The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-01
Copyright. 1910. by Doubleday. Page c Company. Copyright. 1908. by
 the Mcclure Company

ment that you'll find no way out of. You can't keep us both."
 "You don't trust me-" Lesley re- preached him. "Just wait before de ciding to give me up until we've thor oughly thrashed things out, beginning at the beginning and going right on to the end"
 CT shan't decide to give you up. Nothing can make me do that now" Loveland said. "It's Cremer who'll have to go to the wall"
 Lesley laughed Like his motor. Poor. poor car! I'm sorry for it. but 1t. hasn't sacrificed itself in vain. I was beginning to wonder how on earth to bring all this about. That was what kept me awake last night, if I'm to tell the whole truth. It had to come some way, and it had to come soon. We'll. Sidney's motorcar has solved the difficulty. and Sidney will be glad. for my happiness is the same to him as his own. And now I've gone so far I may as we'll confess that from the very minute I saw you play Lord Bob in that dingy little hall at Ashville hoped-oh, but hoped more than any thing that you would ask me to mar y you! Please, please, don't be shock ed, but invited you to come here just for that"
 "Yet you were engaged to Sidney Cremer." he said, half to himself
 ''I was bound to Sidney just as l am now and just as have been for the last three years. And I wasn't tired of him then, not a bit, and I'm not even at this minute. But I love you-the real you"
 "Darlingr exclaimed Loveland- Yet he marveled at her. This was phase of the girls character-her true and noble character-which he was at loss to understand.
 "You were very cold to me that night at Ashville." he ventured to say.
 "I was trying you. I wasn't quite sure, you see. which side of the moon I was looking at, and if, after all, it was only the same old side I didn't want to let myself be dazzled by it, as I couldn't help being at first was in love with you on the boat, even when I laughed at your talk of love. I felt more like crying than laughing, thougm because the sort of love you gave me in return for mine wasn't worth my having"
 Heaven knows it," Val admitted humbly.
 'But I'm delighted that Sidney's mo- tor jumped over conventionalities in- stead of my having to take the leap myself. Instead just leaped with the car. and you leaped, too, and every thing is going to be heavenly for all the rest of our lives"
 'I don't quite see how if you're not tired of Cremer," said Loveland.
 Don't be jealous of Sidney any more. liked making you little jeal- ous of him at frst-after I saw how you felt. It was fun for me, and I thought it was good for you. But now it's different. I'm sure-sure-about the other side of the moon. and want you to be as happy as am. Oh. don't speak yet! must go on little fur ther. You know. I told you l had a telegram this morning?'
 "Yes, yes"
 "Well, you thought it was from Sid ney Cremer, and I didn't contradict. Lots of things you've thought lately I let you go on thinking without contra dieting. The telegram was from little Fanny Milton-about you"
 "About mel"
 ~She knew from a journalist who is . friend of hers that you'd come to this part of the country with a theatrical troupe, and they'd found out that the actors were playing pieces of Sidney Cremer's at Ashville. They talked 1t over together-Fanny and this MT. Kidd. He wanted to know for his pa per's sake where you'd disappeared to when the company broke up. Last evening he suggested that she should telegraph to ne. They both thought might have heard about you. So that's why felt that you wouldn't be stop ping on as my chauffeur very long,"
 Did Miss Milton say in the telegram that New York had discovered it's mis- take about mel"
 "No; she didn't say that, though it was long telegram. l expect she thought l would have seen the news papers. Well, I haven't. But I can put two and two together quite nicely. and I was sure that you'd come into your own again with.Ae great Ameri- can public. perhaps partly through Fanny Milton's MT. Kidd. I'd be will ing to wager all the profits of Sidney Cremer's next play or novel, if had them, that you can now go back, if you like, and get without any difficulty the heiress you came across the water fcr.''
 "Pm sick of the very word heiress," protested Loveland, with complete sin cerity
 That's the new you. And what very new you it is when one comes to think of it-only a few weeks old! But it's the only real one. The other was shell. which has broken"
 You trfske it." said Val.
 'I crachin 1t little maybe on the boat, hu. # took q big hammer to sInaSh 1t, 1d now I've swept all the fragments -way. There's just the real you and tine real me in the world. with the wonderful light from the other side
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