, 1911-11-09

" De expected. You haven't a wife.
SO you naturally fancy the money
would be spent on one. Granger has
a wife. He naturally spends it on
somebody else. Each man turns to
the thing he doesn't possess"
Temple nodded again. well. when
you go into town on Monday. get the
still hunt started for the woman will
you, old MANI"
Sure. you bet your life. But" he
called back over his shoulder. as he
was leaving the room. I'VE won't hunt
for her in Westield. N. j., where
Changers home is: we'll hunt for her
In West Forty-third street, New York.
And this wife of Granger's," muir.
INJURED Temple. left to himself. 81 sup
pose she has faith In him: they all
have. dare say it's she who's work.
ing behind this plan to get his pardon:
doubtless she's somewhere now, pray.
Ing for him. waiting for him to come
back to her indicated. an honest
man. And I? Well. I'm fighting to
prove his conviction just, and there
you are. Queer little muddle it is.
after all. this play of life. | wonder
sometimes If the great Eye mustn't get
tired Of 1t and the great Ear wearied
of it. l wonder
A light. firm knock at the door aus
ed Temple to wake from his reverie.
His new secretary entered. ready for
work.
From the first days of his association
with the Gotham Trust company in an
1nconsequential capacity to the later
days when he had risen to its presiden-
cy. allies and rivals had found in Bur,
ton Temple a personal humility that
was charming. but underneath it fight
ing qualities that We're terrible. He
had the gentleness of a lamb and the
strength of a lion.
Immediately Anna Granger had
recognized the second Of these quail
ties. Now. after some weeks of daily
work with him. in the gradual unveil-
ing OF the mans personality. she was
coming to a sense of the first. Her
feelings and judgments about her host
were beginning to pulse through her
mind with an energy that she seemed
powerless to arrest, They did o
make her happy; far from it, but they
quickened and intensified all the acts
of thinking and living.
Usually, however. she succeeded In
recapturing herself. in beating back
the thoughts which. like troops on a
doubtful field, appeared to be carrying
her into the ambushes and strong
hnldG nf an anarnu. Gha wna irnnafianf
and scornful of them.
As to Temple himself. maybe he
didn't know 1t, but already he was in
the way to fall as completely in love
with his new secretary as Amadis of
Gaul or Aucassin Of Beaucaire or any
other hero of romance you may choose
to mention. Even in the first few
days he had found himself thinking
more of her in n personal way than
he had ever thought Of any oma
He was not the fashion of man to
whom women in general appealed
not that he was wanting in a certain
admiration for them or in reverence.
but his early life had been devoted to
his mother and to his career. so that
during the days when a man usually
chooses u wife Temple had been too
occupied to seek for one. Later-well.
somehow he had moi met with any one
who had quickened the romance that
was in him
For at heart this cool, collected man
of finance was romantic. He was
more: he was an idealist. He was the
sort of man who would husband to his
original mate or none.
Upconsciously he made constant lit
tie discoveries in Anna-most charm
ing yields of new regions of intelli-
gence, new points of humor. uneI.
pected fountains of emotion, unfath-
enable depths Of womanliness. Her
eyes and her hair pleased him; her
slim, firm, delicate hands No; he
repudiated that. 1t was herself-her
inimitable self.
And as he felt the excellencies and
beauties of her nature more and more
he felt the absorbing power of his own
manhood to make them his own. She
bloomed for him the flower of fan
cies, but the seeds lay In his W
heart; she seemed an e~xhalation from
his own hidden sources. His mother
possessed the same ~ladyhood. At
Annals age his own mother must have
been like her. he thought. the stirrer
In u man of noble passions, the allay-
er of others. Life partnership with
such women promised not gratihca'
lions merely. but satisfactions.
Life partnership and love! They
were thoughts now neither for noon
nor her presence. With a a like
Burton Temple everything had Its
time and place. He must clear his
good name first. That was the imper-
ntive duty on hand.
As the result of the gradual recog-
milton of the state Of his own feelings,