New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-08

81 ~ on him, when Wallace stepped for
- - g5ILsT ward.
~ ~ Hello he said uncertainty as
~ that vou Larrabee>'
EiE Its right enough, said Damon,
tJE4 releasing his hands and holding out
W the right one. Easy with those
y fingers, old man. That's my game
~ Wallace. sober or half-sobcr as he
~ was ~ the moment, was a good deal
= more attractive than Wallace drunk.
His bristling brOWs covered eyes that
were e clear gray even if their expression was rather
sutg and suspicious and the lines Of his pink face
We're Tar from feeble.
wei. it didn't take YOU and Sara long to renew
said Wallace, glancing hali-sulAy at the girl. say
Wher. your mother, sara,
By this time Damon had pulled himself together and
hal gone forward 10 meet a shrinking little lady, stand
ing in the shadow OF q palm 10 be quite out OF every
How do you do, Mrs Keene,- he asked cheerily.
81. seems nice 70 see you again.
Then ne introduced Henderson. Sara keenc was
evidently an impulsive young woman, VINO saw no
reason for holding back anything She wanted % say
something dreadful must have happened % YOU,
Larrv~ she said, with note OF anxiety nat terrible
scar on your face And his expression seems 50 oiier-
cnt Don't you think he is fearfully changed, VIII
~IIc look, different % me- ! must say, Wallace e.
Ylicd slowly But what do YOU say 70 giving other
people the chance % enter this restaurant, We're
He led the way inside. Miss Keene gently pushed
her mother forward, and she herself fell back with
@0t my dear nv dear!~ she cried. ~ cannot tell
vos what I have suffered in these months
81 don't see how we can talk now, Sara, he mumbied
-Tac are right as YOU always are, she replied hum
bv Your big brain always the balance wheel Tor
mn LITTLE one"
aDart-lon't mix your figures Of speech Sara he
sal .a.5'y WED better walk single file among these
table
A .h., took their seats at the balcony table Wallace
n had reserved Henderson sent quick look OF com
n,.-.-i9n and approval AZ Damon. II comtortcd the
vq,-y -.n Il was the aid he needed for ne was SUI
tcug from the acutest sort o. inorlcalgii 'I uJpii
da,iou lie was in q difficult situation, and he was glad
Henderson thought he was handling It credlaDly. IL
wa hazardous sit opposite q girl Of Whom ne Khe"
abs ltcly nothing but who was apparently taxing i"
grarrei the existence between them Of relations that
were a.r more than friendly. One doesn't say Dear
est t q mere friend if one IS q nice GIRL and Sara
Keen. he knew was a nice girl girls 90, though not
50 nic. US her timid little mother
Lar-4bec Damon felt most uncomiortabe rs she s't
with her melting eyes fixed him, while Ilacc was
ordering Three or four miles away was the glH ne
really his adorable Angela Give, sitting doubt
les alone reading or cmbroiderng ne |aillcu - ~
with her, Every fiber Of him was loyal 70 er ana YET
he was pcrforcc receiving tender, untranSltaDie me-
sage from girl Of whom he knew nothing men Hc
rei himself together After all, II was not really rs
though he had been q traitor in love 10 cther Oh clcse
grs for he was not the real Larrabec Damon. what
ever nj. real name was he didn't have 10 shoulder l-
rabec Damon's sentimental obligations In spite Oh le
hngushing Sara Kcene he was free 10 love Aleei"
Give II he wanted 90.
But was he, Oh. was he, Just because he WASH
Llrrabec Damon, with the burden Of Sara keenc On
his heart that was no sign that he was not someone es
who had already plotted out his matrimonial
Again came the fear that he already married TIC
felt as if he had never loved anyone but Angela Give
II she had been sitting beside him. he felt that ne c'u
have poured forth al sorts Of dcwy tender expressions
absolutely % his lips but ne only ieI1 Ihs' e az
know IT, For all he knew. this growing emotion OF MS
for Angela Give might merely be repetition OIL some
thing he had already lived through
Il was a bghting situation indeed, ana 1eidcI ii
u0 fo.-t ia Af-a md