New-York tribune., 1910-12-25
CHAPTER v.


AK ''Now that you acquainted with
GA mine, don't you think | ought at
NT least to know your name!
1--WE are almost there-COutnbuS
Circle she answered. nodding toward the slender,
graceful monument visible now beyond the trees In
a moment YOU will have a better driver After that
She left the sentence incomplete.
After that he repeated " You will certainly let
me see you again, if only to thank you, to
She glanced at him brightly. oh but you have
thanked me already quite Su11lClenty NneIc Siidn L
He suddenly felt that he could not permit her go
so soon-behod her vanish strangely she had ar
rived leaving him nothing the memory OF sngu-
larlv delightful encounter
IF YOU do not mind perhaps I'd be wiser go home
at once, he told her tentatively. Ii 1t takes you too
far from your destination, the is entirely at
your service.
She flushed with pleasure at the thought of prolong
ing the Joy already experienced not only with the car
but also with its She felt herself greatly tempted
1t almost seemed if the Fates had bestowed this op
portunity upon her, this opening INTO the wondrous
world whose gates she was eagerly seeking.
1t might be easy push little forward here. avail
herself this mans acquaintance attempt to meet and
cultivate Mrs. Van Kirk and forge toward the gilded
social goal! But she dared not assume the risk They
would find her OUT she could not play the role it
not the path by which she had hoped to succeed. AS
of fact, she unprepared for the develop
mens the Fates had brought about and could follow
her instinct only.
But to take this injured fellow being home-that at
least, was barely human. She asked him quietly:
where do you live? On the farther side of the par?
"Fifth-ave' he answered and told her the number
and corner of the street is it an mposition'' he
added. Because of course
"I1l drive you there, she interrupted. Il hope
there's doctor nearby.
And then You'll let me send you home, of course?"
She flushed to the tips of her Permit him thus
to discover the poor old tawry place that all she
could call her home? She would rather have walked to
the ends of the earth She gave him the brefe5t of
glanceS.
Il shall ask you to have me returned to the park to
the place where you found me, if you please.
''Oh but
''Is it very much to ask"
Its nothing, nothing, less than nothing; but [
hoped rather wished-' It occurred to him sud-
denly that she might have aghted from car
riage of her own, to sit for time in the park. She
might be missed by those who had left her with the
squirrels-perhaps man-perhaps some prlncely
husband! He wondered why he thought of a Prince
and glanced at her wedding finger only to find her hand
gloved.
1" [ wish do anything to please you to restore you
to your previous enjoyment of the day, he told her
honestly. Are you sure that is all may do?"
Quite sure.
THEY were gliding swiftly through 59th-st. They
came the Plaza with its huge hotels, its dull gold
equestrian statue of Sherman, and its tide of carriages
and automobiles going into and out of the park.
Thurlev turned the corner, entered Fthave steered
round of the huge green autObuSses and con-
tinued northward on her way. Stuyverant, more wOr
red bv the thought presently losing the thrill of her