The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-02-09

"She would hear of nothing else, sir
she seemed disturbed"
Without further parley he turned
on his heel and marched out to the
cloakroom, hated and cloaked him
self. and went from there to the sta
bles. Although 1t did not consume
half an hour-the putting between
shafts and buckling up of the horse
Tempest fumed at the groom and with
nervous haste himself threw in rub
Der blanket and rugs. II was pour
Ing in sheets when he came pelting
out of the stable; the man threw loose
the mares head and the fresh beast
started rapidly out into the roadway.
Tempest had asked for a horse not
ably neither his fastest nor best. but
a sure animal who had eyes for the
dark like q cats and who could have
felt her way to Cravenford.
The master Of Craven hardly hoped
to discover SO soon as the park road
the guest so rudely allowed to leave
his doors. Even a poor walker would
have made the drive and the turn into
the main road that led to Cravenford.
Nevertheless. he peered. and as 1t was
far from dark 1t seemed needless to
lean forward as Tempest did to search
the roadside for SO conspicuous an OBJ
ject as a pedestrian young woman OF
no mean height or figure.
His horse pounded through the mud.
bit well in her teeth, her head down;
the short. incessant rain was a spur.
Tempest thought OF the high heels of
the lady's shoes, and grew hot with
shame. Feminine folly!" he NUT
tered. what modern twentieth-cen-
fury emancipation! A young woman.
not only Independent. but secure in
her lack of convention! Fancy one
of our grandmothers appearing in
fichu and curls and crinolines at a
mans house alone. unchaperoned!
Not only would this girl have scorned
me IL I had dared show appreciation
OF her sex, but It would have been the
height Of ruffianism to have been gal
liant. the acme of ungallantness."
Yet as he mentally compared her to
the summoned image OF the 1880 lady
Miss Carew lost none of her attrac-
tiveness in her plain dress, the sharp
note of white at neck and wrists, the
taille cambree, the svelte beauty of
her figure.
Its absurd" he muttered. this
emancipation Of women! They've no
right or title to it. For example. now.
II I were not driving to her rescue.
where would she be. poor dear?" He
smiled. "She would melt in the
storm"
As before him the road grew indis-
| r.
Melton to drive. can't make out the
road. She must have flown to have
gone SO well onto escape the boor
/ was-no wonder!"
Here the mare SHE'D violently, and
in holding the cart to balance and
quieting her Tempest almost failed to
see the cause OF the fright. Out of
the rain and darkness a figure on q
stone had risen.
Miss Carew!" (she hardly recog-
nized the voice 1t was so full of live
welcome) won't you get in at once
please here. at this side. I can't
help you, unfortunately-or leave my
seat. Can you manage it?-she won't
stand"
Miss Carew displayed neither Ill
temper nor grudge. In a twinkling she
had climbed into the cart-was at his
side
you will let me drive you back to
Craven-warm you. feed you, show
you hospitality. I am chagrined, Miss
Carew." He had started to turn.
ITO the station. please, IL it isn't
too much to ask"
He was sufnciently impressed by
what he believed was the will Of the
modern woman to not gainsay her.
Il don't wish to obey you, but I
have NO choice. Put on this macin-
tosh, please. and cover yourself with