bill himself.
who had now almost forgotten 1t In
friendly association. But even so. TO
have sitting at one of her fathers
marble topped tables, hungrily eating
O breakfast on her invitation, young
man who could engage cabin on the
Mauritania and a suit at the Wal
dorf-Astoria, seemed like brilliant
dream. She had never before seen
anything quite so gallant and aristo-
cratic looking as Bill Vikings friend
and longed to attach him to herself in
some way.
She offered to send district mes
senger to the Waldorf for the
telegram Mr.. Gordon was expecting
and any letters which might have ar
rived. "He can bring you the lot" she
arranged, land then you can send him
to your bank unless they make you
show up to be identified. Anyhow, you
can wait here for news. You can go
Cd vb
come and stay by me at the desk If
the tables fill up with folks for break
fast"
Loveland's face slowly Redeemed and
his eyes grew troubled.
you needn't mind about the money
for the messenger" she said quickly.
"You can pay me back afterward. II
you're so awful proud"
"Why, of course I'd pay you back"
Val assured her. "But-er-the fact
is"-he hesitated. trying to find a
way out Of the tangled web MIR. Cor
don" had woven-"the fact is, P'-(he
wondered if he could bear to go to tho
hotel and thus escape the difficulty
about the name. but pictured himself
arriving in evening dress by broad
daylight and felt his gorge rise at the
degradation-"the fact is anything
coming for me at the Waldorf will
have on it the name Of Loveland. The
Marquis Of Loveland' will be the ad-
dress on my letters"
my goodness, you did fly high" ex-
claimed Isidora, dimpling. 81 guess it's
no wonder they gave you a whole
suit" (she pronounced it ''soot') "of
rooms. But that's all right. You put