The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-03-01
CHAPTER v.
At the Carlton.

At the Carlton.
There are certain natures to whom
each appearance of evil, each form of
delinquency Is a fresh surprise. They
are born simple, in the sweet sense OF
d word, and they 60 down to old
8 never Of the world. although in a
sense worldly. If Dan Blair's eyes
we're somewhat opened at twenty-five,
she had yet the bloom on his soul. tie
was no fool, but his ideals stood up
each on its pedestal and ready to ap-
.pe0r one by n to him as the scenes
lot his life shifted and the different
curtains rose. He had been trained
In finance from his boyhood and he
was q born financier. Money was his
natural element; he could go far in
Il. But woman! He was one of those
manly c~reatures-a knight-to whom
each woman Is a sacred thing: a
dove, q crystal-clear soul, made to
cherish and to protect, made to be
spoiled. And in Dan we're all the
qualities that go to make up the un-
selfish, tender. foolish, and often un-
happy American husband. These were
some OF the other things he had in
nerited from his father. Blair, senior.
had married his first love, and where
~ his boy had been trained to know
money and it's value, how to keep it
and spend It, to ave it and to make
It. he had been taught nothing at all
about woman. He had never been
taught to distrust women. never been
warned against them; he had been
taught nothing but his fathers mem
DRY of his mother. and the result was
that he w%orshiped the sex and won
sdered at the mystery.
With Gordon Galorey and the 9TH
err he had ridden, shot better than
they. and had played. but with Lady
.0alorey and the Duchess of Break
water he was nothing but a child. AS
far as his hostess was concerned. on
several occasions she had put to him
certain states Of affairs. we'll. touch
1ngly. Dan had been moved by the
sstories Of sore need among the ten
1Ants. had been impressed by the ne
cessity Of reforms and rebuildings
and on each occasion had given his
hostess q check. She had asked him
20 say nothing about 1t to Gordon. and
- had kept his silence. Dan liked
Lady 0alOrey extremely: she was
Jolly, witty and friendly. She treated
him a. q member of the family and
Amade no demands on him, save the
zones mentioned.
: In the time that he had come to
know the Duchess Of Breakwater she.
On her part, had filed him full of 9th.
er condolences. Into his young ears
she poured the story of her disap-
pointment, her disjointed life. from
her worldly girlhood to her disillusion
A marriage. She was beautiful when
1he talked and more lovely when she
went. DAN thought himself In love
with the Duchess Of B~reakNstAr. His
conversations with her hid brought
him 70 this conclusion. They had
notorod from Osdene Park together,
and he had been extremely taken with
the pleasure Of 1t. and with the fact
Of their real companionship. Two or
three times the words had been on
his lips. which were fated not to be
spoken then. however, and Dan
reached the Gaiety still unfettered,
A1s duchess by his side. And then the
Orchestra had begun to play "Manda.
ny" the curtain had gone up and
Lefty Lane had come out on the
boards. But her apparition did not
strike on his chains Immediately, nor
did he renounce his plan to tell the
duchess the very next day that he
loved her.
When with sparkling eyes Lady
Galorey rayed about fMAn6Alay." Dan
listened With eagernesas Everybody
seemed to know all about Lefty Lane,
but he alone knew from what town
she had come!
They went for supper at the Carl
ton altar the theater.
sLotty,* Lady 0alorey said. tells II
nessole how the impresarfo heard he1
49, a sonns country church-picked
~ Ne then and there and brought