The Elbert County tribune., 1912-10-25
CHAPTER v-tcontInued.,

etsHs smile slanLinr her lips.
You wish my ;pinion?" countered
the daughter. NE is shy. but he is
neither stupid p3r silly: and when he
smiles he is reilly good-looking
my child.' replied the woman.
drawing off Ter gloves and examining
her SHAPED, hands. II have looked in
to the vei7 heart OF that young man.
thou<s,hd years ago, red-cross on
his s,,s.out, he would have been beat
ing ia fists against the walls of
JTs1saiem; five hundred years later.
h9 vould have been singing chant
royales under lattice-windows; a pa
iadin and poet"
How do you know that? Did he
make love to your"
NO but l made love to him with
ous HIS knowing 1t; and that was
n.rre 20 my purpose than having him
make love to me-" enigmatically.
Three days. and he was so guileless
that he never asked my name. But
IN Monte Carlo, as you know. one asks
only your bankers name"
-And your purpose7"
at Is still mine. dear. Do you real
ize that we haven't seen each other
in four months, and that you haven't
offered to kiss me -
did he go away without writing to
you about that money!"
Mrs. Chedsoye calmly plucked out
the inturned fingers of her gloves. II
believe l did receive a note inclosing
his bankers address, but, unfortu-
nately, in the confusion OF returning
to Paris, lost it. My memory has
always been trial to me-" sadly
"Since when?" coldly. There Is not
q woman living with a keener memory
than yours"
You fatter me. r affairs that In
terest me. perhaps"
2ou never meant to pay him. 1t
10 horrible"
MY dear Fortune. how you jump at
conclusions! Did I not offer him a
<taft the very first thing?"
ToCEing that at such moment he
could not possibly accept it?" de-
risiyeiy. Sometimes 1 hate youi"
''In tbese days filial devotion is a
lost arr"
seased to cultivate
Anu tHero WIS III the tone
ftrained note which described an in
tpnse longing to be loved. For II
efeorge Percival Algernon Jones was
& lonely young man. 1t was the result
OF his own blindness; whereas Fortune
CasSfSJe turned hither and thither In
search of that which she never could
End. The wide Lytian desert held
upon Its face loneliness, desolation,
less mournful than that which reigned
within her heart
Hush! We are growing sentiment
A." warned the mother. besides,
believe we are attracting attention"
Hsr glance swept half-circle COM
p1acently.
Pardon mel 1 should be sorry to
drxw attention to you. knowing how
Jon abhor It,"
my child. learn from me; temper is
tho arch-enemy of smooth complex
Ions. Jones-it makes you laugh"
TT Is homely, honest name"
Il grant that. But Percival Alger-
non Jonesl" Mrs. Chedsoye laughed
softly. 1t was one OF those pleasant
sounds that caused persons within
hearing to wait for It to occur again.
Come; let us go up to the room. 1t
Is a dull, dusty journey in from Port
Said"
Alone. Fortune was certain that for
bor mother her heart knew nothing
bTt hate. Neglect, Indifference. In
Justice, Misunderstanding. the chill
rspellence that always met the least
sutreaching of the child's affections,
the unaccountable disappearance,
de terror of the unknown. the blank
vail of ignorance behind which she
sas always kept. upon these hate had
builded her dark and brooding re-
treat. Yet. never did the mother come
within the radius OF her sight that she
AID not fall under the spell of
strange fascination. enchanting, fight
against 1t how she might. A kindly
touch of the hand, single mother
umile, and she wou d have flung her
arms about the other woman's neck.
But the touch and the mother-smile
never came. She knew. she under
stood; she wasn't wanted. she hadn't
been wanted in the beginning; to her
mother she was as the young of ami
mails. interesting only up to that time
when they could stand alone. That
the mother never made and held
feminine friendships was In nowise
astonishing. Beauty and charm, such
~ she possessed, served Immediately
70 stimulate envy in other women's
kaaxts. AE< that men OF all stations