The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-11-07
By MerpilIe D1pisso, Posi-



honor untarnished,' she calIs Il n
seems to mean lot to her. and she is
SO absurdly in love with the tail SOL
der that 1t is enough to break a body's
heart. Now, Courtlandt, where are wa
to get this money for herr"
Unfortunately" / replied. "I do
not at this moment think Of a copyen-
lent orphan to rob. How would It
do to rife the poor box at St.
Thomas'?"
Sarah Lemarr ignored my second of.
Tense after the manner Of a woman.
and, likewise, true to the same man.
ner, gave the remainder of the story,
after having asked a decision in the
midst of It
You remember Beatrix owned sew
eral thousand acres of forest land back
somewhere in the Alleghanies, in some
county OF the Virginias. Let-me-see.
she said the name had been a fortu.
nate one for the first Captain Smith in,
America, and ought not to fail the sec
ond one"
"Pocahontas," suggested.
How stupid" she said. "of course,
Pocahontas. Well, some lumber com.
pany has managed to steal half of
Beatrix's land, and it, and some other
rival companies. now want to buy the
remainder Of her. They will give
$4,000. They have been logging her
footsteps ever since she landed in
New York. But this is only $4,000,
and Beatrix needs $4,000. II she
could get back the land which has
been stolen, 1t would bring the other
$4,000. l don't know how they man.
aged to get 1t. Beatrix has the
whole story in detail, with maps
and SO forth. / think she failed
to pay the taxes at some time,
and they stole it that way. Now
jourtlandt, you must induce Mr.. Ma
son to get Beatrix's land for her.
She is stopping with me,S you know.
Bring him to my house tomorrow for
dinner. Lieut.. Gordon Smith is going
to Washington tomorrow to call on the
British legation and will not return un-
til very late; but he knows nothing
about it. Beatrix is the business agent
for the pair of them"
I smiled at the artlessness of Nine
Won Hubert. Certainly" said; "but
why not bring the man in the moon,
too. and the Witch Of Endor. Ran.
dolph Mason is hardly the sort of per
son that goes out to dinner"
well, then" said Sarah Lemarr,
bring him after dinner. viii write
him little note"
could have laughed in the girls
face what will you say in your lit
tie note?" l inquired.
"oh, well, what any one would say"
she answered, that wish to see him
on an important business matter"
"And do you know" 1 said, what
would happen to your little note?"
what would happen to it?" she
said. Her chin went up. She was a
social overload, this Nine. Won Hubert.
Her invitations were commands. The
social aspirant dreamed OF their COM
ing, as of that of Abou ben Adhem's
Angel.
This would happen" I answered.
Randolph Mason would rip open the
envelope with his long finger, fold back
the paper where you creased 1t across
the middle. and drop It into tho waste
basket"
A red flush sprang up along her dog
collar Of diamonds. I hurried to ex-
plain. II beg your pardon" said;
"but you must think of Randolph Ma
son as you would of an eccentric scien-
tist-Darwln or Agassiz-an intel
lectual recluse without emotions, a
sort of Hindoo ascetic OF a high order.
You could not write any of these such
a note; neither could you write such n
not to him. Now, there Is sort Of
note which you might write to any Of
these, and you might try such a note
on him, although I have little hope
of It."
Nine. Won Hubert's head was still In
the air. "You mean" she said, such a
note ought to run: viii the ogre kind
Iy meet kissable fairy on the north
side OF the hawthorn thicket at moon
riser believe your scientist, no mat
ter how old, usually comes out of his
shell for this sort of thing" But she
could not keep her exquisite good ma
ture under d bushel for long. She
began to laugh. Really, Courtlandt,
to be serious, what ought to write
him7 We must have his help for
Beatrix."
1.-THE sort of note" said, that you
would write to famous archaeologist,
II you wished him to call and examine
a rare Egyptian pot, or to a numis-
matist If you possessed coin of the
time OF Cyrus, or to bacteriologist If
you had culture of the bubonic
plague for him. Invite him to the ex-
animation of case Of rare and inter
esting injustice, at your residence on
Eighty.sixth street at nine o'clock to
morrow night"
I was going on to explain about this
note a little In detail, but the impos-
sible German suddenly realized that
he ought to talk, and at once set about
It with the persistence and regularity