The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-17

Phil. These traits were linked to a certain incapacity for bad luck and an unwearying tenaciousness of purpose. Seldom had any one seen his face change color. had seldom seen his poise of glacial complacency shaken. Tonight. however. the oil lamps which glowed duly in the ceiling of the carriage threw their faint light on
 a face torn with passion. Barbara's
 beauty, whose perfect indifference no | touch of sentimental passion had de- vitalized. had from the first aroused Wares stubborn sense of conquest. 1 He had been too wise to make mis- | steps-had put ardor into the back ground. while surrounding her with tactful and graceful observances which
 unconsciously usurped large place in
 her thought. In the end he had broken down an instinctive disinclination and 1 converted it into liking.
 But this was all For the rest he | had perforce been content to wait. l Thus matters had stood when they
 parted a few months ago. He recalled 1 the day he had sailed for Suez. Look | ing back across the widening water,
 he had conceived then no possibility of ultimate failure. How beautiful she :sr' he had said to himself. "She will
 marry me- She does not love me, but l she cares for no ether man. She will marry me in Japan" There had been I nobody else then.
 AS he peered out into the glooming dusk all kinds of thoughts raced
 through his mind Who was the man? l Was this the resurrection of an old | affair" that he had never, guessed? No. When he left her Barbara had l been fancy free. It was either summer acquaintance" or one come l to quick fruition on a romantic soil. | He took out a cigar case and struck
 match with shaking fingers. Had | it even come to clandestine rendez- vous? She had gone one way. the | man another. A whirl of rage seized him. The slender metal snapped short off in the fierce wrench of his ! fingers. He thrust the broken case into his pocket with a muttered curse l that sat strangely on his fastidious tongue. Gradually out of the wrack emerged his dominant impulse. caution. He ; had many things to learn. He must
 find out how the land lay. He must
 move slowly. re-establish the old. easy, informal footing. Above all. he must lay himself open to no chance of a definite refusal. A plan began. to take
 shape. His telegram had told her he would arrive ill Tokyo next day.
 Meanwhile he would find out what Phil knew.
 He left the train at Yokohama un- der cover of the crowd. In a half hour he was aboard his yacht. Two hours later he sat down to order his dinner on the terrace of the hotel.
 cool, unruf1ed. immediately groomed. A hundred yards from the hotel front
 great floating wharfs had been built , out into the water. They were gayly trimmed with bunting and electric lights in geometrical designs. A se-
 ries of arches fianked them. and these
 were covered with twigs of ground pine. Ware had guessed these decora- s1OAS NUCiC 1Ol tuC GuIOpCuA SQuduI OA of Dreadnoughts. of whose arrival today's newspapers had been full. Ware was not gregarious and to- night was ill a sullen mood But,
 with his habitual policy. he thrust this beneath the surface and in an- ! other moment was lowing to the in- roductions-Baroness Stroloff, her sis
 ter, chic young matron whose natu- ral habitat seemed to be Paris; the ubiquitous and popular Count Voy- nich and statuesQue American girl whose name Ware recognized as that
 of clever painter of Japanese chill dren.
 The talk flew briskly hither and thither. skimming the froth of the
 capitals causerie-recent additions to the official set. the splendid new ball. room at the German embassy and the increasing importance of Tokyo as a diplomatic center. the coming impe- rial cherry viewing garden party" and-at lasti-the arrival of the new
 beauty at the American embassy. "A real one"' commented Voynich.
 screwing his eyeglass in more tightly. And that means something in the
 tourist season.
 Wares fingers fattened on the stem of his glass of yellow chartreuse as the artist said: We are in the throes of a new sensation at present, MT.
 Ware; case of love at first sight.