Evening bulletin., 1911-03-18


ROOMS WHEN I'M "You can go, and
READY" viii give up
the rooms when I'm ready
"Thats all right as long rs It's inside
half an hour" returned the other, stu
with unrunled politcness But ] have
to stay TIL you do give them up
"Confound you! DO you think III
set the place on fire the minute your
back is urnedT
I Not SO much that as-there are 9th
er things you might do"
"What other things? Really l should
| like to know, for The sake of curiosi-
| ty."
"Wen. if you're bound to get 1t out
of me. I'VE got to stay and see You
don't remove any articles of value"
by Jove! so that's Tiny own or
yoursY'
"Whats yours is ours at present, and
what's ours is our own. as the bride
said to the bridegroom"
Val could almost have laughed.
though not at the joke. lie, the Mar
ouis of Loveland. an officer in the
Grenadier guards, was to be watched
lest he should steal the hotel soap or
sneak OIL with his own toothbrush.
lie went white aud red and white
again. If by word he could have
| ulnbled the whole hotel down IN an
carthauake he would have been willing
10, be caught under the ruins. He had
4 wild. buyish conviction that 10y sub
iacring himself now to the cNiromeSl
incenvcpirnce he could hy and hS
.9l,sr the hotel management poignant
2paotSe Yes. lie could take them ii
,hpir word. He would walk cut oi
he house lust as Ne was, leaving
pverraiag he had behind him, Ht
voujd not even take his overcoat, AND
" he werr struck dewn with pueu
mouia SO much the worse for theS'
inSolent pcouie.
Ills can, his only head covering, IL
he had forguttcn a MW!er on boar
= slim. lay on a table ard he held II on
} for the eucmy'S Inspection. You 81,
all that ia uiae is yours, he S0"er'O
: ~This may have cost or I shifting
/ when it was rev. Now it would fetcl
, Mt most. | Wlli pay You Tor Il hat
: = crown is tAe least | have fray Gesl
: The change"
He hid a coin. his last hrse con
!. down on the table where the cap oa'
been and without anuSlcr word wa'b
ed ponchalantly out Of the room. S'
low IN the great haN through wG'ca u
had to pass nn his way 0ut OF tae IL
3 tel lights gared and dagalcd and IN
talk and laughter OF many person
sopndcd In his ears. LoVeland pushc
' on hlmdly, conscious of htmSeit aS "a
opesreal entity in Il crowd OF Wills
tle.wisps aud wicked lure lights. n
y sole concern With the people m u
Z hateful, glaring picture was that the
o should suspect nothing OF his feeling
4 lie walked with his head up and som
thing that he meant for Il smile on u
uns nor was it an affcctation that
appeared TO recognize no one thong
e Cadwalader Hunter who had be'
70 waiting to see this exit, believed II
" be-
o. The night was warm for Noremb
r. in New York, Still, there was y decid'
:" crispncss in the air which i.ovelal
n felt aS he Went out.
It The streets were brilliant with ngi
ur and half New York appeared, to
abroad, although the thcatcrS had he
90 i'm fun swing for nearly mn hour Il
TN all the women wore cloaeS and I
IN men ovcrcoats, Loveland, in his di
nd ner Jacket and wide oNpanSe OF Sh
Sc front. his pumps and silk stocking
ar- his cloth travelling v;,p pulled over
eyes. would have been noiiceab'e eN
m IL his height and good looks mad I
rs. made him n marked figure ENc'
body who passed stared, and mi
Ike than few glanced back at him. Hs
AaG "a swsAS