Evening star., 1911-08-24

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This is an enlargement that you'll fnt
no way out OF. You can't keep us both. -
You don't trust me-" Lesley reproach-
cd him. Just wait before deciding tI
give me UP. until we've thoroughly thrash!
ed things out. beginning at the beginning
and going right on to the end
Il shan't decide TO give you up: notify
ing can make me do that now" LovelanJ
said. It's Cremer who'll have TO 70 to tho
wall"
Lesley laughed. Like his motor Poor,
poor car-Im sorry for Il. but IL hasns
sacrificed itself in vain. / was beginnins
to wonder how on earth to bring all THIS
about. That was what kept me awake
last night, IL I'm 10 tell the whole truth.
II had TO come some way and II had to
come soon. Well. Sidney's motor car has
| solved the difficulty. and Sidney Will he
| glad. for my happiness Is the same 10
| him as his own. And now I've gone 50
| far, may as we'll confess that from tho
very minute ! saw you play Lord Bob.
I'm that dingy little hall at Ashvile.
| hoped-oh. hut hoped more than anything,
| that you would ask me to marry you.
Please, please don't be shocked, but {
invited you to come here just for that"
| Loveland was utterly at sea, or wouit
| have been II her hand had not lain In his.
| and TX she had not begged him to waig
| and trust her.
Yet you were engaged to Sidney
Cremer'' he said. half TO himself.
| ''I was bound to Sidney just as I anl
now. and just as / have been for the laso
three years And l wasn't tired of hinS
then, not a bit. and I'm not even at this
minute. But love you-the real YOU
| Darling" exclaimed Loveland. Yet ha
marveled at her. This was a phase OF thd
girls character-her true and noble char<
acter-which he was at a loss to under~
| stand.
You were very cold to me that night
at Ashville.'' he ventured to say.
| II was trying you. / wasn't quite sure
You see. which side OF the moon I was
looking at: and II after all 1t was only
| the same old side. didn't want TO leo
myself be dazzled by 1t. as couldn't help
being at first. oh. but don't mlsunder-
| stand me! 1t wasn't the reflected light
| the light OF a high position-that had daz-
| Zled me. That never mattered. Ii was 10
different light-a light that never shons
| on land or sea, but shines just once, they
| say, in every womans life. That means
| what / said before-that / was in love
| with you on the boat even when T
laughed at your talk of love. / felt mora
like crying than laughing, though, be-
| cause the sort OF love you gave me in re-
turn for mine wasn't worth my having.
I was too good for it"
| Heaven knows you were" Val adnits
| ted, humbly.
But I'm not too good-no, not good
| enough. for what you give me now; and
that's why I'm SO frightfully happy. and
delighted that Sidney's motor jumped
| over conventionalities instead of my hav,
ing to take the leap myself Instead. I
just leaped with the car, and you leapeds
too-and everything is going to be heav-
| II don't quite see how, If you're not
tired OF Cremer." said Loveland.
| Don't be Jealous of Sidney any more,
I liked making you a little jealous OF him
| at first-after / saw how you felt. 1t was
fun for me-and I thought 1T was good
for you. But now it's different. I'm sure
l-sure-about the other side OF the moon,
and ! want you to be as happy as am.
Il h A~n 80
tie further. You know. / told you had
a telegram this morning."
| 'Yes-yes."
| well, you thought IL was from Sidney
| things you've thought lately let you go
| on thinking. without contradicting. The
telegram was from little Fanny Milton
| about you"
| About me7"
| She knew from a journalist who is a
friend OF hers that you'd come to this
part OF the country with a theatrical
| troupe. and they'd found out that tho
actors were playing pieces of Sidney
Cremers at Ashville. They talked it over
together-Fanny and this Mr.. Kidd. He
| wanted to know for his papers sake
where you'd disappeared to when tho
company broke up. Last evening he sug-
| gested that she should telegraph to me,
They both thought / might have heard
about you. So that's why felt that you
wouldn't be stopping on as my chauffeur
very long"
did Miss Milton say in the telegram
that New York had discovered its mis-
take about me?'
mo. she didn't say that, though 1t was
a long telegram. / expect she thought
| would have seen the newspapers. Well,
l haven't: but can put two and two to-
gether quite nicely. and was sure that
you'd come into your own again with the
great American public-perhaps partly
through Fanny Miltons Mr.. Kidd. I'd be-
| RI wa ga all ho NJ
Cremer's next play or novel-if had
them-that you can now go back, IL you
like. and get without any difficulty the
heiress you came across the water for"
I'm sick OF the very word heiress,"
protested Loveland. with complete sin
cerity.
That's the new you. And what a very
new you 1t is, when one comes to think
| of 1t! Only a few weeks old. But it's
the only real one. The other was a shell
| which has broken"
You broke It." said Val.
IT cracked II a little. maybe. on the
boat; but 1t took a big hammer to smash
1t, and now I've swept all the fragments
away. There's Just the real you and the
real me In the world-with the wonderful
light from the other side of the moon
shining on us two-and Sidney Cremer."
''Oh, Sidney Cremer!" cried Loveland.
| HE still stands between u.s."
mo. he doesn't II you love me you'll
have to love Sidney. too. because Sidney
/ L
mine; because / earn it, and don't / en-
| joy 1t, too! Haven't enjoyed IL for three
| whole years, since all of a sudden from
being poor girl, dependent on Aunt Bar
bara- 1 walked up to find myself a rich
| one-oh, not rich in your meaning of the
word. not rich enough to line castle walls
with gold and diamonds, but rich enough
to do nice little things for an old Ken
lucky farmhouse, and perhaps even to
help restore ancient British strongholds
If the lord Of them and Of my heart will
give me so much happiness
| 'You-you are Sidney Cremer?" Love-
! land could only stammer the words stu
i pidly.
Yes. Are you so surprised that I'm
! clever enough to make a success with my
brain and my pen? 1 often wondered
when you'd begin 10 suspect-but you
never did. And / was wondering, too.
whether Sidney Cremer would have to
propose to you in the end It's been great
fun keeping my secret from the world,
never letting any one know the real truth
except auntie and the Ashville cousins
though Fanny Milton and lots of other
acquaintances thought I was friend OF
| Sidney Cremers-perhaps even q poor re
lahon Of his. But the most fun Of all
has been keeping the secret from you till
the time was ripe to tell. Do you re
| member saying the other day, Sidney
Cremer 10 everythingr I told you ia re-
| mind you OF that some time and ask *
you could say II again. Can you nowY'
Sidney Cremer Is everything" repeat
ed Loveland. Whereupon Lesley gave
one OF her little. soft, cooling signs, and
| let him take her into his arms
They were both very muddy and mossy.
| and rather bruised and shaken, IL they