The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-03-12


consult the proper legal authorities. Give
yourself no further uneasiness. Good morn
ing. ~
Immediately the door closed on his client,
he wrote note which he FASTENED to de-
spatch by a messenger to Miss OHara.
Within short time he received brief
answer from Miss Hodgkins requesting him
to take tea with Miss O'Hara that after
noon. But the formality of the social re-
lationship between them, implied in the
note, was not, as even Miss O'Hara found,
so easy to maintain after having once ad-
mitted Willy Gaines to her presence. He
not only loitered an unconscionable time
over his tea, but insisted with a sad but
obstinate humility on remaining to dinner
and spending the evening with her.
After dinner, they sat on the singers I'M
stable balcony, watching the long twilight
fade over the purple mountain into the
dense, black velvet of night But they saw
not Wapiti, but Monte Carlo, nesting
Whitley under its hills, with its jeweled
gardens, its blue bay and the cliffs of dark
frowning Monaco. A few precious days in
Fairyland, when she had been gracious and
had let him see more or less of her. Then
they had parted: she to fulfil an engage
ment in Vienna, and he to journey to Paris,
and thence to New York.
give lived" said Gaines mournfully,
"for three years on the memory Of few
days. It's been starvation diet"
81, !" said Rose contemplatively and ir-
relevantly, shave sung during that time in
New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chi
cago, in opera; and have made several
concert tours, which included Denver and
San Francisco"
81 have heard you in all those places, .
said Gaines.
Really" she looked at him strangely
"And why = what possible reason could
you have had - why did you not come to
see me?"
81 went away every time exceeding sor-
rowful, for you had great possessions,
said Willy.
GLOW 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 recall the fact
that he was Mrs. MacChesney's lawyer,
deputed to bring suit against Rose OHara
for maliciously injuring his clients business.
How beautiful the Bay looks to-day"
"The Bayl" Rose repeated perplexedly.
Do you still fancy that you are in Monte
Carlo?"
81 have never left it, " he affirmed. III
found Paradise there. Did you think that
| was unsophisticated enough to let any
angel with flaming sword really drive me
L T.fef lei 20 l..k L
am there with you all the time"
But | am not there all the time, "
averred Rose; personally, 1 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 announce
ment.
"My stars!" he said suddenly, turning
in his saddle, give got something more to
do than to sit here talking to you and adj
miring you and making sonnets to your
eyebrow, and touching the Lutte, as you
might say, under your window"
Indeed, said Miss O'Hara.
Indeed, yes" said Willy. Owe 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?"
eyes we. If l have to give I'D nv
lazy 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 real
apprehension. Dear Willy, F" she said, 81
hadn't realized before that you were i'll. 4"
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 a COM
promise"
Miss O'Hara turned her horses head
homeward- Dear Willy" she said kindly,
you are raving crazy"
Dear Rose" he assured her with equal
promptitude, II am nothing of 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 Of the Snowflake Laundry, and
Mrs. AIacChesney, the proprietor, AYERS
that you did so maliciously As am her
lawyer and financial adviser, and nephew,
and best friend, a sort of adopted son as it
were, she desires me to bring you to JUS
tice."
Rose gasped, "Of all the impudencei
Iput on red and yellow and green and blue,
If Won choose TO call If that as a measure