The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-01-12

tons name al the euO VI ~ eu660os0o
no end OF glittertng possibilities for
gay-perhaps desperate-fortnight
unused Eloise. She waited six hourf
for some shadow of response from
Royce to the packages she had sent:
then, with broken heart and brain
teeming with reckless resolutions, she
began to take out her clothes and pack
them for the trip.
At four o'clock she suddenly remem'
bered that she had not time to write
and must send q telegram to her
friend stating when to expect her.
She ran to the telephone only to find
that it was dead" The nearest neigh
Dor was block away, but that tele'
gram was essential and, snatching up
a scarf, she wound 1t about her head
and hurried down to the Kelceys.
Anita Kelley met her at the door.
She wore mammoth bunch OF violets
in her belt The odor OF them came In
sickening rush to Eloise's senses,
but she trampled down her feeling,
as she said, lightly:
What exquisite blossoms! Where
did you get them?"
1.-THE queerest thing" replied the
about noon from Milford Royce. II
seems he's going of on business trip
to be absent some time. But l can't
| imagine why he should have sent mo
the flowers except that we used to be
J good friends and l had sort OF half
way engagement to go with him to the
opera next week. But Of course you
know all about his going"
| "Oh-er-yes-yes, of course. But
came to ask the use of your phone
for a moment, dear. Ours Is out or
order and I'm rushed to death to get
away on that six O'Clock train for Gin
cinnati."
Elofse never knew how she got
through with her message nor how she
got out of the house without betray-
ing herself. Anita Kelley! OF all
girls in the world she was the very
last she would have dreamed of as
rival. A jealous rang shot through
her; in a flash she remembered MIL
ford telling her once that Anita and
he were sweethearts in the boy-and-
girl days--and-and Anita had black
eyes! He had repented of his hasty
declaration of love to her and gone
back TO his first choice.
Eloise staggered up the steps and
went blindly on to her unfinished pack
ing in the disordered room, every
nerve tingling with modification, the
outraged blood pounding in her tenn
pies.
At $50 she was ready for the Jour-
ney At 5:35 she stepped into taxi
cab and was whirled toward the sta
ton. She took up her position In line
at the ticket office and waited impa-
tiently for her turn to come to secure
transportation and get aboard her
train.
AS she turned from the window the
hot blood splurged to her cheeks; her
gaze trembled bewilderingly into the
earnest, all-at-once entreating eyes Of
the man who had yesterday been dear
err than all others.
"Eloise!" The name escaped him
involuntarily; he took a quick ster
toward her, every resolution OF the
morning forgotten.
Y But the girl lifted her head with
- swift touch of dignity and passed hin
i with cold nod of recognition. In {
second he was beside her. Her indit
= ference maddened him, and casting
). prudence to the winds Royce blurtet
'. out the first thing that came into hi
- thought.
- "For heavens sake, what Is 1T
:. Why-why aren't you wearing my VIC
q. lets?"
n Those vio1ets! Could it be possibl
,s that they had been meant for her II
~ stxad of Anita Kelley? Her min
- w,,rked rapidly. All! That exp1aine
h th. dozen American beauties sent t
70 he:. by young Doctor Brean that mor1
IS ip,s-they were Anita's; the deliver
is boy had got things mixed. She hal
o,sned her lips to speak. when sh
r. suddenly remembered that indignity
~. tte previous night. Then she bega
,r to walk rapidly down the platform
~. Royce keeping imperturbable step
Of h.r side.
he "Where are you going?" he aske
ID ,r sternly, ut seems to me that aftt
,e- -.-everything, you owe me some u
err Sing"
he "Cincinnati!" she cut in sharpl
Ill, "the green car over there
TT. 1.-THE blue car, with the diner
III. tached, you mean"
ut Eloise stood stock still and stare
Id into Milford Royce's perplexed fac
"Milford!" she exclaimed, relief al
ss amusement struggling for the maste
lis Of her pretty features, "look at M
10. What color are my eyes?'
"a "Your eyes? Why, brown, OF course
3d. He looked at her stupidity. "Y'
haven't been crying, have your
Gu A train bell rang. With his hal
'le ON her arm, Royce hurried her IN
~ the chair car.
W. ooh dear!" cried the girl, as t