Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-09

prOnniSe suit Trevor resolved 10 De
wary and if possible pay the detective
in her own coin-that is. If she pur-
sued him As TO going to see her. de
had no idea Of doing that.
But curiosity prevented his staying
away.
One day. passing the farmhouse
where she stopped. he saw her sitting
on the porch driving a pen Sheets
of manuscript were scattered about
A click OF the gate caused her TO look
up.
"Oh. Mr. Brown" she exclaimed
gushingly. how good of you to come
to see me! How honored 1 feel to re-
ceive a visit from d celebrated artist
l. who am entirely unknown in my
profession"
"Taffy!" muttered Trevor to himself.
They say she continued. that the
pen and the brush usually go together.
Have you never written anything?"
Nothing but letters" replied Trevor.
with cunning look.
Letters, Oh. do let me see some Of
them. l love to read the letters of lit
erary people,"
II have a few that once wrote a
woman whom~I thought loved. After
a little spat between US she returned
them"
1.-The very thing I need for a part
OF my novel that 1 am now working
upon. In them I shall get that gen.
uine feeling we novelists find it diff
cult If not impossible to initiate"
Trevor breathed hard. All doubt that
Miss Iddleston had been sent to in
veigle him into surrendering certain
letters he had written and fortunately
recovered was set at rest An idea
struck him The hest defense against
q woman is the opposite Of fighting
her-that is, making love to her. BE
would outwit her in this way. It did
not occur to him that by so doing he
would get another affair on his hands.
Men never really use their reasons
about women. They think they do,
but they are under the influence of
their feelings instead
Trevor was an attractive fellow. and
since he was to Miss Iddleston a cele-
brated artist he had only to say few
honeyed words and look at her in a
melancholy, yearning way to achieve
a complete victory. He was not fool
enough to give her the letters he had
written to another woman; that affair
was passed so far as any tender feel
ing was concerned. Instead, he wrote
letters TO Miss Iddleston direct. 1t
wasn't necessary for him to write her,
for he could see her every day, but
she said she needed these letters IN
her work, SO he consented to write a
few for her. He intended to refrain
from committing himself in any of
them, but a mans letters to a woman
may be interpreted to mean more than
he intends, and he is apt to grow in
cautious Trevor had been through
the mill before and should have known
better. He did know better. The
trouble was not in what he knew, but
what he did.
A very curious condition existed be-
tween Mr.. Trevor and Miss Iddleston
just before their separation at the end
of the summer. Mr.. Trevor had treat
ed her as a spy and had taken means
to outwit her as such. she considered
him a famous artist and an honorable
man, whereas he had never achieved
anything remarkable and was hiding
from woman he feared.
Then suddenly her eyes were opened
to the fact that he had been entirely
mistaken in the authOresS. Some
friends came to see her whom Trevor
met, and he became aware that she
was an eminently respectable young
woman and very highly connected
What was he TO do? Confess? Con
TESS what? That he had taken her
for 4 detective. Suppose he should
conceal this. his only reason for per
hitting her to remain under the i'm
preston that he WAS a great artist
And in any event he must come down
from that high position and acknowl-
edge himself simply as one who had
begun an attempt to reform.
While he was debating what TO do
Miss Iddlcston told him that her story
was completed and that she would like
to have his opinion Of 1t. An idea
struck Trevor. He told her that he
would take it 10 the city with him.
read it and return it with his criticism.
He also intimated that he would then
have something important to say to
her.
Soon after the lady's arrival at home
she received the manuscript Of her
novel with a letter from her critic
which said very truthfully that it had
excited in him a thrill 1t had made
a new man of him. Then followed his
confession with the statement that
without her his regeneration would
have been incomplete and hence fail
ure. With her all there was noble in
him would come out
The young lady suffered a great re-
action, but the effect Of her literary
work brought her around. She mar
ried Trevor and instead of writing
more novels began the care OF children.