The Dolores star., 1910-02-04

FOR her master slightly smiled. ITS
farce. and quite ridiculous. You've
gone SO far I can't drag your hospl
.tality back-as II had a string to it.
Fetch her In"
Tempest passed his nervous hand
through his hair gave a last look to
the gray without, as though he con-
fided his melancholy to it-promising
to return again for it-never fear!
and came out into the room.
When Mrs. He MY reappeared che
ope aed the door. consigned her guest
quickly to the study. and withdrew
like lightning for fear she should be
hailed to escort her out again!
The stranger deserted in this fash
ion looked about her rather startled
Tempest, in a black velvet jacket into
whose pockets his hands we're thrust.
blocked up the foreground. He saw
her embarrassment and that her lips
we're almost white. She bowed to
him, still standing where Mrs. Henly's
catapult-like ushering had placed her.
T am Lucy Carew," she announced
NoiSS thdI uiu hot WoNSA ot oAi-
II have come all the way from Amer
lea to see you"
Mr.. Tempest started. The sudden
addition Of thirty-five hundred miles
to the twelve was material.
"Trop aimable," he said. II shall
seem ungracious II l say that re.
ceive no one. not even an emissary
from the Cape of Good Hope" He
chose at random. and as he said 1t its
meaning caught his sensitive ear. He
smiled. You will let me be inconse-
quent and except that point? You see,
to be frank, have refused myself to
everyone, Miss Carew (he said her
name as though 1t were a household
word) every one-friend. enemy, kind
and unkind. I am a recluse-"
II know" she accepted, II read in
the Daily Telegraph that you were. l
scarcely dared expect to see you.
When got out at Cravenford and
found l should have to walk IL miles
was nearly discouraged"
Nearly" he echoed. ut is tramp.
even for an English girl; your coun-
trywomen are not supposed to be
walkers"
I've not walked much BEFORE" she
admitted. "and my heels are high: but
when I got here it was the worst Of
all-your housekeeper refused me;
and then"-she raised the slight veil
she wore, her eyes were sparkling and
disclosed no trace of 1T CRIED"
she said frankly.
Tempest took his hands from his
pockets and extended one with the
charming gesture he knew SO well
won him friends. For brief second
his face relaxed. Illuminated. He
came up to his guest. Don't cry
here" he implored. Il can't imagine
what 3,312-mile fatigue may be. but
If you can rest from some Of 1t In
this chair, will you do SO? I will ring
for tea and lights"
Tempest understood the nature Of
human feeling too well not to realize
with flash how great was the pleas
ure of his own-and not to realize
that he had never experienced quite
the like sensation before. Into his
outstretched hand hand slender and
strong fell as naturally as though 1t
had waited for Just this shelter ever
since 1t had been made. He led the
girl to his favorite chair. took delight
In seeing her sink into It,
She had quickly undone her veil and
taken 1t OF. and he then saw the IA
tigue under her eyes, the pallor Of her
face, and withal the freshness of It.
1t was a luminous face, II such a term
might be used-he thought 1t might
Her figure was concealed by a long,
dark coat that rose to her neck. and
she nestled into the comfort of the
chair with an scquiescence of fatigue
her expression did not admit. Indeed
her eyes. fastened on Tempest. were
the loveliest things he had encoun-
tered for long time.
The unconventionality of the visit,
her calm behavior in It. touched his
humorous vein. He slightly Knocked
her as he spoke, in tone not the less
agreeable and perfectly gracious.
What wager are you winning?
Miss Carew. you have won It! How
much Of the IL miles did you walk
rcally?"
She held out small foot in a badly
damaged high-heeled shoe "A cart
brought me to cross-road and then
walked on-12 miles the man said It
was, and 1t seemed it,"
Tempest had tasted the rare and
delicious mead which fame during life
time brews. Whether or not the fact
that he was accorded to be the great
est living novelist and poet meant
that his glory should not go down to
posterity. at all events he heard him
self SO called. All that is fulsome