The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-24

client, he wrote note which he hast
ened to despatch by messenger to
Miss O'Hara. In It he told her that
only within the last five minutes had
he learned Of her presence In Wapiti.
having just returned from some Of the
more remote mountain camps. He
trusted that 1t would not too greatly
surprise her to learn that he too was
in Wapiti and longing to see her.
Within a short time he received
brief answer from Miss Hodgkins re-
questing him to take tea with Miss
| O'Hara that afternoon. But the for
mality of the social relationship be-
tween them, implied in the note, was
not, as even Miss O'Hara found, SO
easy to maintain after having once
admitted Willy Gaines to her presence.
He not only loitered an unconscious
able time over his tea, but insisted
with sad but obstinate humility on
remaining to dinner and spending the
evening with her.
After dinner, they sat on the singers
unstable balcony watching the long
| twilight fade over the purple noun
tain into the dense, black velvet of
night. But they saw not Wapiti, but
| Monte Carlo, nesting Whitley under its
| hills, with its jeweled gardens. It's blue
| bay and the cliffs of dark frowning
Monaco. A few precious days in Fairy
| land, when she had been gracious and
had let him see more or less OF her.
| Then they had parted; she to fulfil an
| engagement in Vienna, and he to
| journey to Paris, and thence to New
| York.
| i've lived said Gaines mournfully,
for three years on the memory of
| few days. It's been starvation diet.
Il, said Rose contemplatiyely and
irrelevantly, have sung during that
time In New York, Boston, Philadel,
phia and Chicago, in opera; and have
made several concert tours, which in
Guided Denver and San Francisco"
| Il have heard you in all those
| places said Gaines.
| sReally?" she looked at him strangely.
And why what possible reason could
you have had-why did you not come
/ to see me?"
Il went away every time exceeding
sorrowful for you had great posses
| sions," said Willy.
How silly you are" she said, and
laughed and sighed.
/ And not that day, nor the next nor
the next, when they rode up and down
the mountain roads through the wine
like August air. did Willy Gaines re-
| call the fact that he was Mrs Mac
Chesney's lawyer, deputed to bring
suit against Rose O'Hara for malici-
| ously injuring his clients business.
4 To do Willy justice, he appeared to
| remember very few things; he didn't
! even seem to know where he was. One
afternoon, as they pulled their horses
up and gazed far down into the won
derful purple atmosphere with its
trails of the white, feecy clouds be-
meath them, Willy murmured dream
lily: How beautiful the Bay looks
TODAY"
/ "The Bay!" Rose repeated per-
plexedly. DO you still fancy that you
are in Monte Carlo?"
i Il have never left it." he affirmed.
III found Paradise there. Did you
think that was unsophisticated
enough to let any angel with a flaming
i sword really drive me out? just pre-
tended to go; but really am there
with you all the time
But am not there all the time"
averred Rose; personally, I prefer
| Wapiti"
And so illogical was her companion
that, in spite of having legal mind
and being leading lawyer, he looked
pleased instead Of distressed at this
announcement
My stars!" he said suddenly, turn
Ing in his saddle, i've got something
more to do than to sit here talking to
you and admiring you and making
sonnets to your eyebrow, and touch
ing the lutte, as you might say. under
your window
Il .osS NEt.r T,rJo
Indeed. yes," said Willy. I've got
to sue YOU"
This time it was the lady who turned
in her saddle, "Wha-a-t!' she cried.
"Do not take those high notes in this
rare air" he warned. you'll crack
your voice, and then what will we do?''
"We?,
"Yes-we. If have to give up my
law practice and mining ventures. and
travel about with you, expect You to
support me In the comfort to which
have accustomed myself"
She looked at him this time with a
real apprehension. Dear Willy" she
said. Il hadn't realized before that you
were i'll"
I'm not he returned: that is just
my frank Western way of asking you
to marry me. But, joking aside,
really have got TO sue you. unless We
can arrange compromise"
Miss O'Hara turned her horses head
homewardl Dear Willy" she sale
kindly, you are raving crazy
Dear Rose" he assured her witt
equal promptitude, Il nm nothing o.
the kind. You have. by setting the
fashion for red. and yellow, and blue
and green garments In the middle of :
white summer. ruined the business 81
the Snowflake Laundry, and Mrs
MaeChesney, the proprietor, AYERS thai
you did SO maliciously AS am hel
lawyer and financial adviser, anc
nephew, and best friend, a sort 81
adopted son as it were, she desires n,s
to bring you TO justice"
Rose gasped, "Of all the Impotence,
put on red and yellow and srcen anf
blue, IL you choose to call it that, a.
measure of self-prescryation, If
had continued to wear white, should
now be living on spring water and pin,
cones, and sleeping OH the bare hi,
sides. Just wait until we get hom